Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine: Human Experience, Fall 2022
My comic Human Experience was featured in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine in the Fall of 2022. It featured a true story, just as all my comics do.
Bonus Days Inaugural Issue: Summer 2024
This is the first Comics Corner publication in the inaugural issue of Bonus Days, a magazine featuring stories about organ transplant recipients.
Bonus Days 2: Autumn 2024
This is the second Comics Corner publication in Bonus Days, a magazine featuring stories about organ transplant recipients. Title: Witnessing a Memory.
Bonus Days 3: Spring 2025 Issue
This is the third Comics Corner publication in Bonus Days, a magazine featuring stories about organ transplant recipients.
Are We Ever Really Recovered? Published in Literature and Medicine
My comic Are We Ever Really Recovered? was published in Literature and Medicine, Volume 41: Number 1: Spring 2023. This is published through Johns Hopkins University Press. Click here to purchase.
My Pandemic Graphic Memoir: Short Comic
At the time I wrote this, I was nearing closer and closer to death. I was not yet listed for a heart transplant and needed one badly. It was difficult for me to even walk to the bathroom and the clock just kept ticking. Physically, this was something I could handle and pour the little bit of energy I had into. I see this piece as a first draft to a much larger project incorporating many of the same stories and ideas.
I Want to Be a Doctor
Medium: Deleter Miopiko Liner Pens, Neopiko Paper, Copic Markers. Procreate app for digital additions.
Never Give Up
Doing both my postbac program at Columbia and getting evaluated for transplant is unreal.
Read MoreTransplant is a Full Time Job
In the last two years before I received my second transplant, my health was a full time job.
Read MoreMy Veins are Worn Out
If you talk to any transplant patient, chances are they will tell you their veins are a disaster.
Read MoreFull Color Comic
Explaining Heart Transplant Life a Bit More...
When You're Having a Bad Day, It's OK to Ask for Help
This is a short comic I did early on about my struggle juggling a “bad medical day” with my intense schoolwork. I’ve had many bad depression days over the years, and I worked through them when I was in my career as a professional artist. But if you’re a premed at Columbia, you have to be doing your best all day every day to keep up. With my heart failure getting worse, it felt like I was just dropping the ball in every department and I refused to ask for help. After a while, I knew I had to reach out. And so I did! (In my own way starting out small!)
How Are You?
Cardiac Rehab for a Retransplanted Heart Patient
Rough Comic
Written early on while waiting for a dr appointment, there are multiple ways this comic shows that it was meant only to be a rough draft. Unfortunately, a cleaner final version was never made but I think the draft is still worth being a part of the portfolio.
