Drawing Health

You need your arms to draw, and they need you too.

Bring in all your senses, play with them. A gentle touch carries so much information that you can translate to your drawings, and your drawing practice. Listen and begin.

Drawing Health is a live class every Saturday from 11am - 12pm EST. Sign up to join in, at drawinghealth.com.

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About the podcast

Drawing Health is a podcast about the intersection of comics and health, also called Graphic Medicine. Through community interviews and guided audio practices...

Have you read IFS comics yet? You’re about to.

Sacha Mardou has been making journal comics about the most intimate moments in her life — the inner dialogue she has with all the parts of herself while practicing Internal Family Systems. It’s a beautiful and accessible opening of the most vulnerable intimacy, shown with her robust resource of skill. 

Our conversation is mostly me complimenting Sacha -- I got a bit carried away with wanting to tell her all the things I loved about her book, Past Tense, and the IFS comics that touched my own...

Do you know you’re still an animal? How do you care for your animal? 

Listen and settle into sensation, instinct, quiet observation. Your body knows how to be animal, just listen, and draw it out.

Drawing Health is a live class every Saturday from 11am - 12pm EST. Sign up to join in, at drawinghealth.com.

For this, our last episode of the Winter 2025/26 season, we have a special one for you.

I decided to share some ramblings at the start of this one, about how practice becomes skill, and skills become automatic. In this world, our burdens are enormous, and we need to find balance between effort and ease — all while living with integrity. Listen to the first 20 minutes of this episode to hear how I explain the connection between practice and skill, ease and integrity.

The second half of today’s episode is a BONUS INTE...

Get cozy. Lie down. 

Softness is all around us, and still hard to find if we’re locked into tension. When I taught this practice, it was because I needed it desperately - and if you watch the video, you’ll see my curling up on the floor to lie down while I guide you through.

We start with softness, and grow into acceptance, permission, and getting out of our own way. If you need to notice the softness today, this practice is for you. 

Get cozy, get your drawing materials, and sink in.

This episode brings you the one and only Kriota Willberg!

Kriota’s career has been constructed of her own passions, no matter how different they may be - and as a result, she has a completely unique position as a bridge between the medical and comics communities. 

Our wide-ranging topics include the emotional significance of memoirs, trends in health awareness, the importance of bridging art and medicine, anatomical exploration in understanding the body, paving a new path for others to learn from, and so much more.

Kriota offers instructions to explore your forearm and...

This one’s gonna hurt. 

And that’s okay, pain is part of life. We all feel it, so let’s give it the grace of our attention. 

You may have heard the phrase, “sore spot” or “trigger point” in reference to both metaphorical pain, and physical pain. Does your pain belong to a spot? Is that spot a circle, or more angular, or square? Does it have a third dimension? Is one sore spot connected to another?

Pain is the impossible, words never touch what we feel, not really. By approaching pain in a new languag...

Zareen is relatively new to the comics scene, but her clear ambitions and community-building projects are a beacon for artists living with chronic health and disability experiences. As a person with chronic pain and disabilities myself, I was so excited to connect with Zareen, and you’ll hear me reaching with my words toward things I haven’t yet imagined, because our shared experiences allow me to try. 

We talk about challenges of balancing work and health while navigating chronic illness, Zareen's journey from a STEM-focused education into comics, her love of New Yorker cartoons, the shift from...

I’d been told I need unwinding for my drawing parts, after years of habits and strain have wound me tight. What it means may be different for each of us, and this practice is a method to find out for yourself. Unwinding, for a long and happy life in drawing

Drawing Health is a weekly class to connect with your body and creativity at the same time. We draw, we talk, we move, we notice. This practice was recorded from a class, and you can join that class every week on Saturday mornings. Sign up at ww...

Today’s guest is MK Czerwiec, one of the stewards of the Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) and co-host of the Graphic Medicine Podcast that I was a guest on this month. Podcast swap!

MK was the person who told me that my comic, Dumb, was actually part of a larger movement in comics, the genre and practice of Graphic Medicine. She changed the trajectory of my life with that information, and the lives of many more with her comics, nursing career, teaching, and advocacy! 

For this interview, I wanted to focus on MK herself, as...

Where do you start, making graphic medicine about your health experiences?

You start with yourself! Your own feelings, your own symptoms, your own language of comics. It can be daunting to do it with your mind, which is why I made this practice, for you to be guided without thinking too hard.

Start with the body. Start by listening. Start with this episode, and discover the language you’ve already got, waiting to emerge visually.

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Our music

Our theme music is Magic Hours by Aaron Comeau made fo...

Today’s show features Maureen Burdock!

Maureen holds a doctorate in Cultural Studies, and now teaches and creates Graphic Medicine comics. Her memoir, Queen of Snails, is incredibly lush and deep — and now she’s got a new book, Sleepless Planet, that weaves a well-informed, personally-driven sleep ecology. It’s practical, informative, beautiful, and very, very needed.

We talk about Maureen’s new book, the health term “exposome,” colonial-capitalist inventions of health and disease, perimenopause mistakes, neglected powers of breathing, birthing, sleeping, and MORE. 

Maureen gives us a lovely exercise to try for nighttime anxie...

What movements do you do every day? What shapes and motions do you NEVER make?

What about when you're drawing?

This practice is a gentle space to observe your movement habits in drawing, to not judge them, and to play with other possibilities of motion and feeling.

This practice aims to teach your brain that moving, and drawing, can be safe from tension and pain.

Let me know how it feels by leaving a review - I read them all, and I'd love to hear your experience!

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My first guest is YUMI SAKUGAWA! 

Yumi is a comics artist, meditator, creativity leader, and lovely human being. On my first ever podcast interview, she kept asking ME questions! Such is her curiosity and supportive nature. 

Our conversation roams between our (villain) origin stories, meditation, activism, personal and collective healing, and the many forms of creativity that happen in every day life. 

In each episode, I ask our guest if they have an offering for the listener, something to try themselves to explore and experience. Listen to the end to hear Yumi’s offer...

If you’re just starting to listen to your body, it’s gonna hurt. 

Why? Because your body has been trying to get your attention, crying out in pain or numbing out in helplessness. The first thing you’ll hear, when you start listening, might be aaaaaaaallll that pain at once. 

It takes strength and patience to face that pain, and hear it, and feel it, and keep coming back. So this is a practice to build your strength, to start with acknowledging the pain, and to not shame yourself for how hard it all is.

Why Drawing Health, or graphic medicine? Why now?

Tom Hart and I have been working together for years, and as Founder and Director at SAW, Tom is the reason this podcast exists at all. What better way to start than to hear us in conversation, as we often are but with microphones this time, discussing what Drawing Health, and our passion in graphic medicine, is all about.

Topics include: Can comics heal? Do I hate making comics? What if I don't understand what's happening in my body? What if I draw...

A new podcast is on the way: DRAWING HEALTH

Presented by the Sequential Artists Workshop and hosted by acclaimed comics artist and teacher Georgia Webber, the Drawing Health is a podcast about the intersection of comics and health, also called Graphic Medicine. 

Each week, episodes alternate between community interviews and guided audio practices, with a focus on the practical. Listening to this podcast will be an active participation, to give you choices and experiences of change in your creative world.

If you want to  nurture your creative pr...