Since 2009, fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine have created comics as part of a course called “Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narratives.” The course was developed to show fourth-year medical students how graphics and text can be used to effectively communicate complex medical narratives and to help students develop their own stories into graphic depictions.
Taught seminar-style, the course requirements are minimal: participate in all classroom activities, be good colleagues to one another, and produce a short, original, graphic narrative, or comic.
Spin, Weave, Cut offers syllabi and activities for university level classes taught at San Francisco State University and Teachers College from 2016 though 2024.
The site was created by Nick Sousanis. Nick is an Eisner-winning comic author and associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he runs a Comic Studies program. He wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. The thesis titled, Unflattering, argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning.
Spin, Weave, Cut was initially set up for the class on comics for educators which Nick taught at Teacher College. It has since grown to serve as a database of comic education resources.
The journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, features a graphic medicine column, the Annals of Graphic Medicine. The graphic medicine featured are narratives from a physician's view point that invite reflection and self awareness.
In Bed Blocker, an annotated commentary accompanies the comic. When you see this image 
you can click on it for an explanation of what is taking place within the comic panel. For the full effect, it is recommend that you first read the entire story without clicking on the additional information, then returning to the story to learn more. The column is an interactive pdf that requires Adobe Acrobat to view. If you do not have Acrobat on your computer, you can download it here at no cost: https://get.adobe.com/reader/.
Wrinkles by Paco Roca, a graphic novel about Alzheimer’s disease.