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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This print ad for a major corporation didn't need to go this hard

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Psychologist cartooning from days of yore. (From the Saturday Evening Post, 1941)

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I just discovered that in 1986, dc published a slice of life, nonsuperhero series intended for adults (and with adult themes). Angel Love, by Barbara Slate

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Assignment: two panel comic, autobiographical, has to depict something that happened in the last 24 hours

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“Hm…CalArts adjacent character design”

Queen Elizabeth's Final Diary Entry Contained
Only Five Words

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New to me #graphicmedicine title The case of Charles Dexter Ward. HP Lovecraft’s tale of a “dangerous inmate” at a mental hospital and his doctor.

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A full issue about a married youngish man dealing with erectile dysfunction. Includes the difficult differential diagnosis process and medication side effects. Realistic and honest with artwork that serves the story well. #graphicmedicine

Cover of comic True Story Swear To God #13

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Graphic medicine everywhere? Decal spotted in grocery store parking lot

An image of a car windshield decal that reads
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BIPOLAR

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Little-discussed link between comics and medicine: it used to be very common to get them both at the exact same place! #graphicmedicine

"A white male pharmacist hands a comic book to a white child and his mother as part of a good-will program for every child that comes into the pharmacy. Caption reads: "Pharmacist Harry Goldstein of Towne Pharmacy offers a young customer a free comic book while mother looks on. Comic magazines, lollipops, pencils and other novelties are given out to youngsters in a good-will building program."

Image from University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Full image credit here: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AG2SN33CDGRL4K8P

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hardcore skeptic? Dust bowl empiricist? You’ve not yet begun to doubt

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"The year: 2030. All branches of the U.S. military together take over the government and place control of all broadcasting in the hands of the new right-wing leaders. Freedom of speech, once taken for granted by us all, is now something only the wealthy can afford." Absurd...premise...right...guys?

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Could be pro or anti alcohol, depending on how you're feeling about your brain when you see it

Credit: Artist John Larigakis. Caption: Stop Thinking Start Drinking

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Here’s a more familiar depiction Artist Phil Winslade, writer Steve Gerber

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Unusual depiction of Freud as a younger, non-smoking man. Artist Terry Moore

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Non-cartoon topical bonus insight from 1958

"Wouldn't it have been better if the North American Indians had banned immigration?"

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Bonus cartoon for rather topical relevance

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Feiffer’s cartoons shift the vibe in unexpected ways. He was excellent at capturing characters with a minimalist, unfinished style

"All of a sudden it came over me that man is a parasite."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As a therapist, I find it credible. I think marketing the book as “funniest things” is kind of a misstep. But I laugh with clients regularly, and feel inspired by them weekly.

"The thing that bothers me is that I've never encountered a happy psychiatrist."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Mines, who has more context for the statements, states in the introduction that the intention is to laugh with the patients rather than at them

"My wife's faults I can stand. It's her virtues that kill me."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don’t know what it might have been like to see your own thoughts from therapy in a humor book. Perhaps a bit like seeing your therapist post about you on social media?

"I get even with my family through the Christmas presents I give them."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sometimes it seems like the speaker must have known they were being cheeky

Hero cartoon with caption "Couldn't I just fight for my ideals rather than live up to them?"

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

None of the patients are credited, which further heightens the perception that these statements were made sincerely

Faces with caption
"I'm pretty good tempered unless I'm in the wrong."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The premise of the book is that Mines, a psychologist who is both a clinician and professor, has been collecting humorous quips from patients over his career. It’s not necessarily clear that the quips were meant as jokes, and some of them seem very earnest indeed.

A face with caption "I wonder what I would do if I were sure no one would find it out."

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

RIP Jules Feiffer, prolific cartoonist who died this week at 95 years old. Here a thread about one of his books you probably won’t see mentioned in any obituaries: My mind went all to pieces: the funniest things that patients have said to their psychiatrists (1958). By Robert Mines.

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Cody Christopherson @cdchristopherson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Terminal Lance: The White Donkey And Sand + Bone Two new (to me) graphic novels about combat ptsd that I got today #graphicmedicine

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