GRATITUDE | Kriota Willberg
© Gratitude. Kriota Willberg. Fall 2020 Intima
Kriota Willberg makes comics about the body sciences, medical history, and bioethics. Her book, Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists, is published by Uncivilized Books. Other comics have appeared in 4PANEL.ca, Spiral Bound (Medium.com), SubCultures, Comics For Choice, The Graphic Canon, and Strumpet 5, among others. Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award and is included in the BCALA and ALA Black Lives Matter Reading List. In 2017 Willberg was the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Now, she’s the Artist in Residence in The Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she teaches graphic medicine and drawing. Click here to learn about her graphic medicine minicomics collection, including the new Cadaver Diaries, a sketchbook-memoir about the influence of cadaver studies on her life as an artist and massage therapist.