Dr Ian Williams is a comics artist, writer and doctor who lives in Brighton. His work includes two graphic novels, ‘The Bad Doctor‘ and ‘The Lady Doctor‘, and the third of the trilogy, ‘The Sick Doctor’, will be published in 2025. He named the area of study called graphic medicine, and is the creator and co-editor of the Graphic Medicine website. He is founder of the not-for-profit Graphic Medicine International Collective and co-author of the Eisner-nominated ‘Graphic Medicine Manifesto‘. He has produced comic strips for the Guardian newspaper, and numerous organisations, including Wellcome Collection.

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Ian Williams

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Gallery tour

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Jason and the Adventure of 254, an exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills at Wellcome Collection. Gallery Photo: Benjamin Gilbert

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

This event will be delivered in British Sign Language, with an English language voiceover.

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Perspective Tours

Perspective Tour and Workshop with Dr Ian Williams

Join Dr Ian Williams for a tour of our exhibition ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254‘. He is a medical doctor, a published cartoonist and one of the founders of the graphic medicine movement. 

Ian went to school in Wakefield, just a mile from Pinderfields Hospital, where Jason Wilsher Mills spent a year of his life – an experience that partly inspired the exhibition. So the cultural references in the exhibition speak loudly to him, both personally and professionally.

In the tour, Ian will share his perspective on how medical training did not teach him about disability theory and how he only learned about it later from the medical humanities and graphic medicine.

After the tour, you can join Ian in a comic-strip-making workshop, in which you can create a comic and have the opportunity to think about the exhibition and your own attitudes towards illness and disability. All materials will be provided in the workshop. 

Join medical doctor and cartoonist Ian Williams for a gallery tour and comic-making workshop inspired by the ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’ exhibition.

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