In this article I reflect on the creation of my graphic pathography Diabetes: Year One (2018). I discuss and evaluate the ways in which, trying to articulate a patient perspective that is both personal and universal, my work moved into comics, and how the process involved the discovery of an aesthetic, that required the negotiation of the elements of comics, including: the visual interpretation and development of my ‘self’ and avatar, and the construction of a narrative viewpoint; the understanding and use of a spatial ‘rhythm and metre’ within the panel sequence; the layering of the page through colour and medium; the ‘designing’ of the narrative, and the interrelation of words and image. I then consider my project in the context of the field of graphic medicine (Squier & Williams, 2015) and the work of Nick Sousanis (Sousanis, 2015); from the position of imaging and articulating a complex, or immersive account of patient experience and argue that this approach can provide a nuanced account of medical identity that can enable a richer understanding of patient experience, which, in turn, can be a valuable contribution to the imaging and design of the patient-practitioner interface.

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糖尿病第一年。画我的病历：漫画、诗歌和医学自我

在这篇文章中，我回顾了我的图形病理学糖尿病：第一年（2018 年）的创作。我讨论并评估了我的作品如何以个人和普遍的耐心观点表达，以及该过程如何涉及美学的发现，这需要对漫画元素进行协商，包括：我的“自我”和化身的视觉诠释和发展，以及叙事观点的构建；在面板序列中理解和使用空间“节奏和节奏”；通过颜色和媒介对页面进行分层；叙事的“设计”，以及文字和图像的相互关系。然后，我在图形医学领域（Squier & Williams，2015）和 Nick Sousanis 的工作（Sousanis，2015）的背景下考虑我的项目；