Kriota Willberg makes comics and illustrations exploring narratives of the health, illness, medical history, and bioethics. Her book, Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists, is published by Uncivilized Books. Her comics have appeared in: 4PANEL.ca, SubCultures, Comics For Choice, The Graphic Canon, and Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, among others. Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award and is currently on the American Library Association’s Black Lives Matter Adult Comics and Graphic Novels Reading List. She also writes a self-care column for The Comics Beat called “Get A Grip!” Willberg, a licensed massage therapist specializing in sports- and oncology massage, has a certificate in bioethics and medical humanities from Montefiore-Einstein College of Medicine and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. Past film/performance projects have received support from The American Antiquarian Society, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), and Franklin Furnace. In 2017 Willberg was the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. She teaches graphic medicine and drawing in the Department of Humanistic Medicine at NYU.
Fellowships
- 2006: Hearst Foundations Fellowship
