I drew these comics as a young, fresh graduate medical technologist during the midnight shift at a busy metropolitan hospital—a shift that is a right of passage for all new technologists. I’ve made them available here because they reflect period of transition in blood banking, when the discovery that the AIDS virus could be transmitted by blood became widespread knowledge and changed lab practices forever. These were originally published 1986-87 in the Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine.
Like everything on this site, these comics are licensed under a creative commons license. This means your are free to copy, distribute and even change the work (to something funnier???) as long as you are also using them for non-commercial purposes, offer to share the work and provide proper attribution. My feeling is that there are just not enough blood bank comic strips in this world.
The Blood Bank Strip
The Blood Bank Strip was a comic strip I drew in a previous life as a laboratory technologist for the CAIH journal. All the old strips are here.
The Blood Bank Strip: Bloody Funny circa 1986-7
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The Blood Files
I drew these comics as a young, fresh graduate medical technologist during the midnight shift at a busy metropolitan hospital—a shift that is a right of passage for all new technologists. I’ve made them available here because they reflect period of transition in blood banking, when the discovery that the AIDS virus could be transmitted by blood became widespread knowledge and changed lab practices forever. These were originally published 1986-87 in the Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine.
Some twenty years since I drew it, The Blood Bank Strip was featured in the February 2005 issue of the On TraQ News.
Like everything on this site, these comics are licensed under a creative commons license. This means your are free to copy, distribute and even change the work (to something funnier???) as long as you are also using them for non-commercial purposes, offer to share the work and provide proper attribution. My feeling is that there are just not enough blood bank comic strips in this world.