Mix + Mingle +Maja

Come meet Maja and see some of her work on display during Happy Hour at Oldspeak! She will also have some zines available.


Maja Milkowska-Shibata (Illinois) was born and raised in Poland. She is a public health professional and medical interpreter by training, using writing and art to share stories and perspectives. Over the past few years, she began seeking a deeper connection to humanity in her work, which led her to discover the field of graphic medicine, which uses comics to discuss health-related topics. Her comics have been featured in Sequential Artists Workshop Anthologies (2023, 2024), as well as in the journals The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (2023), Intima (2024), and Tendon (2025).

You may also like the following events from Surel's Place:

• This Saturday, 13th September, 01:00 pm, Drawing from Experience: An Introduction to Graphic Medicine and Creating Autobiographical Comics in Garden City
• This month, 29th September, 07:00 pm, Becoming Who I Always Was: A Graphic Memoir of Trauma and the Search for Identity in Garden City

Also check out other Workshops in Garden City, Health & Wellness events in Garden City, Arts events in Garden City.