MEDIC, A DIARY
Black Pencil Press, 2025
220 pages
“Profane in its depiction, exquisite in its simplicity, Medic drags you right up next to the dead and forces you to look. This book will blow you away.” — Kevin Hazzard, award-winning writer of
A Thousand Naked Strangers
“Hauntingly real — Medic, a Diary ... captures EMS life with brutal honesty [and] dark humor. I caught myself both laughing out loud
and tearing up multiple times.”— EMS1
“... a stark, darkly funny chronicle of the ghosts, chaos,
and quiet humanity behind 911 calls.” — Chronogram
Medic, a Diary is a graphic novel about life and death on the ambulance. Artist and paramedic, Dave Horowitz chronicles his own journey from rookie EMT (emergency medical technician) to seasoned and potentially burned-out paramedic. During his ten years on the ambulance, Horowitz has worked through the bankruptcy of one agency, a global pandemic, and has been witness to the relentless suffering that is the bread and butter of EMS (Emergency Medical Services).
Picture Books, 2004 – 2020
