“It just went wrong, as bodies are prone to do”: Graphic Medicine and the Trauma of Miscarriage Sathyaraj Venkatesan 1 & Chinmay Murali 1 Accepted: 23 September 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 Abstract The conspicuous absence of personal articulations of miscarriage in mainstream dis- courses attests to the stigmatised nature of the experience. Notably, there exists a growing body of infertility comics which foreground the authors’ lived realities of miscarriage. In a close reading of select graphic memoirs such as Jenell Johnson’s Present/Perfect, Paula Knight’s The Facts of Life, Phoebe Potts’ Good Eggs, and Diane Noomin’s Baby Talk, this article examines how the authors use comics to foreground their predicament. In so doing, the essay argues that these narratives attempt to accord a cultural legitimacy to the hitherto silenced experiential realities of miscarriage. Keywords Graphic medicine . Comics . Miscarriage . Infertility . Motherhood Miscarriage: shrouded in silence I remembered, then, the miscarriage, and before that the months of waiting: like baskets filled with bright shapes, the imagination run wild. And then what arrived: the event that was nothing, a mistaken idea, a scrap of charred cloth, the enormous present folding over the future, like a wave overtaking a grain of sand. Excerpt from “A Language,” by Susan Stewart Journal of Medical Humanities https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09666-y * Sathyaraj Venkatesan sathya@nitt.edu; sathyaiitk@gmail.com Chinmay Murali chinmay.murali@gmail.com 1 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India