Graphic Medicine Ireland, the first dedicated Irish chapter of the international graphic medicine movement, held its official launch event on May 21, 2026, at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Library in Dublin. The evening brought together an unlikely but fitting crowd — medical professionals, comics artists, historians, health librarians, disability advocates, researchers, and plain old comics fans — all under one roof to celebrate a field that lives at the in

A dying Japanese mining town revives itself through the hula dance in the widely acclaimed, heartwarming film, Hula Girls.

IDW Publishing confirmed this week that a delivery truck carrying a stack of upcoming releases was involved in an accident, scattering comics across a wooded roadside and pushing several high-profile titles past their original street date. "A truck carrying our comics was in an accident," the publisher wrote in a post on Bluesky. "No one was hurt, but the comics." The line did a lot of work — grim enough to acknowledge real wreckage, dry enough to signal that the publisher kn