Graphic Medicine

Mental illnesses are often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented in mainstream media, and eating disorders are no exception. In 2024, however, one show broke the mold: Heartstopper, which, after hinting at a main character’s mental health struggles since Season 1, carefully dealt with how Charlie Spring’s disordered eating was impacting him, both medically and emotionally, and how it was impacting his loved ones, who did not know how to help. Netflix’s Heartstoppe

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

The ADHD Alien has been quietly narrating the neurodivergent experience across social media since 2019. But this September, Pina Varnel’s viral sensation is finally returning to the page. Feeling Like an ADHD Alien, the debut graphic novel from Varnel, hits shelves September 15 — and it's set to be less "webcomic collection" and more Varnel finally letting Kiki, her alien stand-in, take up a whole book's worth of space. Varnel didn't set out to build an audience. According to

Dr. David Suskind’s Livewell Comics line is proving that the comics medium can do something clinical language often can’t: make scary medical information stick.