We are pleased to announce the return of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Summit on October 24, 2025, featuring a half-day incubator designed to foster community and collaboration at the intersection of healthcare and comics across New England. Since the conference’s original launch in 2019 as “the New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon,” the field of Graphic Medicine has grown considerably in Boston and the region.

This year’s event—hosted on Boston's Longwood Avenue, a world-renowned hub for hospitals, medical research centers, and academic institutions (including our hosts, MCPHS University and Harvard Medical School's Countway Library)—will consist of presentations, panels, and workshops, both in-person and virtually, to connect, illuminate, and expand the area’s Graphic Medicine community. An additional aim is to galvanize interest and coordinate organizers for a potential larger regional conference in 2026. Proposals are sought from those living in New England or focusing on the region, comparing their region to New England, or creating material on/for specifically New England, including, but not limited to, scholarly, creative, clinical, and pedagogical by readers, creators, students, educators, scholars, retailers, librarians, clinicians, and healthcare policy makers.