In this introductory chapter, we provide the aim, ambition and scope of the collected volume by addressing the central question: Why Graphic Activism(s)? Why Now? We begin by situating the text within the universe of comics scholarship while tracing its lineage in graphic literature, comics activism, and visual resistance. Building on works of scholars such as Maaheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix, Hillary Chute, Elisabeth El Refaie, Michael A. Chaney, Pramod K. Nayar, Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, and Andrew J. Kunka we propose the term ‘graphic activisms’ as a conceptual and methodological framework to read and understand ways in which the graphic form engages with and enacts activism through the documentation of life. By introducing the term, we hope to foreground the diverse political, cultural, and aesthetic practices through which comics function as instruments of resistance, visual presence, and social intervention. The chapter also offers an in-depth preview of the anthology, featuring discussions of the four core sections: Intersectionality, Justice, and Resistance; Graphic Medicine and Health Narratives; Spaces of Trauma, Memory, and Resistance; and Author Interviews. Here, we examine how graphic narratives enact various registers of activism by engaging with issues such as racial violence, reproductive justice, ecological precarity, disability and migration.