Friday's New York Times had a fascinating article by James Warren about Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness, a conference that was held this past week at Northwestern University in Chicago. The article mentioned a number of comics and graphic novels that deal with medical issues, including slice-of-life stories of working in the medical field, instructional manuals, and accounts of living with an illness. One of the latter that caught my eye was Sarah Leavitt's Tangles, which deals with her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease—a story that is all too familiar to readers of my generation (including myself). The graphic novel was published in Canada, but later on Friday, Skyhorse Publishing announced via Twitter that they will be publishing it in the U.S. as well. Skyhorse is an independent book publisher with a wide repertoire, from the looks of their website, and they are distributed by W.W. Norton (which also distributes Fantagraphics books), so Tangles should be easy to find when it is published.

For more on the conference, which included guest appearances by Scott McCloud, Phoebe Gloeckner, David Small, and Paul Gravett, check out the blog of Mom's Cancer creator Brian Fies, as well as Publishers Weekly's writeup.