On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Austrian Society for Research into the 18th Century is dedicating its 2022 yearbook to representations of the Enlightenment and the 18th century in comics and graphic novels. Although the reception of historical content in popular culture is an established field of research, the text-image narrations of this medium - compared to computer games, for example - have so far received little attention. In addition to the scientific essays on this topic, the yearbook also contains other contributions to Enlightenment research in public discourse as well as project and conference reports, miscellanea and reviews.