Comics and Innovation was a three-part curated panel presented by Echo Chamber at the Belgian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, tracing three concurrent transformations of the medium — conceptual archives, synthetic comics, and federated publishing. Sébastien Conard — comic artist, researcher at LUCA School of Arts, and editor of Post-Comics: Beyond Comics, Illustration and the Graphic Novel (het balanseer, 2020) — opened with a reflection on the disappearance of comics from physical public space and the work of preserving what remains, drawing on Echo Chamber’s two Conceptual Comics archives on Monoskop and UbuWeb. Ilan Manouach, introduced the term ‘synthetic comics’ for content generated through machine learning, presenting recent work co-created with generative AI, including the collective AI glossary Chimeras. Laurent de Sutter — Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and editor of the Theory Redux series at Polity Press and Perspectives Critiques at Presses Universitaires de France — closed with a case for federated publishing as a response to the structural crises of the European book industry: small presses, art centres, and research institutes co-publishing across borders, reclaiming a multilingual public sphere beyond national markets and institutional silos.