This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Graph
Drawing and Network Visualization GD 2018 held in Barcelona Spain in September 2018. The 41
full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions.
They were organized in topical sections named: planarity variants upward drawings RAC
drawings orders crossings crossing angles contact representations specialized graphs and
trees partially fixed drawings experiments orthogonal drawings realizability and
miscellaneous. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length and the Graph
Drawing contest report.