OCP hosted zine making workshop at the 2025 Mid Valley Comic Art Expo

For the second time, the OCP hosted a zine-making booth at the Mid Valley Comic Art Expo in Salem. Over the course of two days, hundreds of young…

New free zine: Why Palestine and BDS matter (by FiGS)

Head over to the Oregon Zine Machine to read and download the free zines Why Palestine and BDS Matter (for Feminist German Studies). Also great material for anyone…

OCP announces Seberiana Lopez the winner of 2025 art exhibition

We accepted submissions in the medium of cartoon, comic-making and film, answering the prompt “What is Oregon about Oregon Art?” The exhibition was available to Oregon residents from…

Event recap: OCP Block Printing Workshop, May 2025

Below are some images that can only marginally capture the wonderful block printing workshop, organized by OCP intern Elizabeth Lucas-Lucas, at Tsunami Books in Eugene. The event turnout…

Welcome Teagan Gaviola, our Oregon Cartoon Project Event Intern 2025-26

The OCP welcomes Teagan Gaviola as their intern. Welcome, Teagan! Who are you, and why did you apply to this position? “I’m Teagan (she/they) and I’m a queer…

Digital Humanities: The Comic Books Burning Project

Burning Comics in Postwar America 1945: The same year the United States defeated the most infamous book burners in modern history, Americans began their own campaign against works…

Welcome Eleanor Klock, our Anne Elizabeth Richardson Fellow 2025-26

Eleanor Klock is a Filipino-American cartoonist from Albany, Oregon. Her work explores themes of loneliness, existentialism, and consumerism as a performance of identity. By approaching her personal grievances…

Free comic: Isa’s Dreams by Natalie Garcia

Our publishing arm The Oregon Cartoon Institute just published Natalie Garcia’s comic Isa’s Dreams. Natalie created this comic during their residency as the OCP’s inaugural Artist-In-Residence 2024-25. The…

Meet the OCP at the Comics Art Festival of Eugene (October 4)

Yes – we will be at CAFE, the Comics Art Festival of Eugene. Stop by to make a zine, show us your work, submit a zine to be…

Free E-Book: They Were Chosin – U.S. Marine Cartoonists in the Korean War

From the website: They Were Chosin is based on a previous work, The Mud and the Mirth, which details U.S. Marine cartoonists in World War I. This book…