Free video lectures on the avant-garde histories of comics
Bill Kartalopoulos is a New York-based comics critic, educator, curator and editor. He teaches courses about comics and graphic novels at Parsons School of Design and in the MFA Visual…
October 2022
Free Webinar (Oct. 26): Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Introducing the Nina Allender Political Cartoon Collection
Register here for a presentation related to researching women’s history and gender studies using Library of Congress collections and resources. Bold cartoons by Nina E. Allender, for covers of The…
Open Access Research: Perpetrators in Comics (JPR Vol. 4, Issue 2)
For those of you interested in reading academic research about a growing corpus of comics that deal with genocide and mass violence, many of which include increasingly nuanced and complex…
Virtual Walkthrough: American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo and Beyond at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Can’t make it to the McMullen Museum of Art to see this exhibit? No problem, we got you covered. The McMullen Student Ambassadors and our Manager of Education, Outreach &…
Oregon Artswatch: Portland: Comics City, U.S.A.
Oregon Artswatch just ran an excellent piece on this year’s Eisner Awards, the Oscars of the comics industry. Seven winners in 2022 are from Oregon. TJ Acena talked with five…
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes at OMSI
This breathtaking exhibition celebrates Marvel’s 80-year history, from the iconic characters to the creators who’ve told the stories. Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes features hundreds of artifacts including original comic…
NPR’s Planet Money Buys a Super Hero
Click here to listen to the amazing podcast series on how Planet Money sets out to buy their own Marvel super hero, Micro Face. And here’s a tip: if you…
Conference: Better Living Through Comics (July 2023)
The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society 3-7 July 2023Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Do comics have a role…
New book: Messages from Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population…
RIP, Dennis!
Dennis Nyback, co-founder of the Oregon Cartoon Institute (now Oregon Cartoon Project) died after a long battle with cancer on October 2, 2022. Dennis was known to many people as…