The Graphic Medicine Award 2024
The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to guide and support the uses of comics in health. The GMIC Annual award is meant to recognize…
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Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon – Swann Foundation Fellowships
The Swann Foundation seeks to award one fellowship annually (with a stipend of up to $5,000) to assist the fellow in his/her ongoing scholarly research and writing projects in the…
A word from the OCP
Hello world, you might have noticed that we started reorganizing much of our web presence. Please be patient as some of the resources and references might not be available for…
Call for Papers: Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children’s Comics. University of Florida, April 5-7th, 2024 (Gainesville, FL)
Deadline for submissions: January 8th, 2024 Since the GCO held its conference on comics and childhood in 2006, the field of children’s comics has exploded—artists like Raina Telgemeier (who’s released…
Coming soon: The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel, in English
A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel,…
Free book: Comics Research Bibliography 2023, E-book Edition
The Comics Research Bibliography began as an online resource in 1996. John Bullough, struck by the success of the Grand Comics Database crowd-sourcing project, proposed a companion project of a…
New Book: Wildfire by Oregon Cartoonist Breena Bard
An inspiring and moving graphic novel, Wildfire follows climate change through the eyes of one middle-school girl, who’s eager to turn her anger into action. Julianna loved her life in…
RIP, Walt Curtis
By now, most of you have heard that Portland icon Walt Curtis passed away. Walt was well connected with the Oregon Cartoon Institute (now OCP), and a good friend of…
Free ebook: Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds
Superhero meaning making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought to) represent,…
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal…