Free e-book: Comics of the New Europe
Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly…
2023
‘Pinocchio’ Oscar casts spotlight on Portland filmmaking, and stop-motion animation
Read an excerpt from an “Oregonian” article published on March 19, 2023: Last weekend, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson and their team won the Oscar for best animated feature. “Guillermo…
Virtual Museum: Australian Cartoon Museum
Go and explore comics and cartoons down under from the comfort of your own home at the Australian Cartoon Museum. Read the blog, explore comics, and much more. Are there…
ONI Press to release Matthias Lehmann’s celebrated historical LGBTQ+ German graphic novel PARALLEL (June 2023)
The following appeared on THE BEAT. We are republishing here. The original news release, written by Dean Simons, can be found here. Oni Press have announced today that they will…
Free publication: Being Old – or Doing Age? Drafting Age in Comics (in German)
For those of use reading in German: Read CLOSURE #9 (the Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung) for free here: https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/ueber Being Old – or Doing Age? Drafting Age in Comics About…
Exhibition review: Carrément poilu at the Comics Art Museum, Brussels
The following is an exhibition review posted on the website of the International Journal of Comic Art. All copyright is theirs (or that of the respective authors). We are posting…
Join Loyalty Bookstores for a virtual event with co-authors Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing for the release of Change the Game!
This touching graphic novel explores the story of how a young change-maker learned to find himself and never compromise. How the right decision is very rarely the easy one, but…
Alternate logos
Below are some of our alternate logos we are going to use on our site. The “Penciltree” logo was designed by Serena Yetter. The OCP Cat logo was designed by…
New book: Comics Research Bibliography 2022 E-book Edition
Michael Rhode and John A. Lent. 2023. Comics Research Bibliography 2022 E-book Edition. Arlington, VA: ComicsDC. Online at https://archive.org/details/crb-2022-final-edition The Comics Research Bibliography began as an online resource in 1996.…
Documentary about the history of LGBTQ comics airs on PBS as controversy rages about books in schools
If you missed our OCP-sponsored screening of NO STRAIGHT LINES, cry no more. The film is coming to PBS as part of their Independent Lens series. Watch it on January…