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…
Sebastian Heiduschke
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…
We have a winner!
After many rounds of discussions, selections, more debates, and then a vote, our jury has selected the following design to become the new OCP logo: The jury selected design #38.…
New book: Art History for Comics. Past, Present and Potential Futures, by Ian Horton and Maggie Gray
From the publisher’s website: This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can…
New book: Comics and Nation. Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland, by Ewa Stańczyk
From the publisher’s website: Comics and Nation offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Polish state, from its foundation in 1918…
New book: Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty (June 2022)
Straight from the publisher’s website: A COMPLETE NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF UNDERGROUND COMIX In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday…
Queen of Snails (New book and Zoom interview on November 18)
Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child…