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Previously unpublished historic Oregon comics on the Zine Machine

The OCP is delighted to present previously unpublished historic comics on the Oregon Zine Machine. Thank you, Gary W. Barclay, for presenting us with those time capsules from…

Special Event: Underground Press

In the 1970s, Portland writers, designers, and illustrators shaped the counterculture movement through their use of independent publishing. Scrappy newspapers such as the Portland Scribe were launched as…

New York’s Philippe Labaune Gallery Hosting Exhibit Dedicated To Art Of ‘Hellboy’ Creator Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola made his name working on titles like Batman and Daredevil, but in 1994 he partnered with Oregon’s Dark Horse Comics to release Hellboy: Seed of Destruction….

NERVOSA wins the 2024 Graphic Medicine Award

Review, reposted from https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/nervosa/ Buy at your local bookstore by Karol Kovalovich Weaver Hayley Gold’s Nervosa traces the author’s experience with and treatment for anorexia nervosa. The graphic…

Free E-Book: Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to The Ohio State University Libraries’ Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and generous support provided by…

Exhibit: The “Annie”-Versary

A Hundred Years of Little Orphan Annie April 27, 2024-December 23, 2024 CELEBRATING A CULTURAL ICON We are excited to announce the “Annie”-Versary that celebrates the legacy of…

Exhibit: Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola // Representando México y el modernismo: Gordo de Gus Arriola

Dates/Times December 13, 2023 – May 5, 2024 Location Robinson Gallery, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & MuseumSullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.Columbus OH 43210 As the first retrospective…

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…

Call for Submissions: ‘Comic Ethnographies’ special issue of European Comic Art

Guest edited by Sophie Fuggle and James Walker, Nottingham Trent University  This special issue of European Comic Art explores the growing use of comics and graphic novels as visual ethnographies. Comics have long been used…

All Nib magazines are available for FREE

The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before they go, they are making all 15 issues of…