Over the past few months, the GHC has been truly humbled and honoured to receive various awards for our work and recent projects. All awards are really collective achievements, so congratulations and credit goes to all of our contributors, comrades, and collaborators. In April, the Graphic History Collective was awarded the Mayworks Labour Creative Maverick Award. A month later, … Read More
We’ve been busy and have new projects coming in 2017!
Last week – in honor of Labour Day – The Tyee ran a week-long preview series showcasing some of the work in our new comics collection, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle. We were overjoyed with people’s positive responses to the previews, and so was the Tyee, so they collected them in one … Read More
Last week we worked with Artspace and CUPE 3908 to host a free activist colouring night. A group of community activists came together to colour pages from The Little Red Colouring Book, the GHC’s free activist colouring book. It was a fun night of making art, eating snacks, and talking politics. We even created a … Read More
We just wrapped up our Spring 2016 book launch/speaking tour to support the release of Drawn to Change. In traveling across Canada, we met a lot of wonderful folks and are humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response the book is getting so far. Thank you! Here is a quick recap of what we’ve been up to … Read More
Muhammad Ali is widely remembered as a dominant athlete and is celebrated for his boxing prowess; however, Ali also fought for social justice. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement and routinely spoke out against racism, imperialism, and militarization. He was a radical figure who, while a professional fighter, used his words and deeds … Read More
The Little Red Colouring Book – Free Download The Graphic History Collective is pleased to release our first labour history colouring/activity book, The Little Red Colouring Book, just in time for May Day 2016. The colouring book is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD. We hope that this alternative colouring book, created by donated union labour … Read More
Just in time for May Day 2016, Between the Lines Press is offering a special 10% discount on orders of our books May Day: A Graphic History of Protest and Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle. Order from BTL until May 6th and use the promo code: mayday. Get your dose of radical working-class … Read More
The Graphic History Collective is pleased to release GHC member Sean Carleton’s comic book, “James Connolly: The Irish Rebel.”Written and illustrated by Sean, the comic book commemorates the life of Irish socialist James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.The comic book is available for free exclusively on the GHC … Read More
Our friends at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (in Hamilton, Ontario) recently gave kids the opportunity to colour our Joe Hill commemorative poster as part of one of their great Professional Development Days. The kids did a great job and had a lot of fun. We are going to be donating a copy of … Read More