In a new peer-reviewed article for the academic journal Labour/Le Travail, “Drawn to Change: Comics and Critical Consciousness,” GHC member Sean Carleton examines how political comics today might be used to cultivate critical consciousness. You can read/download “Drawn to Change” here: https://www.academia.edu/7544520/Drawn_to_Change_Comics_and_Critical_Consciousness In this article, Sean contextualizes the recent mainstream resurgence of comic books and … Read More
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GHC article in the Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association
The Graphic History Collective recently published an article on comics and history in Issue 40.1 (2014) of the Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association/Société historique du Canada (CHA/SHC). The article is called “Getting Graphic with the Past: Comics and Radical History” and you can read it here: Getting Graphic with the Past For more … Read More
SORWUC Comic Book Teaser
Here is a special teaser from an upcoming comic book on the history of SORWUC, a socialist-feminist labour union in Canada by the Graphic History Collective and the extremely talented Ethan Heitner. Ethan Heitner is a cartoonist and member of the editorial collective of World War 3 Illustrated, the radical comics magazine (http://www.worldwar3illustrated.org/). More of … Read More
Order Your Copy of the May Day Comic Book Today – Special Offer
In preparation for this years’ May Day – May 1st, International Workers’ Day – celebrations, don’t forget to grab your own copy of the GHC’s first comic book, May Day A Graphic History of Protest (Between the Lines Press, 2012). You can order the comic book online here: http://btlbooks.com/book/may-day Also, the GHC is happy to … Read More
“We Want Our Land”: A 1976 Stó:lō Land Claims Negotiations Comic
SFU PhD Candidate Madeline Knickerbocker has written a great article contextualizing a very cool piece of comics art about Stó:lō land claims that she found in the archives. Her write-up and the comic can be viewed here: http://www.champlainsociety.ca/we-want-our-land-a-1976-stolo-land-claims-negotiations-comic/ Madeline Knickerbocker is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. Her forthcoming … Read More
Canadian Dimension showcases Dreaming of What Might Be Comic Book
Thanks, Canadian Dimension! http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5638/
Praise from Paul Buhle for Dreaming of What Might Be and The Graphic History Project
Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Canada 1880-1900, a finely-crafted, historically informed and sensitive comic in itself, offers a magnificent beginning in what is certain to be a landmark project in comic art treatments of labour and working people’s lives and experiences, past and present. Paul Buhle, editor of A People’s … Read More
Dreaming of What Might Be: Introducing the Graphic History Project as a New Initiative for Radical History and Comics
Illustrate! Educate! Organize! The Graphic History Collective (GHC) is pleased to announce the launch of their new comic book about the Knights of Labor in Canada called Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Canada 1880-1900.
Welcoming a New Member
We are pleased to announce that Julia Smith has joined the Graphic History Collective. Julia is a PhD candidate at Trent University studying the history of bank worker unionization in Canada in the postwar period. Julia helped write and research for the GHC’s soon-to-be-revealed new graphic history, Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of … Read More