We are pleased to announce the release of Project #12 of the Graphic History Project: “Working on the Water, Fighting for the Land: Indigenous Labour on Burrard Inlet” illustrated and written by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation) with co-authors Robin Folvik and Sean Carleton (Graphic History Collective). This new comic focuses on Indigenous labour and responses … Read More
The Graphic History Collective is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle. The book is an anthology of comics on Canadian labour history produced for the Graphic History Project and will be published in 2016 with Between the Lines Press. The GHC, along with historian Paul Buhle, … Read More
Corbin, British Columbia, is largely a ghost town now. Located in the southeastern part of the province, close to the Alberta border, if you decided to make a trip to visit you might find an old graveyard, greying shacks, and maybe even a resident or two nestled in the mountains. However, you would likely find … Read More
We are excited to share the mini-comic version of Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, a community based comic book project created by Toronto-based artists Althea Balmes (Illustrator) and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (Writer) in close collaboration with caregivers and supporters. This comic looks at the real life stories of Filipina migrant workers in the Canadian Live-in … Read More
We are really excited to share the latest contribution to the Graphic History Project, The Days of Action: The Character of Class Struggle in 1990s Ontario. Illustrated by Orion Keresztesi, written by Doug Nesbitt and Sean Carleton, and augmented by an introduction by David Camfield, The Days of Action comic book examines the popular uprisings … Read More
A new Graphic History Project comic from artist Tania Willard, Secwepemc Nation, and the Graphic History Collective research and writing team of Robin Folvik and Sean Carleton. This comic focuses on indigenous labour and responses to the coming of capitalism and colonialism along Burrard Inlet, which flows through the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm … Read More
Here are some new images from the upcoming comic book looking at the Days of Action in Ontario during the 1990s. Illustrator: Orion Keresztesi Co-authors: Doug Nesbitt and Sean Carleton
We are excited to share the newest contribution to the Graphic History Project: An ‘Entirely Different’ Kind of Labour Union: The Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada. Growing out of the many movements that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, SORWUC was a socialist-feminist union based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, that sought … Read More
Writers: Doug Nesbitt, Sean Carleton Illustrator: Orion Keresztesi
Project #7 from the Graphic History Collective is A Brief, Accurate, Graphic History of Environmental Activism, Steph Hill’s attempt to fit a broad swath of history into a short little book. From Steph: The idea was to relate the fundamental ideas and some events in environmental history in a way that is conversational, and–with any … Read More