In October, I traveled to the small Italian city of Ravenna as a guest speaker/artist for the 2015 Komikazen International Reality Comic Festival. I found the whole event stimulating and inspiring and I want to share some of my experiences for those interested in political comics and radical art in general. Komikazen is an annual comic … Read More
The Graphic History Collective was interviewed by Daniel Tseghay, in RankandFile.ca about how we recently unionized. He’s right, one day we should draw a comic about how we unionized. Read it here: http://rankandfile.ca/2015/09/22/illustrating-the-freelancers-organizing-model/ While the CFU is open to a variety of independent media workers, the GHC’s attention to labour history is particularly welcomed. “I think it’s important that any … Read More
For this year’s Peterborough Artsweek festival, the GHC has a special art installation, “Drawn to Change.” It showcases select images (in the form of panel posters) from our forthcoming comics collection “Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle” (Between the Lines Press, Spring 2016). It features the amazing work of all of the … Read More
We are proud to announce that GHC members have joined the Canadian Freelance Union, a new union for freelance media and creative workers like us. The Canadian Freelance Union is a Community Chapter of Unifor (Union of Canada), the largest private sector labour union in Canada. Unifor’s Community Chapters are a new way for workers … Read More
The Graphic History Collective warmly welcomes the newest member to the organizing collective, artist Kara Sievewright. We are honored that she will be sharing her artistic talents and organizing skills with the GHC. Kara Sievewright is an artist, writer, and designer who has published comics in many magazines and anthologies including Plenitude, Descant, World War Three Illustrated, Certain Days: Political … Read More
The Graphic History Collective is announcing the launch of our third major comics project, tentatively titled, Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike as Political Protest.
[metaslider id=1367] The Graphic History Collective was invited to give a keynote presentation at Mount Royal University, for the Mount Royal Historical Society’s Foothills Colloquium. Robin Folvik (labour researcher) and Sam Bradd (artist/graphic recorder), travelled to Calgary and presented a selection of the comics, which you’ll be able to read in full in our book … Read More
This is a short post to announce that our comics anthology, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle, have been officially submitted for publication. It is forthcoming with Between the Lines Press in Spring 2016 (likely May 1). We would like to thank all the contributors for their great work: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, … Read More
May Day 2015 is now behind us, but it is never too early to start planning for May Day 2016 as we continue to build movements of working class struggle. To help, Between the Lines Press has extended its special offer until May 31st: You can now get FREE shipping and 40% off bulk orders … Read More
In your preparations for May Day 2015 – May 1st, International Workers’ Day – don’t forget to grab a few copies 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: https://btlbooks.com/book/may-day SPECIAL OFFER: You can now get FREE … Read More