GHC Member Sean Carleton reviews Willow Dawson’s Hyena in Petticoats and the Story of Suffragist Nellie McClung on Women Suffrage and Beyond Historically, women have not fared well in comic books. As a traditionally male dominated medium, derogatory depictions of women figure prominently in both past and present comics. Even portrayals of iconic female characters … Read More
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New Teasers from the Days of Action Comic Book
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
“Drawn to Change: Comics and Critical Conciousness” – GHC Member Publishes Peer-Reviewed Article on Comics
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
Project #8: An ‘Entirely Different’ Kind of Union: The Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ of Canada (SORWUC)
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
Illustrate! Educate! Organize! Working-class and Labour History Through Comics
Educate! Illustrate! Organize! Working-class and Labour History Through Comics is a 3 month exhibit curated by Robin Folvik, a member of the Graphic History Collective. The exhibit was created for the Cumberland Museum and Archives to open in conjunction with the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association and Miners’ Memorial Weekend, June 12-15th, 2014. It highlights … Read More
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
Teasers from an upcoming GHP comic book about the Ontario Days of Action
Writers: Doug Nesbitt, Sean Carleton Illustrator: Orion Keresztesi
New Comic: “A Brief, Accurate Graphic History of the Environmental Movement (Mostly in Canada)”
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
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
We’re celebrating our anniversary!
Five years ago, the Graphic History Collective came together to publish May Day: A Graphic History of Protest. We had our launch party on May 1st at Rhizome Cafe, a wonderful venue we all miss. Since becoming a collective we’ve learned a tremendous amount, not only about comics and history, but also how to … Read More