On Monday, June 2nd, the UBC Turtle Island Cluster of the SSHRC Partnership Grant, Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education, completed filming the short documentary film associated with the project with director Andy Rutter. “We Can Still Sing and Dance: Kokum Dorothy’s Story” is a 50-page graphic novel co-created by award-winning […]
On May 24th, 2025, Vancouver’s newest comics event, Rain City Comic Con, was featured on Gobal News. Reporter Safeeya Pirani interviewed co-organizer John Anders of Soaring Penguin Press about supporting the local comics and cartooning community and Alina Pete (Cree), collaborator on the Comics Studies Cluster’s “Remember Comics” Project and artist in Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories […]
On Saturday, May 24th, 2025, Biz Nijdam of the UBC Comics Studies Cluster tabled at Rain City Comic Con, Vancouver’s newest comics event. In addition to handing out stickers and connecting with local cartoonists and comics fans, Nijdam distributed comics from the EUA Graphics collection to help widen the project’s reach and began recruiting for […]
Join the UBC Comics Studies Cluster next Saturday, May 24th from 10 AM-5 PM to celebrate local comics creators and art at Rain City Comic Con! Rain City Comic Con is Vancouver’s newest comics event dedicated to showcasing the work of comic artists in the Greater Vancouver Area. Started by a coalition of […]
The Pop Culture Cluster supports academic and public-facing scholarship in Popular Media and Comics Studies at UBC.
The UBC Pop Culture Cluster is located at UBC Vancouver, which is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
