The UBC Comics Studies Cluster partners with academic, non-profit, Indigenous, and community partners to support them in the production of comics and graphic novels. We help our partners find funding and support them in participating in comics co-creation through project facilitation and management. If you’re interested in partnering for the UBC CSC, email comics.studies@ubc.ca.

Remember Comics Project with the Homalco First Nation

The “Remember” Comics Project is an ongoing collaboration between Education without Border, the UBC Comics Studies Cluster (CSC), Homalco media personality Tchadas Leo, and the Homalco First Nation.

Exams Under Anaesthesia

“Exams Under Anaesthesia (EUA) Graphics: Equity and Neurodiversity in the Operating Room” is a project undertaken by the UBC Comic Studies Cluster, led by Dr Elizabeth Nijdam, in collaboration with community-based pediatrician Anamaria Richardson, that seeks nine cartoonists to create 9 short graphic novels based on the experiences of neurodiverse children on their experience in the BC healthcare system.

Games for Decolonization

The Games for Decolonization Project provides an interdisciplinary forum, methodological framework, and academic and industry network dedicated to examining the intersections between board games and discourses of settler colonialism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and social justice. 

Tarot for Decolonization

The “Games for Decolonization” project’s primary output of research-creation is the Tarot for Decolonization Deck. Guided by Indigenous Two Spirit tarot practitioner and author of Red Tarot (2024) Christopher Marmolejo, the Tarot for Decolonization Deck will adapt the mechanics of tarot to facilitate conversation through terminology and imagery that thematize Indigenous and settler relationships to land, history, and sovereignty.