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 “Biz” 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.

Visual Storytelling in the Indigenous North

Visual Storytelling in the Indigenous North is a three-year, Indigenous-led initiative that connects storytellers, artists, and scholars from across the Circumpolar North to share stories of Indigenous survivance through comics, documentary film, podcasts, and digital media.

Spanning Canada, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Sápmi (Norway, Sweden, Finland), and Denmark, the project brings together First Nation, Métis, Inuit, and Sámi knowledge holders to co-create graphic narratives and arts-based public programming that highlight resilience, resurgence, renewal, revival, and resistance.