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The “Remember Comics” Project’s Site Visit to Bute Inlet with the Homalco First Nation

In November 2023, the UBC Comics Studies Cluster (CSC) and the non-profit Education without Borders (EwB) joined the Homalco First Nation on a site visit to Bute Inlet. The visit took place as part of the CSC’s “Remember” Comics project, a partnership that is led by Homalco media personality Tchadas Leo and cofounded by EwB.  […]


Work-In-Progress: Exams Under Anesthesia (EUA) Graphics

“Exams Under Anaesthesia (EUA) Graphics: Equity and Neurodiversity in the Operating Room” is a project undertaken by Dr. Anamaria Richardson and the UBC Comic Studies Cluster that sought nine cartoonists to create nine short (8–12 page) comics based on interviews with the parents of neurodiverse children on their experience in the BC healthcare system. Applications […]


Biz Nijdam Presenting at MOA’s 2023 Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series

On November 9th, CENES’s Biz Nijdam will be presenting on “Graphic Historiography: Comics and/on Historical Writing” at the 2023 Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series hosted by UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies. Since Art Spiegelman’s Maus, comics and the representation of German history have […]