Comics Programs

Scholarships and Awards for Comic Creators
Capital City Comic Con Scholarship – $1000 (Open only to Michigan State University Comics Studio Students): https://capcitycomiccon.com/scholarships/
Cartoonist Studio Prize (Sponsored by Slate and CCS) – $1000 https://www.cartoonstudies.org/studio-prize/
Britain’s Graphic short story prize (£1,000) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/observer-graphic-short-story-prize
S.P.A.C.E. Prize, Open only to Exhibitors of SPACE the previous year ($100-$300, depending on the award) – http://www.backporchcomics.com/space_prize.htm
CAKE (Chicago Alternative Komiks Expo) Cupcake Award gives them a table at the show, a mentor, and funding to print a new minicomic ($250): http://www.cakechicago.com/cupcake-award/
Boston’s MICE, offer small self-publishing grants to creators ($75): http://www.micexpo.org/grant/
Eisner Awards: https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info
Small Press Expo has its “Ignatz,” or festival prize: http://www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-awards
Harvey Awards: https://www.harveyawards.com/

Comics and the academy
The Comics Studies Society – for the promotion of the critical study of comics
List of academic comics journals – on comics research
Comics studies conferences and events – listing from Comics Studies Society
Storify from Comics Studies Conferences ICAF 2014 & Comics Forum (UK) by A. David Lewis
Educational Resource List – by Online Colleges quite Good
Karen Green’s Comic Adventures in Academia Columbia’s comic book librarian extraordinaire talks comics and academia every month
Interview with Comics Librarian Karen Green on comics/visual culture – on the Clyde Fitch Report
Interview with comics Librarian Karen Green – at Mixed Media
Comics Studies at University of Florida – includes Comix Scholars Listserv and many more resources
Listing of various comics listservs – on the Comics Studies site
Comics Forum – UK site discussing the educational value of comics
The Comics Grid – journal of comics scholarship
The Comics Grid links page – journal of comics scholarship
The Comics Grid – Year One – collection of comics scholarship
Dr Mel Gibson’s resource page – (not that Mel) good academic/comics resources
Prof Robert Loss’s Literature in the Gutter blog – for Columbus College of Art/Design comics course
Image and Narrative – scholarly journal on comics out of Belgium
ImageText – scholarly comics journal
ImageText Comics and PostSecondary Pedagogy – Special Issue
The Canadian Society for the Study of Comics – formed in 2010
the Graphic Justice research alliance – comics and Law
Calendar of comics events and cfps – provided by Comix Scholars
Upcoming comics events and cfps – University of Southern Denmark’s list (international)
University of Florida’s Comics Studies Program – within UF’s English Program
Broadview Entertainment Arts University Bachelors of Fine Arts in Comics and Sequential Art – in Utah
Comics Research Bibliography – list of resources, dissertations organized by Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
The Bonn Online Bibliography for Comics Research – international bibliographic database for scholarly literature about comics, graphic novels, manga & related
A Comics research bibliography – by Mike Rhode
Website of the Comic book professor – Mark D. White
Comics Forum‘s Scholars directory – listing of comics scholars worldwide
California College for the Arts announces MFA in comics – in SF
International Bande Dessinée Society – site for conversation on French comics
Graphixia – a collaborative, scholarly comics blog
Reflections on the 100th issue of Graphixia

Educational Comics Makers
Jorge Cham’s Piled High and Deeper – PhD comics
Jay Hosler’s Active Synapse Comics – Science comics
Jay Hosler’s Student-Made comics on animal behavior – from his comics-biology course
Interview with Newcastle Science Comic Team – on Teaching physics through comics – from the Beat
Ryan Claytor’s Elephant Eater Comics – comics teacher and maker
Matt Dembicki’s blogsite – DC comics maker
Andrew Wales’s Panel Discussions Art teacher and doctoral student Wales’ musing on education and life through comics
Nick Sousanis’s Spin Weave and Cut – philosophical essays in comics form
For teachers: Building trust in classrooms with comics – Guest post on Drawing Words/Writing Pictures
Presentation on communicating research in comics form – by Selina Lock of Coventry U Library
Article on Gareth Morris conducting research in comics form – in LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Stuart McMillen research/journalism in comics form – his site
Site for Damian Duffy’s academic comics work
John Miers’ comics site – UK comics maker/researcher
Rubaiat Habib’s partial comics dissertation – Singapore
Comic on what teachers make – by Taylor Mali/Zen Pencils
Yo Miss – A serialized graphic novel about life in the trenches of urban education by Lisa Wilde
Comics making workshop for kids – Neill Cameron’s blog

Institutions and Conventions
MoCCA Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – NYC
Toonseum – Pittsburgh’s comic museum
The Center for Cartoon Studies – Vermont comics school
The Sequential Artists Workshop – Florida school for developing new cartoonists
Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival – intimate and educational
The British Cartoon Museum – in London
NYC Comic Book Marketplace – convention
Comics and NYC Symposium at Columbia U (March 2012)
MoCCA-Fest – small press/comics expo in NYC, sponsored by MoCCA (Annual)
Space Convention – in Columbus, Ohio (Annual)
NYC’s FlameCon – LGBTQ comics con

Comics Library Collections
Michigan State University archives – impressively extensive, run by archivist Randy Scott
List of comics research libraries – provided by Michigan State University
Bowling Green State University’s Comics Library archive – housed in popular culture
Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University
Columbia University’s Butler Library Comics/Graphics Novel collection – curated by the supercool Karen Green
Article on the Columbia U collection – from the Wall St. Journal
Hal Foster at Syracuse University – Library Collection
First US “comic book” Ferdinand Flipper – at Dartmouth Library
List of Comics research library collections – at comicsresearch.org by Gene Kannenberg Jr.
Underground comix collection – at Iowa State
University of Nebraska’s collection of educational and government comics here and here – available online
U of Florida’s comics collection – archive