As part of this year's Black History Month celebrations, Copacetic is auctioning off a set of comics to benefit The BIPOC Cartoonist Fund, an initiative of The Center for Cartoon Studies.
The BIPOC Cartoonist Fund is designed to both further the diversity of comics production and bring creative voices from the margins towards the center by providing funding to cartoonists who are black, indigenous and/or people of color.
The actual comics shown below – which were donated to CCS by an anonymous donor to benefit this fund – are being auctioned now. This is a benefit auction and 100% of the proceeds are going towards The BIPOC Cartoonist Fund,
Auction is LIVE and will end on Monday 27 February 2023.
This particular auction will help to fund the BIPOC SCHOLARSHIPS for Summer 2023 Cartooning Workshops:
These merit-based scholarships are to support the professional development for BIPOC cartoonists. CCS is offering 1 full scholarship for each of its summer cartooning workshops! A $300 stipend is also included (for in-person workshops only), to help defray the costs of travel and lodging.
Our workshops are for both beginners and advanced artists and cover topics from tools and techniques to writing and drawing for both comics and graphic novels. To be considered for this scholarship, prospective workshop participants should apply by submitting a short written statement on how this workshop will aid their development as a visual storyteller, and one or two pieces of their work (sketches, self- or traditionally-published work, website, social media account, etc). A committee of faculty and staff will review and make the selections. Application Form
The application deadline is March 24th, 2023. A selection will be made by April 3, 2023, and those selected will be notified then. We will also let applicants know if they have not been chosen at that time.If you are selected for the scholarship and have already registered for that workshop, we will refund you! One scholarship will be awarded per workshop. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions info@cartoonstudies.org
If you would like to donate comics for future auctions that will help support this fund, please contact donatecomics@cartoonstudies.org
This auction is being run by The Copacetic Comics Company.
Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos!
If ever there were a collection of comics to highlight during Black History Month, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos is it. The comics collected here were history making in and of themselves. Created by the talented Black comics maker, Jay Jackson, they were published in the most widely read Black newspaper of the twentieth century, The Chicago Defender 80 years ago, during World War II. Not only that, this volume published by New York Review Comics is, to the best of our knowledge, the first time that they have ever been collected, meaning that, outside of scholars and researchers, almost no one alive today has read these strips before. Additionally, each of these strips here included a one panel comics biography of an important figure in Black History – Black History within Black History! Take a look...
John Porcellino Double-Header!
TWO new comics in from John Porcellino in one day! The latest issue of King-Cat Comix & Stories...
AND his collaboration with poet, Stefen Lorenzutti, The Stoneware Jug.
In the shop and on the site.
Celebrating Forty Years of Love and Rockets!
As most watchers of this space are likely already aware, Love and Rockets, the masterpiece of comics by Gilbert, Jaime and, as the just released box set shows, also Mario Hernandez, is the mainstay publication here at Copacetic, where it has been central to the shop's identity. And so we'd like to hereby join in the celebration of its fortieth (how?!?) anniversary!
First off, there is the hour-long PBS documentary, produced by KCET in SoCal, HERE.
Then, there are the articles acknowledging the significance of Love and Rockets in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, and doubtless other outlets as well.
Here's a look at Love and Rockets: The First Fifty, the box that Fantagraphics put together. This comes with quite a high price tag, but we have to say that Fantagraphics did a great job here – as well they should have, considering that Love and Rockets is their flagship publication and will be their greatest legacy as a publisher.
