Illustrate! Educate! Organize! The Graphic History Project

The aim of The Graphic History Project is to inspire people to get involved, on a volunteer basis, in the making of activist comics. Thanks to the generous support of a THEN/HiER Small Projects Grant, the GHC was able to do a number of important things that greatly aided the overall project. First, the GHC has been able to offer contributors a small honorarium, recognizing the countless hours of work that goes into crafting every comics page. Second, the GHC was able to upgrade our website to improve its overall readability and better feature the new comics. Lastly, the THEN/HiER Small Projects Grant enabled us to begin working on curriculum development for the Graphic History Project which will eventually accompany each completed comic in the planned edited collection. Developing this curriculum will help facilitate educators’ greater engagement with the comics of the Graphic History Project and encourage a deeper connection to each project.