Please share widely: the Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table is launching a community zine project to fight censorship and we are looking for submissions!
#GNCRTzine submissions are due 31 May 2024
You do NOT need to be a GNCRT member to submit.
Accepted submissions will be shared at the Zine Pavilion at the upcoming 2024 ALA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
Create your own community #zine #minicomic and fight comics censorship!
More details below & in press release: The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table's Addressing Challenges Committee is now accepting submissions for their new community zine project.
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| The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table's Addressing Challenges Committee is now accepting submissions for their new community zine project. |
| In February 2022, the Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table created the Addressing Comics Challenges Committee with the charge of focusing on resources for libraries in preparing for and addressing bans, challenges, and other forms of censorship to comics and graphic novels. |
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In February 2022, the Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table created the Addressing Comics Challenges Committee with the charge of focusing on resources for libraries in preparing for and addressing bans, challenges, and other forms of censorship to comics and graphic novels. Subsequently, the committee has conducted surveys to gather information about censorship of comics in schools and libraries, created a toolkit to support library workers before, during, and after challenges, and hosted panels with library experts and comics creators.
Their latest initiative, the GNCRT Addressing Comics Challenges Community Zine Project, is designed to help spread awareness about the important work library workers, educators, creators, and communities do to support the freedom to read by creating and submitting original zines. Zines are independently made, creative works that encourage self-expression, making them the perfect medium for library workers to share their own stories.
The committee is eager to receive submissions from all kinds of library workers across ALA divisions, Round Tables, and beyond. You do not need to be a member of GNCRT to submit a zine, and anonymous submissions will be accepted. Accepted submissions will be shared at the Zine Pavilion at the upcoming 2024 ALA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
Learn more in the Call for Submissions: GNCRT Call for Submissions
Please submit your zine by May 31, 2024. Post your projects on social media using the hashtag #GNCRTZine and tag @Libcomix.
The GNCRT Preparing For & Addressing Comic Books Bans, Censorship, and Challenges in Libraries Committee is: Eti Berland (Co-chair), Dan Patton (Co-chair), Amie Wright (Liaison), Moni Barrette (Liaison), Sarah Clements, Gabriel Lopez, Lindsay Gibb, Kellie Crosby-Sturtz, Ryan Grant, Julia Lanter, Carla Riemer, Natalie Molnar, Kara Baker.
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Amie Wright (she/her)
Chair, GNCRT Addressing Bans & Challenges Committee
Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT)
sporadic tweets @librarylandia
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