Comics Appreciation Project

05/25/2026

as we remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect democracy.

05/22/2026

Join us today in celebrating our Founder’s Day annual fundraiser. Every $20 received goes to provide one Share-Care box with three award-winning graphic novels to a displaced child in medical crisis or foster care.

We started CAP in 2022 with a simple mission: to use the power of comics to bring comfort, inspiration, and joy to children in foster care and medical crisis. Since then, we've given away nearly 7,000 graphic novels to kids in crisis. Your support can help us continue this work.

We only solicit two fundraisers per year: Founder's Day in late May and Giving Tuesday in early December. Our preferred donation method is through Zeffy, a platform created exclusively for nonprofits that allows supporters to give without transaction fees.

The Comics Appreciation Project Inc. (CAP) is a 501c3 nonprofit promoting the use of graphic novels as both an effective tool for engaging struggling readers and a legitimate medium for instilling a lifelong joy of reading. We want to engage and support all young readers, especially those in crisis....

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

Happy to serve on this committee for the second year.

GNCRT and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries!

The 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant is awarded to Amanda Zerangue, Jermaine Bryant, and Janelle Fuller of the University of North Texas Libraries in Denton, TX. Their project “Panels to Pathways: Graphic Novels for Independent Living, Workforce Readiness, and Library Engagement” will expand and enhance their longstanding partnership with UNT WISE’s Live & Learn Summer Program, which brings teens and young adults with disabilities to campus for immersive training in skills in independent living, job readiness, and community engagement. Panels to Pathways will integrate three new graphic novel programming components into the Libraries’ WISE summer camp experience to increase engagement with graphic novels while supporting career readiness.

The 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Innovation Grant is awarded to Annisija Hunter of the Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. Their project “Humanizing Health Sciences Education with Graphic Medicine” seeks to cultivate empathy, reduce stigma, and amplify marginalized perspectives through a new graphic medicine collection. Additionally, they are planning The Comic Relief: Healing Through Graphic Medicine event to build community among various campus colleges and departments as it introduces graphic medicine as a genre, highlights the new collection’s interdisciplinary impact, and allows participants to draw their own graphic medicine panels.

The grant recipients will be celebrated at ALA Annual during the GNCRT President’s Program on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 10:30am CT.

https://www.ala.org/news/2026/05/university-north-texas-libraries-denton-tx-and-hilton-m-briggs-library-south-dakota

05/20/2026

Comic-Con is proud to announce the nominees for the 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The nominees in 32 categories reflect the wide range of material being published in the U.S. in comics and graphic novels. The deadline for voting is June 5. Winners will be announced in a gala awards ceremony in San Diego on July 24.
Click the link to learn more: https://bit.ly/49OQadX

05/14/2026

https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

2026 Eisner nominees have been announced

04/25/2026

This is the last week for your student to apply for our 2026 future comic creator scholarship.

https://comicsappreciationproject.com/dr-ben-tate-inspirational-scholarship/

Any student in high school (9th-12th) in Georgia or North Carolina can apply. Application is on our website or find out more at:

https://www.scholarships.com/scholarships/dr-ben-tate-inspirational-scholarship

04/09/2026

Excited to present today at the 2026 Popular Culture Association Conference in Atlanta for their Comic and Comic Arts track on Form, Function, and Narrative.

04/07/2026

We are excited to have earned a 2026 Top-Rated NonProfit status from GreatNonprofits! GreatNonprofits is the leading platform for
community-sourced testimonials about nonprofits. Less than 1% of registered nonprofits earn a spot on their Top-Rated list and this is our fourth year in a row! You can find our profile here and leave your own review.
https://greatnonprofits.org/org/comics-appreciation-project

03/26/2026

My son Jack (13) and I represented the Comics Appreciation Project today while teaching a full class of future educators at the University of Georgia on “Rethinking Graphic Novels In the Classroom: Another Look at Literacy & Complexity” using Tonyweaverjr’s book “Weirdo” (First Second Books).