Cartoonists United

The Cartoonist Cooperative is a community of comics-makers supporting each other and making our creative practice more sustainable and successful.

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Join Babs New July 11th for an open figure drawing session with a sequence of short to medium length poses. All skill levels welcome - no tutor on site but figurative drawing tip trading with the homies encouraged.

Check out our board for the challenge details and materials, then get busy coloring! Be sure to come back and share your work with us by July 31! 🎨 https://app.milanote.com/1Wiapu1WCkuL0K/cupchallenge-2026?p=vHJovsFvbyp

This event will be an online zine-making workshop and craft circle, followed by a swap where people can share what they made and coordinate to mail zines to each other!

Join us next month for our first Cartoonists United Palette (CUP) Challenge, running from July 1 - 31! Keep an eye out here on July 1 to get the full details and materials! 🎨

Pssst..! Subscribers to our public newsletter will get access to the challenge two days early, so go join now if you haven't already! https://cartoonist.coop/newsletter.html

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As convention season gets underway, a reminder that we have an ongoing masking initiative pushing to make all comic events safer for all of us! We’re still collecting testimonials over at bit.ly/CCMaskAction about how universal masking (among other measures) is an investment in our collective wellbeing, please fill one out yourself!

And check out our whole masking initiative page over at https://cartoonist.coop/masking/ for more info on our demands for all comic events, resources for organizers, and much more!

If not, this is the time to support your fellow comics workers! Your answers will help address pay disparities for a more transparent and equal comics industry. Take the survey here: https://cartoonist.coop/2026comicworkersurvey

Support Into the Forest Deep on Kickstarter!

All things can be found in The Forest Deep and the two friends must brave the dark and dangers to find what they seek.

Into the Forest Deep is the story of two best friends in fairy tale circumstances, using their love of stories to understand the world around them. Their adventure is suited for the middle grade, but friendly for all ages. The whole book is completed at 128 pages (including front and back cover). The print copy will be soft cover at 5.5" x 8.5", black and white, and with coated paper. There are also stickers, prints, and digital editions to add to your collection.

Make a Terrible Comic Day is held every year on June 24, and this year, we're making one together! Join us that day for 60 minutes of focused working to lofi music, followed by sharing our work for 30 minutes after!

We will be located at Table 139 in the Hockey Rink where you can ALSO pick up a stamp card for our member stamp rally!

Join Lannan on June 6th for the rundown on genre conventions, inspiration and marketing in Romance.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees, competition was tough but were honored to read through every single one of your comics!

Read more at: https://mca.cartoonist.coop/

The June event calendar is here ! This month is packed with activities and we'd love to see you there !

Learn about writing Trans characters and Trans romance through the "Writing Trans Romance" event on June 3rd! Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

June 6th brings us the "Romance Genre Mixer" event, where you can come and chat with other romance cartoonists ! Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

June 24th is Make a Terrible Comic Day! Join us to make terrible comics together ! Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

We are now OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS for our second Digital Comics Residency! Time to submit your pitches! Read more about our program and submit your pitch here: https://cartoonist.coop/digital-residency/

The Minicomic Awards Ceremony will be streamed on our YouTube May 30th 5pm PT/8pm ET! Join us as we celebrate the minicomic nominees and winners together!

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@cartoonistcoop

Learn more: https://mca.cartoonist.coop/