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Add Your Signature To The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Submission
Help To Get Sizeable UK Government Financial Support For Those Working In The Comics Field
The Comics Cultural Impact Collective has submitted a report to the UK Department Of Culture to secure significant funding for those working in comics in the UK.…
Here’s the first page’s text from the report submission
We can only imagine how many of these things you’ve seen. A proposal, a sectoral review, a set of industry insights… perhaps a graph to break it up if you’re lucky; a dusty oasis in a discursive desert. We’ve written a fair number of these reports ourselves out of necessity – you have to speak the language, don’t you? However, we come from a background where information is not to be skimmed, but savoured. We come from the world of comics. Is this proposal going to be in a comics format? Unfortunately, no. And if that causes a feeling of disappointment, make a mental note of that feeling because this is the draw of comics: from the simplest aeroplane safety cards to complex graphic essays breaking down academic theses, comics can make any information accessible, digestible, memorable and infinitely relatable. Comics is an artform that draws both readers and practitioners towards it, and this country is a hive of grassroots artistic, academic and entrepreneurial activity: the makings of a world-class industry The truth is we would have loved to present our proposal as a comic, but making comics takes time, which requires investment, which is one thing the nascent comics industry doesn’t have. Yet. This report makes the case for a UK comics fund that will unleash the potential of this creative artform, removing barriers to expansion and freeing up new streams of income, all while fostering a new cultural recognition for our country on the global stage.
In alignment with the government’s manifesto pledges on access to arts, this proposal maps out the huge potential for the comics industry in: ● Accelerating growth and creating sustainable sources of income in the creative industries ● Supporting children, young people and adults to develop creativity and find their voices ● Addressing identified skills gap in creative industries ● Enriching cultural and arts learning at all stages of education ● Opening up a route to rich, imaginative, distinctively British content on our public service broadcasters ● Exploring and supporting distribution channels to strengthen UK comic exports ● Providing a significant and hereto untapped boost to a vast grassroots area of the UK’s creative economy There’s gold in them thar hills.
People can add their signature here to it
