Supported by the Open Societal Challenges Fund and the British Association for the Study of Religions, the Open University, King’s College London and Pitik
Bulag cartoon collective have launched a competition to match cartoonists up with socially-minded academics to collaborate on a series of images that make the latest research about pressing social challenges accessible to general audiences.
Successful cartoonists in the planned project, titled “Academics and Artists addressing Societal Challenges” will receive a £300 commission for their collaboration with an academic. Five cartoonists are being sought.
The Open University says the artist will retain copyright but they also say the final works will be “sharable under creative commons conditions”.
The deadline is Wednesday noon 3rd April 2024, but initially, the requirements in their “Call for Expressions of Interest from Cartoonists” are just a short statement of interest and examples of prior works, so cartoonists may want to spend a bit of time over the Easter weekend putting an email together.
• If you have any questions, contact Dr Paul-François Tremlett (paul-francois-tremlett@open.ac.uk)
With thanks to Vilnis Vesma (“Vilnissimo”) at the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain
