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- Amateur and Professional Cartooning Association - Trade group for professional and aspiring artists.
PERower.tripod.com
- Anonima Fumetti - Italian Cartoonists Society - Italian Cartoonists Society's and the Italian Comic Art Centre. In Italian and English.
www.fumetti.org
- Association of American Editorial Cartoonists - Official trade organisations for professional cartoonists and students. Information on the AAEC's actions, artists' portfolio's, publications and awards.
www.detnews.com/AAEC/AAEC.html
- Australian Black and White Artists Club - Trade organisation for cartoonists in Australia. With club member information, open discussions, legal information and competitions and awards.
home.vicnet.net.au/~abwac/abwac.html
- Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation - Contains information about the Swann Fellowship in Caricature and Cartooning as well as links to the Swann Gallery and Library of Congress exhibitions, collections, and resources.
www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swannhome.html
- Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco - A guide to this museum, contains information on exhibits. Also has an online store.
www.cartoonart.org
- CartooNet - The Global Agency for Cartoonists, Illustrators and Animators. Cartoon and Comics Paradise: on-line comic shop, agency for artists, gallery, news, networking and links a plenty
www.illustration-agency.com
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund - Exists to fight censorship and defend the first amendment rights of comic book professionals throughout the United States.
www.cbldf.org
- ComicArts Foundation - Trade organization aiming at helping support, promote, and strengthen the comic book industry, its products, and professionals.
www.5thangel.com/cafi/home.html
- Comikaze - Online gallery and resource to support underground artists. Including drawings and links to other resources.
www.ndroid.com/comikaze
- Disabled Comic Collector's Club - Organisation for disabled comics collectors. With comics reviews and product reviews. Membership is free.
www.airnet.net/kenj/dclub.html
- Failure - A loose confederation of cartoonists who have one thing in common: an independent spirit. Contains message board and comics-related links.
www.failurecomics.com/homepage.html
- Friends of Lulu - National organization whose main purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry.
www.friends-lulu.org
- Friends of Lulu - New York - The longest-running and most active chapter of Friends of Lulu, promoting comic books by and for women and girls in the New York area.
friends-lulu-nyc.org
- Funtime Comics - A group of artists and enthusiasts from Christchurch, New Zealand who produce a regular comic anthology and work towards the promotion and discussion of the comics medium.
funtime.comics.org.nz
- Gothik APA - An Amateur Press Association that promotes and discusses comic books, focusing on alternative and Vertigo comics. Members must contribute.
members.tripod.com/~gothikapa
- Harvey Awards - Honoring excellence in the Comics Industry since 1988. The only comics awards both nominated and selected by the full body of comics professionals.
www.harveyawards.org
- International Museum of Cartoon Art - Presents a gallery of artists and their work, advice for aspiring artists and a peek into the Museum store.
www.cartoon.org
- Iranian Cartoonists on the Web - Biographies and sample cartoons for several Iranian cartoonists.
www.irancartoon.com/INDEX.htm
- London Cartoon Gallery - Devoted to contemporary British cartoons, newspaper strips, cartoonist biographies and related merchandise.
www.cartoongallery.co.uk
- National Cartooning Competition - Information on the competition for primary and secondary schools in Australia, teaching cartooning and creativity. By the Australian Black and White Artists' Club and L. J. Hooker Ltd.
www.stoplaughing.com.au
- National Cartoonists Society - Information on recent legal issues, the Rueben award, how to become a cartoonist. Also, biographical notes on famed cartoonists.
www.reuben.org
- New York City Comic Book Museum - Preserving the historical and artistic legacy of comic book culture.
www.NYCcomicbookmuseum.org
- Organized Readers of Comics Associated - Promotes reading of comic books. Offers free distribution of comic books to promote literacy and the business of comics.
www.orcafresh.net
- SmallPressComics.com - Devoted to the creation, promotion, and distribution of small press comics. Features message boards, a weekly chat, and a database of small press creators.
SmallPressComics.com
- The Cartoonists' Guild UK - Online member directory, organised alphabetically and according to their works.
www.pipemedia.net/cartoons/index.htm
- The Comic Art Preservation Society (CAPS) - Dedicated to the preservation, study, and interpretation of fine comic, cartoon, and animation art with particular attention paid to artists of Western New York. Features a gallery of comic art, news, and links.
hometown.aol.com/wnycaps/caps.html
- The National Association of Comics Art Educators - An organization which supports educators and academic institutions seeking resources for teaching comics art in the classroom.
www.teachingcomics.org
- The Toonie Awards - Yearly award given out by the members of Cartoonists Northwest to the best comic creators, cartoonists, animators and gag writers of the year.
www.speakeasy.org/~cnw/toonies.html
- Xeric Foundation - A private, nonprofit corporation established by Peter A. Laird offering financial assistance to self-published comic book creators, and qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations.
www.artcomic.com/xeric.html
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