Our Work

Protecting culture and heritage

The defining works of comic culture and the creators behind them permanently recorded; the next generation credited from their first work.

Led by the Culture & Creative Economy Initiative, an ISAC Foundation centre. 3 commitments for 2030.

The problem and who we serve

Comics are the most read and the least preserved part of a country's story. They were printed on cheap paper and thrown away once read, publishers closed and sold their stock for scrap, and most creators were never credited, paid for reprints or recorded. We find each country's comics, scan them to archival standard, record its defining works and give every creator a lifelong record, free for anyone to read.

Beneficiaries
Comic artists and writers, creators' families, publishers, archives, filmmakers, readers
Geography
Every country, with World Comic Heritage

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The Initiative driving this outcome: Culture & Creative Economy Initiative

The Culture & Creative Economy Initiative is the ISAC Foundation centre responsible for this outcome.

Preserving the stories that define generations. Honouring creators, safeguarding cultural heritage, and inspiring tomorrow's storytellers.

Departments

The Culture & Creative Economy Initiative works through training, services, community, research and platforms.

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3 projects need funding to meet these commitments

Creators Recorded

Documenting the lives of comic creators, before they are forgotten.

With sponsors, we find the artists who drew a country's comics, travel to their hometowns, interview them and their families, and record each life on World Comic Heritage.

Our 2030 Commitment: 5,000 Creators Recorded

World Comic Heritage Centres

A home for a country's comics, open to everyone.

Three centres, in India, Europe and the US, each a museum, an archive and a library. Sponsors give a space or fund the build.

Our 2030 Commitment: 3 World Comic Heritage Centres

Defining Works

The 100 comics that shaped each country's stories.

In every country, World Comic Heritage finds the 100 comics that shaped its stories, archives them and records the people behind them, then brings them together into one global 100.

Our 2030 Commitment: 100 Defining Works Recorded

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Take part: training and services

Certifications (3)

  1. WCH ID verification: Verified creator identity and credit line.
  2. WCH Entry orientation
  3. Creator rights and AI-disclosure workshops

Services (2)

  1. Archive advisory: For publishers and institutions.
  2. Rights and credit audit

Take part: community

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Also in this community: Creators Club · WCH Network · WCH Awards

Platforms you can use now

  1. World Comic Heritage: The Global Registry behind this outcome: permanent, verifiable records of comic creators and their works, and the WCH Awards.
  2. ScrollControl: Hosts WCH Awards entries and ratings.
  3. The Comics Today: Comics news, publishing partner.

Research: the standards, reports and open source behind this work

  1. WCH verification standard
  2. AI-use disclosure
  3. Works register
  4. Livelihood survey: Annual from 2027.
  5. Open source: credit-line spec
  6. Open source: works register data

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