This Is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance

This is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). It is the result of a collaboration of educators and world-class cartoonists and is designed to help teachers who are working hard to prepare students to be empowered, informed, and civic-minded. 

“It is hard to imagine a more important book to get in the hands of students young and old. Civics, democracy, and cartoons all in a non-partisan approach to raise people’s awareness of the real power that they and their communities hold. A funding opportunity that will pay dividends for years.” –Max Silverman, Executive Director, Center for Educational Leadership.


Contributing cartoonists includes Summer Pierre (Eisner-nominee and contributor), Hallie Jay Pope (founder of The Graphic Advocacy Project), Nomi Kane '11 ( contributor), publisher and cartoonist Kevin Czap, and James Sturm (author of the graphic novels and ). Lead cartoonist, CCS graduate Dan Nott ‘18, is currently writing and drawing a book about infrastructure called for Random House Graphic.