Oulu Comics Centre’s most important value is the North. The main direction of our operations is towards the north, internationally. We want to be developing comics in our area and be frontrunner in the northern world of comics. Before nordic comics cooperation was focused primaly in the areas of the capital cities of Northern European Countries. Oulu Comics Center took the first step towards an active, international network of Arctic comics in Arctic Comics Seminar 2014. ACS 2014 created a network for cartoonists, comics and illustration teachers and Comic organisations to share knowledge and skills with each other. Northern Comics Festivals
- Oulu Comics Festival, Oulu (Finland)
- Polarcon, Murmansk (Russia)
Northern Comics Residencies
- International Comics Residence (next 10-11/2021), Liminka (Finland)
- Icelandic Comics Residence (next 11/2021), Liminka (Finland)
- Residence program: Iceland (next 10/2021), Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Finnish National Residence 2020, Liminka (Finland)
Northern Comics Associations
- Oulu Comics Center, Oulu (Finland)
- Kemi Comics Exhibition, Kemi (Finland)
- Icelandic Comics Society, Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Rovaniemi Comics Society, Rovaniemi (Finland)
Northern Comics education
- The Liminka School of Art, Comics, Liminka (Finland)
- The Oulu School of Art, Comics, Oulu (Finland)
Northern Comics exhibitions
- Comics Gallery!, Oulu (Finland)
- Sarjasto, Oulu (Finland)
- The Arctic Gems and Comics exhibition, Kemi (Finland)
- Palsa Museum, Kittilä (Finland)
Comics libraries and archives
- Comics library Sarjasto, Oulu (Finland)
- Oulu Comic Center library, Oulu (Finland)
- Reykjavík City Libary, Grófin library, Comics department, Reykjavík (Iceland)
- Comics library Serieteket, Oslo (Norway)
- Norwegian Comics Museum, Hadeland (Norway)
- Comics library Serieteket, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Svenskt Seriearkiv, Malmö (Sweden)
Other comics activities in the north
We are building Oulu as European Cultural Capital 2026.