2026 Graphic Novel Readathon

A fundraiser for the Cartoon Art Museum     March 1st - March 14, 2026 The Cartoon Art Museum’s (CAM) Graphic Novel Readathon is back! Taking place from March 1st through March 14th to celebrate the creativity and diversity of graphic novels, in conjunction with Will Eisner Week (March 1st to 7th). This grassroots fundraising event has helped to create more awareness and interest in graphic novels while raising funds to help the museum, thanks to the hard work of enthusiastic readers, museum staff and board, and donors. This year our goal is to raise $5,000 with your help and support. Let’s get reading!  Donate to the Graphic novel readathon Supporting the Cartoon Art Museum through the Graphic Novel Readathon is easy: contribute through the donation button above. Share the campaign with family and friends through email or social media using the link above.  Share your love of graphic novels This fundraiser doesn’t just benefit CAM; it also serves to promote reading graphic novels and as a reminder to visit local comic book shops, bookstores, libraries, and the museum’s own McLachlan Reading Room and discover the graph novels lining their shelves. For a list of reading recommendations. Share what you’re reading on social media, places you love to shop and support, or recommendations and thoughts on what you’ve read! Tag us: @cartoonart (Twitter and Instagram), @cartoonartmuseum (Facebook and Threads) Hashtag: #graphicnovelreadathon About the Graphic Novel Readathon The Graphic Novel Readathon relies on participants, like you, helping with online crowd fundraising that will support the museum for exhibitions, educational services for schools, libraries and the public, technological upgrades, program staff, and the costs of supplies needed in the creative cartooning workshops that the museum offers.  Why Graphic Novels? Over the past four decades, graphic novels have emerged as a powerful and acclaimed art form as exemplified by works such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, and Jul Maroh's Blue Is the Warmest Color. Readers today will discover an ever-growing world of illustrated narratives, from John Lewis' first-person account of the Civil Rights Era in the March trilogy and the post-apocalyptic world of Y: The Last Man by Brain K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra to the challenges of adolescence as portrayed in Smile by Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft's New Kid.