Prism Comics programs and services include:

• Representing and advocating for LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion through our website and through exhibiting and presenting panels at comics and popular media conventions

• Prism Comics hosts comics creators of all races, orientations and backgrounds at our booths at comic conventions, giving them opportunities to promote and sell their comics. This is especially important for the many independent comics creators who don’t have the funds to get booths at comic conventions.

• Prism Comics presents the annual Prism Awards for excellence in LGBTQ+ comics with The Cartoon Art Museum and the Queer Comics Expo. 2021 will be our fifth year of presenting the Prism Awards to LGBTQ+ comics creators from around the world – https://www.prismcomics.org/prism-awards

• Prism Comics presents panel discussions at comic conventions around the country and mainly in California including Comic-Con International: San Diego; WonderCon Anaheim; Long Beach Comic Con. In 2020 Prism Comics presented virtual panels on LGBTQ comics for WonderCon Anaheim and Comic-Con International: San Diego.

Prism co-hosts the world’s longest running comic convention panel – “Out In Comics” – at Comic-Con International: San Diego and marked it’s 33rd year in 2020 (online through Comic-Con@Home).

In 2021 we have virtual panels in the works for WonderCon, San Diego Comic-Con and West Hollywood’s Art’s Council’s Pride Month.

• Prism Comics was also one of the only comics organizations in the comics industry to offer an annual financial grant to aspiring LGBTQ+ comics creators publish their works – The Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. Since 2005 the Grant has helped many LGBTQ+ comics creators who have gone on to major acclaim in comics. We had to put the Queer Press Grant on hold in 2020 and 2021 because of the economic impact of the COVID pandemic on our income.