Birch Bark Comics

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This is Birch Bark Comics, where I, Brandon Mitchell host all the creative content that I’ve been part of since 2003. Starting off with the self-published indigenous comic story Sacred Circles, to the most recent published graphic novel, Giju’s Gift from Highwater Press and everything in-between!

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Brandon Mitchell

About Birch Bark Comics

From self-published story exercises to collaborations with illustrators and animators, to illustrations and commissioned art, Brandon Mitchell has been creating since 2003.

Launching February 2022

This exciting new book is a romp! A Mi’kmaw girl battles an ancient giant and forms an unexpected friendship in the first volume of this series of graphic novels inspired by traditional stories.

Giju’s Gift

A Mi’kmaw girl battles an ancient giant and forms an unexpected friendship.

Long ago, all living creatures on this land shared a special balance with one another. The pugulatmu’j—the Little People—were the original guardians of the land, and they looked after all living things. As time passed, we forgot these playful yet powerful guardians, but they did not forget us. Occasionally, they make their presence known with the little tricks they play.

Giju’s Gift

Projects

A Brief History of Centralization

A painful experiment

For the purpose of economic efficiency and to remove the First Nations from white sight, in the 1940s the Mik’maq and Maliseet nations were uprooted from their villages and placed on four central reserves in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The results were disastrous and genocidal and the experiment was quietly ended by the end of the 1950s.

A Brief History of Centralization

Projects

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Indigenous writers explore untold stories

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.