No type of effective activism would take shape without communities, networks, and collectives. Non-male communities have been devalued and antagonized within patriarchal structures, through various explicit and implicit strategies such as stereotyping, ridicule, and formal persecution. Consequently, the mere formation of non-male collectives at the heart of patriarchal structures can be a feminist and activist endeavor, even without outspoken activist agendas. Collectivity emerges as well recurrently in relation to the medium of comics at different levels: collective authorships, collective milieus and movements of production, and the collectivity suggested through the multimodal materiality of the medium. 

     In this paper, I will focus on the collective potentials of the medium of comics, at the social and material levels, by offering a case study of Drawing the line, Indian women fight back! (Kuriyan, Bertonasco et al. 2015). Drawing the line is an anthology consisting of works by fourteen Indian comic artists who reflect upon their experiences of gender violence. As this paper will demonstrate, through the anthology format, collective and transcultural publication, collective authorship, and depiction of collective histories, Drawing the line sets an example for the way comics, as a medium, can be inherently activist through its potentials for collective enunciation. Furthermore, showcasing an example of collective feminist action through drawing and storytelling, Drawing the line also creates potentials for intercultural community building with its Western counterparts such as Drawing Power (Noomin and Gay 2019). To flesh out the latter point, the paper will conclude with expanding on the potentials of ‘comics anthology’ as an activist format.