Em Sauter ‘11

Beer is for Everyone (of Drinking Age) by Em Sauter Em Sauter is an Advanced Cicerone®, cartoonist, author, beer reviewer, international beer judge (she has judged the Great American Beer Festival, World Beer Awards, Australia Intl Beer Awards and others), certified BJCP beer judge and public speaker who runs the award-winning website, Pints and Panels, which focuses on visual beer education. Sauter was named a Wine Enthusiast “40 under 40” in 2016 and won the Saveur Magazine Editor’s Choice for Best Beer Content in 2015. Her first book, “Beer is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age)” was published in 2017 by One Peace Books. Her second book “Hooray for Craft Beer!” will be released in April 2022 by Brewers Publications. More info at www.pintsandpanels.com

Sophie Goldstein ‘13

House of Women by Sophie Goldstein

House of Women, Fantagraphics debut, Sophie’s second graphic novel was one of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2017. Sophie Goldstein is an award-winning graphic novelist, illustrator and comics instructor living in Tulsa, OK where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow. Her most recent graphic novel An Embarrassment of Witches from Top Shelf Productions, is her second collaboration with Jenn Jordan. The book is currently being serialized on her Patreon.

Luke Healy ‘14

How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy

Luke Healy‘s debut comic How to Survive in the North started as his thesis at The Center for Cartoon Studies and was later picked up for publication by Nobrow Press. He has published four graphic novels Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It), How to Survive in the North,  Permanent Press, The Con Artist. Healy’s work has been exhibited in the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art in Manhattan and his clients include The New Yorker, BBC, Vice, and Narratively.

Katherine Roy ′10

How to be an Elephant by Katherine Roy

Katherine Roy is the award-winning and best-selling author and illustrator of science-based books for children, including the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins. She is also the illustrator of numerous other books, including Otis and Will Discover the Deep, by Barb Rosenstock, Red Rover, by Richard Ho, and The Fire of Stars, by Kirsten W. Larson.

Melanie Gillman ′12

As The Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman

As the Crow Flies, a webcomic by Melanie Gillman, is finally making it to print through Iron Circus with a Kickstarter. The comic is about a queer, black teen girl at an all-white Christian summer camp, Charlie struggles to reconcile the piousness of the camp with the disregard it has for outsiders like herself and her fellow camper Sydney.

Teppi Zuppo ‘15

Belchville by Teppi Zuppo

Teppi Zuppo is a hardworking cartoonist who has wholeheartedly accepted their role as a Vermont cartoonist. They have an obvious passion for comics that you can see in all of their various and sundry projects. Originally Belchville was released in mini-comic issues of 24 pages each.

Chu Wilson ‘15

Slightly Damned by Chu

 Chu Wilson ’15 is a web comic maniac. They have two series going, Slightly Damned and The Junk Hyenas Diner, and continues to make various minicomics. Slightly Damned started in 2004 and continued through their time at The Center for Cartoon Studies to now. Chu posts one color page per week. The fantasy story follows Rhea through Hell after she was murdered in an action-adventure romantic comedy.

Dakota McFadzean ′12

Don’t Get Eaten By Anything by Dakota McFadzean

Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist who graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2012. He went on to win a Doug Wright award in 2015 for for Don’t Get Eaten By Anything, a collection of his daily comics.  Dakota has been published byMAD Magazine, The New Yorker, The Best American Comics, andFunny or Die. He has also worked as a storyboard artist for DreamWorks TV.  dakota-mcfadzean.com

Lucy Knisley ‘09

Something New by Lucy Knisley

Something New explores Lucy Knisley’s personal views on marriage, the process and history, and how it came through in her own wedding. In Relish, she thinks back about the place food has had in her life. It was a New York Times bestseller and won Publishers Weekly’s Best Children’s Book of 2013, NPR’s Best Book of 2013, and the American Library Association Alex Award in 2013.

Sasha Velour ‘13

VELOUR: The Drag Magazine by Sasha and Johnny Velour

Sasha Velour is the season 9 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 9! And we all send her the biggest congratulations! Sasha’s thesis project back in 2013, Stonewall, is a graphic novel about the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Velour: The Drag Magazine (known in early stages as “VYM”) celebrates the art of drag through fine art, poetry, and interviews! Each issue pairs drag innovators with visual artists and writers to create beautiful and thoughtful pieces about the power, beauty, and purpose of drag. Sasha is co-founder VELOUR with Johnny Velour.

Laura Terry ‘10

Graveyard Shakes by Laura Terry

Laura Terry’s graphic novel, Graveyard Shakes (Scholastic). Previously homeschooled, Victoria Trost is desperate to fit in at her new boarding school, but that’s unlikely with her younger sister, Katia, there. Katia’s eccentric, carefree nature leaves Victoria ostracized. After an embarrassing few days (and a blizzard), Victoria meets Little Ghost, a polite, friendly specter. Laura has self-published a number of minicomics including Morning Song, BFF, and Dance after Dark. Her work has been listed in multiple Best Of lists published by The Comics Journal. In 2012 she received the last of the Xeric grants with her comic Overboard, which was also listed as a Notable Comic of 2013 by Best American Comics.

Tillie Walden ′16

Spinning by Tillie Walden Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden’s ’16 powerful graphic memoir Spinning captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. “Tillie Walden has published three books, been nominated for an Eisner and won two Ignatz awards. Not bad for anyone, let alone a young artist born in the mid-90s. Her work ethic and ambition are evident through previous projects I Love This Part, The End of Summer and A City Inside , and now First Second has released her biggest project yet, Spinning, a 400-page memoir that uses her years as a competitive figure skater to tell a story about learning to follow your own path….” –Paste Magazine

“Spinning’s Tillie Walden on the Power of Pursuing and Ending Childhood Dreams” by Hillary Brown, September 26, 2017.

D.W. ′12

Mountebank by D.W.

Mountebank by D.W. is a systematized sketchbook both meditative and hypnotic, with anthropomorphic creatures crawling through grid paper labyrinths and in his own brand of whirling dervish mark-making.

Charles Forsman ′08

The End of the ****ing World by Charles Forsman

Charles Forsman is a 2008 graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies.  Forman is a three-time Ignatz Award-winner for his self-published mini comic, Snake Oil and his graphic novel The End of The ****ing World  (Fantagraphics) which was also adapted into a Netflix Original Series.  Fantagraphics also published his graphic novel Celebrated Summer. Forsman lives in Hancock, Massachusetts where he runs Oily Comics and works on his monthly action comic book, Revenger.

Eleri Harris ′14

Reported Missing by Eleri Harris

Eleri Harris ’14 looks at what it is like when your mom is charged with murder. Reported Missing is The Nib’s first serialized work of long-form comics journalism. Originally from Tasmania, Eleri went to school with Sarah Bowles, whose mother is the one convicted of murder. With this insight, she delves into the emotional nightmare behind Tasmania’s most controversial murder conviction. The first of seven posts went up just a week before the Supreme Court appeal could change everything. Eleri Harris is deputy director at The Nib.

Rebecca Roher ′15

Bird in a Cage by Rebecca Roher Bird in a Cage tells the story of Rebecca’s grandmother as she goes through early onset dementia, and how the family is affected by and responds to her decline. It’s an intense tale full of family memories and surprising revelations. Rebecca Roher received a Doug Wright Award nomination for the Best Book Award for Bird in a Cage, published by Conundrum Press. Originally published in The Nib, the minicomic won the Expozine Award. Conundrum Press gave Rebecca the opportunity to expand on the original comic into a graphic novel. Bird in a Cage was Rebecca’s CCS MFA thesis project.

Dan Archer ′09

AP Sports: The “Daily Draw” by graphic journalist Dan Archer appeared throughout the 2018 Winter Olympics. Dan Archer was a 2014–15 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught non-fiction graphic novel writing from 2008–14.

Andy Warner ′12

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner

Andy Warner is the New York Times Best Selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (Picador, 2016). His comics have been published by Slate, Fusion, American Public Media, The Nib, Symbolia, Medium, KQED, popsci.com, The Showtime Network’s Years of Living Dangerously, IDEO.org, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNICEF, and Buzzfeed. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and has taught cartooning at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, and the Animation Workshop in Denmark.

Penina Gal ′14

Orbit by Penina Gal

Orbit is a poetic letter of love to a friend. Penina won a SPACE Prize in 2014 for best minicomic (Limp Wrist, published by Paper Rocket Minicomics, in collaboration with Scout Wolfcave). Their comics and illustration work has been published in Cicada Magazine, Narratively, Seven Days, Limestone Post, and a variety of comics anthologies.

Luke Howard ′13

Our Mother  (Retrofit) by Luke Howard Our Mother is a comedy about growing up with a parent who has an anxiety disorder. Luke Howard mixes genres to tell an utterly open personal reflection about his childhood and his relationship with his mother. Jumping between noir, giant robots, fantasy adventure, and even scientific animal research, Luke brings a very intimate story to life with humor and cartooning experimentation. Luke Howard’s work includes Trevor, Talk Dirty to Me (AdHouse Books), and The Big Mystery Case which released at CAKE 2017. Luke is faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies.