August 28, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Tommi Parrish its fourth annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellow. This month-long fellowship provides a $3000 stipend and housing and studio space on 12 secluded acres in Cornish, NH as well as full access to all The Center for Cartoon Studies resources including The Schulz Library, production lab, and studio space. The fellow was selected from a pool of fifty-five applicants.

Tommi Parrish is a 4-time Ignatz award-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor based in Montreal, QC. Parrish has comics in the permanent collection at the Gallery of Western Australia and has had shows, delivered workshops, and given talks throughout Australia, North America, and Argentina. Their latest work, The Lie and How We Told It (Fantagraphics) won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel. You can find them on Instagram @Tommi_PG.

Harry Bliss, founder of the Cornish CCS Residency, had this to say about Tommi’s selection, “The unique depth of Parrish’s work stands out—its confident vulnerability opens the reader up to self-reflective questions difficult to ignore. The sincerity of Parrish’s work is rare and necessary.”

Parrish will be working on their next graphic novel that, according to the cartoonist, explores “the lengths people reach while striving to see and be seen and to heal or avoid healing.”

Praise for Tommi Parrish:

“With each hand-painted panel, author Tommi Parrish communicates an intense atmosphere and delves thoughtfully into the themes of queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the fading of past relationships.”— AIGA Eye on Design

“Parrish has one of my favourite traits in a cartoonist: intense passion for the craft. They are rapidly evolving and experimenting wildly and it’s joyful to watch.”— Simon Hanselmann, author of The New York Times bestselling titles such as Megahex and Meg and Mogg in Amsterdam

“A haunting little graphic novella [The Lie and How We Told It ]…Parrish’s tactile paintwork conjures humans with hulking bodies and baseball heads, all of them wondering whether the messes they’re in are the result of mistakes they’ve made or some kind of perverse destiny they were always bound for.”— Vulture

“The Lie takes on material that’s small in scope and thoroughly familiar: emotions we’ve all felt before. On the other hand, it’s got the chutzpah to try and make us experience those feelings in a whole new way.”— NPR Books

For more information contact: info@cartoonstudies.org

To learn more about the Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship, visit: cartoonstudies.org/cornishfellowship/