Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash is a cartoonist currently living on the East Coast. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, VICE, The Nib, and various other publications. She’s currently working on her Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, published by Silver Sprocket, as well as a graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Arantza Peña Popo is a queer Afro-Colombian artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her colorful, mostly risographed comics and zines explore autobiographical and fiction narratives of queerness, disassociation and mental instability.

Blue Delliquanti

Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novels Meal (with Soleil Ho), Across a Field of Starlight, and the graphic novella Adversary. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art 

and Design.

Ethan M. Aldridge

Ethan M. Aldridge is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. He is the creator of the gothic mystery novel Deephaven (A New York Public Library selection for Best Books Of 2023, A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection), the fantasy graphic novel duology Estranged (a JLG selection, Indie Bestseller, and YALSA Great Graphic Novel For Teens), The Legend of Brightblade (an American Library Association pick for Best Graphic Novels For Children), and more. Ethan was raised in a small town in Utah. Growing up, Ethan’s favorite things to draw were monsters and whatever dinosaur he liked that week. He now does more or less the same thing for a living. Ethan now lives in New York City with his husband, Matthew, and their dog, Kitsune.

Ethan has had the pleasure to create work for HarperCollins Publishers, Marvel Comics, Abrams Books, and Penguin Random House.

Mad Rupert

Mad Rupert is less than 5 feet tall and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She got her start in online comics over a decade ago, and authors two ongoing webcomics. She has worked extensively on comic adaptations of Cartoon Network properties like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe. She was also the artist on BUNT!, a YA graphic novel written by Ngozi Ukazu and published by First Second. 

Beth Hetland

Beth Hetland is a Professor, Adj. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches several comics and comics adjacent courses. She is an alumni of both The Center for Cartoon Studies and SAIC. She has a variety of solo projects as well as collaborative works with her best friend, Kyle O’Connell. Her forthcoming book with Fantagraphics, Tender, is a psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision of a picture-perfect, curated life.

Mattie Lubchansky

Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator. 

They were the Associate Editor of the Eisner and Ignatz-winning publication The Nib, and the author of Boys Weekend and The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook. They live in beautiful Queens, New York.

Joe Sutphin

Joe Sutphin is an illustrator of books for kids such as Andrew Peterson’s treasured Wingfeather Saga, The New York Times bestselling Word Of Mouse by James Patterson, the bestselling newly envisioned edition of Little Pilgrim’s Progress (moody Publishers) and the official graphic novelization of Richard Adams’s timeless classic, Watership Down (Ten Speed, 2023). His love of nature, and of the living creatures in the fields and woods around his home, has informed his art for much of his life. Joe lives in a barn in Ohio with his wife Gina and a bunch of cats.

Wendy Xu

Wendy Xu is a bestselling, award-nominated Brooklyn-based 

illustrator and comics artist. 

She is the creator of Infinity Particle (2023, HarperCollins/Quilltree), Tidesong (2021 HarperCollins/Quilltree) and co-creator of Mooncakes, a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Oni Press. Her work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places. 

Emma Hunsinger

Emma Hunsinger started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic How to Draw a Horse appeared in The New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award and National Cartoonist Society Division Award. Her comic She Would Feel The Same was one of the AV Club’s “Best Comics of 2020.” Her picture book with fellow faculty member Tillie Walden, My Parents Won’t Stop Talking, released in February 2022. Her middle grade graphic novel How It All Ends came out in August 2024.

Sarah Firth

Sarah Firth is based on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, Australia. She is an artist, writer, cartoonist, graphic recorder and animator, originally trained as a classical sculptor. She has received a Talking Difference Fellowship from the Immigration Museum, was a finalist in the Incinerator Gallery Award For Social Change and her comics were part of Eisner Award-winning and Ignatz-nominated comic anthologies. Her debut graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects was listed as The Age’s Non-Fiction Pick of The Week, ALIA’s Notable Graphic Novels of 2023 and one of The Best Graphic Novels Ever by Refinery29.

Eddie Ahn

Eddie Ahn is the writer and artist of Advocate, a national bestseller and graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House on April 2024. A self-taught artist, Eddie has multiple public art installations throughout San Francisco, and he has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

Eddie Ahn also serves as the executive director of Brightline Defense, an environmental justice nonprofit that has been engaged in policy and legal advocacy since 2009. In addition to his work for Brightline, Eddie serves on three commissions for local and state government agencies related to environmental policymaking. Prior to being a nonprofit attorney, he was an AmeriCorps member, teaching public speaking and arts workshops in Oakland’s Chinatown. In December 2021, Eddie was inducted into the State of California’s Clean Energy Hall of Fame for his work in equity and clean energy.

Jon Chad

Jon Chad is the author of Leo Geo, Science Comics: Volcanoes, Science Comics: The Periodic Table, PINBALL: The Graphic History of the Silver Ball, and the illustrator of Science Comics: Solar System. His newest series, The Solvers, uses pulpy superhero action to teach math to young readers.

Born and raised in Vermont, he now lives with his family in Burlington, where he pursues his obsessions with giant robots, pinball, screen-printing, and bookmaking.

H.A.

H.A is an illustrator from Upstate New York, who loves bold colors and patterns, gay people, and having a good time. They are the author of the original graphic novel The Chromatic Fantasy, which is a fantasy romance about two trans men, the devil, and being a 20-something disaster. Their work’s sketchy lines and flat colors are reminiscent of old-school cel animation, with further influence from shounen manga, some 80’s X-men comics, and your grandma’s 1970s kitchen wallpaper.

Tessa Hulls

Tessa Hulls is an artist, writer, and adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into the backcountry or a research library. Her essays and comics have appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, Adventure Journal, The Rumpus, and Lit Hub, and she is the creator of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. She has received grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the McMillen Foundation, been awarded residencies from Hedgebrook, Yaddo, and Ucross, and is a recipient of the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. She’s mostly feral.

Madeline McGrane

Madeline McGrane is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis. She is the author and illustrator of The Accursed Vampire graphic novels. In her spare time she self-publishes minicomics.

Jeremy Nguyen

This year’s CCS Cornish Fellow is Jeremy Nguyen who will be working on his forthcoming middle grade graphic novel, Hella Loud. Jeremy Nguyen has been contributing regularly to The New Yorker since 2017. He has provided illustrations and cartoons to Netflix, HBO, Hermés, Bottega Veneta, The Strand Bookstore, 

and is the author of the book Can I Pet Your Dog?. He teaches at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Eddie Campbell

Eddie Campbell has been drawing autobiographic comics since 1978, but is best known as the artist on From Hell, written by Alan Moore. He also wrote and drew Bacchus which amounts to over 1100 pages in two volumes. Campbell has self-published his own books for eight years and has also written about the history of cartoons, as in The Goat Getters and Kate Carew: America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist.

Sophie Yanow

Sophie Yanow is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Nib, Drawn & Quarterly, and more. Her comic The Contradictions won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic. Her translation of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from French, and she is a MacDowell Fellow. Yanow’s work has been nominated for, among others, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishers Triangle Award, an Ignatz Award, and was longlisted for a Believer Book Award.

Yanow currently teaches at the California College of the Arts in their MFA in Comics program and advises MFA thesis students at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Previously she taught in the MFA program at the Center for Cartoon Studies and the BFA program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and was a visiting instructor at The Animation Workshop in Denmark.