Summer Pierre

Summer Pierre is a cartoonist living in the Hudson Valley of New York. She is the author of the Eisner nominated memoir, All the Sad Songs, and the highly acclaimed autobiographical comics series Paper Pencil Life.  Her comic on the letters of Sylvia Plath, for Newyorker.com, “Sylvia Plath’s Last Plan”, was a finalist for the Slate Studio Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, PEN American, and The Comics Journal, among other places.  She is currently at work on a new memoir for Fantagraphics.

Andy Warner

Andy Warner  is the author of This Land is My Land, Spring Rain, the NY Times Best-Selling Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, and the YA history series, Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets. His books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, French and Spanish. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University and The Animation Workshop in Denmark. 

His work has been published widely, including by Slate, American Public Media, Popular Science, KQED, IDEO.org, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNICEF, Google X and Buzzfeed. He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 and 2021 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residency.

He works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.

M. T. Anderson

M. T. Anderson is an author of books for kids and adults. His satirical sci-fi novel Feed was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize; his Gothic novel of the American Revolution, The Pox Party, won the National Book Award. He has published several picture books for kids, one book that combines text with illustrated narration (The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, with Eugene Yelchin, a Finalist for the National Book Award), and two graphic novels (Yvain and The Daughters of Ys). His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and Salon. He lives in Central Vermont.

Yumi Sakugawa

Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Awards-nominated comic book artist and the author of I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU and YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. Her comics have also appeared in The Believer, Bitch, the Best American Non­Required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. She has also exhibited multimedia installations at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles.

K Czap

K Czap is a cartoonist working in Providence RI. They’re the author of Füt chi Perf and Four Years, co-publisher of the Ley Lines series, and has worked as a colorist for First Second, Little Brown, and Scholastic. Czap was the 2017-18 CCS Cartooning Fellow.

Luke Kruger-Howard

Luke Kruger-Howard (He/Him) is an Ignatz nominated cartoonist living on an island in the Pacific Northwest where he takes care of two babies full-time. A graduate and former teacher at The Center for Cartoon Studies, Luke’s work has popped up in numerous places – stuff like The New Yorker, The Nib, Slate, Best American Comics, the AV Club, Buzzfeed, Google and the like. Some of his comics include Talk Dirty To Me (AdHouse Books), Our Mother (Retrofit/Big Planet Comics), Trevor (self-published and Ignatz nominated), The Big Mystery Case (Self published), and a handful more. He has been spending a lot of time recently dreaming about ways artists might be able to better separate their art practices from capitalism. GOES BOOKS is an experiment in that vein.

Molly Ostertag

Molly Ostertag is an Igntaz- and Prism Award winning graphic novelist, 30 Under 30 Forbes scholar, and a writer for children’s TV animation. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she writes for animation. Notably, she wrote the GLAAD-nominated and Peabody Award Winning episode, Enchanting Grom Fright for The Owl House.

Her middle-grade graphic novel debut, The Witch Boy, came out in 2017 from Scholastic, and is being adapted into a feature film by Netflix. It’s followed by the sequel The Hidden Witch in 2018 and NY Times bestseller The Midwinter Witch in 2019. Her latest book, The Girl From The Sea, debuted as a #1 YA Bestseller on June 1, 2021. She is currently serializing a new YA graphic novel, Darkest Night, on her newsletter.

Akeem Roberts

Akeem S. Roberts is an illustrator, animator, and cartoonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Versed in many styles, Akeem is passionate about breathing life into stories through art.

His comic debut was in the Regular show special with BOOM Studios, and, more recently, he worked with Hasbro on issue 98 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In 2021, Akeem participated in Cartooning While Black, an art gallery show that discusses racial relations in a playful and charming way, along with other Black New Yorker cartoonists in Manhattan. Also in 2021, Akeem illustrated three middle-grade books with author John Dillard and the Kokila team. The JD book series has won multiple awards, including the School Library Journal Best Books of 2021, the New York Public Library Best Books of 2021, the Chicago Public Library Beat Books of 2021, a 2022 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book, was shortlisted for the Iris Award 2022, and was a recipient of the Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist 2022-2023.

Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. She is a graduate from The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Over the course of her time at CCS, she published three books with the London based Avery Hill Publishing. Her graphic novels with First Second include her autobiographical work Spinning, sci-fi epic On a Sunbeam, and Are You Listening?, a magical realism road trip story. 

She is a two-time Eisner winner and Ignatz Award winner who now lives in Vermont. Her first picture book My Parents Won’t Stop Talking comes out in February 2022. When she is not drawing comics, Tillie can be found walking and listening to audiobooks or asleep with a cat.

Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and comics artist living in Toronto, Canada. A professional artist since 2003, she has worked for publications around the world and taught extensively in New York City at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has created books for people of all ages, from picture books to webcomics and adult graphic novels and is the co-creator, with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, of Skim and This One Summer, the latter of which won a Caldecott Honor and Printz Award.

Sarah Shay Mirk

Shay Mirk (she/they) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. She is the author of Guantanamo Voices (Abrams, 2020), an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, which Kirkus called “extraordinary… an eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses.” She is also a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Her book on the craft of making nonfiction comics, Drawn from the Margins: The Power of Graphic Journalism (co-written with CCS graduate Eleri Harris ‘14), will debut from Abrams ComicsArts in 2024. 

Shay is the author several books, including You Do You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality (Lerner, 2019),  Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules (Microcosm, 2014), and the self-published collection Year of Zines (2020). Shay is also an adjunct professor in Portland State University’s MFA program in Art and Social Practice, where she teaches a graduate seminar on writing and research. 

Tom Siddell

Tom Siddell is the creator of the webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court, which has been ongoing since 2005. Gunnerkrigg Court is his  full time job and has been collected in various volumes over the years but is always free to read online. Originally from the UK, Tom moved to the US in 2019.

Sarah Winifred Searle

Award-winning cartoonist/author/illustrator Sarah Winifred Searle originally hails from spooky New England and currently lives in sunny Boorloo (Perth, Australia). Their graphic novels include SINCERELY, HARRIET (Graphic Universe 2019); PATIENCE & ESTHER: AN EDWARDIAN ROMANCE (Iron Circus 2021); WHO WAS THE GIRL WARRIOR OF FRANCE?: JOAN OF ARC (Penguin WhoHQ 2022); and THE GREATEST THING (First Second 2022). Up next are picture book CHUBBY BUNNY (HarperCollins Balzer + Bray 2023), adult graphic novel RUINED (First Second 2023), and YA graphic novel THE SWEETNESS BETWEEN US (First Second 2024). Honors include being shortlisted for the Outstanding Story Ignatz Award and the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, as well as winning three silver Comic Arts Awards of Australia. THE GREATEST THING is a CBCA notable and Lammy Award finalist.

Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary/queer/trans author and illustrator, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir other short comics, published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. GENDER QUEER won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the most challenged book in the United States in 2021 and 2022.

M.S. Harkness

 M.S. Harkness is a cartoonist from the Midwestern United States. She is published with Fantagraphics and Uncivilized books. Her third graphic novel Time Under Tension is available Fall of 2023.

Arwen Donahue

Arwen Donahue is the author of the graphic memoir Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year (Hub City) and the oral history collection This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak (University Press of Kentucky). Her comics, essays and graphic stories have been featured in The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Nib, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has received grants and awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Xeric Foundation, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Arwen lives on a farm in Kentucky, where her family has raised produce for local markets for over 20 years.

Alex Krokus

Alex Krokus is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist whose comics have appeared in VICE, BuzzFeed and The New York Times. A collection of his webcomics, Loudest & Smartest was published by Silver Sprocket in 2022 and his debut graphic memoir, My Father’s Ghost is slated for a 2025 release through Chronicle Books.

Natalie Norris

Natalie Norris is a cartoonist and comics librarian who is currently based in Vermont. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and The Center for Cartoon Studies. In addition to drawing comics, she has taught and lectured about depicting trauma in graphic memoir at the American Library Association Conference, The Graphic Medicine Conference, and at various graduate programs. Dear Mini: Book One is her first book which released from Fantagraphics this July.

Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir (2016) and Artificial: A Love Story (2023). She was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow with the American Academy in Berlin, a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award for “Technofeelia,” her four part series with The Believer Magazine. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, Literary Hub, WIRED and many other places. Kurzweil has taught widely for over a decade. See her website (amykurzweil.com) to take a class with her.

Lila Ash

Lila Ash is an illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Mad, Wired, The Lenny Letter, The American Bystander, Air Mail and many more. Lila most recently published her first graphic memoir, Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic, for Princeton Architectural Press.