Stories tagged Angoulême

Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

Tags: Angoulême, cartoonstudies, Dark Horse, DC, Hill and Wang, Marvel, Nike, Prince of Cats, Ronald Wimberly, The New Yorker, Vertigo, Visiting Artist

Hobo Mom, by Charles Forsman ′08 and Max de Radiguès (Fellow 2009-10)

Hobo Mom, by Charles Forsman ′08 and Max de Radiguès (CCS Fellow 2009-10), is barely out and already on a best of list for January 2019, at Barnes and Noble! Published by Fantagraphics, this collaboration was drawn simultaneously across the Atlantic. Charles—author of The End of the Fxxxing World (now a hit Netflix series), is based in the United States. And Max de Radiguès—winner of a prestigious prize at the Angoulême International Festival of Comics for his 2018 graphic novel Bastard—is based in France.

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Tags: Angoulême, cartoonstudies, CCS Alumni, Charles Forsman, Fantagraphics, Fellow, Graphic Novel, Hobo Mom, Max de Radigues

Alum Spotlight: Rebecca Roher

Rebecca Roher ’15 won the Doug Wright Award in Canada for her comic Bird in a Cage (Conundrum Press, 2016), the touching tale of her grandmother after she had an accident that left her with a brain injury, leading to early onset dementia. Rebecca’s most recent project is Birth Control Tales. She collaborated with Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an OBGYN at UCLA, who wanted to create educational apps to explain birth control options visually.

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Tags: Angoulême, Bird in a cage, Birth Control Tales, Canada, Conundrum Press, Doug Wright Award, La Maison des Auteurs, Mom Body, non-fiction, Rebecca Roher

Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

Tags: Angoulême, Cartoon Studies, Dark Horse, DC, Hill and Wang, Marvel, Nike, Ronald Wimberly, The New Yorker, Vertigo

Visiting Artist: Howard Cruse

Howard Cruse’s comic strips and humorous illustrations have appeared in American Bystander, Playboy, The Village Voice, Artforum International, Heavy Metal, The Advocate, and numerous other mainstream American magazines, as well as in underground comic books. Aside from cartooning, Cruse’s creative ventures have included art director positions in both Birmingham and New York City. Cruse’s comic strip Wendel was regularly featured in The Advocate between 1983-89 and he is best known for the award winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby published in 1995, which has won both Eisner and Harvey Awards in the U.S. in 1996 and, in translation, a Luchs Award in Germany, a Prix de la critique at the International Comics Festival in Angouleme, France in 2002, and a Comics Critics Award in Spain. Cruse was the founding editor in 1980 of Gay Comix.

Tags: Angoulême, Artforum, Comic Strip, Gay Comix, Heavy Metal, Howard Curse, Queer Comics, Stuck Rubber Baby, The Advocate, The Village Voice, Wendel

L’employé du Moi Angoulême Exhibit Featuring CCS Alum, Fellows, and Faculty

Angoulême
January 29-February 1

L’employé du Moi is a publishing company based in Brussels and active in the world of independent comics for 15 years. The museum Paper will devote this year’s exhibition space during the International Festival of Comics of Angoulême. On more than one hundred square meters you will discover the many facets of the publishing house: original boards , collective productions , and interactive facility all grouped around the imposing sculpture of the building symbol of the publisher. L’employé du Moi publishes work of The Center for Cartoon Studies fellows Max de Radiguès, Julie Delporte, and David Libens, along with CCS faculty Alec Longstreth, and alum Joe Lambert and Chuck Forsman.

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Angoulême, Charles Forsman, David Libens, Joseph Lambert, Julie Delporte, L’employé du Moi, Max de Radigues

CCS Fellow, Max de Radiguès, is on the OFFICIAL SELECTIONS list for Angoulême!

Meanwhile in White River Junction by CCS Fellow Max deRadigues, makes the short list of OFFICIAL SELECTIONS list for Angoulême.

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Tags: Angoulême, CCS Fellow Max deRadigues

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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Stories tagged Angoulême

Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Hobo Mom, by Charles Forsman ′08 and Max de Radiguès (Fellow 2009-10)

Alum Spotlight: Rebecca Roher

Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Visiting Artist: Howard Cruse

L’employé du Moi Angoulême Exhibit Featuring CCS Alum, Fellows, and Faculty

CCS Fellow, Max de Radiguès, is on the OFFICIAL SELECTIONS list for Angoulême!

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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