Stories tagged Chris Ware

Luke Healy’s ′14 Americana Guardian’s Book of Year

Cover of Americana by Luke Healy

Americana by Luke Healy ′14 is in The Guardian’s list of Best Comics of 2019. The list includes comic greats like Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown (Pantheon), an epic tale about a single day at a Nebraska school in the mid-1970s; and Jaime Hernandez’s Is This How You See Me? (Fantagraphics), focusing on how the time has molded Maggie and Hopey into complex, middle-aged women from young LA punks.

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CCS grads at Comic Arts Brooklyn

Comics Art Brooklyn is on November 2 at the Pratt Activities Resource Center in Brooklyn. Not only can you go to talks by greats like Gary Panter (Songy of Paradise, Fantagraphics, 2017) and Charles Burns (Last Look, Pantheon Graphics, 2016), who will be talking about drawing as a way of thinking; or Chris Ware (Building Stories, Pantheon Graphics, 2012) in conversation with Francoise Mouly (publisher of Toon Books) and Art Spiegelman (Maus, Pantheon Graphics, 1986). You can these CCS students and grads exhibiting!:

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Carol Tyler

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Carol Tyler is a painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical stories, such as Soldier’s Heart. She has received multiple honors for her work including The Center for Cartoon Studies/Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award, and she was declared a Master Cartoonist at the 2016 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Carol’s autobiographical stories reflect her struggles as an artist, worker, wife and mother. The legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb describes her work as having “…the extremely rare quality of genuine, authentic heart. Hers are the only comics that ever brought me to the verge of tears.” Cartoonist Chris Ware refers to her as “…one of the true greats of the original Underground Comix generation.”

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Past Cartoonist Studio Prize winners of Best Print Comic

Pages from Libby’s Dad by Eleanor Davis, winner of 2017 Best Print Comic

The Cartoonist Studio Prize is back for it’s sixth year. Two creators, one each for print and online, are selected each year and receive $1,000. Every year, the judges are Slate’s Jacob Brogan, a CCS representative (this year, Kevin Czap), and a guest judge (this year, Andrew Farago from San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum). Submissions are currently open an any English comic published in 2017 is eligible, so submit before the deadline, January 31, 2018.

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Third Annual Cartoonist Studio Prize

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Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to two cartoonists whose work exemplifies excellence in cartooning. (Last year’s winners: Richard McGuire and Winston Rowntree.) The creators of two exceptional comics will be awarded $1,000 each. Winners will be selected by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, the faculty and students of The Center for Cartoon Studies, and a distinguished guest judge. This year’s guest judge will be Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Read more on Slate.com…

To enter your work, click here!

 

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Chris Ware

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In the early 90s Chris Ware began publishing in the pages of Chicago alternative weekly New City the strip known as The Acme Novelty Library. This critically acclaimed strip, won several comics awards during the 1990s. From this strip emerged the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth which received the Guardian First Book Award in 2001 and the American Book Award in 2000 and the prestigious French comics award “L’Alph Art” award in 2003.

Chris is one of America’s most respected popular artists and his work has appeared in many international art exhibits, and in 2002, at home in the Whitney Art Museum of New York.

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Burlington Book Festival and The Novel Graphic

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September 20-23
Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont’s annual celebration of the written word featuring literary luminaries from around the world. Be sure to attend The Novel Graphic: An Exploration of the Link Between Image and the Written Word with special guest Chris Ware, New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren, Vermont Cartoonist Laureate James Kochalka, Cartoonist Barbara Slate, and The Center for Cartoon Studies cofounder James Sturm.

For more information, visit: burlingtonbookfestival.com

 

 

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The Center for Cartoon Studies Archive

From the comic strip to the comic book to the graphic novel, The Center for Cartoon Archive includes all kinds of original cartoon art. Whether its work by Alison Bechdel, Jamie Hernandez, Chris Ware, Harry Lucey, Richard Thompson, Will Eisner, or Ernie Bushmiller, the collection is a vital part of CCS’s curriculum, regularly brought into the classroom and exhibited to inspire the next generation of cartoonists. If you are interested in donating original art we would encourage that conversation. Inquiries can be made to studio@cartoonstudies.org. The Center for Cartoon Studies is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization.

 

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Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners Announced

The Slate.com Cartoonist Studio Prizes for best Graphic Novel and best Web Comic of 2012 have been awarded!

Best Graphic Novel: Building Stories, by Chris Ware

Best Web Comic: Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson

Congratulations to the winners! For more information about the Cartoonist Studio Prize and the rest of the nominees, click here.

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