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Robyn Smith ’17 Emerging Talent Award from CXC

Robyn Smith ’17 won the Emerging Talent Award at the recent CXC (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus)! The award comes with a no-strings-attached check for $7,500, to support an amazing cartoonist just starting to make their mark on the comics scene.

Robyn is an alumni and fellow at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). She is a Jamaican cartoonist best known for her mental health / Blackness memoir The Saddest Angriest Black Girl In Town; Wash Day, written by Jamila Rowser; and illustrating DC Comics’s Nubia: Real One graphic novel, written by L.L. McKinney. You can preorder her next book, Wash Day Diaries, coming in May 2022 with Chronicle Books.

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Nubia: Real One artist Robyn Smith ’17

“An essential superhero story for this moment.” –Kirkus Starred Review

Robyn Smith ’17 is the artist for a new DC project Nubia: Real One. Nubia is as strong and fast as her twin sister Wonder Woman. Though Nubia first appeared in 1973, she has appeared in only a handful of issues. This new story, written by young adult (YA) author L. L. McKinney, is set while Nubia is in high school. Though she has powers similar to her famous sister, the world has no problem telling her that she’s no Wonder Woman. But when Nubia’s best friend, Quisha, is threatened by a boy who thinks he owns the town, Nubia will risk it all––her safety, her home, and her crush on that cute kid in English class––to become the hero society tells her she isn’t.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Peter Bagge

Alternative comic creator Peter Bagge is best known for the ‘90s comic series Hate, featuring the semi-autobiographical anti-hero Buddy Bradley, and whose ad- ventures have been collected in two volumes: Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey, both from Fantagraphics. Prior to Hate, Bagge wrote and illustrated the comic book series Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics), and has since written two humor titles for DC: Yeah! and Sweatshop.

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Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Prince of Cats by 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.

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Everything is Fine: autobio comics on life-long struggles with anxiety and depression

Comic by Anna Sellheim

Anna Sellheim ’16 is working on her web comic Everything Is Fine and helps run Square City Comics, a comic collective in the DC area.

The group at Square City Comics meets up once a month to help each other create and self-publish their original comics. They join up for a weekly online sketch group. They run an anthology together and you will often find them tabling together at conventions. Current membership stands at over 100 members!

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by 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.

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This month, The Center for Cartoon Studies sent some goodies out to our BFFs (Bookstore Friends Forever). Be sure to check out your own local bookstores and comic shops to get a peek at what CCS is up to, and the chance to score a special application fee waiver for Fall 2012. These packets were made possible by the generosity of our friends at Diamond!

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CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.

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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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