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Next Up Visiting Artist: Georgia Webber

Georgia Webber is a cartoonist living in Toronto, where she is a freelance comics editor working with artists directly to improve their work, and the comics editor for carte blanche. Georgia is best known for her debut graphic memoir, Dumb: Living without a Voice (Fantagraphics, 2018), about living with a vocal disability. This difficult experience lead her to work as a cranial sacral therapist, a mediation facilitator, and as an improvising musician, blending elements of healthcare and body awareness with creative expression within constraints. She is hard at work on her next book project, Dark Whole, a journey through the concept and experience of trauma.

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Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lineup

The Blacker the Ink cover by John Jennings

Cover by John Jennings

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) Fall Visiting Artist lineup is here!  Cartoonists and artists due to visit the school this semester include Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb; Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Mark Bennett for El viaje mas caro / The Most Costly Journey; John Jennings; Hallie Jay Pope; faculty Jason Lutes, plus a gallery show; Georgia Webber; alum Laura Terry ′10; Hartley LinTillie Walden ′16; Danielle Corsetto; Xia Gordon; and Chris Brunner.

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Graphic Medicine Conference

Page from Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies

The Graphic Medicine Conference has been an annual gathering across North America and the United Kingdom since 2010. And in 2018, the venue is at The Center for Cartoon Studies!

London, 2010, was hosted at the School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London. The keynote speakers were Paul Gravett (editor of The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics, 2008), Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer, 2006), and Marc Zaffran.

Cover of Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies

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Graphic Medicine Conference 2017

June 15-17

Coming up in June, Graphic Medicine is hosting the 2017 Comics and Medicine Conference: Access Points. From June 15-17, cartoonists will be swarming the Seattle Public Library Central Branch.

This years theme, Access Points, focuses on the importance of accessibility  in linking comics and health. Comics, because they include both image and text in possibly vast quantities, can reach more diverse audiences.

In addition to a number of The Center for Cartoon Studies alum including J.D. Lunt , and c0-founder James Sturm, attendees will get to hear three keynote speakers: Rupert Kinnard , who created the first LGBTQ African American comic strip characters in Cathartic Comics; Georgia Webber, creator of Dumb about her sever vocal injury and ongoing recovery; and Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women.

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