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CCS Alum Nominated for 2024 Ignatz Awards

The nominees are in for the prestigious Ignatz Awards presented at the annual Small Press Expo, and what a roster it is! 

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is happy to announce several members of the community have been nominated. They include alumni, fellows, visiting artists, and studio prize winners such as Robyn Smith ‘16, Daryl Seitchik ‘17, Ana Two ‘24, and Julie Delporte.

Robyn Smith ’16 is nominated for Outstanding Artist for NIGHT FEVER from Gladiolus Magazine #1 published by Black Josei Press. The comic was inspired by Robyn’s first Hampshire College Halloween. Robyn won an Outstanding Story Ignatz Award last year for WASH DAY DIARIES, also published by Black Josei Press. 

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Big CCS Showing at SPX 2024 and 4 Ignatz Award Nominees


Cartoon Studies students, alumni, and faculty are headed to Small Press Expo 2024 en masse—60 strong!! Join us for workshops, panels, tabling—and the Ignatz Awards—at the premier event for graphic novels, comics and cartooning! SPX takes place September 14-15, in Bethesda, Maryland.

CCS Ignatz nominees include Robyn Smith ‘17 and CCS fellow (2011-12) Julie Delporte, both for Outstanding Artist; Daryl Seitchik ‘18 for Outstanding Comic; and Ana Two ‘24 for Outstanding Mini-Comic.

SPX special guests include Beth Hetland ‘11, and faculty Emma Hunsinger ‘20, Tillie Walden ‘16, and faculty Glynnis Fawkes.

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Visiting Artist: Sophia Foster-Dimino

Sophia Foster-Dimino is an Ignatz-winning cartoonist and illustrator living and working in San Francisco, CA. Foster-Dimino has produced illustrations for a variety of outlets and worked as a Google Doodler. She has self-published a number of zines and contributed to several anthologies. Her ongoing series, Sex Fantasy, has received critical acclaim, earning her Ignatz Awards for both Outstanding Series and Outstanding mini-comic, as well as a third for Promising New Talent. Koyama Press released a compilation of Sex Fantasy at the Small Press Expo 2017.

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Spotlight Summer Workshop: YA Graphic Novel

Every summer, The Center for Cartoon Studies holds a series of week-long workshops. This summer, they have added some new workshops, including the Young Adult Graphic Novel with Jo Knowles and alumn Tillie Walden, July 31-August 4. The week will focus on the specific idiosyncrasies inherent in young adult fiction through lectures and exercises. You will have access to not only the knowledge of these two quality creators but also the printing lab and the Schulz Library.

Jo Knowles as visiting artist

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Alum Tillie Walden ′16 Sweeps The Ignatz Awards!!

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Recent alum, Tillie Walden ′16, won two Ignatz Awards! Winning in both categories she was nominated for: Outstanding Artist & Promising New Talent! The Outstanding Artist category reflects, in the Jurors’ opinion, the best execution of graphic skill by an individual within the comic medium. The award ceremony is held annually at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda MD.

Congratulations to Tillie and all of the amazing nominees and award winners. Nominees included recent alums Melanie Gillman for Outstanding Comic (As The Crow Flies) and Luke Healy for Outstanding Minicomic (The Unofficial Cuckoo’s Nest).

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CCS at Small Press Expo!

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September 17 & 18
Bethesda, Maryland

Special Guest:
SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN ’13

Table: H2B

Session:
September 18,
Comics Carousel
4 – 5pm

Sophie Goldstein is a 2013 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. She won two Ignatz Awards for her graphic novel, The Oven, in 2015 and one for her mini-comic, House of Women, Part I, in 2014.

Her first book Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, co-written with Jenn Jordan, was self-published in 2013 with funding from Kickstarter. Her second book, The Oven, was released by AdHouse Books in April, 2015. Sophie has also illustrated a children’s book, Poopy Claws, written by Gene Ambaum. Her work has appeared in various publications including Best American Comics 2013, Fable Comics, The Pitchfork Review, Maple Key Comics, Sleep of Reason, Symbolia, Trip 8 and Irene 3.

Come visit The Center for Cartoon Studies at Table A9!  Meet student Jarad Greene, over 17 alum exhibiting at SPX, and learn about CCS MFA and Certificate Program.

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Visiting Artist: John Martz

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John Martz is an Ignatz winning illustrator, cartoonist, and designer living in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories (Koyama Press, 2014), Destination X (Nobrow, 2013), and the online comic strip Machine Gum. Martz also illustrated Dear Flyary by Dianne Young (Kids Can Press, 2011), Who’s on First? by Abbott & Costello (Quirk Books, 2013), and Black and Bittern Was Night by Robert Heidbreder (Kids Can Press, 2013).

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The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 Makes Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015

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The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 makes the Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015! The science fiction comic also recently won two Ignatz awards for “Outstanding Graphic Novel” and “Outstanding Comic!” 

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Next Up: Box Brown

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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, released in 2014, spent three weeks on The New York Times Graphic Novel Best Sellers List. He launched the comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011, where they make use of a subscription service for readers to get comics all year. Retrofit Comics is dedicated to publishing and distributing floppy alternative comics.

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CCS Alum Wins Two Ignatz Awards!

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Congratulations to The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Sophie Goldstein ′13 for winning two Ignatz Awards for The Oven, “Outstanding Graphic Novel” and “Outstanding Comic!” Sophie also received an Ignatz in 2014 for House of Women, Part I.

See the complete list of winners on The Beat.

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