Stories tagged Iris Yan

The Berlin Project

Jason Lutes and his new collection of Berlin originals from peers and students.

This fall, the third and final volume of Jason Lutes’s epic Berlin trilogy is being released (through Drawn and Quarterly). It is a big accomplishment and rightly deserves some hearty congratulations. To celebrate, Jason’s coworker and fellow CCS teacher Luke Howard ′13 pulled together a super secret project where over of Jason’s peers and students drew their own version of more than the first 6 chapters of Berlin. Keep an eye out online—lots of contributors (159!) have been posting their work, which is especially interesting when they include the original page.

Page by Aaron Cockle ′08, creator of Annotated and Word and Voice

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Composition Competition

Cover for Slow Theft by Simon Reinhardt

For the fifth consecutive year, Frank Santoro has held the Comic Workbook Composition Competition. He defines the layouts for each page and then a bunch of cartoonists go nuts making comics using the layouts. Then he sorts though them and winners get prizes. This year, two alums of The Center for Cartoon Studies participated: Iris Yan ′13 and Simon Reinhardt ′14.

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