Stories tagged John Jennings

New Book: Flash Forward

The podcast Flash Forward (Abrams), where Rose Eveleth tackles speculative fact and fiction, is being laid to paper with the aid of a crew of artists, including The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) alum Sophie Goldstein ’13, Amelia Onorato ’12, and many CCS visiting artists including Matt Lubchanksy, Ben Passmore, John Jennings, Sophia Foster-Dimino, and Box Brown. The collection includes many more contributors including Ziyed Ayoub, Maki Naro, Julia Gfrörer, Chris Jones, Blue Delliquanti, Zach Weinersmith, and Kate Sheridan. The book will be available on April 20, 2021!

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Tags: Abrams, AdHouse Books, Amalia Onorato, An Embarrassment of Witches, Ben Passmore, Blue Delliquanti, Box Brown, CCS Alum, Chris Jones, Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, Fantagraphics, Flash Forward, House of Women, Jenn Jordan, John Jennings, Julia Gfrörer, Kate Sheridan, Maki Naro, Matt Lubchansky, Poopy Claws, Popnonymous, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Sophie Goldstein, The Nib, The Oven, Top Shelf Comix, Zach Weinersmith, Ziyed Ayoub

Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List

American Library Association has compiled a lengthy reading list of graphic novels that draws attention to the Black experiences of the past and present. Supporting the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as well as the Black community at large, they created this list of books to demand a new future for our Black friends and neighbors.

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Tags: ALA, American Library Association, Andrew Aydin, Andrew Helfer, Anthony Horton, Ben Passmore, black lives matter, Damian Duffy, Damon Smyth, David F. Walker, Don Brown, Drown City, Fights, Ho Che Anderson, Incognegro, Joel Christian Gill, John Jennings, John Lewis, Kindred, King, Malcolm X, Marc Mauer, March, Marissa Louise, Mat Johnson, Max Brooks, Nate Powell, Octavia Butler, Pitch Black, Race to Incarcerate, Randy DuBurke, reading list, Sabrina Jones, Schulz Library, Strange Fruit, The Harlem Hellfighters, The Life of Frederick Douglass, Warren Please, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Youme Landowne, Your Black Friend, Yvam Alagbe

Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lineup

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 Lin; Tillie Walden ′16; Danielle Corsetto; Xia Gordon; and Chris Brunner.

Tags: Andy Kolovos, Braden Lamb, cartoonstudies, Chris Brunner, Danielle Corsetto, Georgia Webber, Hallie Jay Pope, Hartley Lin, Jason Lutes, John Jennings, Julia Doucet, Laura Terry, Marel Bennett, Shelli Paroline, The Most Costly Journey, Tillie Walden, Visiting Artist, Xia Gordon

Visiting Artist: John Jennings

John Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. His work centers around intersectional narratives regarding identity politics and popular media. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award nominated collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings is currently a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ current comics projects include the hip hop adventure comic Kid Code: Channel Zero (Rosarium Publishing, 2014), the supernatural crime noir story Blue Hand Mojo (Rosarium Publishing, 2015), and the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred (Abrams Books, 2017).

Tags: Blue Hand Mojo, cartoonstudies, John Jennings, Kid Code, Kindred, The Blacker the Ink, Visiting Artist

CCS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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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Stories tagged John Jennings

New Book: Flash Forward

Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List

Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lineup

Visiting Artist: John Jennings

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

A 32-page comic on how our government works

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