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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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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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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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Visiting Artist: John Jennings

Kindred by 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).

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