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Luke Healy’s ′14 Americana One of the Best Books of 2019 on Book Depository

Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It) (NoBrow, 2019) by Luke Healy ′14 is one of the best graphic novels of 2019 on Book Depository. Book Depository is a leading international book retailer that ships thousands of books every day from fulfillment centers in Gloucester, United Kingdom, and Melbourne, Australia, to more than 130 countries across the world.

In Americana, Luke Healy tells the tale of his personal challenge to walk the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs 2660 miles, from California’s border with Mexico to Washington’s border with Canada. In a hybrid book combining text and comics, he shares his experiences on the trail, with his view after growing up in Ireland and idolizing America.

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Luke Healy’s ′14 Americana Guardian’s Book of Year

Cover of Americana by Luke Healy

Americana by Luke Healy ′14 is in The Guardian’s list of Best Comics of 2019. The list includes comic greats like Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown (Pantheon), an epic tale about a single day at a Nebraska school in the mid-1970s; and Jaime Hernandez’s Is This How You See Me? (Fantagraphics), focusing on how the time has molded Maggie and Hopey into complex, middle-aged women from young LA punks.

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In Stores Now: Americana by Luke Healy ′14

Americana (and the Act of Getting over It) by The Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Luke Healy ′14 released September 10. This autobiography centers around Luke’s hike over the Pacific Crest Trail. The trail runs 2660 miles down the west coast of the United States, a grueling test of body and spirit. Luke’s life-changing journey weaves in and out of humorous reflections on his experiences in America and his development as an artist.

Praise for Americana:

“A thought-provoking graphic novel about the exploration of the Arctic […] Healy’s narrative gains power from the interconnecting stories and a carefully chosen thematic color palette, but above all it is powered by his brilliant handling of the wordless panels where so much of the story is told.”
—Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Healy is a master of stitching together narrative threads like a double helix of twinned realities.”
—The Washington Post

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In Stores Now: Stig and Tilde, Vanisher’s Island by CCS Fellow Max de Radigues

Cover of Stig and Tilde, Vol. 1: Vanisher's Island

Stig and Tilde, Vol. 1: Vanisher’s Island by The Center for Cartoon Studies fellow (2009-10) Max de Radigues is available September 10 from NoBrow. Keeping with a local tradition, twins Stig and Tilde head to a desert island to survive alone. However, an unexpected detour leads them to the wrong island, and it looks like it’s inhabited by something that isn’t too fond of guests.

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Americana by Luke Healy ′14 set to release through Penguin Books

Cover of Americana by Luke Healy

Luke Healy’s ′14 third book, Americana (And the Act of Getting over It), is being released in the US on September 10 through Penguin, and through NoBrow in the UK. In 2016, Luke walked the Pacific Crest Trail alone. This 336-page comic covers his 6-month trek as well as looking into his childhood in Ireland, growing up obsessed with the US.

. . . intimate, engaging . . . 

Westfield Comics
Sample panels from Americana by Luke Healy

In stores everywhere on September 10, 2019!

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Luke Healy ′14 Draws the Pacific Crest Trail

Luke Healy’s ′14 spent the last half of 2016 walking the Pacific Crest Trail alone. And since then he has been working on his comic about the experience. His third book—Americana (and the Act of Getting Over It)—is coming out from NoBrow in fall 2019.

Growing up in Dublin, this memoir is about growing up obsessed with the US and how walking the PCT was a big life goal. For a brief snippet, Luke has a comic up at The Nib about learning that his paternal grandfather was dying while on the lonely hike.

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Alum Spotlight: Luke Healy’s “The Peeping Tom”

The Peeping Tom cover, by Luke Healy

Luke Healy ’15 (Permanent Press, How to Survive in the North) is posting a new web comic on Twitter: The Peeping Tom. It is  updating once a twice a week. It is a slow-burn comic about Luke’s experience as a privileged participant in the gentrification of East London, exploring topics of classism and racism. He started posting on April 8 and is already through page 4.

The Peeping Tom page 1, by Luke Healy

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Past Cartoonist Studio Prize winners of Best Print Comic

Pages from Libby’s Dad by Eleanor Davis, winner of 2017 Best Print Comic

The Cartoonist Studio Prize is back for it’s sixth year. Two creators, one each for print and online, are selected each year and receive $1,000. Every year, the judges are Slate’s Jacob Brogan, a CCS representative (this year, Kevin Czap), and a guest judge (this year, Andrew Farago from San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum). Submissions are currently open an any English comic published in 2017 is eligible, so submit before the deadline, January 31, 2018.

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Luke Healy ′14 to present at Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival

Thesis to Print: Exploring the journey of creating the graphic novel How To Survive In The North

Recent MFA graduate Luke Healy’s ’14 How To Survive In The North started as a thesis project while he was attending The Center for Cartoon Studies. Based on two related Artic expeditions, both of which were well documented at the time, it adds a contemporary fictional third strand. The expeditions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson were an attempt to prove his theory of ‘the friendly Arctic’, his notion that as long as you knew how to get food and fuel from under the ice, it would be unproblematic to explore the area.

Luke Healy was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Luke has an MFA in Cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Studies. His comics work has been published in anthologies and has received several awards. His book How to Survive in the North was named one of the best books of 2016 by Publishers Weekly. He once walked from Mexico to Canada!

Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival, September 24, 2:30pm

 

 

 

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Alum Luke Healy’s How to Survive in the North Makes Publishers Weekly 5 Best Graphic Novels of 2016 List!

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The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Luke Healy ‘s 14 HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE NORTH makes Publishers Weekly  Best Graphic Novels 2016  top 5 list!  PW’s list includes CCS recent commencement speaker Nate Powell’s, March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate. Also on the list is The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Sonny Liew), The One Hundred Nights of Hero: A Graphic Novel  (Isabel Greenberg), and Rosalie Lightning (Tom Hart). 

 

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