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Alum Lucy Knisley’s “Kid Gloves” Due February 2019

Cover of Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley

Powerhouse Lucy Knisley ′09 is coming out with a new book in February 2019: Kid Gloves (First Second). If becoming and being pregnant weren’t hard enough, Lucy took the time to document the process. Publisher’s Weekly already got their hands on it.

The Chicago cartoonist intersperses each chronological step of her pregnancy with cleverly scathing facts about the history of obstetrics as well as the superstitions surrounding giving birth. Knisley shines in those segments, with her didactic narrative voice and clever cartooning solutions being well suited to the material.

To make it an immersive experience, Lucy also made a play list to go with the book. You can listen to it now on Spotify. You will be crooned to by the likes of Tim Minchin, The Mountain Goats, and Sara Bareilles. And that musical list will have to hold you off until her book tour starting February 24.

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ALUM MELANIE GILLMAN’S “AS THE CROW FLIES” RECEIVES ALA STONEWALL HONOR

Starred reviews, awards, and accolades for As the Crow Flies

The first print volume of As the Crow Flies, by Melanie Gillman ’12, was released by Iron Circus Comics in November 2017. Since it’s release, it has received three starred reviews and numerous awards and reviews! The comic, originally published online where it is still updating, is about Charlie Lamonte, a thirtee-year-old, queer, black girl spending a week of summer vacation at an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp where she learns to question the rhetoric. This volume is 250 pages and $30. They started posting the web comic in January, 2012.

Stonewall Honor named “As the Crow Flies,” written and illustrated by The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Melanie Gillman ′12 and published by Iron Circus Comics. Congratulations to Melanie and Iron Circus!

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Industry Day 2017

Robyn Chapman, Calvin Reid, Sheila Keenan, Tanya McKinnon, and Kevin Czap.

Industry Day 2017 panel

This Industry Day, The Center for Cartoon Studies was treated to a wide range of industry veterans from agents and editors to publishers. From the big comics publishers, we had our own Robyn Chapman, currently an editor at First Second. Representing the publishing industry news reporters, Calvin Reid is the senior news editor at Publisher’s Weekly, a weekly news magazine about the international book publishing business. Representing the big publishers, Sheila Keenan is a nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. A comics agent, Tanya McKinnon came from McKinnon McIntyre. And from the independent comics publishers, we had Kevin Czap from Czap Books.

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Next Up: Industry Day

In addition to our weekly Visiting Artist Seminar, a special Industry Day event is scheduled every spring. Professionals from the comics industry descend on White River Junction and The Center for Cartoon Studies. The entire day is set aside for the event with guests take part in a panel where the state of the comics industry and publishing are discussed at length. This year’s guests include Robyn Chapman (First Second), Calvin Reid (Publisher’s Weekly), Sheila Keenan (Penguin Random House), Tanya McKinnon (McKinnon McIntyre Literary Agency), Kevin Czap (Czap Books).

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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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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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Adventures in Christmas Gets Starred Review by Publisher’s Weekly

“As smart as it is funny – and it’s very funny.” –Publisher’s Weekly

Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special by James Sturm, and alumni Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost gets a Starred Review by Publisher’s Weekly.

Read the complete Publisher’s Weekly Review online: publishersweekly.com

Adventures in Cartooning Christmas Special released September 18th. Order your copy today!

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July 2, 2009

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A Visit to The Center for Cartoon Studies by Alison Morris

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