A new graphic novel from Melanie Gillman ’12 is out, Other Ever Afters. Random House Graphic, a collection of their queer fairy tales. The features four 24-hour comics and three brand-new stories. You can read the four existing comics right now: Sweetrock, The King’s Forest, Hsthete, and The Fish Wife.
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Tags: Melanie Gillman, new book, Other Ever After, Queer Comics, Random House Graphic
NEW! Children’s Book Workshop: Exploring Jewish Themes and Content
PLUS! Cartoon Club Summer Session
Kids + Comics = YOWZA! Cartooning Club: Summer Edition! All the fun of our Saturday Cartoon Club, plus summer, multiplied by five! If you’re at least 9 years old and want to spend a week or two drawing comics, register now for our Summer Cartoon Club.
Tags: Alec Longstreth, Beth Hetland, create comics, Graphic Memoirs, Graphic Novels, Hilary Price, Jo Knowles, Jon Chad, Melanie Gillman, Paul Karasik, Queer Comics, Single Panel Comics, Summer Workshops, Tillie Walden, Young Adult Graphic Novels
Howard Cruse’s comic strips and humorous illustrations have appeared in American Bystander, Playboy, The Village Voice, Artforum International, Heavy Metal, The Advocate, and numerous other mainstream American magazines, as well as in underground comic books. Aside from cartooning, Cruse’s creative ventures have included art director positions in both Birmingham and New York City. Cruse’s comic strip Wendel was regularly featured in The Advocate between 1983-89 and he is best known for the award winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby published in 1995, which has won both Eisner and Harvey Awards in the U.S. in 1996 and, in translation, a Luchs Award in Germany, a Prix de la critique at the International Comics Festival in Angouleme, France in 2002, and a Comics Critics Award in Spain. Cruse was the founding editor in 1980 of Gay Comix.
Tags: Angoulême, Artforum, Comic Strip, Gay Comix, Heavy Metal, Howard Curse, Queer Comics, Stuck Rubber Baby, The Advocate, The Village Voice, Wendel
Maurice Vellekoop is the author/illustrator of 4 books of his own work with Drawn and Quarterly, Green Candy Press and Koyama Press. His work has been shown numerous times at the Reactor Gallery in Toronto, in group shows overseas: at the Mayor gallery in London and in a traveling show called “New Pop” that stopped at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. Most recently, in the summer of 2014, Maurice had his first solo European show at Twenty Twenty Two in Manchester, England.
Tags: CCS Visiting Artist, Drawn and Quarterly, Gay Comics, Maurice Vellekoop, New Yorker, Queer Comics
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Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.
Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.
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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