Stories tagged Retrofit Comics

The Berlin Project

This fall, the third and final volume of Jason Lutes’s epic Berlin trilogy is being released (through Drawn and Quarterly). It is a big accomplishment and rightly deserves some hearty congratulations. To celebrate, Jason’s coworker and fellow CCS teacher Luke Howard ′13 pulled together a super secret project where over of Jason’s peers and students drew their own version of more than the first 6 chapters of Berlin. Keep an eye out online—lots of contributors (159!) have been posting their work, which is especially interesting when they include the original page.

Page by Aaron Cockle ′08, creator of Annotated and Word and Voice

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Tags: Aaron Cockle, Angela Boyle, Astral Birth Canal, awesome 'possum, Bailey Sharp, Berlin, Black Lung, Cartoon Studies, Chris Wright, Dave Lloyd, Dean Sudarsky, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novel, Iona Fox, Iris Yan, Jan Burger, Jar of Fools, Jason Lutes, Kelly Swann, Luke Howard, Michelle Ollie, Mo Oh, Reilly Hadden, Retrofit Comics, Sandy Bartholomew, Sophie Yanow, Star Wars, Talk Dirty to Me, The Lifted Brow, What Is a Glacier?

Visiting Artist: MariNaomi

MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016), and the upcoming Life on Earth trilogy (Graphic Universe, 2018-2020). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites, such as The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit, and she will be joining them again in March 2018. She is the creator and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She was a guest editor for Illustrated PEN. She is the cohost of the comedy advice podcast Ask Bi Grlz with Myriam Gurba.

Tags: 2d Cloud, Asian Art Museum, Ask Bi Grlz, BuzzFeed, Cartoon Art Museum, Cartoon Studies, Cartoonists of Color Database, De Young Museum, Dragon's Breath, Graphic Universe, Harper Perennial, I Though YOU Hated ME, Illustrated PEN, Japanese American Museum, Kiss and Tell, LA Review of Books, Life on Earth, Losing the Girl, MariNaomi, Midnight Breakfast, Queer Cartoonists Database, Retrofit Comics, Sister Spit, Smithsonian, The Tumpus, Turning Japanese, Uncivilized Books

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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Tags: A Silent Hell, AdHouse, Andrew Farago, Beautiful Darkness, Blacksad, Boxers and Saints, Brandon Graham, Building Stories, Carol Tyler, Cartoon Art Museum, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist studio prize, Chris Ware, Curveball, Dark Horse, Drawn and Quarterly, Eleanor Davis, Fantagraphics, First Second, Gene Luen Yang, Gilbert Hernandez, Heads or Tails, Here, How to Be Happy, Image Comics, Jacob Brogan, Jeremy Sorese, Jillian Tamaki, Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido, Julia Wertz, Julio's Day, kerascoet, Kevin Czap, King City, Koyama Press, Libby's Dad, Lilli Carré, Mariko Tamaki, Nobrow, Pantheon, Retrofit Comics, Richard McGuire, Rolling Blackouts, Rom Hart, Rosalie Lightning, Sarah Glidden, Slate, Slate Book Review, Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, Soldier's Hear, Sonny Liew, Sophie Goldstein, St. Martin's Press, Sunny, SuperMutant Magic Academy, Taiyo Matsumoto, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, The Infinite Wait, The Oven, This One Summer

Spinning by alum Tillie Walden releases September 12

Spinning by Tillie Walden (′16) is coming out in just about a week on September 12, 2017. Her fourth graphic novel, this is her first with First Second. She has also published I Love This Part, A City Inside, and The End of Summer with Avery Hill Publishing, released through Retrofit Comics in the United States. It will be coming out to marvelous reviews.

Booklist Online: “She uses negative space to great effect, elegantly depicting her loneliness and isolation while simultaneously emphasizing how deeply she feels unable to speak up for herself.”
Cathy Camper, Lambda Literary: ” At school, another student, Grace, bullies her, so skating becomes a kind of after-school refuge. Not a refuge from everything, however: Tillie develops a secret crush on another girl. . . .”

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Tags: A City Inside, Avery Hill Publishing, Cartoon Studies, Comics, First Second, Graphic Novel, I love this part, new release, Retrofit Comics, Spinning, The End of Summer, Tillie Walden

“What Is a Glacier?” by Instructor Sophie Yanow

Sophie Yanow recently started teaching here at The Center for Cartoon Studies, but that hasn’t stopped her from coming out with comics. What is a Glacier? was recently released through Retrofit Comics and came in the first 2017 subscription package.

This beautiful book is a meditation on time. An autobiographical comic on her trip to Iceland, she reflects on her relationship that had ended in the previous year. Just before the release of the book, Sophie was interviewed by R. J. Casey on The Comics Journal.

Post by Angela Boyle.

Tags: Cartoon Studies, Comics, Graphic Novel, Retrofit Comics, Sophie Yanow, What Is a Glacier?

Next Up: Box Brown

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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, released in 2014, spent three weeks on The New York Times Graphic Novel Best Sellers List. He launched the comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011, where they make use of a subscription service for readers to get comics all year. Retrofit Comics is dedicated to publishing and distributing floppy alternative comics.

Tags: Andre the Giant, Box Brown, cartoonist, CCS Visiting Artist, Comic Publisher, Graphic Novel, Ignatz, Retrofit Comics

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 Retrofit Comics

The Berlin Project

Visiting Artist: MariNaomi

Past Cartoonist Studio Prize winners of Best Print Comic

Spinning by alum Tillie Walden releases September 12

“What Is a Glacier?” by Instructor Sophie Yanow

Next Up: Box Brown

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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