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Lucy Knisley ′09 — Keeping Score

Lucy Knisley ′09 has been a prolific cartoonist. Graduating from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2009, she has published eight books in the last 10 years, most of them in the last 5:

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Alum Spotlight: Lucy Knisley’s “Kid Gloves”

Cover of Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley

Lucy Knisley ′09 is back in February 2019 (First Second) with her new book about becoming a mother: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos. The story follows Lucy through her pregnancy, transitioning into motherhood. As with many of her stories, she also looks at related history and science, curious facts inspiring figures. Lucy is the creator of  the New York Times bestseller Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, and Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride.

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The Center for Cartoon Studies in the DINKy award

The DINKys are the awards at the Denver Independent Comics and Art Expo and are in their second year. This weekend is DINK, and the awards are announced Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. The Center for Cartoon Studies family has some wonderful representatives! Good luck to you all!

Librarian Santiago Naranjo (′09) reading Something New by Lucy Knisley

Best-Work Self Published

Scraps by John Carvajal (’15)

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Alum Spotlight: Lucy Knisley

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Lucy Knisley graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2009. Since then she has created multiple graphic novels, with more already on the way. She gave me (Angela Boyle ′15) a brief interview.

Who was your advisor and why did you choose them?

Lynda Barry! I love her. I chose her for a number of reasons: First of all, she is amazing. I was pretty burnt out after two years of art high school, four years of art college, and a year of CCS, and I needed a lot of freedom and space to do my thesis, and she offered that. She was such a breath of fresh air—mental health and freedom over productivity and monetary value in work. Exactly what the doctor ordered.

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