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New Book: Flash Forward

The podcast Flash Forward (Abrams), where Rose Eveleth tackles speculative fact and fiction, is being laid to paper with the aid of a crew of artists, including The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) alum Sophie Goldstein ’13, Amelia Onorato ’12, and many CCS visiting artists including Matt Lubchanksy, Ben Passmore, John Jennings, Sophia Foster-Dimino, and Box Brown. The collection includes many more contributors including Ziyed Ayoub, Maki Naro, Julia Gfrörer, Chris Jones, Blue Delliquanti, Zach Weinersmith, and Kate Sheridan. The book will be available on April 20, 2021!

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CCS Alumni Sophie Goldstein releases coming-of-age fantasy graphic novel: An Embarrassment of Witches

An Embarrassment of Witches by Sophie Goldstein ′13 and Jenn Jordan released on March 3 from Top Shelf Comix. This coming-of-age tale is set in an urban fantasy world full of animal familiars, enchanted plants, and spell-casting. The story explores the mundane horrors of breakups, job searches, and post-graduate existential angst.

“The blobby, busy artwork, drenched in candy colors, is packed with visual jokes: a traffic jam with dragons and pumpkin carriages, mall stores named Fae Jewelers and Taco Spell, a corporate office that turns into an M.C. Escher maze.”

—Publishers Weekly

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Noisemakers Anthology with Lucy Knisley ′09 and Sophie Goldstein ′13

Cover of Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World, from Kazoo

Kazoo has released Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World, an anthology of women throughout history, including stories by Lucy Knisley ′09 and Sophie Goldstein ′13. From the creators of the award-winning Kazoo magazine—the quarterly, indie print magazine for girls, ages 5 to 12—comes a look at the lives of 25 extraordinary women through the eyes of 25 extraordinary comic artists. In 25 distinct styles from some of the most exciting comic artists, Noisemakers is for everyone who is not afraid to use their voice and for those who could use a little boost.

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The Comics Beat’s Best of The Decade Features 5 CCS Alum

The End of The ****ing World graphic novel also a Netflix Original series (Fantagraphics) by Charles Forman ′08, The Oven (AdHouse Books) by Sophie Goldstein ′13, On A Sunbeam (First Second Books) by Tillie Walden ′16, and Eleri Harris ′14 (Deputy Editor at The Nib) and Andy Warner ′12 (Contributing Editor for The Nib) join this impressive list by The Comics Beat.

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Sophie Goldstein’s ′13 New Comics, An Embarrassment of Witches

Page 1 from An Embarrassment of Witches

Sophie Goldstein ′13 (The Oven) is serializing her next project, An Embarrassment of Witches with Jen Jordan, on Patreon. You might recognize this team from their award-winning Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell. She has already posted 59 pages, so you have a nice chunk to get started with. The final collection will be published in winter 2019 by Top Shelf Productions.

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Alumni Sophie Goldstein for Free Comic Book Day

World's Greatest Cartoonists with cover by Sophie Goldstein

Sophie Goldstein ’13 (House of Women, The Oven) is coming to you this Free Comic Book Day as one of Fantagraphics’s most popular authors. Sophie is one of twelve creators in the second World’s Greatest Cartoonists that Fantagraphics has put together. Each creator has contributed a new piece. This issue will feature a cover by Sophie herself.

Free Comic Book Day, May 5, 2018

House of Women (Fantagraphics, 2017) is Sophie’s second solo graphic novel, her first with Fantagraphics. The story follows Sarai and her fellow emissaries onto an unknown planet. They spend most of their time working to “civilize” the natives. Their only other human contact is a man with genetic modifications. They will find out if the most danger comes from the natives, the man, or themselves.

Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday of May each year. This May 5, head to your comic book store early to get a copy of World’s Greatest Cartoonists.

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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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Visiting Artist: Alum Sophie Goldstein

Sophie Goldstein (′13) is cartoonist, illustrator, and comics instructor based in the great city of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Her book The Oven, published by AdHouse Books, won two Ignatz awards and was nominated for the Cartoonist Studio Prize. Her latest book, House of Women—a collection of the Ignatz award-winning, self-published mini comic series—will be coming out from Fantagraphics this fall. Sophie’s first comics endeavor was Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, a web comic co-written with Jenn Jordan. It was self-published with funding from Kickstarter in 2013. Sophie has also illustrated a children’s book, Poopy Claws (Overdue Media, 2012), written by Gene Ambaum. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Best American Comics 2013 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), Fable Comics (First Second, 2015), The Pitchfork Review, Cricket Magazine, Sleep of Reason (Iron Circus, 2013), and Symbolia Magazine, among others.

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Alum Draw Sasha Velour

Uglina and Lump by Laurel Lynn Leake.

It was bound to happen. Take a visual extravaganza like RuPaul’s Drag Race and combine it with the visual output of  alum from The Center for Cartoon Studies, and of course you will get amazing drawings of Sasha Velour, Season 9 winner, by alum.

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Patreon Spotlight:
Sophie Goldstein

Sophie Goldstein (’13) is the creator of The Oven (AdHouse Books) and House of Women, which will be coming out later this year through Fantagraphics. She has a Patreon going to fund her continued work on comics.

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