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Everything Is Fine Anna by Anna Sellheim ′16

Anna Sellheim ’16 creates the web comic Everything Is Fine and helps run Square City Comics, a comic collective in the DC area. She did the following interview with Angela Boyle ’16.

What is your favorite thing to teach about comics?

My favorite thing to teach about comics is the various ways you can get your characters to emote. Whether that’s facial expressions, body language, or use of emanata (one of my fave lessons is teaching emanata). My comics are all about characters and emotions, so I love helping students learn how to make their characters express themselves.

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Tags: Anna Sellheim, cartoonstudies, CCS Alum, Everything is Fine, interview, Square City Comics, teaching, tools

Alum Spotlight: Carl Antonowicz

Carl Antonowicz ′11 is, as he puts it, a “ferret enthusiast and ink-spattered eldritch sea beast.” He is currently working on a live comic, Büer’s Kiss. He sells his mini comics in his own shop as well as at Quimbys (Chicago, IL), and Left Bank Books (Hanover, NH). He did the following interview with Angela Boyle ′16.

Büer’s Kiss, page 1

Who was your thesis advisor and why did you choose them?

My thesis advisor was the great Guy Davis, creator of The Marquis (Darkhorse, 2009) and artist on Sandman Mystery Theatre (Vertigo, 1995) as well as a significant chunk of BPRD (Darkhorse, 2003). Guy works primarily as a creature designer now, having provided beasties for a bunch of Guillermo del Toro films.

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Tags: Baker Street, BPRD, Büer’s Kiss, Carl Antonowicz, Cartoon Studies, Guy Davis, interview, Paul Karasik, performance, Sandman Mystery Theatre, The Marquis, thesis advisor, tools

Alum Tillie Walden’s SPINNING tools and techniques

Tillie Walden’s (′16) latest graphic novel, Spinning, recently came out from First Second. In some of her other comics, she included a list of the tools she drew the comic with in the back. But she said it didn’t feel right for Spinning. So I asked her what she used.

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Tags: Cartoon Studies, Comics, First Second, Graphic Novel, Inking, Spinning, Strathmore, Tillie Walden, tools, Uni

Alum Em Sauter’s tools for “Beer is for Everyone”

Beer Is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age) by Em Sauter (’11) is out on October 10, 2017, with One Peace Books! Based on her web comic reviews of beer, Pints and Panels, Beer Is for Everyone is all new content.

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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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Everything Is Fine Anna by Anna Sellheim ′16

Alum Spotlight: Carl Antonowicz

Alum Tillie Walden’s SPINNING tools and techniques

Alum Em Sauter’s tools for “Beer is for Everyone”

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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