Carolyn C. Nowak is the Ignatz-award-winning artist and author of Girl Town (Top Shelf, 2018). This Eisner-nominated collection of stories deals with intimacy, codependency and female friendship. She deeply believes in the power of comics and stories.
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Tags: Carolyn Nowak, Girl Town, Top Shelf, Visiting Artist
Campbell Whyte was born in Perth, Western Australia, and makes comics that explore the play between the fantastical, the historical, and the autobiographical. His Eisner-nominated graphic novel, Home Time (TopShelf, 2017), took almost ten years to make and is a wild adventure through a Perth of the imagination.
When not making comics, he runs the monthly Comics Maker Network, teaches comics-making at the children’s art school Milktooth, and helps coordinate the annual Perth Comic Arts Festival.
Tags: Campbell Whyte, CCS Visiting Artist, Top Shelf
San Diego Comi-Con has come to another successful conclusion and we have the winners of this year’s Eisner Awards. We shout out a big congratulations to Sophie Yanow ′16 for The Contradictions and James Kochalka for Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer.
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Tags: Eisner Award, IDW, James Kochalka, Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer, Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions, Top Shelf
The seventh annual award for best print and web comic of the year, from Slate and The Center for Cartoon Studies. Read the full story on Slate.com!
Chlorine Gardens by Keiler Roberts. Koyama Press.
Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak. Top Shelf.
Passing for Human by Liana Finck. Random House.
Poochytown by Jim Woodring. Fantagraphics.
Space Academy 123 by Mickey Zacchilli. Koyama Press.
Tongues No. 2 by Anders Nilsen. No Miracles.
Why Art? by Eleanor Davis. Fantagraphics.
Windowpane by Joe Kessler. Breakdown.
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé. New York Review Comics.
Young Frances by Hartley Lin. AdHouse.
“As Before, So Behind” by Ted Closson.
“Being an Artist and a Mother” by Lauren Weinstein.
Comics by Tara Booth.
The Girl Who Flew Away by M. Dean.
“Having a Role in Life” by Elísabet Rún, translated by Unnur Bjarnadóttir.
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes.
“Sylvia Plath’s Last Plan” by Summer Pierre.
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow.
Three Comics by E.A. Bethea.
“A Trip to the Museum With Cartoonist John Porcellino” by Gabrielle Bell.
Congratulations to all!
Tags: Anders Nilsen, Carolyn Nowak, cartoonist studio prize, E.A. Bethea, Eleanor Davis, Elísabet Rún, Fantagraphics, Gabrielle Bell, Girl Town, Hartley Lin, Jim Woodring, Joe Kessler, Keiler Roberts, Koyama Press, Lauren Weinstein, Liana Finck, M. Dean, Mickey Zacchilli, Nancy, Oliveia Jaimes, Print Comic of the Year, Shortlist, Slate, Space Academy 123, Summer Pierre, Tara Booth, Ted Closson, Tongues No. 2, Top Shelf, Web Comic of the Year, Why Art?, Young Frances, Yvan Alagbé
The 9th annual Comics and Medicine conference will be exhibiting Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn, curated by Ellen Forney. The conference runs August 16-18th. The exhibit will be on display at The Center for Cartoon Studies prior to the conference and at Dartmouth College Baker-Berry Library during the Comics and Medicine conference from August 8th-24th.
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Tags: Alternative Comics, Cartoon Studies, Comics and Medicine, Comics for Choice, David acaulay, Draw Stronger, Ellen Forney, Fantagraphics, Graphic Medicine, Jennifer Hayden, Kriota Willberg, Marbles, Rock Steady, Susan Squier, The Story of My Tits, Top Shelf, Uncivilized Books, Whit Taylor
In celebration of Will Eisner Week, Sophie Yanow, CCS fellow and cartoonist from Northern California whose work fluctuates between the macro and the micro, will talk about her approach to nonfiction, autobiography, and poetry in comics making. In the fall of 2011 she moved to Montreal, Quebec where she joined the well regarded Colosse comics collective. In Situ, a collection of journal comics documenting her transition to Montreal, won wide acclaim in US and Canada. Her work has also frequently appeared online on Top Shelf Comix, Te Rumpus, the Nib, and many others. Her latest book, War of Streets and Houses published by Uncivilized Books, was nominated for an Ignatz Award for ‘Outstanding Graphic Novel’ in 2014.
Thursday, March 5, 3pm
At The Center for Cartoon Studies Post Office Building
Free and open to the public.
Special thanks to our reception sponsor Maple Street Catering and Big Fatty’s BBQ!
Tags: Big Fatty's BBQ, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Colosse, Ignatz Award, In Situ, Maple Street Catering, Sophie Yanow, The Nib, Top Shelf, Uncivilized Books, War of Streets and Houses, Will Eisner Week
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