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The Center for Cartoon Studies Has Big Showing in LA Times Book Prize Finalists

Three Cartoon Studies fellows have been nominated for the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel/Comic of the year! They include:

Robyn Smith ’17 for WASH DAY DIARIES (Robyn Smith/Jamila Rowser). Robyn got her MFA at CCS, was a fellow from 2021-22, and is a member of our faculty.

Tommi Parrish for MEN I TRUST. Tommi was a CCS fellow from 2020-21.

Noah Van Sciver for JOSEPH SMITH AND THE MORMONS. Noah was a CCS fellow from 2015-16.

Shoutout to Jamila Rowser, who wrote WASH DAY DIARIES, she was recently a CCS visiting artist.

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Robyn Smith ’17 Emerging Talent Award from CXC

Robyn Smith ’17 won the Emerging Talent Award at the recent CXC (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus)! The award comes with a no-strings-attached check for $7,500, to support an amazing cartoonist just starting to make their mark on the comics scene.

Robyn is an alumni and fellow at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). She is a Jamaican cartoonist best known for her mental health / Blackness memoir The Saddest Angriest Black Girl In Town; Wash Day, written by Jamila Rowser; and illustrating DC Comics’s Nubia: Real One graphic novel, written by L.L. McKinney. You can preorder her next book, Wash Day Diaries, coming in May 2022 with Chronicle Books.

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