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For Anna Sellheim ’16 the act of making comics is therapeutic

Anna Sellheim ’16 has been spotlighted on Graphic Medicine, a website promoting the “use of comics in medical education and patient care.” Anna has publishing autobio comics about her mental health in a series called Everything’s Fine. Though they started as doodles in a sketchbook, she polished them up and drew them in color for some class assignments at CCS. Then she compiled them into small zines. These grew into the ongoing web comic. In the Graphic Medicine spotlight, she writes about how she got into comics and why she has continued creating her mental health–themed autobio comic.

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Alec Longstreth’s Isle of Elsi on Kickstarter

Alec Longstreth, currently the outreach director at The Center for Cartoon Studies, is a comics workhorse. A stay at home father, he continues working on his Phase 7 series of mini-comics. He runs Phase 8, his new publishing house. And he has an ongoing webcomic, Isle of Elsi, which is currently on Kickstarter for the print book. The book collects the first three Isle of Elsi stories:  The Dragon’s Librarian, A Menagerie of Messengers, and The Search for Spinoza. This kid’s comic is full of wordplay, from alliteration to puns to rhymes.

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Billy Johnson and His Ducks Are Explorers, an action/adventure/comedy series for all ages!

Mathew New ’14 is supporting his web comic and print comic Billy Johnson and His Ducks Are Explorers series through a Patreon. Billy Johnson and His Ducks Are Explorers is an action/adventure/comedy for all ages! As a patron, you get first access to new pages! 

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Alum Spotlight: Jeff Mumm

Guinea Pig Parkour by Jeff Mumm

Alum Jeff Mumm is supporting his video game Guinea Pig Parkour on Patreon. The comic comes from Jeff’s web comic Guinea Something Good. Inspired by games like Earthworm Jim and Super Mario 64, Jeff is actively working on this comedy platformer, which features a guinea pig in a track suit jumping around for coffee beans.

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Visiting Artist: Danielle Corsetto

Danielle Corsetto is the creator of the webcomic Girls With Slingshots, which ran from 2004-2015. She also penned three Adventure Time OGNs for BOOM! Studios, and wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News. She posts silly autobio strips about her cats and yoga at Stuckat32.com, and is writing a sex ed comic with Monica Gallaher called BOO! It’s Sex for Webtoon. 

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Alum Spotlight: JP Coovert

JP Coovert

JP Coovert ’08 is probably best known for his work at One Percent Press and also for illustrating the Charlie Joe Jackson books, written by Tommy Greenwald. He has also be working on a journal comic, Simple Routines, for almost thirteen years!

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Summer Workshop: Graphic Memoir

Page 3 from As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman

June 26-30 

Eventbrite - The Center for Cartoon Studies Summer Workshops

Memoir is a popular subject in comics and Melanie Gillman ’12 is here to help you work on your own graphic memoir.

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Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners: The Academic Hour by Keren Katz and Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael DeForge

 

 

The Academic Hour cover by Keren Katz

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Visiting Artist: KC Green

Comic by KC Green

KC Green has completed work for Mad Magazine, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and probably others. He’s most known for the phrase/comic “this is fine” where a dog burns to his supposed death. But it is a cartoon, so no one takes it that seriously.

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The Center for Cartoon Studies Alums featured on School Library Journals 8 Teen-Friendly Webcomics Coming to Print This Year!

Web comics continue to be a rich source of material for publishers. Several of the selected comics were previously self-published and some were supported by highly successful Kickstarter campaigns. These books come to the publisher with a built-in audience, and traditional publishing allows the creator to extend their reach to new audiences, too. The incredible School Library Journal shortlist includes 3 CCS alum: Eleri Harris ′14, Melanie Gillman ′12, and Tillie Walden ′16:

Reported Missing: A True Story of Family and Murder by Eleri Harris ′14
A seven-part web comic tells the true story of Susan Neill-Fraser, who is serving 23 years in an Australian prison for the murder of her partner. Eleri looks at what it is like when your mom is charged with murder. Reported Missing is The Nib’s first serialized work of long-form comics journalism. Originally from Tasmania, Eleri went to school with Sarah Bowles, whose mother is the one convicted of murder. With this insight, she delves into the emotional nightmare behind Tasmania’s most controversial murder conviction. The first of seven posts went up  just a week before the Supreme Court appeal could change everything. Eleri Harris is deputy director at The Nib.

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CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.

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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