Visiting Artist Spring 2018
R. Sikoryak
R. Sikoryak’s books include Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly). He has drawn for the New Yorker, The Onion, SpongeBob Comics, MAD, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and more. He’s hosted his Carousel comics performance series around North America since 1997.
Larry Gonick
For the past 40 years, Larry Gonick has used the medium of comics to convey complex ideas. He has written or co-authored 16 books and created several comic strips. The first installment of his famous world-history series, The Cartoon History of the Universe, appeared in 1978 as a 48-page comic book, The Evolution of Everything, which by 2009 had expanded into a five-book, 1450-page graphic history of the world from the Big Bang to the first Iraq War. Book III, on the rise of Islam, theByzantine Empire, and medieval Asia, garnered the comics industry’s highest honor, the Harvey Award for best original graphic album of 2003. Gonick also received an Eisner Award from the San Diego Comicon, and has been a featured speaker at numerous educational and scientific conferences. He and his wife, the painter Lisa Goldschmid, live in San Francisco. They have two grown daughters.
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), I ought YOU Hated ME (Retro fit Comics, 2016), and the upcoming Life on Earth trilogy (GraphicUniverse, 2018-2020). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites, such as The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, MidnightBreakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit, and she will be joining them again in March 2018. She is the creator and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program, and was a guest editor for PEN Illustrated. She is the cohost of the comedy advice podcast Ask Bi Grlz with Myriam Gurba.
Kevin Czap
Kevin Czap is a cartoonist and publisher who’s recently found a home in Providence, RI. Known to some as “Comics Mom,” Czap has been active in the scene since 2010, teaching, blogging, cheerleading, and co-organizing a convention in the meantime. They currently are focused on celebrating comics through the micro-press Czap Books, and continuing to put out personal projects. They received the CXC Emerging Talent Award in 2016 for their work and involvement in the comics community, and they are currently your Fellow at CCS. Their comic Fütchi Perf is available now from Uncivilized Books.
Margo Ferrick
Margot Ferrick, born 1988 on Long Island, now lives in Chicago. Their book Yours is published by 2dcloud.
Ben Passmore
Ben Passmore makes mad comics in his dusty room, including DAYGLOAYHOLE, Goodbye, and Ignatz Award-winning comic Your Black Friend. He’s a regular contributor at The Nib and Vice. He likes to write about politics, monsters, race, sad punks, and narcissism. He is one of the founding organizers of NOCAZ (New Orleans Alternative Comics and Zine Fest).
Carol Tyler
Carol Tyler is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical stories. She has received multiple honors for her work including the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award, and she was declared a Master Cartoonist at the 2016 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Carol’s autobiographical stories reflect her struggles as an artist, worker, wife and mother. The legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb describes her work as having “…the extremely rare quality of genuine, authentic heart. Hers are the only comics that ever brought me to the verge of tears.” Cartoonist Chris Ware refers to her as “…one of the true greats of the original Underground Comix generation.”
Ronald Wimberly
Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Darkhorse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.
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.
Nicole J. Georges
Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning graphic novelist, professor, and podcaster from Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home,Calling Dr. Laura, and Invincible Summer.
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor’s picture-stories include Julius Knipl, Real-Estate Photographer, The Jew of New York, The Cardboard Valise, Hotel & Farm and Shoehorn Technique. He has collaborated with Mark Mulcahy on a number of music-theater productions. He lives in New York City and teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
Mary Cagle
Mary Cagle, sometimes known as Cube Watermelon on the interwebs, is a comic artist and illustrator from Corpus Christi, Texas. From October 2013 to March 2016, she worked as an elementary school English teacher in Kurihara, Japan! Now she’s a full-time comic artist and illustrator, working on a variety of projects.
