I wrote about how the 2000 indie bookstores known as comics shops have won over the book publishing industry and more thoughts on #comicspro26
03.03.2026 15:39 — 👍 61 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2I wrote about how the 2000 indie bookstores known as comics shops have won over the book publishing industry and more thoughts on #comicspro26
03.03.2026 15:39 — 👍 61 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
A series of 8 horizontal panels featuring comics themed images and the words BCAF Building Community Through Comics
Something fun:
I am honored to be joining the Boston Comic Arts Foundation team as the new Accessibility Coordinator! I'll be working on ways to ensure BCAF events continue with the accessibility efforts already in place, while seeking ways to improve and to build greater connections in the area!
Critical Histories Booklist | Teaching America at 250
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Applications are open for the 2026 Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship, which will take place October 16- November 16, 2026. The Deadline to apply is April 3, 2026.
www.cartoonstudies.org/applications...
Summer Workshop Merit-Based Scholarship Deadline is March 26! For details, and to apply, visit: www.cartoonstudies.org/workshops-in...
24.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Center for Cartoon Studies is proud to announce the fourteenth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize! 🎉
Awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. The creators of two exceptional comics for this year will be awarded $500 each. Deadline is 2/28! cartoonstudies.org/studioprize
Summer Workshops Announced 🎉
Learn more, and sign up: www.cartoonstudies.org/workshops-in...
Leise Hook '20 new book, NAMES AND FACES, is a collection of graphic autobiographical essays. Releasing on April 14, it is now available for pre-order via Henry Holt Books! @henryholtbooks.bsky.social www.cartoonstudies.org/leise-hook-2...
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Miss the livestream event with Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden '16? You can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/LCiBsFg...
24.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Join us in celebrating CCS’s 20th Anniversary
with Alison Bechdel and Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden ‘16 for a special free livestream event on
Friday, November 21st, 3–4 pm EST
www.cartoonstudies.org/join-us-in-c...
The Cartoonist Veteran Project comics are available as free digital downloads, including "When I Returned" and "A Whole Lifetime of Firsts." Read more:
www.cartoonstudies.org/css-studio/c...
11/21, 3pm - A free livestreamed event celebrating CCS’s 20th Anniversary! Two of Vermont’s most acclaimed cartoonists, Alison Bechdel and Tillie Walden ‘16, will share the stage for a rare public conversation about art, place, and the ways VT has shaped their work. Link in bio. cartoonstudies.org
07.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you considering applying to The Center for Cartoon Studies MFA or Certificate program? Join us for our virtual campus open house and portfolio day on Dec. 6! For more info and to RSVP: www.cartoonstudies.org/admissions-e...
07.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The latest book in the History Comics series by First Second is out! THE GREAT DEPRESSION was written by comics writer and editor Tim Stout ‘10. Congrats, Tim!
www.timstoutwrites.com/writing #comics #newbook #kidlit #cartoonstudies
NEW! COMICS 101 online winter workshop, meets once a week (6-9pm ET on Thursdays) for six weeks! Learn more about this workshop, and scholarships:
www.cartoonstudies.org/workshops/co...
This fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) will host a series of low-cost ($5), 90-minute webinars that are open to the public. @andycomics.bsky.social is next up with High Contrast Comics. Sign up: www.cartoonstudies.org/workshops/we...
08.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations @elerimai.bsky.social @mirkdrop.bsky.social @abramscomicarts.bsky.social
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The much-awaited comics guide is now available for pre-order! MAKING NONFICTION COMICS by cartoonists and journalists Eleri Harris ‘14 and Shay Mirk officially releases 11/11 via Abrams ComicArts.
“The definitive guide to writing, drawing, and publishing nonfiction comics…” —Abrams ComicArts
A cartoony black and white drawing of a skull on a stick. The skull is screaming "my eyes! Where are my eyes? I cannot see!" While an old woman looks on in disapproval.
This is my favorite thing I've drawn today
25.09.2025 15:16 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat' by Mary Shyne
Meet artist Mary Shyne on Sat., Sept, 27, at the opening reception for our Emerging Artist Showcase featuring a selection of pages from her new graphic novel 'You and Me on Repeat.' It's free! cartoonart.org/calendar/2025/9/27/opening-reception-with-mary-shyne
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CARTOON ART MUSEUM presents Emerging Artist Showcase: Mary Shyne September 27, 2025 - January 18, 2026 Opening Reception: Sept. 27, 4pm-6pm 781 Beach Street | San Francisco, CA 94109
A page from YOU AND ME ON REPEAT. Panel 1: Closeup of Alicia gripping her knees. In word balloons she says "Can you stop the car? I can't breathe in here." Panel 2: Splash page of a nighttime state park parking lot. A single van is in the parking lot, its side door open. Alicia is standing outside the van, her hands on her knees, bent over.
Exceedingly thrilled to announce that the @cartoonart.bsky.social in SF will be hosting an exhibit of pages from YOU AND ME ON REPEAT from Sept 27 through Jan 18! Reception THIS SATURDAY 9/27 at 4pm-6pm, come through and watch me vibrate with excitement www.cartoonart.org/emerging-art...
23.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) ✏️ 🎉
www.cartoonstudies.org/cartoon-coll...
GUYS, FLIP IS OUT TODAY!!! 🥳🎉🎈 This is my most autobiographical story to date, and so close to my heart!✨
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Photo of the cover of "Iron Scars Book 2: The Rescue"
Photo of the covers of "Iron Scars Book 1: The Changeling" and "Iron Scars Book 2: The Rescue"
A surprise happy book birthday to me!
Iron Scars Book 2 is back from the printers. And is only finished because of the like, 3 strangers who messaged me saying either they loved the first book or their kid did, and wanted to know when I was going to finish it. Thank you!
This fall, CCS will host a series of low-cost ($5), 90-minute webinars. All proceeds will go to sponsor zine fests around the USA that CCS supports. Here is the lineup!: High Contrast Comics with Andy Warner ’12 – 10/15 & Autobio Comics with Betsey Swardlick ’11 – 10/29
cartoonstudies.org/workshops
Congratulations, CCS alum Violet Kitchen and Sean Knickerbocker 🎉🎉🎉
19.09.2025 15:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you SO much!!!
I will say it as loud and as often as I can, YOU are why we do this.
To all of the incredible exhibitors, publishers, volunteers and staff, thank you for creating such an incredibly welcome and warm environment for ALL to exist within.
Thank you and take care.
The New England Graphic Medicine Summit (NEGM25) @negm25.bsky.social is partnering with CCS Applied Cartooning Lab to launch a Cartooning Clinic—a space for creative “check-ups” designed to support creators developing long-form graphic medicine projects:
www.cartoonstudies.org/the-center-f...
Save the date!
Nonfiction Comics Fest
NFCF 2025
November 15, 2025
11am - 6pm
Fletcher Free Library
Burlington, VT
FREE TO ATTEND
www.nonfictioncomicsfest.org
Do you have a long-form graphic medicine project? Are you struggling with specific elements, or having difficulty viewing it holistically?
Follow the link below for full eligibility requirements and to apply. Deadline is 9/19.
bit.ly/cartooningclinic25
#NEGM25