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It’s that time of year again: Electric Squeak, CCA's student-run comics journal, is BACK for Issue 6! This year’s theme is 🪐Outerworlds💫 -- we're looking for all types of comics about this world & Others.

Submissions open til 3/31. We can’t wait to see your work! electricsqueak.com/home-for-iss...

Got a story to tell? Ready to spend your next summer in San Francisco, taking classes taught by comics industry pros, and honing your skills alongside a passionate group of peers from all over the world? Applications are officially open for the MFA in Comics Program! portal.cca.edu/learning/aca...

Want to learn more about comics?

CCA's Fall extension courses are perfect for you! Classes range from between $150-495, with world class instructors!

Sign up soon!

MFA Comics - Virtual Information Session Join CCA's MFA Comics for their information session to learn more about the curriculum and general program scope.

Interested in CCA's MFA Comics program? Join the chair of the program, Mel Gillman, today at 5:30 PM PST for a virtual info session! www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-comics...

The links to check out the aforementioned courses:
Food & Comics: secure.touchnet.net/C20080_ustor...
Art of Storytelling:
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Risograph Workshop:
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Illustration Techniques: Children's Books:
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Register for CCA's fantastic fall Extension classes from the MFA Comics program!
- "Food & Comics", with Susannah Hainley
- "Making Comics: The Art of Storytelling", with Sarah Maloney
- "Illustration Techniques: Children's Books", with Gus D'Angelo
- "Risograph Workshop", with Yasmeen Abedifard

"Thrilled to share this new mural by MFA Comics alumni Kayan Cheung-Miaw! This piece, titled "This Asian American Life", was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum for the Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall, and will be on display through September 28th."

Coming soon: Black & Bloody A Black Vampire anthology by Black Indie Comix Club

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Please follow the Black & Bloody Kickstarter!

We launch in TWO days! For the bloody bxtches! For the blerdy bxtches, and all the Black vampire baddies inbetween, please follow the Kickstarter and support some Black Vampire art!

#Blackvampire #sinners #blackart

The 2025 MFA in Comics Anthology is here, and it looks fantastic! Our 15 graduating students each contributed a 10-20 page excerpt on their thesis comics, making for one killer 280 page volume. Thank you to editor @andycomics.bsky.social and book designer GB Tran for making this such a success!

The MFA Comics program got to celebrate our newest graduating class with TWO jam-packed nights of live comics readings on campus! Congratulations, class of 2025!! 🎉

In honor of me graduating from @ccacomics.bsky.social MFA program, I wanted to go back and post the first comic I made in the program under the direction of @teabuoy.bsky.social ❤️🧡💛🩷💜

Still getting used to this new platform. Figured I could use this opportunity to reflect on one of the first comics I made at the beginning of the @ccacomics.bsky.social MFA Comics Program. Especially since, after tomorrow, I'll be an official graduate alongside my peers.

Tonight we have 2 incredible back-to-back events! At 7pm in Timken Auditorium, Sam Sattin will be interviewed live on stage by Justin Hall as part of our Comics in the City series. And at 8:30pm at 1480 17th St., we'll have an opening reception for EMANATA, an exhibition of our MFA students' comics!

We were thrilled to welcome Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social to campus tonight for an artist talk and book signing to kick off our annual Comics in the City lecture series!

FRIDAY in San Francisco! @ccacomics.bsky.social welcomes Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social, creator of “Dinosaur Sanctuary” as part of their “Comics in the City” lecture series. Friday, July 11, 7 pm. Drawing demo + Q&A + book signing. portal.cca.edu/events-calen... Free & open to all!

A packed house tonight at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social for our annual CCA Comics Fest! Students from our MFA Program tabled with their comics and performed live readings of their work. Next up: day 1 of classes!

CCA Comics Fest happening now at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social! Tabling til 8pm tonight, and live comics readings from 8:30-9:30pm! Free and open to the public! 🍒🍒🍒

Tonight!! See you at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social !

SAN FRANCISCO! MINT Manga Project & @ccacomics.bsky.social presents Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social, creator of “Dinosaur Sanctuary” (@) as their first “Comics in the City” guest speaker for 2025 on Friday, July 11, 7 pm! Free & open to the public portal.cca.edu/events-calen...

Comics in the City. Kinoshita Itaru: Friday July 11th. Sam Sattin: Friday July 18th. Eddie Ahn: Friday July 25th. Graduate Readings: Friday August 1 and Saturday August 2.

Get ready for this summer's newest Comics in the City line-up at CCA!
7/11: Itaru Kinoshita
7/18: Sam Sattin
7/25: Eddie Ahn
8/1 and 8/2: MFA Comics Graduate Readings
All events start at 7pm in CCA's Timken Auditorium, and are free and open to the public. Come join us!!

A poster with art showing a dog guy in a pink sweater, drawing comics on the floor, surrounded by cats and comics and art supplies. Text reads: CCA Comics Festival. Sour Cherry Comics. 3187 16th Street. Sunday July 6th, 5 - 9:30pm. Free and open to the public.

Our MFA Comics summer session is coming up soon, and we're kicking things off in style at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social! Join us 7/6 for the CCA COMICS FEST! Students will be tabling in the shop from 5-8pm, and then doing live readings 8:30-9:30pm! Free and open to the public. Art by Cody A. Owens 🍒

BATTLEPUG: Cosmic Doggyssey An all-new original graphic novel continuing the award-winning comic book series!

A new BATTLEPUG graphic novel, colored by MFA Comics faculty @angryf.bsky.social, is now on Kickstarter! Don't miss out on the newest in this Eisner- and Harvey-award-winning fantasy-comedy series, about the adventures of a magical barbarian and his gigantic dog! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bat...

Huge congrats to BFA Comics major @mochiicar.bsky.social who's been selected by the Society of Illustrators as one of 3 finalists for this year's Will Eisner Scholarship! This scholarship recognizes the best comics & sequential art student currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in the US.

The finished products! 📚 ✨

Another year in the books!! The CCA Comics program celebrated the end of a fantastic spring semester with a zine yearbook party, where we busted out our block printing skills and carved little self-portraits!

Electric Squeak

Congrats everyone at CCA Comics for finishing a fantastic semester! Check out the new issue of the student-run comics anthology at electricsqueak.com. MFA folks, we'll see you this summer!!

An event poster for The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir with author Hugh D’Andrade Saturday May 17, 2025, 7pm. Mission Comics. 2250 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

On Saturday 5/17 at 7pm, join MFA Comics alum Hugh D’Andrade at Mission Comics to celebrate the release of his new graphic memoir, The Murder Next Door, published by @streetnoisebooks.bsky.social !

Catch a couple of CCA MFA Comics grads chatting it up this Tuesday at 6pm! Join Lawrence Lindell as he reads from his new graphic novel, We All Got Something, and discusses with cartoonist Breena Nuñez. Register for the Zoom link at: sfpl.org/events

Oops, May 10 (as it says in the visual) not May 19 (as the typo says in the text)

The Cartoonist Cooperative is hosting its inaugural Nib and Ink online comics festival, with a great lineup of events throughout the month of May, including a workshop by CCA MFA Comics alumni Joseph Hewitt May 19! Check out the rest of the lineup of events at nif.cartoonist.coop @gearheadrpg.com