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04.03.2025
Jason Martin is often hailed as one of the best writers in his sphere of comics, which is autobiographical & poetic observations. Indeed, I...
19.02.2025
Many of Elise Dietrich's autobiographical comics have been in the form of travelogues, but Kill Your Idols follows a different journey: one...
28.01.2025
E. Joy Mehr's comics have an easy, scrawled, and unaffected quality that gives her diary strips a comedic charge that most examples in this ...
24.01.2025
Jules Bakes and Niki Smith's middle-grade memoir Sea Legs has a unique hook: Bakes spent much of her childhood as a boat kid. In other word...
23.01.2025
Kit Anderson's Avery Hill collection of her short stories, Safer Places , is a big, warm hug of a book. Sure, it's barbed, haunted, and even...
Thanks to all who followed this year's iteration of this year's feature on the students and alumni from the Center For Cartoon Studies. Belo...
21.01.2025
After reading Luke Healy's Self-Esteem And The End Of The World , I thought that the book was the inevitable conclusion to the sort of books...
20.01.2025
Sean Knickerbocker is always willing to take a lot of chances when putting together an issue of Rust Belt Review . Some of them don't pay of...
16.01.2025
Sandy Steen Bartholomew, a supremely skilled cartoonist and illustrator, submitted four different items for review. First is a kids' book, B...
14.01.2025
The fourth volume of Fantology is probably the weakest volume overall, but there's still plenty of interesting material in there. A lot of ...
11.01.2025
Ruby Arnone's And The Bat is their version of the Aesop's fable assignment. Like many who have taken it on, they have chosen to bend it to t...
It's a tremendous advantage to be a CCS student (or local alum) and have access to their print lab. That allows one the chance to do, for ex...
09.01.2025
Maia Foster O'Neal's business card reads "Comics, Crafts, & Feelings," and their comics certainly are an example of truth in advertising. Th...
Fernanda Nocedal is clearly working through a lot of things with body horror-tinged fiction. In a short, untitled minicomic, they evocativel...
Fern Pellerin has a sharply refined if familiar style of cartooning. Creation Myth is a visually compelling and fluid version of a very com...
06.01.2025
Simon Reinhardt is another CCS cartoonist whose work I hadn't seen in years before seeing him at CAKE in 2024. I'd always enjoyed his concep...
05.01.2025
Sofia Martin's Our Days Here is a lovely, scratchily-drawn comic about a tea kettle and a coffee pot who fall in love, dreading the news tha...
03.01.2025
Edea Lee Giang submitted two comics this year, both of which were very interesting but also kind of raw. Coextinct is an interesting zine t...
02.01.2025
An interesting thing that James Sturm did at CCS was create the concept of "Applied Cartooning." By this, he meant non-narrative cartooning ...
Coco Fox's middle-grade quasi-memoir Let's Go, Coco! is a delightful breath of fresh air in the genre. It's not a surprise that Harper Alle...
Emil O'Melia's The King Of Cats Is Dead is a beautiful, surreal, nightmarish, and colorful saga about a demonic cat named Spider who steals...
31.12.2024
Ben Adkins is a first-year student, and he contributed his two iterations of some time-tested CCS assignments: adapting one of Aesop's fable...
30.12.2024
From the very first, the comics I read from Natalie Norris dealt with trauma. Regardless of the assignment, it was clear that Norris had a b...
Kat Ghastly's I Hunger may be short, but she packs a lot of conceptual power into its very silly punchlines. Its central idea--"What upset ...
29.12.2024
Anyone who follows Anna Sellheim on Instagram knows that her sketchbook drawings are wildly entertaining and show the breadth and depth of h...
28.12.2024
Adrienne Adkins' cartooning and storytelling are smart and expressive, even if her line is a bit rough at the moment. Adkins certainly has n...
26.12.2024
The Gutter is a substack anthology that mostly publishes very short stories or serials. Of late, they've gotten more serious about things, ...
Violet Kitchen came out of the gates at CCS doing interesting work, and they've only built on that potential since graduating. They co-found...
25.12.2024
Filipa Estrela is an artist who makes the most out of the zine format, turning each one into an art objects as much as it is a comic. Rember...
22.12.2024
Iris Gudeon's comics are odd and funny. Using a four-panel grid and a deceptively simple line, Gudeon's storytelling leans into a cute, upbe...
21.12.2024
Published in the pages of the Fantology anthology, Alex Washburn's serial Clan Zargs works well a solid fantasy story, a romantic serial, an...
When Natalie Norris wrote her sexual assault graphic memoir Dear Mini , she dedicated it to "girls like us." In Dear Natalie, Annabel Drius...
19.12.2024
The latest iteration of 666 Comics, edited by Ian Richardson has some of the usual CCS names in a fun format: six stories, six pages per co...
18.12.2024
I've been watching Pat Leonhard develop his graphic novel Margo since sitting next to him during a class at CCS when I visited for Industry...
17.12.2024
Obstructions , Vol 0, by Penina Gal. I've always enjoyed Gal's work, whether it's fantasy, memoir, or comics-as-poetry. This time around, it...
16.12.2024
Ana Two's Hyperfawnus got an Ignatz nomination, and it was well-earned despite it being so short (just twelve pages of story). There's a ne...
15.12.2024
One has to admire Colleen Frakes' persistence. One of the original CCS students from the class of 2007, Frakes is one of the few from the cl...
There is something delightfully old-fashioned about E.B. Sciales' comic Sal #1, featuring "Sal, the Tiny Artist." This pen-and-ink collecti...
14.12.2024
Wayne Carter is a humorist. The comics I've seen from him have been absurd and well-designed, with sly surprises. His comic The Saddest Angr...
12.12.2024
Amelia B.C. Dutton has the awesome pen name of ABCD, and this first-year student has already stacked up a few impressive-looking minis. Lead...