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04.07.2025

High-Low: Jason's Death In Trieste

Jason's latest collection of short stories, Death In Trieste, once again finds the cartoonist doing deep-dive riffs into art history, pop c...

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01.07.2025

High-Low: Casey Nowak's Duh! Ha-Ha!

So I recently found my copy of this perfect little minicomic, Duh! Ha-Ha! , that Casey Nowak did some years ago. This was back when Carta Mo...

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23.06.2025

High-Low: Kayla E.'s Precious Rubbish

There's a lot to take in with Kayla E.'s stunning long-form debut, Precious Rubbish . When I interviewed her recently, she noted that the na...

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06.06.2025

High-Low: Keiler Roberts' Preparing To Bite

Keiler Roberts' first book with Drawn & Quarterly was My Begging Chart. For a while, it seemed like it would be her last original book for ...

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26.05.2025

High-Low: Jonathan Baylis' So Buttons #14

My review of Jonathan Baylis and his collaborators' new issue of So Buttons (#14) comes at a momentous time for the writer, as this issue w...

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14.05.2025

High-Low: Three New Comics by Iris Yan

I usually do all of my Center for Cartoon Studies reviews all at once, but I'm making some exceptions with the recent batch I've received. I...

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05.05.2025

High-Low: Eric Haven's Damned #1

Eric Haven's comics exist in this weird liminal state between EC horror comics, 1970s Marvel monster/science-fiction epics, John Stanley com...

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14.04.2025

High-Low: Catching Up With Carol Lay: Murderburg and My Time Machine

It's not an exaggeration to say that Carol Lay has had one of the weirder careers in comics that I can recall. She started her career at the...

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04.03.2025

High-Low: Catching Up With Jason Martin

Jason Martin is often hailed as one of the best writers in his sphere of comics, which is autobiographical & poetic observations. Indeed, I...

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19.02.2025

High-Low: Elise Dietrich's Kill Your Idols, Part 1

Many of Elise Dietrich's autobiographical comics have been in the form of travelogues, but Kill Your Idols follows a different journey: one...

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28.01.2025

High-Low: E. Joy Mehr's E. Joy Comix #1

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 ...

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24.01.2025

High-Low: Sea Legs, by Jules Bakes & Niki Smith

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...

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23.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #45: Kit Anderson

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...

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23.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, 2024-25: The Index

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...

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21.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #44: Luke Healy

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...

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20.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #43: Rust Belt Review 6

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...

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16.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #42: Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Sandy Steen Bartholomew, a supremely skilled cartoonist and illustrator, submitted four different items for review. First is a kids' book, B...

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14.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #41: Fantology 4

The fourth volume of Fantology is probably the weakest volume overall, but there's still plenty of interesting material in there. A lot of ...

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11.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #39: Ruby Arnone, Clover Ajamie, Taylor Hunt

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...

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11.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #40: Hole

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...

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09.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #38: Fern Pellerin

Fern Pellerin has a sharply refined if familiar style of cartooning. Creation Myth is a visually compelling and fluid version of a very com...

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09.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #36: Maia Foster O'Neal

Maia Foster O'Neal's business card reads "Comics, Crafts, & Feelings," and their comics certainly are an example of truth in advertising. Th...

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09.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #37: Fernanda Nocedal

Fernanda Nocedal is clearly working through a lot of things with body horror-tinged fiction. In a short, untitled minicomic, they evocativel...

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06.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #35: Simon Reinhardt

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...

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05.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #34: Sofia Martin, Ria Garcia, Andy Lindquist

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...

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03.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #33: Edea Lee Giang, Noah Mease

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...

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02.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #30: Emil O'Melia

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...

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02.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #31: Coco Fox

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...

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02.01.2025

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #32: Em Sauter

An interesting thing that James Sturm did at CCS was create the concept of "Applied Cartooning." By this, he meant non-narrative cartooning ...

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31.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #29: Michael Albrecht, Ben Adkins

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...

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30.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #28: Robyn Smith, Dylan Sparks, Kat Ghastly

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 ...

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30.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #27: Natalie Norris, Keena

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...

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29.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #26: Anna Sellheim

Anyone who follows Anna Sellheim on Instagram knows that her sketchbook drawings are wildly entertaining and show the breadth and depth of h...

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28.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #25: Adrienne Adkins

Adrienne Adkins' cartooning and storytelling are smart and expressive, even if her line is a bit rough at the moment. Adkins certainly has n...

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26.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #24: Violet Kitchen

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...

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26.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #23: Riffraff

The Gutter is a substack anthology that mostly publishes very short stories or serials. Of late, they've gotten more serious about things, ...

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25.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #22: Filipa Estrela

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...

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22.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #21: Crank Case & Iris Gudeon

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...

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21.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #19: Annabel Driussi, Tom O'Brien, Ashley Jablonski

When Natalie Norris wrote her sexual assault graphic memoir Dear Mini , she dedicated it to "girls like us." In Dear Natalie, Annabel Drius...

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21.12.2024

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #20: Alex Washburn

Published in the pages of the Fantology anthology, Alex Washburn's serial Clan Zargs works well a solid fantasy story, a romantic serial, an...

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High-Low: Jason's Death In Trieste

High-Low: Casey Nowak's Duh! Ha-Ha!

High-Low: Kayla E.'s Precious Rubbish

High-Low: Keiler Roberts' Preparing To Bite

High-Low: Jonathan Baylis' So Buttons #14

High-Low: Three New Comics by Iris Yan

High-Low: Eric Haven's Damned #1

High-Low: Catching Up With Carol Lay: Murderburg and My Time Machine

High-Low: Catching Up With Jason Martin

High-Low: Elise Dietrich's Kill Your Idols, Part 1

High-Low: E. Joy Mehr's E. Joy Comix #1

High-Low: Sea Legs, by Jules Bakes & Niki Smith

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #45: Kit Anderson

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, 2024-25: The Index

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #44: Luke Healy

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #43: Rust Belt Review 6

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #42: Sandy Steen Bartholomew

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #41: Fantology 4

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #39: Ruby Arnone, Clover Ajamie, Taylor Hunt

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #40: Hole

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #38: Fern Pellerin

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #36: Maia Foster O'Neal

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #37: Fernanda Nocedal

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #35: Simon Reinhardt

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #34: Sofia Martin, Ria Garcia, Andy Lindquist

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #33: Edea Lee Giang, Noah Mease

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #30: Emil O'Melia

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #31: Coco Fox

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #32: Em Sauter

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #29: Michael Albrecht, Ben Adkins

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #28: Robyn Smith, Dylan Sparks, Kat Ghastly

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #27: Natalie Norris, Keena

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #26: Anna Sellheim

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #25: Adrienne Adkins

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #24: Violet Kitchen

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #23: Riffraff

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #22: Filipa Estrela

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #21: Crank Case & Iris Gudeon

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #19: Annabel Driussi, Tom O'Brien, Ashley Jablonski

High-Low: 45 Days Of CCS, #20: Alex Washburn

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