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Past Cartoonist Studio Prize winners of Best Print Comic

Pages from Libby’s Dad by Eleanor Davis, winner of 2017 Best Print Comic

The Cartoonist Studio Prize is back for it’s sixth year. Two creators, one each for print and online, are selected each year and receive $1,000. Every year, the judges are Slate’s Jacob Brogan, a CCS representative (this year, Kevin Czap), and a guest judge (this year, Andrew Farago from San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum). Submissions are currently open an any English comic published in 2017 is eligible, so submit before the deadline, January 31, 2018.

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Visiting Artist: Kerascoët

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Kerascoët is the shared nom-de-plume of illustrators, comics and animation artists Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset (Named after a village in Brittany,France). The pair met while attending the Olivier de Serres art school in Paris. In the early 2000s, their interest in the bande dessinée would bring them close to the likes of Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with whom they collaborated on the world-famous dungeon crawl epic, Dungeon. They have also worked on the T.V. adaptation of Sfar’s Petit Vampire. Their best known works consist of Miss Don’t Touch Me (published from 2006 to 2009), Beautiful Darkness (2009), and Beauty (2015). These poignant and carefully crafted graphic novels deal with complex issues such as womanhood, femininity and cultural history in the stylized and dreamlike environments of the world of fables and fairy tales. Upon publication in the U.S., Beautiful Darkness was nominated for an Eisner award in 2014 and in 2015, Beauty was nominated for an Ignatz award.

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