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The Schulz Library: Mini Comics Collection

The Schulz Library has always had an impressive Zine Garden, what they call their collection of mini-comics. But they have recently begun to add the zines to their online database so that the massive collection is searchable. Dan Nott ′18, assistant librarian at the Schulz Library, talks about the collection, organizing and managing publications, and how mini-comics provide a unique insight into the the history of the community around them.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Ben Passmore

Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Ben Passmore makes mad comics in his dusty room, including DAYGLOAYHOLE, Goodbye, and Ignatz Award-winning comic Your Black Friend. He’s a regular contributor at The Nib and Vice. He likes to write about politics, monsters, race, sad punks, and narcissism. He is one of the founding organizers of NOCAZ (New Orleans Alternative Comics and Zine Fest).

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Alum Melissa Mendes’s new issue of The Weight

Cover of The Weight, Number 6, by Melissa Mendes

A new issue of The Weight, No. 6, by Melissa Mendes (’10) is out through Radiator Comics. The comics is inspired by a short autobiography that her grandfather John Albert Ridgeway wrote at the end of his life, chronicling a long life of hard work. The comic focuses on Edie, a young girl born during depression-era, rural New York State.

Melissa publishes the comic online, two pages, a week. But she also publishes it in print, which you can subscribe to on her Patreon. Each black-and-white issue is between 15 and 40 pages long, with this latest issue at 24 pages.

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Spotlight: Robyn Chapman

Robyn Chapman on books

Robyn Chapman has a long history with CCS, from our founding days! She is currently an editor at First Second, but she also makes her own mini comics when she has time and runs The Tiny Report, a chronicle of the comics micro-press movement to help bring awareness to the books this movement gets published.

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Milwaukee Portfolio Day

Sunday, March 12th6-8pm

  • Attend a talk by Cartoonist Alec Longstreth on his self-published long running PHASE 7 comic
  • Learn about The Center for Cartoon Studies MFA, Certificates, and Workshops.
  • Bring your sketchbook! Portfolio Reviews!
  • Enjoy Roast Coffee Company Coffee is on us!!

Location:
Roast Coffee Company
2132 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI

Click here to R.S.V.P. here. Space is limited.

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CCS at MICE Expo in Cambridge

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September 28-29
Cambridge, MA

With special guest The Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Lucy Knisley

Faculty, alumni and students also participating in several other programs and panels including R. Sikoryak’s special edition of his long running comics/performance series, and Making Mini-Comics! with Jon Chad.

Alum exhibiting: Carl Antonowicz, Matt Aucoin, Jon Chad, Lena Chandhok, Dog City Press, Holly Foltz, Sophie Goldstein, Beth Hetland, Allie Kleber, Lucy Knisley, Jeff Lok, Mia Onorato, Paul Swartz.

For more information, visit: micexpo.org

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