The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is May 10-12, and this year two graduates from The Center for Cartoon Studies are featured guests: Tillie Walden ′16 and Lucy Knisley ′09.
Tillie Walden is a Featured Young Adult Guest, showcasing her comic On a Sunbeam (First Second, 2018) which recently won an LA Times Book Prize. Set in a boarding school, this sci-fi comic follows two girls who meet in boarding school and fall in love; and a crew that travels to deep space to repair beautiful, dilapidated buildings. With intertwining storylines, we see the characters learning to cope with loss. On a Sunbeam was originally published as a webcomic.
Lucy Knisley is a Featured Kids Guest, showcasing her comic Kid Gloves (First Second, 2019). In this memoir, Lucy talks about her troubles getting, and staying, pregnant. And about the joy and work of finally struggling through “nine months of careful chaos.”
Tags: First Second, Lucy Knisley, TCAF
