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Visiting Artist: Sophia Foster-Dimino

Sophia Foster-Dimino is an Ignatz-winning cartoonist and illustrator living and working in San Francisco, CA. Foster-Dimino has produced illustrations for a variety of outlets and worked as a Google Doodler. She has self-published a number of zines and contributed to several anthologies. Her ongoing series, Sex Fantasy, has received critical acclaim, earning her Ignatz Awards for both Outstanding Series and Outstanding mini-comic, as well as a third for Promising New Talent. Koyama Press released a compilation of Sex Fantasy at the Small Press Expo 2017.

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Spotlight Summer Workshop: YA Graphic Novel

Every summer, The Center for Cartoon Studies holds a series of week-long workshops. This summer, they have added some new workshops, including the Young Adult Graphic Novel with Jo Knowles and alumn Tillie Walden, July 31-August 4. The week will focus on the specific idiosyncrasies inherent in young adult fiction through lectures and exercises. You will have access to not only the knowledge of these two quality creators but also the printing lab and the Schulz Library.

Jo Knowles as visiting artist

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Alum Tillie Walden ′16 Sweeps The Ignatz Awards!!

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Recent alum, Tillie Walden ′16, won two Ignatz Awards! Winning in both categories she was nominated for: Outstanding Artist & Promising New Talent! The Outstanding Artist category reflects, in the Jurors’ opinion, the best execution of graphic skill by an individual within the comic medium. The award ceremony is held annually at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda MD.

Congratulations to Tillie and all of the amazing nominees and award winners. Nominees included recent alums Melanie Gillman for Outstanding Comic (As The Crow Flies) and Luke Healy for Outstanding Minicomic (The Unofficial Cuckoo’s Nest).

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CCS at Small Press Expo!

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September 17 & 18
Bethesda, Maryland

Special Guest:
SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN ’13

Table: H2B

Session:
September 18,
Comics Carousel
4 – 5pm

Sophie Goldstein is a 2013 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. She won two Ignatz Awards for her graphic novel, The Oven, in 2015 and one for her mini-comic, House of Women, Part I, in 2014.

Her first book Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, co-written with Jenn Jordan, was self-published in 2013 with funding from Kickstarter. Her second book, The Oven, was released by AdHouse Books in April, 2015. Sophie has also illustrated a children’s book, Poopy Claws, written by Gene Ambaum. Her work has appeared in various publications including Best American Comics 2013, Fable Comics, The Pitchfork Review, Maple Key Comics, Sleep of Reason, Symbolia, Trip 8 and Irene 3.

Come visit The Center for Cartoon Studies at Table A9!  Meet student Jarad Greene, over 17 alum exhibiting at SPX, and learn about CCS MFA and Certificate Program.

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Visiting Artist: John Martz

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John Martz is an Ignatz winning illustrator, cartoonist, and designer living in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories (Koyama Press, 2014), Destination X (Nobrow, 2013), and the online comic strip Machine Gum. Martz also illustrated Dear Flyary by Dianne Young (Kids Can Press, 2011), Who’s on First? by Abbott & Costello (Quirk Books, 2013), and Black and Bittern Was Night by Robert Heidbreder (Kids Can Press, 2013).

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The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 Makes Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015

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The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 makes the Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015! The science fiction comic also recently won two Ignatz awards for “Outstanding Graphic Novel” and “Outstanding Comic!” 

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Next Up: Box Brown

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Box Brown is an Ignatz Award winning cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His book Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, released in 2014, spent three weeks on The New York Times Graphic Novel Best Sellers List. He launched the comics publishing house Retrofit Comics in 2011, where they make use of a subscription service for readers to get comics all year. Retrofit Comics is dedicated to publishing and distributing floppy alternative comics.

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CCS Alum Wins Two Ignatz Awards!

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Congratulations to The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Sophie Goldstein ′13 for winning two Ignatz Awards for The Oven, “Outstanding Graphic Novel” and “Outstanding Comic!” Sophie also received an Ignatz in 2014 for House of Women, Part I.

See the complete list of winners on The Beat.

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Congratulations to CCS 2015 Ignatz Award Nominees!

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The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the 2015 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The Ignatz Awards will be presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony held on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 9:30 P.M. For more information on SPX: spxpo.com

Outstanding Graphic Novel
Saint Cole
by CCS Fellow Noah Van Sciver

Promising New Talent
CCS alum Dakota McFadzean (′12) – Don’t Get Eaten by Anything

Outstanding Comic
The Oven
by CCS alum Sophie Goldstein (′13)

Outstanding Minicomic
Whalen: A Reckoning by CCS alum Audry (′15)

Outstanding Online Comic
Mom Body by CCS alum Rebecca Roher (′15)

Click here for a complete list of Ignatz nominees!

 

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The Center for Cartoon Studies Alumna Sophie Goldstein ′13 Takes Readers To Technology and Government-free Lives

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Recently released The Oven by alumna Sophie Goldstein ′13 is about a young couple who travel out of their protected, domed city to “The Oven,” a natural commune where people live technology and state/government-free lives, grow their own food, sew their own clothes, live off the land.

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Here is a link to the A.V. CLUB review by Zainab Akhtar. Check your local bookstore or order a copy or The Oven online!

Sophie is a winner of a 2014 Ignatz award for her minicomic House of Women, pt 1. Her work appeared in various publications, including Best American Comics 2013, Symbolia, Irene 3, and The Pitchfork Review. See more of Sophie’s work online: redinkradio.com

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