April 3, 2018
With the Cartoonist Studio Prize concluded, you can now set yourself down with a set of delicious books in the Schulz Library. If you want to start with this year’s winner of Best Print Comic 2018, grab The Academic Hour (Secret Acres) by Keren Katz. The story takes place at an impossible school. 
Page 4 of The Academic Hour by Keren Katz.If you stay in the library, you can keep on your Cartoonist Studio Prize winner streak with Michael DeForge’s Leaving Richard’s Valley, winner of Best Web Comic. Posted daily to Instagram, the comic follows the relationships of an off-beat cast with the charismatic tyrant Richard.
Comic from Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael deForge
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