Visiting Artists 2022
Visiting Artists Spring 2022
Dakota McFadzean
Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist who has been published by MAD Magazine, The New Yorker, The Best American Comics, and Funny or Die. He has also worked as a storyboard artist for DreamWorks. McFadzean is an alumni of The Center for Cartoon Studies.
He has three books available from Conundrum Press: Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On (2013), Don’t Get Eaten by Anything (2015), which collects three years of daily comic strips, and The Know You’re Alive (2020). He is a co-editor/co-founder of the comics and art anthology Irene, and distributes his own short stories in his ongoing minicomic series, Last Mountain. McFadzean currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.
Jarad Greene
Jarad Greene is a cartoonist originally from Lutz, Florida, who now lives in the curious village of White River Junction, Vermont. In addition to his own comics, Jarad works on staff at The Center for Cartoon Studies and has helped color many graphic novels for younger readers. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Scullion: A Dishwasher’s Guide to Mistaken Identity (Oni Press, 2020) and A-Okay (Harper Alley, 2021).
Julia Gfrὄrer
Julia Gfrὄrer was born in 1982 in Concord, New Hampshire and now lives on Long Island. Her comics have appeared in Kramer’s Ergot, Cicada Magazine, Arthur Magazine, Study Group Magazine, Black Eye, Thickness, and Best American Comics. Her graphic novels, Vision, Laid Waste, and Black is the Color, are available from Fantagraphics Books.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin is a Massachusetts-based horror author and film critic. Her work includes Ego Homini Lupus, No End Will Be Found, Dreadnought, and her upcoming novel Manhunt (Tor Books, 2022). She has written for Nylon Magazine, The Outline, and more.
Mike Dawson
Mike Dawson is the author of several graphic novels and comics collections, including Freddie & Me: A (Bohemian) Rhapsody (2008), Troop 142 (2012), Angie Bongiolatti (2013), Rules For Dating My Daughter: The Modern Father’s Guide to Good Parenting (2016), and
The Fifth Quarter (2021). His work has appeared at The Nib, Slate, and The New Yorker, and has been nominated for multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, as well as the Slate Cartoonists Studio Prize. He lives at the Jersey Shore with his wife and children.
Jamila Rowser
Jamila Rowser is a writer and publisher who enjoys creating comics for Black women, whether it’s through writing the stories herself, or publishing the work of others through her publishing company, Black Josei Press.
Jamila is most known for her critically acclaimed, debut comic Wash Day, illustrated by Robyn Smith, which received the 2019 DINKy Award for Best Floppy Comic and was named one of the Best Comics of 2018 by The Comics Journal. Jamila and Robyn Smith were featured in Adweek’s “Creative 100 in 2021” as Artists and Authors to follow. She also received a 2021 The Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts to fund a project for Black Josei Press.
Jamila has also written several comics published by Jordan Brand (Nike), Black Josei Press, Shortbox, Radiator Comics, Versal, and Power & Magic Press. The graphic novel Wash Day Diaries she created with Robyn Smith is set to be published by Chronicle Books in Spring 2022.
Michel Fiffe
Michel Fiffe is the creator / writer /artist of the action series COPRA and its offshoot title Negativeland. He’s worked with Marvel and DC on top of fully producing Panorama (Dark Horse), Bloodstrike: Brutalists (Image Comics), and Zegas (Fantagraphics).
Lee Lai
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec).
She has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, Room Magazine, and Meanjin Journal. Her first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was released this year with Fantagraphics, Sarbacane, Coconino and other publishers. Lee was named one of the 5 under 35 honorees by the National Book Foundation, and Stone Fruit was awarded two Ignatz for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel. Mostly, she writes about people eating, talking, and making questionable decisions.
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016), the Life on Earth trilogy (Graphic Universe, 2018-2020), Dirty Produce (Workman Publishing, Nov. 2021), and the upcoming collage-comics memoir, I Thought You Loved Me (Bywater Books, Nov. 2022). Their work has appeared in over eighty print publications and has been featured on websites such as The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast, and BuzzFeed, and has been translated into French (Devenir Japonaise, Editions IMHO, Feb. 2021) and Russian.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity.
Brenna Thummler
Brenna Thummler is not dead. She just likes writing about dead things, like ghosts and the jelly shoe trend. Her first original graphic novel, Sheets, became a “Barnes and Noble Best Book of 2018” after it garnered praise from authors like Lemony Snicket and Brian Selznick, who are too far out of her league for this to make sense. Its sequel, Delicates, was published in March of 2021 and it will make you cry. She also created a short comic for COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology, proceeds of which are supporting indie booksellers affected by the pandemic. When it’s not 2020 or 2021, Brenna spends her free time performing in local theater, crafting with friends, and booking flights to Nordic countries. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA with her cat Vinnie van Gogh.
Wendy Xu
Wendy Xu is a best-selling, award-nominated. Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist.
She is the creator of the middle grade fantasy novel, TIDESONG (2021 from HarperCollins/Quilltree) and co-creator of MOONCAKES, a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Oni Press. Her work has been featured on Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy Blog, and Tor.com, among other places. She is currently working on two upcoming graphic novels from Harper Collins.
Visiting Artists Fall 2022
Sofia Warren
Sofia Warren has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2017, contributing print cartoons and comics & essays for the digital humor section. Her comics have also run in MoMA Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and Catapult, among other places. Illustration/animation clients include Cartier, Phillips Auction House, HBO, Shopify, Squarespace, and L’Uomo Vogue.
Her first book, Radical— a graphic memoir about the year I spent embedded with freshman state senator Julia Salazar—
is out now!
She is a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, where she teach molecular biophysics (. . . OK, fine, she teaches comics. For now). She’s also spoken at the University of Washington, City Winery, and the New-York Historical Society, and more
on the way.
Shay Mirk
Sarah Shay Mirk is a comics journalist, editor, and teacher. They are the author of Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (Abrams, 2020), an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison, which Kirkus called “extraordinary… an eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses.” They are also a zine-maker and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. In 2022, they were the artist-in-residence for the Oregon Cartoon Project.
As a writer and editor, they have worked for The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, Bitch Media, and The Nib, where currently they write and edit nonfiction comics about history, politics, and identity. Comics they edited for The Nib were nominated for two Eisners in 2020. They currently also work as a digital engagement producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting. In that role, they co-wrote the comics series In/Vulnerable: Inequity Amid Pandemic, illustrated by Thi Bui, which won an RFK Human Rights Award for Journalism in 2021.
Brian “Box” Brown
Brian “Box” Brown is an Ignatz Award–winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His books include the New York Times–bestselling Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Tetris: The Games People Play, Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America, and Child Star. He is the illustrator (with writer Andrew S. Weiss) of Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin.
Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge lives in Toronto, Ontario. His comics and illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Believer, The Walrus and Maisonneuve Magazine. He worked as a designer on Adventure Time for six seasons. His published books include Very Casual, A Body Beneath, Ant Colony, First Year Healthy, Dressing, Big Kids, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero and A Western World.
His completed daily comic, Leaving Richard’s Valley,
is archived and available to read on Instagram.
Edie Fake
Edie Fake’s (b. 1980, Evanston, IL) multi-media work — drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books and zines — has been exhibited in myriad solo shows including the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive. Fake’s work is held in the collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum among others. He was on the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists and his Gaylord Phoenix collection of comics won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. His work has been written about and featured in artforum, New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Comics Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980 and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. Fake is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York and he currently lives and works in Twentynine Palms, California.
Noah Van Sciver
Noah Van Sciver is a multiple award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic readers’ attention with his critically acclaimed, Eisner-nominated comic book series Blammo. His work has appeared in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Best American Comics, Kramers Ergot, as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver was a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has written and drawn numerous bestselling graphic novels including One Dirty Tree, Saint Cole and the Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer series for Fantagraphics books. In 2015, he was the Fellow at The Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. His books and comics are translated into more than 6 different languages around the world.
He is currently writing and drawing the graphic novel biography of the LDS prophet Joseph Smith, a collection of his newspaper strip, The Introvert Club, and the first book in a planned trilogy covering the history of the Grateful Dead with writer Chris Miskiewicz.
Ngozi Ukazu
Ngozi Ukazu is a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of Check, Please!, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains one of the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing and The Arts, and later received a masters in Sequential Arts. Since 2020, her cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker.
Dan Nott
Dan Nott is a cartoonist, illustrator, and editor living in Vermont.
Dan’s comics and illustrations have appeared in a range of publications including NJ Advance Media, PA Spotlight, The Nib, WBUR, Resist!, Fusion’s Graphic Culture, Medium’s Editor’s Picks, Seven Days, among others. He’s currently writing and drawing a book about infrastructure called Hidden Systems for Random House Graphic, represented by Farley Chase at Chase Literary Agency. Dan graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies with an MFA in 2018.
Susan Clark
Susan Clark is a writer and educator focusing on community sustainability and engagement. She is coauthor of Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home; and All Those In Favor, a book about Vermont town meetings. Susan consults with communities across the northeast on how to build inclusive, deliberative, and empowered public participation. She serves as Middlesex town moderator.
Pepita Sandwich
Pepita Sandwich is an Argentine Cartoonist, Visual artist, and educator currently living in New York City. In 2013, she began publishing her webcomics and drawings of relatable life observations with a focus on feelings, friendship, and self-discovery. Since then, her work captivated the eyes of a fast-growing international audience. Her storytelling skills elevate autobiographical experiences that turn into universal narratives. She connects with her community through topics that go from mental health to nostalgia, diversity, and intersectional feminism.
Pepita creates visual essays for media outlets like The Washington Post, Vogue, Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. Two of her books were published by Penguin Random House in Spain and Argentina: Diario de Supervivencia (Survival Diaries, 2016) and Las Mujeres Mueven Montañas (Women Move Mountains, 2019). She was part of the American anthology Crude Intentions by Anthology Editions. And is currently working on her first book for the U.S. market, A Good Cry.
Magnolia Porter
Magnolia Porter is a cartoonist and writer living in Rhode Island. She’s been independently publishing webcomics for over 10 years, and is currently working on a middle grade graphic novel with First Second Publishing, as well as some other projects. She loves to write comics in the fantasy and supernatural genres, but with a real grounding of humanity and heart.
Kelsi Ricks
Kelsi Ricks is an artist and writer whose work explores the interior worlds and intimate humanity of the individuals she creates and depicts. Her first graphic novel, Naima, will be published by First Second Books (Macmillan Publishers).
She received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. She lives in New England.
