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CCS grads at Comic Arts Brooklyn

Comics Art Brooklyn is on November 2 at the Pratt Activities Resource Center in Brooklyn. Not only can you go to talks by greats like Gary Panter (Songy of Paradise, Fantagraphics, 2017) and Charles Burns (Last Look, Pantheon Graphics, 2016), who will be talking about drawing as a way of thinking; or Chris Ware (Building Stories, Pantheon Graphics, 2012) in conversation with Francoise Mouly (publisher of Toon Books) and Art Spiegelman (Maus, Pantheon Graphics, 1986). You can these CCS students and grads exhibiting!:

Dan Nott ′18 (This Is What Democracy Looks Like, 2019)
Daryl Seitchik ′18 (Exits, Koyama Press, 2016)
Natalie Wardlaw
R. Sikoryak (Thesis Advisor) (Masterpiece Comics, Drawn and Quarterly, 2009)
Sage Persing (editor/publisher, How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition)
Tommi Parrish (Cornish CCS Fellow) (The Lie and How We Told It, Fantagraphics, 2018)

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Past Cartoonist Studio Prize winners of Best Print Comic

Pages from Libby’s Dad by Eleanor Davis, winner of 2017 Best Print Comic

The Cartoonist Studio Prize is back for it’s sixth year. Two creators, one each for print and online, are selected each year and receive $1,000. Every year, the judges are Slate’s Jacob Brogan, a CCS representative (this year, Kevin Czap), and a guest judge (this year, Andrew Farago from San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum). Submissions are currently open an any English comic published in 2017 is eligible, so submit before the deadline, January 31, 2018.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Chris Ware

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In the early 90s Chris Ware began publishing in the pages of Chicago alternative weekly New City the strip known as The Acme Novelty Library. This critically acclaimed strip, won several comics awards during the 1990s. From this strip emerged the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan – the Smartest Kid on Earth which received the Guardian First Book Award in 2001 and the American Book Award in 2000 and the prestigious French comics award “L’Alph Art” award in 2003.

Chris is one of America’s most respected popular artists and his work has appeared in many international art exhibits, and in 2002, at home in the Whitney Art Museum of New York.

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Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners Announced

The Slate.com Cartoonist Studio Prizes for best Graphic Novel and best Web Comic of 2012 have been awarded!

Best Graphic Novel: Building Stories, by Chris Ware

Best Web Comic: Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson

Congratulations to the winners! For more information about the Cartoonist Studio Prize and the rest of the nominees, click here.

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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