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New Release: To Know You’re Alive by Dakota McFadzean ’12

To Know Your Alive by Dakota McFadzean ’12 is out now from Conundrum Press. This book is another collection of the horrific, humorous, and absurd comics we’ve come to love from Dakota. To celebrate the release while social distancing, you can join Dakota, along with CCS alum Beth Hetland ’11 (artist of Half Asleep), and The Beguiling Books and Art on Instagram for a drawing demo and Q&A on November 12!

Book Release Event:
To Know You’re Alive by Dakota McFadzean ’12
Thursday, November 12, 7pm
Instagrm Live: The Beguiling

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Tags: Conundrum Press, Dakota McFadzean, Don't Get Eaten by Anything, Doug Wright Award, Ignatz Award, IRENE, Last Mountain, new book, on sale, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode In On, To Know You're Alive

To Know You’re Alive by Dakota McFadzean ’12

Coming in September 2020, we get another collection of horrific, humorous, and absurd comics from Dakota McFadzean ’12: To Know Your Alive (Conundrum Press). Preorder now!

Populated by cruel bullies, exhausted parents, and relentless cartoon mascots, the world of To Know You’re Alive renders the familiar into something that is alien and absurd. The characters in these stories long to uncover something uncanny in shadowy attics and beneath masks, only to discover that sometimes it’s worse to find nothing at all.

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Tags: Conundrum Press, Dakota McFadzean, Don't Get Eaten by Anything, Doug Wright Award, Ignatz Award, IRENE, Last Mountain, new book, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode In On, To Know You're Alive

Interview: Rebecca Roher ’15

Rebecca Roher ’15 won the Doug Wright Award in Canada for her CCS thesis project comic Bird in a Cage, the touching tale of her grandmother after she had an accident that left her with a brain injury, leading to early-onset dementia. Rebecca’s most recent project is 100 Year–Old Wisdom, for which she is interviewing senior citizens aged 90 and up. She gave the following interview with Angela Boyle ’16.

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Tags: 100-year-old wisdom, Bird in a cage, CCS Alum, Conundrum Press, interview, Rebecca Roher

CCS schedule and exhibitors at Small Press Expo 2019

Here is a line up for CCS at SPX 2019!:

The Small Press Expo (SPX) is coming up on September 14 -15, and there are plenty of ways to see The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) grads while you are there! CCS will be present at table W28 with copies of This Is What Democracy Looks Like.

As part of the tour for This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Dan Nott ′18 (Table A7) will be on the Graphic Advocacy panel with Archie Bongiovanni (A Quick & Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns), Box Brown (Cannabis), and Matt Bors (The Nib). Hallie Jay Pope will be the moderator. The group will discuss using comics as a powerful tool in sharing a particular mission and point of view.

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Tags: A Quick and Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns, Adventures in Cartooning, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Amelia, Andi Santagata, Archie Bongiovanni, Bedside Press, Beth Hetland, Box Brown, Cannabis, Carol Tyler, Chimps in Space, Conundrum Press, Czap Books, Dakota McFadzean, Dan Nott, Denis St. John, Donna Almendrala, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, Fütchi Perf, Half Asleep, Hallie Jay Pope, Jed the Undead, Jess Johnson, Kazimir Lee, Keren Katz, Kevin Czap, Kid Gloves, Late Bloomer, Laughter Birth, Laura Weinstein, Lucy Knisley, Marnie Galloway, Mary Shyne, Masterpiece Comics, Meghan Tubitt, Miles and Honesty in SCFSX, Mother's Walk, Mott Bots, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode In On, R. Sikoryak, Rachel Masilamani, Robyn Chapman, Robyn Smith, Slightly Plural, Soldier's Heart, SPX, The Nib, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Tiny Report, Uncivilized Books, Wash Day, We Conceive

Alum Spotlight: Rebecca Roher

Rebecca Roher ’15 won the Doug Wright Award in Canada for her comic Bird in a Cage (Conundrum Press, 2016), the touching tale of her grandmother after she had an accident that left her with a brain injury, leading to early onset dementia. Rebecca’s most recent project is Birth Control Tales. She collaborated with Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an OBGYN at UCLA, who wanted to create educational apps to explain birth control options visually.

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Tags: Angoulême, Bird in a cage, Birth Control Tales, Canada, Conundrum Press, Doug Wright Award, La Maison des Auteurs, Mom Body, non-fiction, Rebecca Roher

Rebecca Roher ′16 Nominated for Doug Wright Award!

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Alum Rebecca Roher was nominated for the 2016 Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. “The Nipper”) for Mom Body (The Nib). She debuted her first graphic novel Bird in a Cage with Conundrum Press, which is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary this year! You can check out more of Rebecca’s work at rebeccaroher.com