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CCS Alum and Faculty in The New Yorker

Congratulations to Lillie Harris ’21 and Daryl Seitchik ’18 with cartoons in recent issues of The New Yorker! The New Yorker is one of those pinnacles of achievement for a lot of cartoonists, so a lot of hard work goes into getting a comic accepted. Many CCS alum and faculty cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker! The November 20th The New Yorker “Daily Shouts” featured faculty Glynnis Fawkes cartoon “2020 As A Newborn” which reflects on parenting during a pandemic.

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Visiting Artist: Luke Healy ′14

Luke Healy ′14 is a cartoonist from Dublin, Ireland. He studied journalism before attending The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) in the class of 2014. His work has been published by VICE, A24, Nobrow and Avery Hill Press. His first graphic novel (and CCS thesis) How to Survive in the North (Nobrow Press, 2017)was named a best book of 2016 by Publishers Weekly. In 2016 he also walked from Mexico to Canada, just for fun, then published a comic about it, Americana (Nobrow Press, 2019). He currently lives in London, UK.

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Luke Healy ′14 Draws the Pacific Crest Trail

Luke Healy’s ′14 spent the last half of 2016 walking the Pacific Crest Trail alone. And since then he has been working on his comic about the experience. His third book—Americana (and the Act of Getting Over It)—is coming out from NoBrow in fall 2019.

Growing up in Dublin, this memoir is about growing up obsessed with the US and how walking the PCT was a big life goal. For a brief snippet, Luke has a comic up at The Nib about learning that his paternal grandfather was dying while on the lonely hike.

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Alum Spotlight: Luke Healy’s “The Peeping Tom”

The Peeping Tom cover, by Luke Healy

Luke Healy ’15 (Permanent Press, How to Survive in the North) is posting a new web comic on Twitter: The Peeping Tom. It is  updating once a twice a week. It is a slow-burn comic about Luke’s experience as a privileged participant in the gentrification of East London, exploring topics of classism and racism. He started posting on April 8 and is already through page 4.

The Peeping Tom page 1, by Luke Healy

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Alum Luke Healy is a guest at Italy’s Be Comics! International Festival

March 23-25
Be Comics! Festival
Padova, Italy

The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Luke Healy is a guest of Italy’s BE COMICS! International Festival 2018, March 23-25, in Padova. Luke’s book, How to Survive in the North  (published in Italy by Coconino Press) , an unprecedented interweaving of three stories related to survival, three isolated characters who face their mistakes and their consequences.

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Alum Luke Healy to debut Permanent Press at the Dublin Comic Arts Festival

 

Luke Healy ’14 (How to Survive in the North, Nobrow, 2016) is debuting his second graphic novel, Permanent Press, through Avery Hill at the Dublin Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) this April. Permanent Press is a graphic novel adaptation and combination of his stories The Unofficial Cuckoo’s Nest Study Companion and The Big and Small. Through it, he explores themes of art and existence through worlds of words and numbers. The Unofficial Cuckoo’s Nest Study Companion was nominated for both and Ignatz and the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize.

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Alum Spotlight: Luke Healy

Spread from "How to Survive in the North" by Luke Healy

Luke Healy‘s (′14) debut comic How to Survive in the North started as his thesis at The Center for Cartoon Studies and was later picked up for publication by Nobrow Press. This comic is based on the true story of Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman who survived a disaster of an expedition in the Arctic, and weaves in a fictional story to better explore the events. How to Survive in the North is a Junior Library Guild Selection and one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2016.

  • Alex Dueben, “Interview: Luke Healy on Arctic Expeditions and How to Survive in the North”
  • Comic Bastards: “You could read a lot of this story as a warning to people to recognize when a situation is dangerous.”
  • Deborah Stevenson, Muse: “The two Arctic tales . . . are truly haunting. . . .”

Page from "How to Survive in the North" by Luke Healy

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Luke Healy ′14 to present at Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival

Thesis to Print: Exploring the journey of creating the graphic novel How To Survive In The North

Recent MFA graduate Luke Healy’s ’14 How To Survive In The North started as a thesis project while he was attending The Center for Cartoon Studies. Based on two related Artic expeditions, both of which were well documented at the time, it adds a contemporary fictional third strand. The expeditions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson were an attempt to prove his theory of ‘the friendly Arctic’, his notion that as long as you knew how to get food and fuel from under the ice, it would be unproblematic to explore the area.

Luke Healy was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Luke has an MFA in Cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Studies. His comics work has been published in anthologies and has received several awards. His book How to Survive in the North was named one of the best books of 2016 by Publishers Weekly. He once walked from Mexico to Canada!

Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival, September 24, 2:30pm

 

 

 

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Alum Luke Healy’s How to Survive in the North Makes Publishers Weekly 5 Best Graphic Novels of 2016 List!

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The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Luke Healy ‘s 14 HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE NORTH makes Publishers Weekly  Best Graphic Novels 2016  top 5 list!  PW’s list includes CCS recent commencement speaker Nate Powell’s, March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate. Also on the list is The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Sonny Liew), The One Hundred Nights of Hero: A Graphic Novel  (Isabel Greenberg), and Rosalie Lightning (Tom Hart). 

 

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