Stories tagged Top Shelf Comix

New Book: Flash Forward

The podcast Flash Forward (Abrams), where Rose Eveleth tackles speculative fact and fiction, is being laid to paper with the aid of a crew of artists, including The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) alum Sophie Goldstein ’13, Amelia Onorato ’12, and many CCS visiting artists including Matt Lubchanksy, Ben Passmore, John Jennings, Sophia Foster-Dimino, and Box Brown. The collection includes many more contributors including Ziyed Ayoub, Maki Naro, Julia Gfrörer, Chris Jones, Blue Delliquanti, Zach Weinersmith, and Kate Sheridan. The book will be available on April 20, 2021!

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CCS Alumni Sophie Goldstein releases coming-of-age fantasy graphic novel: An Embarrassment of Witches

An Embarrassment of Witches by Sophie Goldstein ′13 and Jenn Jordan released on March 3 from Top Shelf Comix. This coming-of-age tale is set in an urban fantasy world full of animal familiars, enchanted plants, and spell-casting. The story explores the mundane horrors of breakups, job searches, and post-graduate existential angst.

“The blobby, busy artwork, drenched in candy colors, is packed with visual jokes: a traffic jam with dragons and pumpkin carriages, mall stores named Fae Jewelers and Taco Spell, a corporate office that turns into an M.C. Escher maze.”

Publishers Weekly

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week

2020 Will Eisner Week poster

Will Eisner Week (March 1-7, 2020) is an annual celebration honoring the legacy of Will Eisner, champion of the graphic novel. This international event is dedicated to promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech, and the sequential arts.

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Civil rights graphic novel selected for 2019 Vermont State-Wide Reading Program

March: Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, has been selected as the first-ever graphic novel for the Vermont Reads program. Nate Powell was the 2016 commencement speaker for The Center for Cartoon Studies.

Congressman John Lewis is one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. In partnership with Andrew Aydin (ao-author) and Nate Powell (illustrator), they created March (Top Shelf Comix), a graphic novel trilogy chronicling John Lewis’ lifetime of commitment to justice and nonviolence. The book centers around the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to end segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins.

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