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THE WEIGHT by Melissa Mendes ‘10 releases in September with Drawn & Quarterly

The much-anticipated graphic novel THE WEIGHT by Melissa Mendes ‘10 releases in September by Drawn & Quarterly. Inspired by her late grandfather’s life, Melissa began creating and self-publishing the Ignatz-nominated comic installments in 2014. 

“THE WEIGHT is a gut-wrenching graphic novel with the power of a timeless ballad—plaintive and beautiful, shimmering with tenderness and humor.”—James Sturm, award-winning cartoonist and co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies.

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Whit Taylor Joins CCS Faculty this Spring

Whit Taylor (Ghost Stories) is joining the faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring as the facilitator of Visiting Artist Seminar. The course features weekly guests including the most celebrated cartoonists, children’s books authors, designers, writers, and designers. Guests share their creative process and professional pathways. In addition to lecturing at CCS as a previous visiting artist, Whit was also the keynote speaker at the International Comics and Medicine Conference in 2019 (see photo above). A big thanks to R. Sikoryak who facilitated the most recent fall term of Visiting Artist Seminar. His Constitution Illustrated was a top ten The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2020.

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Visiting Artists, Fall 2020

The Center of Cartoon Studies impressive lineup of Visiting Artists the first few weeks of the fall semester includes Bianca Xunise, Joe Sacco, Shing Yin Khor, R. Sikoryak, and Jeremy Sorese.

Joe Sacco (Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine, Safe Area Goražde) is best known for his journalism comics. His most recent book, Paying the Land, came out earlier this year from Metropolitan Books.

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New Kid by Jerry Craft is the First Graphic Novel to Win ALA Newbery Medal

Jerry Craft—a past CCS visiting artist—became the first cartoonist to win the Newbery Award from the American Library Association (ALA) with New Kid (Harper Collins). This incredible news recognizes the literary merits of graphic novels. The Newbery Medal (named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery) is awarded annually by ALA to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

New Kid is a powerful and important story and the Newbery Award is an incredible recognition for the medium. Congratulations to Jerry Craft.

—M. Ollie, CCS President

New Kid is about Jordan, a 12-year-old boy living in New York City and dreaming of art school. But his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school where he is one of the few students of color.

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Visiting Artists at CCS Spring 2020

A wide variety of creators are coming to talk comics with the students at The Center for Cartoon Studies:

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CCS Visiting Artist: Cathy G. Johnson

Cathy G. Johnson is a cartoonist, printmaker and arts educator. Her graphic novels include Jeremiah (One Percent Press), Gorgeous (Koyama Press) and The Breakaways (First Second). She has also published numerous smaller works with publishers such as Czap Books, Youth in Decline, and Silver Sprocket, as well as self-publishing. She is also a printmaker, regularly working in the feminist art collective studio, Dirt Palace, in Providence, RI.

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Visiting Artist: Carolyn Nowak

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Carolyn C. Nowak is the Ignatz-award-winning artist and author of Girl Town (Top Shelf, 2018). This Eisner-nominated collection of stories deals with intimacy, codependency and female friendship. She deeply believes in the power of comics and stories.

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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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Visiting Artist: MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017), a co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), and editor of Menopause: A Comic Treatment. With Ian Williams, Matthew Noe, and Alice Jaggers, she manages graphicmedicine.org.

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Visiting Artist: Tommi Parrish

2019 CCS Cornish Fellow, Tommi Parrish, is a four-time Ignatz award-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor based in Montreal, QC. Parrish has comics in the permanent collection at the Gallery of Western Australia and has had shows, delivered workshops, and given talks throughout Australia, North America, and Argentina. Their latest work, The Lie and How We Told It (Fantagraphics, 2018) won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel.

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