Visiting Artist: Carolyn Nowak

October 24, 2019

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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.

Girl Town reviews:

  • “There’s a coyness in the way people talk to one another, and an affectionate humor that drives the quiet moments of Nowak’s writing.”—Alex Hoffman, Sequential State
  • “[A] collection of five excellent and entertaining comic stories of varied length that, together, are one of my favorite “graphic novels” of 2018.”—Gene Ambaum, Library Comics
  • Interview with Alex Dueben, Smash Pages
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