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Get the latest newsIrene is a short story comics anthology put together by The Center for Cartoon Studies alumni Dakota McFadzean ’12, Andy Warner ’12, and DW ’12. The first volume came out in 2013 and has grown to 6 volumes, the most recent volume clocking in at 216 pages in 2015.
3 volumes of Irene
Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist whose first book, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On, was published by Conundrum Press in 2013. For this collection, he won the 2016 Doug Wright Spotlight Award. Then his second book, Don’t Get Eaten by Anything, collected three years of daily comic strips called The Dailies drawn from 2010-2016.
Panel by Dakota MacFadzean
Andy Warner is a contributing editor at The Nib and has taught cartooning at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. His first book, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects just released with Picador. He makes comics in a garden shed in San Francisco and comes from the sea.
Panel by Andy Warner
Irene 6 included some highlights of the CCS alum.
Front cover of Irene 5
Back cover of Irene 5
Shining star Luke Howard ’13 is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist: Promising New Talent 2014 for his oh-so-creepy Trevor. He is also currently a teacher at CCS. This year he released two comics, Our Mother (Retrofit) and Talk Dirty to Me (AdHouse).
Panel by Luke Howard
Ink-pounder Tillie Walden ’16 was a first-time contributor in volume 6. She recently won Ignatz awards for both outstanding artist (for her debut graphic novel End of Summer with Avery Hill and Retrofit) and promising new talent.
