Author Archives: Angela Boyle

About Angela Boyle

Angela is an alum at the Center for Cartoon Studies (class of 2016), and a natural science illustrator. She hails from Washington state and has 2 corgis, Nisa and Ernie. View her work at angelaboyle.flyingdodostudio.com.

Visiting Artists: Bob Sikoryak and Kriota Willberg

Bob Sikoryak and Kriota Willberg are a power couple in comics. Between them, they cover a strange span of comics incorporating literature and medical illustration between them. Kriota likes to do a lot of research. She makes smart jokes where … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Liniers

There was little way we could have expected the talk we got from Liniers back in October. Liniers is a cartoonist from Argentina who likes self-depricating humor. A very charismatic speaker, we were somehow lucky enough to get Dylan Horrocks … Continue reading

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Announcing Cartoonist Studio Prize 2015

  It is again that time of year! We at the Schulz Library are proud to be involved for a fourth year with the Cartoonist Studio Prize, a collaboration between The Center for Cartoon Studies and the Slate Book Review. … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Dylan Horrocks

In September, CCS was fortunate to have Dylan Horrocks come all the way from New Zealand to lecture. Dylan was equally excited to see CCS. If anywhere in the world is Hicksville, the fictional city his breakout graphic novel is … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson is a rising star in the comics world; a success that started with Nimona, that was followed by Lumberjanes. In art school, Noelle struggled with what she thought of as illustration. One day a teacher saw her doodles … Continue reading

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Awesome Possum Kickstarter

Awesome ‘Possum, Volume 2, is a natural science comic anthology up on Kickstarter as we speak.  Angela Boyle ’16 brought together natural science illustrators, CCS students and alum to make volume 2 bigger and better than ever. This volume is … Continue reading

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Ignatz Winner Sophie Goldstein

SPX 2015 has breezed by us. The CCS tribe had four people up for Ignatz nominations: Audry, Colleen Frakes, Dakota McFadzean, Noah Van Sciver, Rebecca Miller, and Sophie Goldstein! Sophie Goldstein nearly stole the night with two wins for The Oven: … Continue reading

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Fable Comics by Chris Duffy

Fable Comics is an anthology of twenty-eight stories that are twists on traditional fables, such as those from Aesop. Chris Duffy is in charge of editing this book, which is intended for 7 to 10 year olds. Chris has been … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: David Sipress

For our first visiting artist of the 2015/2016 school year, we had the very kind and soft-spoken David Sipress. He has been a New Yorker cartoonist since 1998, but it took him 20 years of rejections to get in. One of … Continue reading

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Prison Island by Colleen Frakes

As difficult as being a teenager can be, Colleen Frakes ’07 spent hers moving every few years as her parents were promoted as guards and staff at various prisons. Moving and having prison guard parents can be tough enough, but then … Continue reading

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