Category Archives: Interview

Alumni Spotlight: Josh Kramer

Josh Kramer ’11 is a cartoonist and reporter. He lives in Washington, DC, but is currently a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He runs The Cartoon Picayune, a nonfiction comics anthology; and The CoJo List, a newsletter of nonfiction … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, Interview | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Luke Howard

Luke Howard (’13) is currently the co-teacher and program assistant at The Center for Cartoon Studies. As anyone at the school would tell you, the titles do not do his hardwork justice. At TCAF, he released his first published book, Talk … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Interview, New Book, Self-publishing, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Luke Healy

Luke Healy, an Irishman, is publishing part of his thesis project. Just before graduating from CCS in 2014, he won a MoCCA fest Award of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators for his comic Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. Nobrow Press just published How to … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Interview | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Eisner Nominations 2015

The Center for Cartoon Studies has two people associated with the school up for Eisner Nominations, Noah Van Sciver and Tillie Walden this year! Noah Van Sciver (fellow for 15-16) is up for Best Writer/Artist for Fante Bukowski and Saint Cole. (Fair warning, … Continue reading

Posted in Awards, Cartoonist, Interview, On Display | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Tillie Walden

Tillie Walden ’16 is a current student at The Center for Cartoon Studies, graduating this May, 2016. By the time she graduates, she will have three books published: The End of Summer, I Love This Part, and A City Inside. … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, Interview | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Elephant in the Room, Blood in the Water: Katherine Roy, nonfiction, and travel

New York-based illustrator Katherine Roy, a 2010 The Center for Cartoon Studies alumna, has been churning out book after book of gorgeously-illustrated nonfiction for young readers. In addition to her series of young adult novels, The Expeditioners, co-created with CCS affiliate … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Children Literature, Interview, New Book | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Julie Delporte: Everywhere Antennas

It’s been a great couple of years for Montreal-based cartoonist Julie Delporte. In addition to having been The Center for Cartoon Studies’ Fellow for 2011-12, she’s released the wonderful Pigskin Peters Award nominated Journal through Koyama Press, the children’s book … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Interview, Visiting Artist | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Kickstart My Heart: Joyana McDiarmid and Maple Key Comics

The Center for Cartoon Studies alumna Joyana McDiarmid launched a Kickstarter last month to crowd-fund the first two issues of her new bimonthly comics anthology Maple Key Comics. The project is an ambitious one, to say the least–McDiarmid’s first issue alone … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Ebooks, Interview, New Book, Self-publishing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Transatlanticism: CCS to take Angoulême by storm

Every year, the sleepy little town of Angoulême, in the Poiteau-Charentes region of France, is beset by over 200,000 comics enthusiasts for a four days of events and programming in celebration of the art of bande dessinée: The Angoulême International … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Conventions, Historic, Interview, Self-publishing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Rob Clough and 30 Days of CCS

Rob Clough is a highly respected reviewer of comics both mainstream and small press. In addition to his massive month-long feature “30 Days of CCS,” completed in November of 2013, a huge number of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) … Continue reading

Posted in Conventions, Interview | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment