On the way to C-A-N-A-D-A! TCAF 2012

Several CCS alum and faculty members are snaking their way up the coast to bask in the beautiful, serene joy that is the Toronto Comics Art Festival. Here are few books to be on the look out for while browsing a juried selection of zines and comics!

Laura Terry (CCS ’10) presents a dive into madness and delightful drama with Overboard. This color is drenched with sordid watercolors and Terry uses it to her advantage.

Tabling next to Terry is CCS instructor and cartoonist Jon Chad with Leo Geo and his Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth once again!

CCS ’11 Fellow, Julie Delporte, will have her new comic I See Antennas Everywhere! Her comics are always colorful and often bi-lingual.

CCS ’11 Josh Kramer will debut his comics journalism series, Cartoon Picayune #3 featuring true urban stories by Darryl Holliday, Erik Nelson Rodriguez, Ethan Lenners and our own Andy Warner (CCS ‘ 12)!

Charles Forsman and Melissa Mendes (CCS ’08 and ’10) will have the fifth edition of the Sundays anthology with them, among many other fine books like The End of the F*cking World and Xeric-award winner Freddy Stories (can you guess which one is for kids?).

Coming hot of the awards trail is Beth Hetland (CCS ‘ 11) whose Fugue #1 just won the Stumptown Comics Fest “Best Small Press” award while  Joe Lambert (CCS ’08) will be toting his award-winning I Will Bite You collection in addition to his newest graphic novel: Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller.

Enjoy these books and more, just don’t get them messy with poutine!

–Jen Vaughn

Schulz Librarian