CCA MFA in Comics Community Members
Maia Kobabe, e/em/eir
Maia Kobabe is the author/illustrator of GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (Oni Press, 2019) and many short comics which have been published online on The Nib, The New Yorker, and in print anthologies. Maia is nonbinary, queer, trans, and uses e/em/eir pronouns.
@redgoldsparks on tumblr
@redgoldsparks on instagram
redgoldsparkspress.com - website
Peter Glanting, he/him/his
I’m Peter, and I'm an illustrator and UX designer. I love to explore stories that connect people. I'm curious by nature and fun by choice.
Portfolio: PeterGlantingDraws.com
Instagram: @peterglanting
Email: peterglanting@gmail.com
Behance: behance.net/peterglanting
Linkedin: /in/peterglanting
Joyce Rice, she/her
Joyce is a cartoonist, news designer, and professor making comics about history, technology, and the future.
Mike Rossi, he/him/his
@illustrator.mike (instagram)
@MikeRossiComics (twitter)
Erika Pascual, she/her
Erika Pascual is a Filipina-American illustrator and artist based in Hawaii. She enjoys experimenting with various mediums and techniques to bring stories and concepts to life; whipping up each piece with a dash of wonder and heaping cup of joy. “In short, I have a passion to create and I like to have fun with it!”
https://www.instagram.com/modernenchantment/
KasutoProductions
-Maxi Rodriguez, she/her/hers
Maxi Rodriguez is a plus-size Latina who is a professional self-published cartoonist currently residing in the small town of Norwalk, CA. Her works include Chronicles of a ChubbyBunny, Plus Size Girl Magic, BrownGirl Awkwardness, and ChibiBunny’s Rules of Boundaries. Maxi currently has two degrees, a BA in Graphic Design from CSU Dominguez Hills and an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts. When not working on comics or art, she is either being smothered by her three dogs (lol) or trying to revise ChubbyBunny’s no bunny suit clause in her contract.
https://www.instagram.com/kasutoproductions/
https://twitter.com/ChubbyBunnyArt
https://ko-fi.com/kasutoproductions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPk7Vc_1BOrn6h2f00Xmldg
business email: kasutoproductions@gmail.com
Aster Ricks, they/he
Cryptic illustrator and comic artist interested in the horror of the mundane and the unknown. Very queer, speaks in tongues.
SAWHAND, she/her
Sawhand is a comic artist with a fine arts and advanced mathematics background. She has ambitions to create a fantasy-adventure graphic novel for her thesis. Her inspirations are Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, and Garth Nix. She recently received the 2020 All College Honors Graduate Comics Scholarship Award.
https://www.instagram.com/sawhandcomics/
Hinahina Gray, she/her
Hinahina Gray is a hapa haole artist based on O'ahu. She is a published comic creator and an experienced sensitivity reader and cultural counselor. Her work focuses on how memory reacts to past experiences (nostalgia, gaslighting, reflection, delusion, saudade, sehnsucht). This is informed further by how she weaves her personal histories and experiences from being indigenous and a consistent interest in botanic languages.
Max Barnewitz, they/them
Max Barnewitz (they/them) is a comic artist and mixed-media zinester in Salt Lake City. They earned their M.A. in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies from the University of Utah in 2016 where they studied the ways comics portray queer identities. Max’s research interests include queer theory, hybridity, ecocriticism, and posthumanism, all topics which they explore in their collage-based comics.
Will Betke-Brunswick, they/them
Will Betke-Brunswick is a trans and nonbinary cartoonist who makes memoir comics, informational trans health comics, abstract comics, four panel comics, and math comics. Their autobiographical comic about birth control is in the second edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Fall 2021) and their memoir, ELIZABETH, will be available from Tin House Books in summer/fall 2022.
Shuchi, she/her
Shuchi graduated with a MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts in 2019. Since then she has been teaching comic and basic animation workshops at various schools in the Bay Area and Pittsburgh as a small business owner.
In 2021, she was offered a Writer's Residency at the Writer's House in Pittsburgh, where she wrote and illustrated her first memoir graphic novel I Left My Heart in Stuttgart and worked as an educator for the Carnegie Museum of Art for their summer and fall The Art Connection and Youth Art Studio programs.
After finishing up her residency in 2022, she was hired as an Assistant Professor in Illustration and Sequential Art at Kennesaw State University, GA, where she currently teaches courses in illustration, electronic illustration and sequential art.
She now splits her time teaching Comics at University and managing her business remotely. She was also recently published in the New Yorker Cartoons Daily Shout Out Segment. When she's not drawing or teaching, she is usually walking or hiking out in the wilderness.
Instagram: Shuchita_M
Kit Fraser, she/her
Kit is a cartoonist and illustrator based in New York's Hudson Valley. Her work dabbles in colorful, surrealist spaces and regularly incorporates patterns and semi-fictionalized versions of her dreams and experiences.
https://www.instagram.com/kitcadoodle/
https://www.facebook.com/kitcadoodle
Sarah Maloney, they/she
Sarah is a queer visual artist, storyteller and teacher.
Golnoush Pak, they/she
My name is Golnoush Pak (They/She) and I am a cartoonist and illustrator based in Bay Area, California. I am a merit scholar student at California College of the Arts where I am pursuing an MFA in Comics. My art often explores the emerging themes between my roots in Iranian culture, my journey in self-discovery and cultural diversity, and my connection to the natural environment and the various social and racial justice issues that surround us. Feel free to get in touch via Instagram.
If you are a member of the CCA MFA in Comics community and would like to be added to this Directory, please email us at electricsqueak@cca.edu for a link to the form. We would love to add you!