Cover Image by Max Barnewitz

 
 

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School Daze 1999 by Erika Pascual

 
A one page comic rendered in watercolor of a child eating an ice pop/otter pop on a sunny day.

Hello!  I’m Erika Pascual, a Filipina-American illustrator and artist based in sunny Hawaii.  I enjoy using various mediums to bring stories and concepts to life.  I approach each project with the intent to reconcile concept with technique coupled with a sense of wonder and joy.  In short, I have a passion to create and have fun with it!

 
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Daughters of Bilitis, 1955 by Justin Hall

 
This is a two page comic rendered in black and red about the pioneering lesbian couple Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and their involvement in the fight for LGBTQ rights.

Justin Hall is the creator or co-creator of True Travel Tales, Hard to Swallow, and Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers. He has work in the Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, and the SF Weekly, and compiled the Lambda-winning and Eisner-nominated No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which he also produced as a feature-length documentary film. He has curated international shows of comics and is the first Fulbright Scholar of Comics, the Chair of the CCA MFA Comics program, and the Co-Organizer of the Queers & Comics Conference. www.justinhallawesomecomics.com

 
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Cornspike by Carly Shooster

Content warning: pregnancy, giving birth, abandoned baby

 

Content warning: pregnancy, giving birth, abandoned baby

This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.
This is an 11 page comic rendered in vibrant alizarin and cadmium yellow watercolor. It depicts a character named Cornspike giving birth at an abbey in Buenos Aires in 1802.

Carly Shooster is a Jewish-American comics artist based in swampy Gainesville, Florida making art about women and pain. She is currently exploring motherhood and daughterhood through her graphic novel, Mamita. She is addicted to audiobooks, specifically those with meandering sci-fi plots.

 Website: charlyshoo.com

 
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The Teenage Detectives by Mowen Guo

Content warning: This comic abstractly depicts violence with some suggestions of blood and a bloody knife.

 

Content warning: This comic abstractly depicts violence with some suggestions of blood and a bloody knife. 

A three page full color comic depicting three teenagers in a highly abstract mystery setting.
A three page full color comic depicting three teenagers in a highly abstract mystery setting.
A three page full color comic depicting three teenagers in a highly abstract mystery setting.
A picture of the artist looking out over the ocean on a sunny day.

Mowen Guo is an MFA comic student and illustrator at CCA. Art is always the way he releases his creative thinking. He is chasing the dreams he trusts and trying to go beyond the mediocre life.

 
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Hunting Dahu by Max Barnewitz

A single-page comic by Max Barnewitz consisting of 6 squares superimposed over a photo of a mountaintop. The comic uses watercolor and ink to show a person with short hair snowshoeing through the alps looking for a creature called the Dahu.

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. Max spends their spare time organizing the Queer Spectra Arts Festival and the Salt Lake City Grid Zine Fest, and drinking lots of coffee with their partner and dog.

Portrait of the artist as a polar bear - a collage portraying Max Barnewitz as a polar bear in a suit with a pink floral lapel pin.
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Fallin’ For Fall by Shuchita Mishra

 
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.
A nine page, full-color comic with a title page called, “Fallin’ For Fall,” about the best parts of the Fall season.

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.

To know more about the artist, check out her website: www.shuchitamishra.com or her IG handle: Shuchita_m

A black and white photograph of the artist smiling.
 
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