Cover Image by Max Barnewitz
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School Daze 1999 by Erika Pascual
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!
Nobody, Everybody by Sarah Maloney
This comic first appeared in the anthology Mundane Fantasy Issue #1.
Sarah Maloney (they/she) is a queer visual artist, storyteller and educator.
Daughters of Bilitis, 1955 by Justin Hall
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
Ben Austin-Docampo Spells His Name by Ben Austin-Docampo
Ben is a graduate of CCA's MFA in Writing ('16) and has been a Program Manager for the MFA in Comics program since 2017. He is a lifelong comics reader and has recently discovered he loves making them, too.
Cornspike by Carly Shooster
Content warning: pregnancy, giving birth, abandoned baby
Content warning: pregnancy, giving birth, abandoned baby
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
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.
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.
Hunting Dahu by Max Barnewitz
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.
Fallin’ For Fall by Shuchita Mishra
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
Ulcers by Joyce Rice
Joyce Rice makes nonfiction and science-fiction comics about labor, global warming, adventure, and her dog, Loretta. She is the Faculty Coordinator for Electric Squeak.
Moving In, Moving Out by Kit Fraser
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. More of Kit's comics can be seen at kitfraser.com or @kitcadoodle on Instagram.
Samsara by Ben Austin-Docampo
Ben is a graduate of CCA's MFA in Writing ('16) and has been a Program Manager for the MFA in Comics program since 2017. He is a lifelong comics reader and has recently discovered he loves making them, too.
Wrigglers by Jamie Straw
Jamie Straw is a comics creator and nature enthusiast based in northeastern Pennsylvania. They are often found cuddling with their cat, drinking hot beverages, and wandering around in the woods.
The Journey Back Home by Mowen Guo
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.
