Celebrating the Comics, Cartoons and Creators of Central Ohio
Clarion Books released Fish Girl in 2017, and the book went on to become a three-time Caldecott Medalist. Visit a boardwalk aquarium and you might just get a glimpse of the mermaid hiding behind the kelp.
Continue reading “Fish Girl”Published by Image Comics in 2010, Frank Cho presents Liberty Meadows: Eden. Brandy Carter is a beautiful animal psychiatrist working with nerdy veterinarian, Frank Melisch.
Continue reading “Liberty Meadows: Eden”Were you ever reading Lone Wolf and Cub and thought, “You know, this would be better if we lost the cub and made everyone an anthropomorphic animal?”
Continue reading “Usagi Yojimbo”Ben Towle is a five-time Eisner Award nominated cartoonist with a lengthy bibliography. His first book, Midnight Sun, was published by SLG Publishing in 2007 and is a historical fiction tale inspired by the real-life crash of an airship expedition in 1928. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean is also a work of historical fiction. Published by Disney/ Hyperion Books in 2010, it features the famous aviator and her quest to fly across the Atlantic. Oyster War, published in 2015 by Oni Press, is a nautical fantasy about dastardly pirates looting the seas and the pragmatic Commander and crew hired to stop them. Ben’s latest book, Four- Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat, published by Dead Reckoning in 2021, shares stories of animals that have fought alongside soldiers throughout the centuries. Ben currently serves as a professor of Illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Continue reading “10 Questions with Ben Towle”I recently sat down to watch the animated movie Persepolis based on the acclaimed graphic novel, which was so good that it drove me to re-read the book.
Continue reading “Persepolis”Late in 2022, I walked down to German Village’s “The Book Loft” for an author’s reading. Melanie Gillman was reading from her newly released book Other Ever Afters. Released by Penguin Random House, the book contains seven fairy tales for the modern age. In these tales, there was nothing short of magic where monsters were heroes and princes could be villains.
Continue reading “Other Ever Afters”Small press creators often live off the generosity of time and influence that podcasters can provide. In thanks, we wanted to give our readers a chance to catch up on some fantastic comic-related podcasts.
Continue reading “Meet Your Host”Current and former Columbus College of Art and Design students chime in about their time in the Comics and Narrative program.
Continue reading “Straight from the Student’s Mouth”Comics as a medium have grown in popularity over the last few decades. That growth has spawned an increase in the demand for comics education. Some universities and colleges nationwide have started to offer “Comics” as a major, including Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). CCAD separated the Comics and Narrative Practice from the Illustration major in 2022. I took a brief tour of CCAD’s campus to learn more about the teachers and students of the program.
Continue reading “Major Change at CCAD”UGLAS The 2022 winner of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus’ Emerging Talent Prize, Victoria Douglas is a rising cartoonist and illustrator in the area. They are a graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design and have been making comics since 2019. Victoria is probably best known for their ongoing comic CINNAMON. Published by Behemoth Comics, CINNAMON is an ordinary housecat who turns everything into an adventure. We get to see things through her eyes as she does battle with the antagonistic Henchrats, defends her domain from a laser pointer, and sometimes even comes to blows with her owner. Besides CINNAMON, Victoria has self-published Templar Vitae, a 24-hour comic, and Biblioware, a collection of short semiautobiographical comics.
Continue reading “10 Questions with Victoria Douglas”