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This past weekend I had the honor of joining fellow authors Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and Padma Venkatraman, as well as moderator Christina...

I am thrilled to finally share my brand new book is available for pre-order! Fox River Comics Camp is my dream comic art education book for...

This is the gallery page for the 2025 edition of Words in Pictures from Write RI, School One and Comic Art Ed! Below you’ll find a collectio...

Episode 62: Using a Marxist lens, remus and Cathy discuss class consciousness in the comic book industry. remus talks about class under Capi...

Comic art education is an incredibly effective tool to promote literacy in young people. In this post, I explain the importance of both read...

Episode 61: Cathy and remus catch up after a summer break! Cathy shares the details of her career transition into more higher ed teaching, i...

This past May I was honored to visit the Rhode Island Library Association Conference as their Keynote Speaker! It was a pleasure to meet so...

Episode 60: On this episode of Drawing a Dialogue, remus and Cathy discuss AI technologies. What is the history of artificial intelligence?...

The Freedom to Read legislation has passed in the state of Rhode Island! Back in March I had the pleasure of speaking at a press conference...

Episode 59: The students speak out! Cathy interviews the Boston University Visual Narrative MFA graduating class of 2025. George, Joy, Franc...

I am proud to share that I will be the keynote speaker at the Rhode Island Library Association Conference 2025! My speech is titled “Comic B...

Last year I had the pleasure of teaching a 4 week-long comic drawing workshop series at the Providence Public Library, and I’m so happy to b...

Art education is a liberatory practice. When I teach, I want my students to discover. Through their art materials, students are observing, d...

For the second year, I had the pleasure of teaching a wonderful group of grad students in Boston University’s new Visual Narrative MFA progr...

Episode 58: Cathy recently spoke at the Rhode Island state house in a press conference supporting the Freedom to Read Act in Rhode Island. T...

I recently spoke at a press conference in the Rhode Island statehouse to lend my voice in support of the Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Isl...

Episode 57: remus has just gotten back from their awesome fellowship with the Swann Foundation, which supports scholarly research and writin...

Karen Czap is an Ignatz Award-nominated cartoonist, author of Fütchi Perf and Four Years. Their coloring work can be found in The Breakaways...

Thank you so much to the wonderful East Greenwich Free Library for having me visit! We had a very fun teen comic making workshop for ages 12...

I will be teaching two 4-week long workshop series aimed at guiding Rhode Island teenagers through the development, writing and drawing of t...

Dear Comic Student, it’s time. You are arriving at your final semester of comics school. Maybe you spent all winter break working on your co...

The Illustrated Storytelling Group at LitArts Rhode Island is a writing group for authors who use visual mediums to tell their stories. Focu...

Episode 56: Cathy and remus discuss their recent panel at Comic Arts Los Angeles. Cathy spoke with Silver Sprocket artists Yasmeen Abedifard...

Episode 55: Cathy and remus catch up about life, teaching, and art practices. remus shares where they’re at with their PhD dissertation and...

Carta Monir is a performance artist, performer, and writer. She was a 2022 Tom of Finland Foundation artist in residence. Her work deals wit...

higu rose is an illustrator, cartoonist, ethnographer, and local terror living in pittsburgh, PA. based in fiction and autobiography, higu’s...

Episode 54: Cathy shares all about her first year teaching in the Visual Narrative MFA program at Boston University! She talks about her new...

I have had the pleasure of teaching a wonderful group of grad students this year in Boston University’s new Visual Narrative MFA program! Th...

Seosamh aka Joe is a butch trans painter, a hypertext enthusiast, and author of dark, surreal, and intimate worlds of denim, leather, and gl...

Sunmi is a cartoonist whose body of work explores emotional distances and gender deviant fantasies, within a framework of queer + Korean his...

How do you make money and save money as an artist? In this beginner’s post about finances I encourage you to be empowered. You are an artist...

This page is specifically geared to cartoonists who are interested in how to traditionally publish. I’m going to attempt to answer as many q...

A list of comic and comic-adjacent jobs. The purpose of this list is to help cartoonists expand their minds and expectations of themselves,...

Emma Jayne is an Ignatz and Prism Award-winning cartoonist. This interview is the first of our exciting new series supporting remus’ PhD dis...

Episode 53: On this exciting episode of Drawing a Dissertation, remus introduces our new series where we interview trans cartoonists from th...

Episode 52: Using Calmer Con in Massachusetts as a case study, Cathy and remus discuss accessibility at comic conventions. Cathy shares deta...

In this all-ages workshop, students will have the opportunity to brainstorm their own superhero identity, design a symbol, then create a sim...

Episode 51: On this episode, remus tells us all about open access archives! What are they, why do they exist, and how can we use them? Also,...

Episode 50: In celebration of our 50th episode and our 6th anniversary, let’s go to the movies! remus and Cathy discuss movies about cartoon...

A young adult graphic novel about high school wallflower Belle Hawkins, who ends up in a love triangle after tutoring the girlfriend of her...

Episode 49: Inspired by a recent situation, Cathy and remus talk about what it’s like being an award judge behind the scenes, the difference...

I love libraries! I’ve been very lucky to get invited to a few recently to do author visits and comic drawing workshops. Here are a few phot...

Episode 48: In this episode, Cathy and remus discuss the on-going teacher shortage in the United States. We discuss various theories on why...

Episode 47: In this episode, Cathy shares her newly published book chapter, Comic Art Ed! Making Comics is for Everyone! She discusses the a...

Episode 46: What is the PhD process like? In this episode, remus updates us on their PhD progress, specifically sharing how the qualifying e...

Very honored to share that I have been published in a textbook! I wrote a chapter for Teaching with Comics, edited by Robert Aman and Lars W...

Episode 45: How can a drawing be transgender? Cathy and remus are joined by special guest Fi Stewart-Taylor to talk about the representation...

Episode 44: In this episode, remus discusses the way queer AIDS activists used art and comics as part of their activism during the the 1980s...

I was recently invited by the Grafton Public Library in Massachusetts to teach a Teen Zine Workshop. It was so much fun! Description of Work...

Episode 43: The common definition of BL, the acronym for Boys Love, is “a genre consisting of male-male romantic fictions created by women a...