We have TWO @ccacomics.bsky.social MFA alumni kicking off #bannedbooksweek with critical articles on @xtramagazine.com for Comics Against Censorship! Please read these important pieces by Cassy Lee (insta: @readfreedrawfree) and Maia Kobabe ( @redgoldsparks.bsky.social ) on xtramagazine.com!

The Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror by @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social has just launched their kickstarter! This full-color queer horror comic anthology includes CCA Comics’ own faculty @ajuanmance.bsky.social and alum @sonyasaturdayart.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

Thanks for the shoutout! Sarah and I will also be making an appearance at the Newport Historical Society (Newport, Rhode Island) on Dec 17th as part of their Holiday Market :D Should be festive!

CCA Comics@ccacomics.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re proud to celebrate the release of “Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!” drawn by MFA Comics alum Melissa Philley @sawhand.bsky.social & written by Sarah Crabtree! This 120 page historical graphic novel follows the life of William Rotch in the American Age of Revolution! ! Congratulations Melissa!

We’re proud to celebrate the release of “Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!” drawn by MFA Comics alum Melissa Philley @sawhand.bsky.social & written by Sarah Crabtree! This 120 page historical graphic novel follows the life of William Rotch in the American Age of Revolution! ! Congratulations Melissa!

Major Taylor: The World’s Fastest Man, by our own @ccacomics.bsky.social faculty @frednoland.bsky.social, is out this week! This almost-300 page graphic novel covers the life of one of America’s most important athletes on the world stage. Order it through your favorite local bookstore!

Today on campus, BFA and MFA Comics students got together to break in our new homeroom with a giant scroll-sized riff on Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work. Next time you’re stuck on what to draw next, might we suggest Zoom In On A Face Punch (With Eyes Popping)?

This Friday, join us on campus for the grand opening of EMANATA, our annual exhibition of comics & art from MFA Comics students at CCA! 13 cartoonists have filled the walls of the Novack Gallery with comics pages, and many will have print copies of their work for sale too. Free & open to the public!

Every Friday evening this month, see COMICS IN THE CITY on CCA campus! This year we have @ajuanmance.bsky.social , @frednoland.bsky.social , @maryshyneonline.bsky.social and MFA Comics 2026 grad readings! Comics in the City events are free and open to the public, come watch! Poster by Justin Hall!

MFA Comics alum Kayan Cheung-Miaw has completed a gorgeously vivid mural, “This Asian American Life,” up on Hyde Street, near the SF Asian Art Museum! In comic-like panels, the viewer journeys through scenes of SF Chinatown through childlike eyes and memory. Congratulations on the beautiful mural!

i’ll be doing a reading here tonight if you’re in sf!

CCA Comics@ccacomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THIS SATURDAY JULY 4! Come to @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social for our annual CCA Comics Festival! From 3-6pm, check our students' wares! Then, 6:30-7:30pm, enjoy live comics readings from our crew! Beat the fireworks and have a great time! Poster design by @sblaylea.bsky.social !

TODAY!! Come visit us at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social til 7:30pm!

CCA Comics@ccacomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THIS SATURDAY JULY 4! Come to @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social for our annual CCA Comics Festival! From 3-6pm, check our students' wares! Then, 6:30-7:30pm, enjoy live comics readings from our crew! Beat the fireworks and have a great time! Poster design by @sblaylea.bsky.social !

The third volume of graphic novel series Unico comes out next week July 7! Unico: Lost, written by our own Eisner-nominated MFA Comics ‘15 alumni @samuelsattin.bsky.social and illustrated by the duo @gurihiru.bsky.social, can be preordered now from Scholastic Graphix!

THIS SATURDAY JULY 4! Come to @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social for our annual CCA Comics Festival! From 3-6pm, check our students' wares! Then, 6:30-7:30pm, enjoy live comics readings from our crew! Beat the fireworks and have a great time! Poster design by @sblaylea.bsky.social !

LESS THAN $900 REMAINS UNTIL OUR NEXT STRETCH GOAL! We're less than 20 away from 800 BACKERS coming down to the final days of THE GOBLIN THRONE! 1000 Backers is still in sight and you can help us make it possible! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

The Goblin Throne by Mel Gillman

Beware the promises you make to the Goblin Queen . . . especially if you plan to break them. An all-new graphic novel!

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Mel Gillman@mgillman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Goblin Throne Part III page 44 is up! Today’s page: it’s not a big deal quit acting like it’s a big deal www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/107/ We’re down to the final 3 days of the Kickstarter!! And just $1k til we hit the next stretch goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I’m excited to share that What Do Brothas Do All Day? has landed a spot on the @cbcbooks.bsky.social Summer Showcase list, These Are the People In My Neighborhood—a collection celebrating teamwork, kindness, & community: cbcbooks.org #BookBuzz #kidlit #ClassroomLibrary #CBCShowcase #CommunityStories

Congratulations to @ajuanmance.bsky.social, @sonyasaturdayart.bsky.social, and all the contributors to Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project that’s been nominated for an Eisner for best anthology this year! Check out the wonderful book at stackeddeckpress.com! Well deserved, team!!

I also got to contribute some annotations to this! This book is really something special. Dozens of queer and trans artists, writers, and scholars added their thoughts and experiences to this book — expanding and broadening what was already a seminal piece of queer literature.

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@planetx.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy book release day to @redgoldsparks.bsky.social for GENDER QUEER: THE ANNOTATED EDITION! This is a wonderful expansion of the original memoir, with notes from Maia and other queer luminaries (including me!)

Congratulations to Professor @frednoland.bsky.social for the release of Our Little Wild Time on May 19!! Published by Fantagraphics, this volume collects several absurdly dark and upsettingly hilarious comics, myriad portraits and a career-spanning interview. So excited to see this collection out!

Today our BFA and MFA Comics programs joined forces to make our new zine yearbook! Students and faculty carved little block-printing self-portraits and printed them together in little zines for everyone to take home.

Our own @winterweix.bsky.social (MFA Comics ‘27) will debut her book Magic Up at Festival BD de Montréal / Montréal Comics and Arts Festival this weekend! Check out her critical nonfiction piece in @crucialcomix.bsky.social as well: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/on-the... Congratulations Winter!

CCA Comics students and faculty are all invited to join us 5/11 6-8pm in the homeroom for our big end-of-year party! We’ll be block-printing self-portraits to add to the official 2026 CCA Comics Zine Yearbook! All supplies provided, plus pizza :) See you there!

Next Monday May 4, 4pm at the West Branch of Berkeley Public Library, CCA MFA Comics alum @comixdimitrea.bsky.social will facilitate a Memoir Comics Workshop: Magic in the Mundane! Come learn and create and honor your memories in your voice! Materials provided, all levels of comics-making welcome!

Wed April 29 at Mill Valley Public Library! Words & Pictures - CCA faculty @frednoland.bsky.social, Rina Ayuyang, and Justin Hall, will perform a graphic novel live reading! Hosted by another one of ours, @sophieyanow.bsky.social, we can’t wait! RSVP: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/16420317

Words & Pictures: A Graphic Novel Reading Event

Join us for a multimedia reading event: acclaimed cartoonists will take us on a journey with words and pictures, reading nonfiction, literary fiction, and memoir, as their drawings...

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Our amazing Professor @nicolejgeorges has a new book: Emotional Support Animals! Enjoy 160 pages of adorably drawn animals telling us what we need to hear! There’s worksheets and stickers, too! Find Nicole’s book at your favorite local bookstore! She’s on tour now, come see her on the west coast!

Tonight, CCA welcomed award-winning interdisciplinary artist @shing.bsky.social to campus to share their work, give an inspiring talk about the importance of handmade human art, and trade li’l guy paintings with our students!

Tonight at 7pm in room N203 on campus, join us for an artist talk with award-winning cartoonist, game designer, and puppeteer Shing Yin Khor @shing.bsky.social ! This event is free and open to the public, and is presented in partnership with the Queer Cultural Center. portal.cca.edu/events-calen...

CCA Undergrads - learn how to thrive in the industry in COMIX 4100-1 this Fall from the experienced @andycomics.bsky.social ! Professor Warner has done it all: published several books, freelance work, editor roles and more. Come learn how to do it! Open to all majors, register before May!

CCA Undergrads! There’s still time to register for COMIX-2210-1 Drawing for Comics by stellar Professor @yasmeenabedi.bsky.social! Fall 2026! Open to all majors, come learn about the breadth and depth of possibilities in comics and print some pages!!

Come see Mel and I in conversation at CCA next week! I think I'm going to do a little guy trade - bring me a human-made drawing of a little guy and I'll give you a very tiny original painting of a little guy(we'll see how many I get done).

Mel Gillman@mgillman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Bay Area folks: next Tuesday 4/14 at 7pm, I’ll be interviewing @shing.bsky.social on stage at CCA! Free and open to the public! Snacks and drinks provided! Bring your LITTLE GUYS

4/14 @ 7pm, join us at CCA for a talk by award-winning artist Shing Yin Khor @shing.bsky.social! Shing will be delivering a talk about making little guys, telling stories with objects, sustaining a multidisciplinary creative career, and the endurance of human-made art. portal.cca.edu/events-calen...