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
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...
Image is an ad for COMIX-4100-1, a class that will be taught to undergrads by Professor Andy Warner at the California College of the Arts. A simplified stick figure wearing a shirt and tie is sweating and pulling at his shirt collar nervously. THere is an image of a treacherous path with a sign that says "Art Career!" with a sun and rainbow at the end of the horizon. Finally, there is a drawing of a stick figure teacher discussing a white board that says "Act 3" to a student stick figure listening. The image says: "Hey you! Take a class in Professional Practice! Learn how to navigate your career and how to survive and thrive as a working artist. Open to non-comics majors/minors. COMIX 4100-1 Tues 9:00AM - 11:30 AM."
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!
The image is an ad in black with a purple background. There is a bust side profile of a person with long curly black hair, a bow, and several piercings in their nose, tongue, ears and eyebrow. They have their tongue sticking out. THe ad says: "Wanna draw comics? :) COMIX-2210-1 Drawing for Comics. Mon/Thu 3:30-6:00PM Fall 2026. No prereqs. Open to non-majors. Studio elective."
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).
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.
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Cover of a comic called Surface Tension, a chapter of a Drifting into Summer comic. A swimmer with short hair and a serious face adjusts her swim goggles and looks back at another swimmer behind her, who is smiling more confidently with her arms crossed. The cover says "Story and art by Tikklil"
Our stellar MFA Comics Alumni @tikklil.bsky.social has a beautiful new addition to their yuri drama series Drifting into Summer! Read Surface Tension and their two sister stories for free on viz.com now! www.viz.com/vizmanga/cha...
Event poster which shows character and panel art for Ai no Idenshi, a black and white manga. An android, cat and mannequin are shown in the panel art. A serious looking young character in a black turtleneck ruminates towards the reader.
Tomorrow, our friends @japansociety.org & Orange, Inc. will host two panels at San Francisco’s Digital Garage, featuring Kyuri Yamada, acclaimed mangaka of AI no Idenshi (The Gene of AI)!
Friday, March 27, 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Digital Garage - 717 Market St #100, San Francisco
RSVP: luma.com/svvk21wn
Field trip!! Today our Applied Comics class got to take a trip to Santa Rosa to visit the Charles M Schulz Museum for a behind-the-scenes tour! Thanks for having us, @schulzmuseum.bsky.social !
It’s that time of year again: Electric Squeak, CCA's student-run comics journal, is BACK for Issue 6! This year’s theme is 🪐Outerworlds💫 -- we're looking for all types of comics about this world & Others.
Submissions open til 3/31. We can’t wait to see your work! electricsqueak.com/home-for-iss...
Got a story to tell? Ready to spend your next summer in San Francisco, taking classes taught by comics industry pros, and honing your skills alongside a passionate group of peers from all over the world? Applications are officially open for the MFA in Comics Program! portal.cca.edu/learning/aca...
Want to learn more about comics?
CCA's Fall extension courses are perfect for you! Classes range from between $150-495, with world class instructors!
Sign up soon!
Interested in CCA's MFA Comics program? Join the chair of the program, Mel Gillman, today at 5:30 PM PST for a virtual info session! www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-comics...
The links to check out the aforementioned courses:
Food & Comics: secure.touchnet.net/C20080_ustor...
Art of Storytelling:
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Risograph Workshop:
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Illustration Techniques: Children's Books:
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Register for CCA's fantastic fall Extension classes from the MFA Comics program!
- "Food & Comics", with Susannah Hainley
- "Making Comics: The Art of Storytelling", with Sarah Maloney
- "Illustration Techniques: Children's Books", with Gus D'Angelo
- "Risograph Workshop", with Yasmeen Abedifard
"Thrilled to share this new mural by MFA Comics alumni Kayan Cheung-Miaw! This piece, titled "This Asian American Life", was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum for the Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall, and will be on display through September 28th."
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Please follow the Black & Bloody Kickstarter!
We launch in TWO days! For the bloody bxtches! For the blerdy bxtches, and all the Black vampire baddies inbetween, please follow the Kickstarter and support some Black Vampire art!
#Blackvampire #sinners #blackart
The 2025 MFA in Comics Anthology is here, and it looks fantastic! Our 15 graduating students each contributed a 10-20 page excerpt on their thesis comics, making for one killer 280 page volume. Thank you to editor @andycomics.bsky.social and book designer GB Tran for making this such a success!
The MFA Comics program got to celebrate our newest graduating class with TWO jam-packed nights of live comics readings on campus! Congratulations, class of 2025!! 🎉
In honor of me graduating from @ccacomics.bsky.social MFA program, I wanted to go back and post the first comic I made in the program under the direction of @teabuoy.bsky.social ❤️🧡💛🩷💜
Still getting used to this new platform. Figured I could use this opportunity to reflect on one of the first comics I made at the beginning of the @ccacomics.bsky.social MFA Comics Program. Especially since, after tomorrow, I'll be an official graduate alongside my peers.
Tonight we have 2 incredible back-to-back events! At 7pm in Timken Auditorium, Sam Sattin will be interviewed live on stage by Justin Hall as part of our Comics in the City series. And at 8:30pm at 1480 17th St., we'll have an opening reception for EMANATA, an exhibition of our MFA students' comics!
We were thrilled to welcome Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social to campus tonight for an artist talk and book signing to kick off our annual Comics in the City lecture series!
FRIDAY in San Francisco! @ccacomics.bsky.social welcomes Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social, creator of “Dinosaur Sanctuary” as part of their “Comics in the City” lecture series. Friday, July 11, 7 pm. Drawing demo + Q&A + book signing. portal.cca.edu/events-calen... Free & open to all!
A packed house tonight at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social for our annual CCA Comics Fest! Students from our MFA Program tabled with their comics and performed live readings of their work. Next up: day 1 of classes!
CCA Comics Fest happening now at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social! Tabling til 8pm tonight, and live comics readings from 8:30-9:30pm! Free and open to the public! 🍒🍒🍒
Tonight!! See you at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social !
SAN FRANCISCO! MINT Manga Project & @ccacomics.bsky.social presents Itaru Kinoshita @kurinosukeboy.bsky.social, creator of “Dinosaur Sanctuary” (@) as their first “Comics in the City” guest speaker for 2025 on Friday, July 11, 7 pm! Free & open to the public portal.cca.edu/events-calen...
