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Drawing a Dialogue
A podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts. Updates first Friday of every month, visit comicarted.com for more.
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Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 61: Professional Practices in Comics
Episode 61: Cathy and remus catch up after a summer break! Cathy shares the details of her career transition into more higher ed teaching, including h...
Photos: Comics are Liberation! Keynote Speaker at Rhode Island Library Association Conference
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 ma...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 60: What's up With AI?
Episode 60: On this episode of Drawing a Dialogue, remus and Cathy discuss AI technologies. What is the history of artificial intelligence? What are t...
Freedom to Read Rhode Island has PASSED!
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 in...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 59: The Studentcast!
Episode 59: The students speak out! Cathy interviews the Boston University Visual Narrative MFA graduating class of 2025. George, Joy, Francis, Sam an...
Comics are Liberation! Keynote Speaker at Rhode Island Library Association Conference!
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 Boo...
Comic Workshop at the Providence Public Library!
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 be...
My Teaching Philosophy for the Art Studio
Art education is a liberatory practice. When I teach, I want my students to
discover. Through their art materials, students are observing, dee...
Visual Narrative MFA at Boston University, Class of 2025
For the second year, I had the pleasure of teaching a wonderful group of
grad students in Boston University’s new Visual Narrative MFA program...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 58: Freedom to Read RI
Episode 58: Cathy recently spoke at the Rhode Island state house in a press conference supporting the Freedom to Read Act in Rhode Island. The legisla...
Freedom to Read Rhode Island
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 Islan...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 57: Swann Fellowship and the Library of Congress
Episode 57: remus has just gotten back from their awesome fellowship with the Swann Foundation, which supports scholarly research and writing projects...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 9: Karen Czap (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #6)
Karen Czap is an Ignatz Award-nominated cartoonist, author of Fütchi Perf and Four Years. Their coloring work can be found in The Breakaways, Freestyl...
Library Workshop at East Greenwich!
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 12-1...
Write RI x Comic Art Ed!
I will be teaching two 4-week long workshop series aimed at guiding Rhode
Island teenagers through the development, writing and drawing of the...
Dear Comics Students Starting Your Final Semester...
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 comi...
Illustrated Storytelling Group
The Illustrated Storytelling Group at LitArts Rhode Island is a writing
group for authors who use visual mediums to tell their stories. Focus...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 56: Exploring Romance Through Horror
Episode 56: Cathy and remus discuss their recent panel at Comic Arts Los Angeles. Cathy spoke with Silver Sprocket artists Yasmeen Abedifard, Connor B...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 55: Catching Up!
Episode 55: Cathy and remus catch up about life, teaching, and art practices. remus shares where they’re at with their PhD dissertation and talks abou...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 8: Carta Monir (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #5)
Carta Monir is a performance artist, performer, and writer. She was a 2022 Tom of Finland Foundation artist in residence. Her work deals with her own...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 7: higu rose (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #4)
higu rose is an illustrator, cartoonist, ethnographer, and local terror living in pittsburgh, PA. based in fiction and autobiography, higu’s work focu...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 54: Teaching in a Comics MFA Program
Episode 54: Cathy shares all about her first year teaching in the Visual Narrative MFA program at Boston University! She talks about her new higher ed...
Visual Narrative MFA at Boston University, Class of 2024
I have had the pleasure of teaching a wonderful group of grad students this
year in Boston University’s new Visual Narrative MFA program! The...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 6: Seosamh (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #3)
Seosamh aka Joe is a butch trans painter, a hypertext enthusiast, and author of dark, surreal, and intimate worlds of denim, leather, and gloss. Among...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 5: Sunmi (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #2)
Sunmi is a cartoonist whose body of work explores emotional distances and gender deviant fantasies, within a framework of queer + Korean histories and...
The Basics of Money and Taxes for Cartoonists
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 a...
Traditional Publishing for Cartoonists
This page is specifically geared to cartoonists who are interested in how
to traditionally publish. I’m going to attempt to answer as many que...
Comic Jobs
A list of comic and comic-adjacent jobs. The purpose of this list is to
help cartoonists expand their minds and expectations of themselves, an...
Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 4: Emma Jayne (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #1)
Emma Jayne is an Ignatz and Prism Award-winning cartoonist. This interview is the first of our exciting new series supporting remus’ PhD dissertation...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 53: Introducing Our New Series: Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene
Episode 53: On this exciting episode of Drawing a Dissertation, remus introduces our new series where we interview trans cartoonists from the DIY scen...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 52: Accessibility at Conventions
Episode 52: Using Calmer Con in Massachusetts as a case study, Cathy and remus discuss accessibility at comic conventions. Cathy shares details about...
Being Our Own Superhero: Recycled Art Workshop
In this all-ages workshop, students will have the opportunity to brainstorm
their own superhero identity, design a symbol, then create a simpl...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 51: Open Access Archives + SPX Recap
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, Cathy and...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 50: Movies About Cartoonists
Episode 50: In celebration of our 50th episode and our 6th anniversary, let’s go to the movies! remus and Cathy discuss movies about cartoonists; not...
Book Posts - Belle of the Ball
A young adult graphic novel about high school wallflower Belle Hawkins, who
ends up in a love triangle after tutoring the girlfriend of her cr...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 49: Award Judging + Criticism
Episode 49: Inspired by a recent situation, Cathy and remus talk about what it’s like being an award judge behind the scenes, the differences between...
Comic Drawing Workshops at Libraries!
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 photos...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 48: The Teacher Shortage
Episode 48: In this episode, Cathy and remus discuss the on-going teacher shortage in the United States. We discuss various theories on why teachers t...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 47: Comic Art Ed!
Episode 47: In this episode, Cathy shares her newly published book chapter, Comic Art Ed! Making Comics is for Everyone! She discusses the art educati...
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 46: The PhD Process
Episode 46: What is the PhD process like? In this episode, remus updates us on their PhD progress, specifically sharing how the qualifying exam goes a...