The Center for Cartoon Studies has plenty to brag about with the accomplishments of their alumni and students. Current achievements include publishing graphic novels, collections, and t-shirt designs.

Sophie Goldstein won two Ignatz Awards for The Oven for Outstanding Graphic Novel and Outstanding Comic.

Colleen Frakes released Prison Island, a graphic style memoir about coming of age on the country’s last prison island.

Cole Closser was featured in The New Yorker, discussing his new book Black Rat as well as manga and U.S. comic influences. Closser, as well as Keny Widjaja have work featured in Fable Comics, which is the third in a trilogy that also includes Nursery Rhyme Comics and Fairy Tale Comics.

Cartoon Studies announced that alumni Donna Almendrala, Nomi Kane, and Denis St. John are staff artists for Peanuts.

Current student Tillie Walden released her second graphic novel, I Love This Part. Her first book, The End of Summer, was released earlier in 2015.

Dakota McFadzean released Don’t Get Eaten By Anything, which collects his daily comic offerings over the past five years and Hollow in the Hollows, which tells the story of a young girl obsessed with a secret found in a hollow tree.

J.P. Coovert has Star Wars t-shirt designs accepted and released through Teefury.

The Center for Cartoon Studies has a lot to offer artists interested in the forum. Check out cartoonstudies.org to learn more.