Inside the Course: Creating Comics with Purpose
It is my joy and honor to be teaching an online course with the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration this fall! Below is a repost from their interview with me, I hope you will sign up and join us!
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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Summer 2026 Class Offerings!
Are you interested in learning how to make comics? I’m excited to announce several public class opportunities this summer for tween, teens and adults! Whether you want a one-day experience or a deep-dive into your own process, you’ll find it here!
Hands Off Our Books!
This past weekend I had the honor of joining fellow authors Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie and Padma Venkatraman, as well as moderator Christina Bevilacqua, in conversation about book bans and censorship at LitArts RI.
Welcome to Fox River Comics Camp! My new book coming October 2026!
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 elementary-age readers, coming October 2026. The book combines an engaging story with fun activities readers can follow along with. Part comics how-to book, part silly joyful narrative, this book has it all for the young cartoonists in your life!
Words in Pictures 2025: Comics by Rhode Island Teens
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 collection of comics by Rhode Island’s amazing teen artists. We had so many amazing participants that we couldn’t fit everyone’s work in full within the final book, but we are so happy to present the stories in full here on this webpage!
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 62: Class Consciousness
Episode 62: Using a Marxist lens, remus and Cathy discuss class consciousness in the comic book industry. remus talks about class under Capitalism, sharing definitions of the proletariat, bourgeoisie, and the petite bourgeoisie. Citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2025/11/7/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-62 Contact: Email , Instagram , Bluesky
Promoting Literacy with Comic Art Education
Comic art education is an incredibly effective tool to promote literacy in young people. In this post, I explain the importance of both reading and visual literacy, and then share a lesson plan idea titled “Adaptation.”
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 her new courses in the Visual Narrative MFA program at Boston University. She then goes into depth about her new Professional Practices class at the Center for Cartoon Studies. What are the professional skills that cartoonists need in 2025? How can we…
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 many amazing library professionals and talk about the incredible power that comic books are able to offer young people.
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 the current conversations surrounding AI, and what is it actually capable of? Citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2025/7/11/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-60 Contact: Email , Instagram , Bluesky