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

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).

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...

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...

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...

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."

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... 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...

Get ready for this summer's newest Comics in the City line-up at CCA! 7/11: Itaru Kinoshita 7/18: Sam Sattin 7/25: Eddie Ahn 8/1 and 8/2: MFA Comics Graduate Readings All events start at 7pm in CCA's Timken Auditorium, and are free and open to the public. Come join us!!

Our MFA Comics summer session is coming up soon, and we're kicking things off in style at @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social! Join us 7/6 for the CCA COMICS FEST! Students will be tabling in the shop from 5-8pm, and then doing live readings 8:30-9:30pm! Free and open to the public. Art by Cody A. Owens 🍒

A new BATTLEPUG graphic novel, colored by MFA Comics faculty @angryf.bsky.social, is now on Kickstarter! Don't miss out on the newest in this Eisner- and Harvey-award-winning fantasy-comedy series, about the adventures of a magical barbarian and his gigantic dog! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bat...

Huge congrats to BFA Comics major @mochiicar.bsky.social who's been selected by the Society of Illustrators as one of 3 finalists for this year's Will Eisner Scholarship! This scholarship recognizes the best comics & sequential art student currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in the US.

Another year in the books!! The CCA Comics program celebrated the end of a fantastic spring semester with a zine yearbook party, where we busted out our block printing skills and carved little self-portraits!

Congrats everyone at CCA Comics for finishing a fantastic semester! Check out the new issue of the student-run comics anthology at electricsqueak.com. MFA folks, we'll see you this summer!!

On Saturday 5/17 at 7pm, join MFA Comics alum Hugh D’Andrade at Mission Comics to celebrate the release of his new graphic memoir, The Murder Next Door, published by @streetnoisebooks.bsky.social !

Catch a couple of CCA MFA Comics grads chatting it up this Tuesday at 6pm! Join Lawrence Lindell as he reads from his new graphic novel, We All Got Something, and discusses with cartoonist Breena Nuñez. Register for the Zoom link at: sfpl.org/events

The Cartoonist Cooperative is hosting its inaugural Nib and Ink online comics festival, with a great lineup of events throughout the month of May, including a workshop by CCA MFA Comics alumni Joseph Hewitt May 19! Check out the rest of the lineup of events at nif.cartoonist.coop @gearheadrpg.com

Issue 5 of the CCA Comics student-run digital publication Electric Squeak is officially dropping with a launch party on Monday, May 5 at 5pm PST on Zoom! Visit www.electricsqueak.com to read some great comics envisioning sustainable futures for humanity, tech, and nature.

Join CCA Comics alum & faculty member Breena Nuñez for a book launch party to celebrate Latinx Comics Studies. This is a free hybrid event on Friday, May 2, 1:30-3:00 p.m. PST, in-person in the Steinbeck Center at SJSU Library, & on Zoom. events.sjsu.edu/event/latinx...

Plan to come to @fabulosa_books in the Castro May 13th to support the release of Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day with the creators, Andrew Eakett and CCA MFA Comics alum Alex Combs! Can't attend? Be sure to order it wherever you buy your comics!

Comics students & faculty are all invited to join an end-of-year party in the homeroom on 5/9! We're gonna be busting out our lino tools, carving block-print self-portraits together, and making tiny yearbook zines for everyone to take home. Check your CCA email for more details, and see you there! 🎉

Bug out with recent CCA Comics MFA alums Violet and Dimitrea at the Berkeley Public Library West Branch on May 1 as they lead this creative comics workshop featuring creepy crawlies of your creation!

Kirkus Reviews gave Unico vol 2: Hunted, written by CCA Comics MFA alum Sam Sattin, a shoutout for its "captivating storytelling!" Hunt down a preorder before the release July 1. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The Peninsula Libraries Comics Art Fest is happening throughout April, featuring workshops at libraries all over San Mateo County. Catch CCA Comics faculty alumni and faculty at the Small Press Comics Expo August 26 at the South San Francisco Public Library. Full schedule at smcl.org/comicartsfest/

Hans Vogel is Dead Vol. 2, by MFA Comics alum Sierra Barnes published by Dark Horse, will be released on Dec. 2. It's available for pre-order now! Pre-order link on B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hans-vogel...