By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 3/11/2016
Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize selects 10 comics each in the print and digital categories, and the 2016 short lists have just been announced. As usual its a fine list of comics. Short lists were compiled by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, CCS Fellow Noah Van Sciver and guest judge, Caitlin McGurk. The prize is presented in conjunction with CCS each […]
By: Andy Yates,
on 10/24/2014
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver has been crafting his own special brand of throwback indy comix since the mid-2000’s. His one man anthology, Blammo, is up to issue #9, and it would fit quite comfortably between classic Eightball’s & Yummyfur’s on the funny book racks! It was with Fantagraphics’ critically acclaimed anthology series, Mome, that Noah started to reach a wider audience, and soon after that his first graphic novel would be published; The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln. Van Sciver was born in New Jersey, but has lived in Denver, CO for most of his adult life, where his oft times publisher Kilgore Books & Comics is located.
AdHouse Books recently published a collection of his comics titled Youth is Wasted, and Fantagraphics has 2 more upcoming projects with Noah in 2015: Saint Cole & Fante Bukowski.
Noah has been nominated multiple times for an Ignatz Award(which is sort of like an Oscar for Small Press comics…), and has had his work featured in the prestigious Best American Comics annual.
You can check out more of Noah Van Sciver’s comics like his day-to-day “Diary Comics”, and other serialized stories on his tumblr site here.
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By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 9/13/2013
This weekend sees Small Press Expo take place over in Maryland, and AdHouse have leapt out the gate early with the announcement that they are going to publish a collection of cartoonish Noah Van Sciver’s work as ’Youth is Wasted’, due in 2014.
Collecting together primarily his series Blammo, the book will also feature a number of his other short stories published elsewhere, as part of various anthologies. Comics Reporter has more details, being as Tom Spurgeon is actually at SPX right now, and he notes that Youth is Wasted will be 112 pages long, priced at $12.95 softcover. Van Sciver is quoted:
The stories I’m putting into this book are very meaningful to me, and Adhouse is one of the few publishers I’d trust to present them tastefully. I can’t think of one Adhouse book that sucks.
Youth is Wasted is scheduled for publication in June 2014.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 3/15/2013
Trip City Presents “You’ll Have to Save That For Another Time” by best selling author (and McSweeny’s editor) Dave Eggers and artist Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo).
It is excellent. Read the whole thing in the link.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/17/2012
’90s nostalgia fans get in line! Van Sciver travels back to the ’90s comics scene in Seattle, when “comics were cool” and hijinks ensue.
Absolutely love this cartoonist’s work from the very first time I saw it in his PUNKS vs. LIZARDS. And he just keeps getting better and better!
Noah’s work reminds me of something you would find in Mad magazine,
but better because they are uncensored and funny. His Rufus Baxter cartoons are hilarious!