Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners Are Mimi Pond and Suerynn Lee
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The Center for Cartoon Studies have announced their 14th annual Studio Prize winners. In the Long-Form category the award goes to Mimi Pond, and Suerynn Lee took the prize in the Short-Form category. The prize goes to cartoonists whose work “exemplifies excellence in cartooning.”
The judges wrote that Mimi’s biography of the Mitford Sisters:
Pond effortlessly weaves together the historic and the intimate as she traces the arcs of their lives, all contrasted against her own adventure-starved upbringing in San Diego. Endlessly inventive page compositions maintain the story’s distinctly playful sensibility; words careen and bound across the page with the infectious enthusiasm of their author.
Do Admit! blasts apart the usual constraints of biography and memoir to produce a staggeringly rich work that is just as much a love letter to comics form as it is to the six sisters who so profoundly captured Pond’s imagination.
Of Suerynn’s work they wrote:
Concise in its vision and fully realized from start to finish, Lee’s fifteen-page story is an exquisitely crafted minicomic that demonstrates the unique power of short-form, with Lee’s ink wash, risographed in a deep Prussian blue, proving the perfect visual complement to a narrative about murkiness, fluidity and change.
The Center for Cartoon Studies is a two year art school focused on comics offering master of fine arts degree or one and two year certificates in cartooning.
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