Happy Free Comic Book Day! Drop by the library between 10am-5pm on Saturday, May 6th to pick up a free comic. We will have free comics for kids, teens, & adults. New this year – Tess McCarthy will be joining us to lead a free comics making workshop for kids and teens!
Free Comic Book Day is an annual worldwide event that occurs the first Saturday in May – a day where participating comic shops & libraries give away comic books to readers around the globe. Sponsored by Ukiah Valley Friends ... view more »
Happy Free Comic Book Day! Drop by the library between 10am-5pm on Saturday, May 6th to pick up a free comic. We will have free comics for kids, teens, & adults. New this year – Tess McCarthy will be joining us to lead a free comics making workshop for kids and teens!
Free Comic Book Day is an annual worldwide event that occurs the first Saturday in May – a day where participating comic shops & libraries give away comic books to readers around the globe. Sponsored by Ukiah Valley Friends of the Library. 105 N Main St. Ukiah CA
Tess McCarthy is a (mostly) self-taught cartoonist and illustrator born in Los Angeles, CA. Tess was exposed to comics at an early age: her mom and dad sold dime store comics like Marvel, DC, Betty & Veronica and Spanish language titles. At 13 she drew her own comic strip using the World Book Encyclopedia as her reference guide. Tess learned inking and penciling techniques from the late Alfredo Alcala (Voltar, Swamp Thing and inking for other popular DC titles like Batman) in the 90s and recently studied under Matt Silady (“The Homeless Channel”)She’s been published in zines in the 90s and a series of her editorial cartoons have been published in her undergraduate newspaper The Metropolitan. She was a student member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists from 2005 to 2007. In grad school her serial comic, “Libraries of the Future” were published under the student newsletter, The Descriptor.
Her influences are Alfredo Alcala, Sergio Arragones, Lynda Barry, Roz Chast, Chas Adams, Edward Gorey and Xaime Hernandez.
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