Hot COCO Issue 1

HOT COCO a CCAD Comics Student Collective Anthology

ISSUE 1

Spring 2018

Table of Contents 3 Baku by Sara Guzman

4 Stop by Sidney Gale

6 Self Care by Melody Bartlett

7 Let’s Go Stargazing by Emily Shea

10 Raining by Han Donovan

12 The Lady who Swallowed a Fly by Reagan Baker

14 The 13th Child by David O’Neil

20 Morning Routine by Stasha Gacpar

21 Snitches get Eaten by Hyenas by Lexi Ramos

24 How to Bengal by Isabel Henry

25 Sketchbook Thoughts by Khi Ruiz

30 Frog Legs by Sidney Gale

34 Cupcake Adventure #1 by Lexi Ramos 37 Taco Tragedy by Laura Pendl

40 Into the Forest of the Gods by Benjamin Britton Durell 46 Jam Comics

56 Contributor bios 59 About us

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Baku by Sara Guzman

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Stop by Sidney Gale

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Self Care by Melody Bartlett

Let’s Go Stargazing by Emily Shea

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Raining by Han Donovan

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The Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Reagan Baker

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The 13th Child by David O’Neil

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Morning Routine by Stasha Gacpar

Snitches get Eaten by Hyenas by Lexi Ramos

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How to Bengal by Isabel Henry

Sketchbook Thoughts by Khi Ruiz

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Frog Legs by Sidney Gale

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Cupcake Adventure #1 by Lexi Ramos

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Taco Tragedy by Laura Pendl

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Jam Comics What is a Jam Comic? A jam comic is an improvised collaborative comic wherein one person draws a single panel and then passes it on to the next person, whose job it is to draw a new panel that continues the story.

On April 6th, 2018, this is exactly what 9 brave members of COCO did! Enjoy the crazy, chaotic, heart-warming stories to follow, created by Emily Shea, Laura Pendl, Khi Ruiz, Noah Egger, Alison Hess, Benjamin Britton Durell, John Martino, and Andrew Frey.

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Contributors

Reagan Baker is a first year CCAD comics major, a lover of cartoons, and dogs. When not working with dogs, Reagan is found drawing them!

DeviantArt: Demonlupin Instagram: Demonlupin Melody Bartlett I am a 2D animation major at CCAD from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area. I was born in the country and moved to the city as a teenager, where I went to high school and decided to become an animator after taking an interest in animated television shows and drawing.

Since then, I have been drawing both as a passion and as a job, and couldn’t be happier with the career I am headed towards.

Instagram: melbartart Twitter: melbartart Website: melodybartlettanim.wixsite.com/mysite Han Donovan aka HAN DON, is a comics artist, illustrator, writer, and friend. She creates journalistic art mostly inspired by her observations of the midwestern world around her or the anxieties that come along with life. She loves to sleep.

Instagram: Handonnievan Benjamin Britton Durell is an accidental comics artist and an intentional storyteller. He enjoys making comics about sword fighting, mysterious wanderers and his own life. He also thinks worms are super interesting if you just take the time to look down.

Instagram: bendurell

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Stasha Gacpar is a Serbian-American illustrator. She is an illustrator and an enthusiast of archeology. She uses history, culture, and diversity to influence her illustrations and character designs. She spends most of her time drinking coffee and tweeting history facts. instagram: Gacpars artstation: gacpars Sidney Gale is a Sophomore Animation major with a focus in 2D. She enjoys drawing yellow birds, College Preview, and making her friends laugh. Storytelling has always been important to her - whether it’s in animation, illustration, or comics. She hopes to one day have a hand in creating a TV show for Cartoon Network.

Instagram: sidneygale Sara Guzman is an illustration junior that plans to conquer the cartooning community by inking with one hand and eating a burger with the other.

Instagram: sroseguzman Website: sroseguzman.com Isabel Henry I’m a 3D Animation major pursuing game art and character design. Illustration is my first passion and I like to challenge myself to see how I can apply my skills in other areas.

INstagram: sabelstyle David O’Neil is a Junior Illustration Major who loves drawing monsters, aliens, and everything fantastical. He’s currently creating illustrations, comics, and animations in his own cartoon-y style inspired by the kinds of comics and shows he enjoyed growing up.

Instagram: davidoneil8

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Laura Pendl majors in Comics and Narrative Practice at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Her writing style usually involves a satirical view on horror and “what if” situations. She has a habit of either rendering too much or not enough, however the stories help distract from that.

Lexi Ramos is an artist living in Ohio who enjoys creating characters and experimenting with storytelling, and also makes a series of zines based on useless facts and exercise.

She’s currently in the process of putting together two comics, The Trouble with Oakland , and Cupcake Kids take on the World.

Instagram: outraged_artist KHIARAH RUIZ-RODRIGUEZ or KHI RUIZ, is a Puerto Rican comics creator living in Ohio. She makes comics based on her random thoughts and dreams. Her current comic series in the works is called “Unstoppable”, a story of four girls in high school marching band becoming mages to save the realm of Dreamscape. She also designs show shirts for her high school marching band in Vandalia, Ohio. Khi loves to tell stories about her marching band shenanigans and her thoughts on music she played during her time as a flute player, which are her biggest inspirations for her works.

Khi believes herself to be a duelist, a gamer, and an Aviator with the heart of an artist and musician.

Facebook: Flying Ace Cartoonist Instagram: flyingacecartoonist_khi Twitter: FlyinAceKhi Tumblr: flyingacecartoonistkhi DeviantArt: FlyingAce-KhiRuiz Emily Shea or MushmoomArt, is a comic creator, illustrator, and perpetuator of general nonsense. She enjoys sleeping, cats, and her friends.

Instagram: MushmoomArt Twitter: MushmoomArt Tumblr: MushmoomArt

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About COCO

COCO is Columbus COllege of art and Design’s Comics and Narrative Practice Student Collective, founded in 2018. We are dedicated to beinxg an inclusive Group for comic creators and lovers alike. Our goal is to strengthen the community within the comics major and all comics appreciators and casual creators on campus.

HOt COCO is COCO’s anthology, published once a semester. Work is submitted from contributors all across CCAD campus. Hot COCO exists as an opportunity for the comics work of our students to be distributed and read by many!

Special Thanks to Dr. Jeremy Stoll, COCO Faculty Advisor.

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ISSUE 1 EDITED BY BENJAMIN BRITTON DURELL AND HAN DONOVAN