Queer Cultural Center's Queer Conversations on Culture & the Arts

Award winning cartoonist, Shing Yin Khor, visits CCA to talk with artist and chair of the CCA Comics Program, Mel Gillman, about making little guys, telling stories with objects, sustaining a multidisciplinary creative career, and the endurance of human-made art.

Shing Yin Khor is an Ignatz and Eisner Award winning cartoonist(The Legend of Auntie Po, Say It With Noodles), Indiecade winning analog game designer(A Mending, Remember August) and puppet filmmaker exploring mythic Americana and the American Dream, in conversation with queer immigrant identity, new diasporic traditions, and rituals of labor. Their multidisciplinary work is anchored in a lineage of ancient physical material and practice (clay, wood, paper) and human mark-making (pencil, chisel, hand).

Mel Gillman is a cartoonist, colored pencil artist, and current Chair of the Comics Program at CCA.  They hold a MFA in comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies, and have been teaching in the Comics MFA Program at CCA since 2015.

Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQ+ topics in the humanities, architecture, design, and the arts. QCCA is an on-going collaboration between the Queer Cultural Center and California College of the Arts.