Frances Cannon

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Spotlight: “Rooftops of My Youth” by Frances Cannon

January 23rd, 2018

A comic describing the illustrator’s childhood adventures and misadventures climbing rooftops of all sorts.

Frances Cannon is a writer and artist of hybrid mediums, and is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press). She has an MFA from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, and a BFA from the University of Vermont. She has a book of poems and illustrations, Tropicalia (Vagabond Press), and a book of poems and prints, Uranian Fruit (Honeybee Press). She has also contributed to VICE, McSweeney's Quarterly, The Believer, The Lucky Peach, and The Iowa Review, with work forthcoming through the New York Times. Frances is now working as an instructor of visual and literary arts at the Shelburne Craft School in Vermont and through her own consulting business, the C.I.C.A.D.A. School. You can find more of her work at frankyfrancescannon.com.