The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow

The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow is the highly anticipated second graphic novel from Keren Katz. Her debut, the Academic Hour (Secret Acres), was nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist and received the 2018 Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic.Katz is a Center for Cartoon Studies fellow, and recipient of the Sequential Artists Workshop's Micro-Grant, the Society of Illustrators' Silver Medal and the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art's Award of Excellence.Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Ink Brick and Time Out and her short stories have been published by NOW, Locust Moon Comics and the Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press).Keren Katz lectures regularly in Israel and in Europe. In the US, she has presented at the Parsons School of Design, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania. Katz will tour North America, Israel and Europe in support of the Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow, with a planned preview excerpt to appear in the New Yorker.