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The Obama White House

The White House Office of Digital Strategy approached Carolyn with the concept of creating health care comics for the Affordable Care Act. The First Lady Michelle Obama posted the athletic cartoon on her Instagram and Twitter accounts and it has received nearly 18,000 likes on Instagram. Carolyn’s #GetCovered cartoons have been covered by several news outlets including The Washington Post, CBR (Comic Book Resources), The Blaze, The Patriot Post, ComicsDC, and more.

Fairfax County Public Library

Fairfax County Public Library recognized Carolyn at the Library Board of Trustees meeting for winning their library card design contest. During the event she got to meet the three other illustrators who will also have their designs on cards. The new library cards will be available in 2026 to the public for selection in the 23 FCPL branches (over 1.2 million residents served). The checkout cards come with a keychain version of the card and bookmark.

Baltimore Comic-Con

Carolyn’s art published in the Baltimore Comic-Con Yearbook honoring Strangers In Paradise by Terry Moore.

Curls

Carolyn’s comic strip Curls was first published in The Commonwealth Times, the student newspaper of Virginia Commonwealth University. While earning a BFA degree in Communication Arts and Design, Carolyn began publishing Curls as a webcomic and still continues to do so. In 2010, Curls was nominated for the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale Award to recognize women in cartooning.

Black Magic Tales: Area 52

Since 2013, Carolyn has organized several of the finest cartoonists in the Washington, DC area to devote their time and talents to sketch for blood donors annually during the “Cartoonists Draw Blood” drive with American Red Cross and National Cartoonists Society. The reason is simple: it’s a great opportunity for cartoonists to serve their community while showcasing their art skills and encouraging blood donation. This event expanded our activities beyond the drive by exhibiting work in gallery shows and producing anthology books. This four page story was published in Cartoonists Draw Blood: Monsters (our second anthology) in 2018.

Mine! Anthology

ComicMix contacted Carolyn to contribute a story in their Mine! Anthology and she created a comic about Fania Mindell, one of the three women who created Planned Parenthood. Fania was also a set and costume designer for Broadway theaters in New York. Gerard Way, Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson, Gail Simone, Cliff Chiang, Trina Robbins, Mark Waid, Louise Simonson, Dean Haspiel, Shannon Wheeler, Taylor Esposito, and many other creators were involved with the project.

This book won Best Comics Anthology at Baltimore Comic-Con’s Ringo Awards.

49ers Museum

Levi’s Stadium is the home of the new, 20,000 square-foot 49ers Museum, a first-class celebration of the 49ers past, present and future. The museum is dedicated to its values of education, innovation and heritage and is committed to serving as an exciting, engaging home for fans of all ages. Carolyn was the lead designer for the Team Wall Interactive, a search database where users can find and connect any player by name, number, college, position, state, seasons, awards, and more.

HITT Business Model

Carolyn created several custom graphics, charts, and visual iconography for HITT construction company’s internal Business Model.

District Comics

District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Working with writer Joe Carabeo, Carolyn illustrated and researched their story “Spytini,” about Elizabeth Bentley and her espionage activities inside Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown.

This book won the Shel Dorf Award for Original Graphic Novel of the Year.

Clorox Ick-tionary

The Clorox Company partnered with award-winning writer, comedian, and mom, Carol Leifer, who has written for shows such as Modern Family and Seinfeld, to launch the Clorox Ick-tionary, a wiki-style dictionary of everyday ick that parents everywhere and others are all-too familiar with. 

Carolyn was asked to illustrate some of the definitions in the project and devise concept sketches based on word usage. Once Carolyn’s sketches were approved, she created the final original vector illustrations to showcase the ick.