 In a 2018 interview, Van Sciver said that he did not have plans to draw more "Fante Bukowski" books.Also in 2015, Kilgore Books released Van Sciver's autobiographical mini comic "My Hot Date", which won the 'Best Story' Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo.For the 2015–2016 school year, Van Sciver was a fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Columbus, Ohio.