Scholastic Art Comic Contest Winners Announced!

Click here to see and download the winning entries.

Spring Visiting Artist Lineup

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) Spring Visiting Artist lineup is here and CCS is swinging for the fences! See all the professional cartoonists, like Jeff Kinney and Raina Telgemeier, due to visit the school this semester on the Schulz Library blog.

Female Cartoonist Scholarship

The Center for Cartoon Studies is pleased to announce it’s third ever scholarship for a female cartoonist for the 2012-13 school year. The scholarship for $1000 is made possible through the generosity of several female cartoonists. There is no additional application, all female students enrolling in CCS’s MFA or Certificate programs for Fall 2012 will be considered for the scholarship in late May, and scholarship funds will be applied directly to tuition. Click here for Admissions information.

Drawing above by Ivan Brunetti

Portfolio Day

Saturday, March 3
10am-1pm

• Bring your sketchbook!
• Admissions Portfolio Reviews
• Learn more about the program
• Meet faculty and students
• Tour the campus

Who should attend?
Prospective students, applicants, college students, high school seniors and graduates

Space is limited!
Click here to register online

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a course of study designed for a small group of dedicated students with a passion and appreciation for graphic novels, storytelling, writing, drawing, comics, and design. CCS programs include the Master of Fine Arts degree, certificates, and workshops. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes.  Learn more about CCS’s program…

Read our 2011 appeal comic by Gabby Schulz (CCS Fellow ’06).

Make a donation to CCS online today!

Santa Delivers Post Office to Cartoon School

White River Junction, Vermont—Just in time for holidays, The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) received what it’s always wanted: the old post office building in downtown White River Junction.

“It’s CCS’s dream building and we’ve had our eye on it since before the school opened, but unfortunately it wasn’t possible financially,” said Michelle Ollie, CCS president and co-founder.

Enter Bayle Drubel—real estate developer, founding CCS board member and past chair—who purchased the post office in 2004. “CCS received a lot of support both locally and nationally to make this purchase possible, but without the Drubel family’s generosity this wouldn’t happen,” said Michelle Ollie.

The Old Post Office building will provide core instruction space, faculty offices, and will be the new home to The Schulz Library, a one-of-a-kind cartoon collection that was forced to vacate the old firehouse after Hurricane Irene. The building purchase complements CCS’s historic campus buildings in downtown White River Junction, which include its founding headquarters at the Colodny building on South Main Street, and studio space in FairPoint’s generously donated Old Telegraph building on Gates Street.

The Center for Cartoon Studies opened in 2005, and this is the school’s first property purchase. “This is a great facility. CCS feels like it’s about to enter a new chapter in its short, storied existence,” said Warren Bingham, CCS board chair. (more…)

CCS Fellow, Max de Radiguès, is on the OFFICIAL SELECTIONS list for Angoulême!

Meanwhile in White River Junction by CCS Fellow Max deRadigues, makes the short list of OFFICIAL SELECTIONS list for Angoulême.

Read all about it on the Schulz Blog!