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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
| March 3, 2012 |
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!
| January 26, 2012 | to | January 29, 2012 |
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!
Thesis Synopsis by Dakota McFadzean
See the Senior Midterm Thesis Project Synopsis.
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!
| January 26, 2012 | to | January 29, 2012 |
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!
Thesis Synopsis by Dakota McFadzean
See the Senior Midterm Thesis Project Synopsis.
CCS Scholastic Art Magazine Comics Project
Scholastic Art Magazine teams up with The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) to make a hands-on comics classroom project for any age. Featured in this month’s magazine, read by teachers all over the nation, is CCS’s Make a Comic lesson plan with step by step instruction on how to turn one sheet of paper into an 8-page mini comic. In conjunction with this special comics feature, Scholastics announced a national One-Sheet Comic Contest.
CCS Jon Chad’s “Leo Geo” Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
“Chad’s inventive vertical artwork acts as a spoonful of sugar to the medicine of geology lessons.”
Read the full review of Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth, by CCS faculty member Jon Chad, on the Publishers Weekly website.
Vermont Post Irene by Jen Vaughn and SEVEN DAYS Pamela Polston
Read Coming Together Post-Irene by The Center for Cartoon Studies Jen Vaughn and SEVEN DAYS Pamela Polston.
Read the Cartoon Studies HOW TO booklet.
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…
CCS Scholastic Art Magazine Comics Project
Scholastic Art Magazine teams up with The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) to make a hands-on comics classroom project for any age. Featured in this month’s magazine, read by teachers all over the nation, is CCS’s Make a Comic lesson plan with step by step instruction on how to turn one sheet of paper into an 8-page mini comic. In conjunction with this special comics feature, Scholastics announced a national One-Sheet Comic Contest.
CCS Jon Chad’s “Leo Geo” Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
“Chad’s inventive vertical artwork acts as a spoonful of sugar to the medicine of geology lessons.”
Read the full review of Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth, by CCS faculty member Jon Chad, on the Publishers Weekly website.
Vermont Post Irene by Jen Vaughn and SEVEN DAYS Pamela Polston
Read Coming Together Post-Irene by The Center for Cartoon Studies Jen Vaughn and SEVEN DAYS Pamela Polston.
Read the Cartoon Studies HOW TO booklet.
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…
Toy Design Workshop with Claire Sanders
| December 10, 2011 |
Saturday, December 10, 10am-1pm
at The Center for Cartoon Studies
Just in time for the holidays! Professional toy designer Claire Sanders conducts a 3-hour workshop where participants will create their own hand-made plush doll, and learn the process, materials and skills needed to make more at home. (more…)
Berlin by Jason Lutes
The second volume of CCS faculty Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Buy a copy today.
Visiting Artists: Ross Campbell
Ross Campbell’s first published work was for White Wolf’s Exalted series, and he made his comics debut in 2003 with Too Much Hopeless Savages from Oni Press. Since then he has created, written, and illustrated the graphic novels Water Baby for Minx, The Abandoned for Tokyopop, Shadoweyes and Shadoweyes in Love for Slave Labor, and five volumes (soon to be six!) of Wet Moon for Oni. In addition, Campbell has illustrated Spooked for Oni, Hack/Slash #23 for Devil’s Due, contributed to the anthology Meathaus S.O.S., and had a recent near-miss with his one true love, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also continues to work with White Wolf and self-publishes his series Mountain Girl when he finds the time.
See The Center for Cartoon StudiesVisiting Artist Blog for a complete line up of upcoming and recent visiting artists.
CCS Alumni to Exhibit at Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
| December 3, 2011 |
CCS alumni have been invited to exhibit at Brooklyn’s favorite curated comics show, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. The one-day festival will be held on Saturday, December 3. Be sure to stop by the Secret Acres table, where you can pick up the latest comics by Sam Gaskin and Gabby Schulz. The Sundays collective, which includes Joseph Lambert, Charles Forsman, Sean Ford, Melissa Mendes, and José-Luis Olivares, will also return to the festival.
The Comics Journal Features Cartoon Essay by CCS Student Cole Closser
The Center for Cartoon Studies student and archivist Cole Closser (CCS ’13): A comic strip essay on Charles Forbell’s Naughty Pete. See the entire strip on The Comics Journal.
Upcoming CCS Events
- March 3, 2012:
Jeff Kinney, creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid stopped by! Nice words from this hardworking man on the Schulz Library Blog:... - 9 hours ago
CCS '10 alumni Laura Terry and Jen Vaughn celebrate their Classic Lit/Modern Art show tonight at from 5-7pm Rosey Jekes in Hanover! - 10 hours ago
You have exactly one month to get your comic work ready for Portfolio Day in March! See you there: http://t.co/XJ3rPCHW - 12 hours ago
Jeff Kinney, creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, soared into town for a quick Visiting Artist Lecture! - 1 day ago
James Sturm salutes CCS Fellow Max de Radigues who is at Angouleme Comics Fest with a portrait! http://t.co/yYPuQfYn - 1 week ago
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