Telling [True] Stories Session
Woodstock Digital Media Festival 2012

Saturday, June 23, 11am

The ʺTelling [TRUE] stories strand of Festival programming brings some of the most innovative leaders of non-fiction narrative forms and platforms to Woodstock where they will share their work and explore the emerging possibilities of the form. For more information, visit: woodstockdigital.com

Visit Dan Archer’s site: archcomix.com

The Center for Cartoon Studies
2012 Thesis Exhibition

An exhibition featuring work by the graduating class of The Center for Cartoon Studies.

Exhibition runs Monday-Saturday, 10am-2pm, through Saturday, June 16.

Location: CCS Gallery, Colodny Building, White River Junction, Vermont.

Click here to see photos of the exhibit online!

July 16-20

Create Comics is fantastic! I highly recommend it for anyone aspiring to become a cartoonist.
-Michael, age 16, Burlington, Vermont

Create Comics Summer Workshop is a ‘boot camp’ for cartoonists. The 5-day workshop packs in the essentials for producing your own comics. For ages 16+

Through lectures, exercises, and group projects, students learn about story structure, page composition, pacing, materials and techniques, character design, environmental drawing, and production. Students collaborate on a comic anthology that they self-publish during the workshop. Create Comics is for both beginner and advanced students age 16 and over. For more information and to register…

Donna Almendrala
Bill Bedard
Ariel Bordeaux
Melanie Gillman
Jai Granofsky
Molly Howard
Sean Knickerbocker
Dakota McFadzean
Katie Moody
Adrienne Núñez
Amelia Onorato
Wade Simpson
Rio Aubry Taylor
Andrew Geer Warner
Dave Weinar
Nate Wootters
Michael Scott King Stanley

And this year’s fellows:
Julie Delporte
Blaise Larmee

See work by the graduates on display now at The Center for Cartoon Studies Thesis Exhibition.  Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10am-2pm, through Saturday, June 16.

Learn more about this amazing carpool of talent. Australian cartoonists come together for a tour of North-Eastern USA and Canada:

caravanofcomics.com

The Center for Cartoon Studies Stumptown Comic Arts Awards 2012 Winners

Best Small Press
Fugue #1 by alum Beth Hetland
Buy a copy of the award winning FUGUE today!

Best Anthology
Lies Grownups Told Me edited by CCS alum Nomi Kane and Jen Vaughn, along with comics librarian Caitlin M.

Click on the image or here to read The Cartoon Crier!

The word “comic” has always been a bit of a misnomer and The Cartoon Crier hopes to set the record straight. Sorrow and woe is the focus of this free 36-page newspaper tabloid that highlights the work of The National Cartoonists Society members and of The Center for Cartoon Studies’ community.

The Cartoon Crier features the saddest strips from iconic comics like Family Circus, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, B.C., and For Better and For Worse. The Cartoon Crier also includes comics by Ivan Brunetti, Mell Lazarus, Melissa Mendes, Joe Lambert, Tom Gammill, Hilary Price, Laura Park, Richard Thompson, and Mo Willems, as well as new work from the paper’s editors, Cole Closser, R. Sikoryak, and James Sturm.

The Cartoon Crier premiered at the 2012 The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival (MoCCA) in New York City and will be available as a free download on May 1 from cartoonstudies.org.

Image above: MONSTER by CCS student Dan Rinylo 

The 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2011. This year, The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Joe Lambert’s I Will Bite You! is a Graphic Novel Finalist!  Buy a copy today!

Workshop the children’s book you’ve always wanted to create with CCS instructors and renowned authors and illustrators.

Children’s Book Workshop
June 25-29

Exploring aspects of writing and illustrating books for children

This new, goal-oriented workshop will explore several aspects of writing and illustrating books for children through hands on exercises and activities. Faculty include celebrated children’s book authors, illustrators, and cartoonists: Scott C. (East Dragon, West Dragon), Jon Chad (Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth), DB Johnson (Creator of Henry Picture Books/image above), James Sturm (Adventures in Cartooning) and Alec Longstreth (Phase 7).

Click here for more information and to register. Space is limited.