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Tags: Alum, Alumni, Book People, Boston Book Festival, Brazos Bookstore, Cartoon School, Center for Cartoon Studies, Chevaliers, Comic, Comic Art, First Second, Graphic Novel, MICE, On A Sunbeam, Print Bookstore, Study Comics, The Novel Neighbor, Tillie Walden, White River Junction
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White River Junction – Though over 3,700 miles apart, The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) in Vermont and The Graphic Storytelling program at The Animation Workshop (TAW) of VIA University College in Denmark, have a lot in common including a dynamic curriculum taught by some of the best cartoonists working today that nurtures up and coming visual storytellers.
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Tags: Applied Cartooning, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Comic Art, Comics, Denmark, Graphic Storytelling, International program, MFA, Study Comics, The Animation Workshop, Vermont, VIA University, Viborg
Lucy Knisley (’09) is the Creator Keynote Speaker for the Michigan State University Comics Forum 2018. Last year, our very own James Sturm (Market Place) was the Creator Keynote Speaker. The Forum is a multi-day event every year for scholars, creators, and fans of comics. As the creator keynote, Lucy got to draw the poster for the event.
Lucy brings a lot of experiences to talk about. Since 2008, she has published five graphic novels: French Milk, Relish, An Age of License, Displacement, and Something New. All are autobiographical. She has also drawn the children’s book Margaret and the Moon, written by Dean Robbins, about how Margaret Hamilton calculate the first moon landing. And still to come are New Kid about Lucy’s high-school years, Kid Gloves about becoming a parent, and You Are New, a children’s book about what babies can and cannot do.
Santiago Naranjo (′16) reading Something New by Lucy Knisley
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Tags: Cartoon Studies, CCS Alum, Comic Art, Comics, James Sturm, keynote speaker, Lucy Knisley, Michigan State University Comics Forum, MSU
Friday, November 3, 6:3o pm
at The Center for Cartoon Studies
Old Post Office campus building, 46 South Main Street
Open to the public. Doors open at 6:3o pm. Talk begins at 6:45pm.
Juliacks is the writer and creator of Architecture of an Atom (2d Cloud, 2017). This graphic novel was developed and completed at the residencies Martha Street Studios (Winnipeg,) Entreprise Culturelle (Paris,) BHQFU (New York City), and De Ateliers (Amsterdam) and in New Jersey. From 2010–2016, Juliacks co-created this nonlinear, transmedia narrative. Working with artistic communities and groups of Lyon, Stockholm, Gotland, Helsinki, Rome, Winnipeg, New York, Copenhagen, and Malmö, she devised a searching, functional, method-based system to create a series of abstract fictional and site-specific films. These works have exhibited, screened, and performed at museums (MoMA PS1, Moderna, MAC-Lyon, Centre-Geneva, Kiasma), galleries (Silberkuppe, Essex Flowers, Salon de Montrouge), film and comics festivals (Cineglobe, Zinebi, Crack, Antimatter, Cine-Rebis), and alternative art spaces (Néon, Atomic Centre, GrrrndZero) in North America and Europe. Fiction, and its layered construction, is the basis of Juliacks’s work, which takes the form of books, films, theater, performance, installations, paintings, tapestries, and comics. Her current project, Transversal Scepters | The Antecedents, crosses time by using criminal archives and technologies from the 17th and 21st century in the Netherlands and North America as touchstones to hallucinate alternative futures. This project has been awarded with a research development grant from the Mondriaan Fonds. Juliacks is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, and the ENSBA-Lyon, Néon, LA BOX, De Ateliers residencies and grants.
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Tags: 2d Cloud, Architecture of an Atom, Cartoon Studies, Comic Art, Filmmaking, First Friday, Graphic Novel, Juliacks, residencies, Visiting Artist
Hal Mayforth, Meags Fitzgerald, Chuck Forsman ’08, Melissa Mendes ’10, Susie Cagle, Leslie Stein, John Martz, Bill Griffith, Jen Vaughn ’10, Rutu Modan.
Tags: Bill Griffith, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Chuck Forsman, Comic Art, Comic book, Comics, Graphic Novel, Hal Mayforth, Jen Vaughn, John Martz, Leslie Stein, Meags Fitzgerald, Melissa Mendes, Rutu Modan, Sequential Art, Susie Cagle, visual narrative
The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is proud to announce its 2015-16 fellow, Noah Van Sciver. Noah is an accomplished cartoonist whose work has appeared in Mad magazine, The Best American Comics, The Believer, Wired, Vice and The Stranger, as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver has four graphic novels: The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Youth Is Wasted, Saint Cole and Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer.
Currently living in Denver, Van Sciver is “…looking forward to coming to White River Junction this fall, meeting and working with this year’s students and finishing my book on Johnny Appleseed.”
This is the tenth year of CCS’s fellowship program. To support their work, fellows are provided studio space, a full access pass to CCS’s programing, production lab, and Schulz Library as well as afforded teaching opportunities.
CCS’s current fellow is Sophie Yanow; past fellows include Nicole Georges, Connor Willumsen, Julie Delporte, Blaise Larmee, David Libens, Max de Radigues, Alec Longstreth, Chris Wright, T. Edward Bak, Gabby Schulz, and Robyn Chapman.
Tags: Alec Longstreth, Blaise Larmee, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Chris Wright, Comic Art, Connor Willumsen, David Libens, Fantagraphics, Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer, Gabby Schulz, Julie Delporte, Max de Radigues, Nicole Georges, Noah Sciver, Robyn Chapman, Saint Cole, Schulz Library, Study Comics, T. Edward Bak, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Vermont, White River Junction, Youth Is Wasted
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 offers the Master of Fine Arts degree and certificates. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes. Learn how to apply…
Tags: Cartooning, Center for Cartoon Studies, Certificates, Comic Art, MFA, Sequential Art, Study Comics, Workshops
WILL EISNER WEEK LECTURE
at The Center for Cartoon Studies
CCS Fellow Sophie Yanow
Thursday, March 5, 3-5pm
Location: The Center for Cartoon Studies, Post Office building, 46 South Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont. Free and open to the public.
In celebration of Will Eisner Week, Sophie Yanow, CCS fellow and cartoonist from Northern California whose work fluctuates between the macro and the micro, will talk about her approach to nonfiction, autobiography, and poetry in comics making. For more information on Sophie Yanow, visit situology.com
Will Eisner (1917-2005) was America’s most influential comic artist, an artist who changed comic books, created comic strips, and is recognized at the “Father of the Graphic Novel.”
For a list of all upcoming CCS Will Eisner Week events, click here.
Tags: Cartooning, Comic Art, Comic Books, Comic Strip, Comics, Graphic Novel, Sophie Yanow, Will Eisner, Will Eisner Week
“Paul Karasik has a kind of intelligence combined with earnestness that comes from someplace deep not a recipe book. He is very, very, very intelligent.”
– Art Spiegelman
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, “MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale”
Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level?
Put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a week in White River Junction, Vermont. Workshop instructor Paul Karasik is a cartoonist (The New Yorker, City of Glass), a comics scholar (I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, How To Read Nancy), and a renowned teacher who really knows how to take good cartoonists and make them better.
Summer 2014
Graphic Novel Workshop dates:
Session I: August 4-8
(SOLD OUT!)
Session II: August 11-15
Optional online extension:
August 18 – October 10
Click here for more information and to register!
“If you ever had any interest in taking a comics class, I recommend THIS ONE. Paul is probably one of the most insightful and all around influential and amazing teachers I’ve ever had…I give this class ten thumbs up, if I only had thumbs for each finger.” – Heather Benjamin, Cartoonist
Tags: Cartooning, cartoonist, CCS, Comic Art, Comics, Graphic Novel Workshop, Paul Karasik, Summer Workshop, Vermont
A free self-directed eCourse to improve your cartooning skills. Online, Start Anytime!
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CCS wants your old comics! These comics and many more were donated to support CCS's BIPOC Cartoonist Fund. If you're interested in making a comic book or cash donation drop us a line.
Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.
Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.
Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.
Download a free copy of The World is Made of Cheese, The Applied Cartooning Manifesto.
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