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Whit Taylor Joins CCS Faculty this Spring

Whit Taylor (Ghost Stories) is joining the faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring as the facilitator of Visiting Artist Seminar. The course features weekly guests including the most celebrated cartoonists, children’s books authors, designers, writers, and designers. Guests share their creative process and professional pathways. In addition to lecturing at CCS as a previous visiting artist, Whit was also the keynote speaker at the International Comics and Medicine Conference in 2019 (see photo above). A big thanks to R. Sikoryak who facilitated the most recent fall term of Visiting Artist Seminar. His Constitution Illustrated was a top ten The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2020.

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New! Talk Dirty To Me by Luke Howard ′13 With AdHouse Books

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“Talk Dirty to Me is a story that even with the minimal colors and surreal art feels painfully real.” –Graphic Policy

“…funny sensitive insightful tale of woman’s struggles with sexuality & self-acceptance.” -Rob Kirby

Order a copy today! 

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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.

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How Do You Make the World’s Best Cartooning Faculty Even Better?

Add R. Sikoryak.

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Cartooning Studio Workshop, Day by Day

The summer 2011 Cartoon Studio workshop has come and gone. If you missed the workshop, we can offer you the next best thing: a daily recap on the Schulz Library blog. Learn about the teachers, the students, and the comics. You will also find short online lessons, taken from the workshop curriculum.

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CCS Denys Wortman exhibition in NYC

The Center for Cartoon Studies
and the Museum of the City of New York present

Denys Wortman Rediscovered:
Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953

Nov 19 through Mar 20

Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 is an exhibition of original cartoon drawings made for the World-Telegram and Sun illustrating episodes of everyday life in New York City.

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Cartoonists Drawn to Vermont

December 31, 2009

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The economy of White River Junction, an aging railroad town in Vermont, has been revitalized by an unlikely source: cartoonists.

The Center for Cartoon Studies, one of the few cartooning schools in the country, attracts a million dollars a year into the local economy, according to the school’s president. That’s not bad for something that was just a dream a few years ago.

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CCS faculty Stephen Bissette’s Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

CCS faculty Stephen Bissette’s share of the book — a full third of the workload — includes a lengthy exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman, as well as chapters on Gaiman’s MIRACLEMAN run and the author’s various comics, graphic novel and movie projects (from the English translation and dub of PRINCESS MONONOKE to BEOWULF and STARDUST). All this (and more) is being published in Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman. Visit the Prince of Stories site.

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Center for Cartoon Studies Scholarship

May 2009

Vermont Department of Libraries

The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont has donated a scholarship for a one week workshop on cartooning to the Department of Libraries!

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