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Summer Workshop: Cartooning Studio

Work on your comics at the Cartooning Studio! This summer, from June 17–21, you can hone your comic skills with Jon Chad (Leo Geo, Science Comics: Volcanoes) and Beth Hetlandm ′11 (Half Asleep).

For 5 days, you will learn through lectures and drawing exercises to develop your characters and environments, strengthen your writing, and practice a variety of inking techniques. And by the end, you and your classmates will get to share your brand-new mini comics with each other.  “You will learn the things you didn’t know you didn’t know!” says previous workshop participant Carolyn from Ann Arbor, MI.

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Summer Workshop Spotlight: Create Comics

Cover of Volcanoes by Jon Chad

Create Comics
July 15-19
Ages 16+

Get started making comics with Luke Howard (Our Mother) and Jon Chad (Leo Geo and Science Comics: Volcanoes), both are instructors at The Center for Cartoon Studies.  This summer from July 15–19, you can work with other new comic creators to produce an anthology in 5 days.

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CCS at Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival

Pulp Culture Comic Arts Fest and Symposium

The Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium is coming up at the end of October. CCS faculty Jason Lutes (Berlin, Drawn and Quarterly, 2018) presented the pre-conference keynote address on September 27. And another CCS faculty, Stephen R. Bissette, provided the excellent Sasquatch illustration for their poster.

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Junior Cartoonists Needed at The Maine Comics Arts Festival


The Center for Cartoon Studies will offer two special workshops for kids at the Maine Comics Arts Festival

One Sheet Comics Workshop
& Monster Alert!

The Fizzmont Institute of Rad Science is looking for young, excited cartoonists that can draw ferocious monsters and deadly dwellers of the deep!  Our famed scientist, Leo Geo, has gone missing on his experiment to the center of the earth, and we need help drawing the monsters that might have taken him!  Join Jon Chad, from The Center for Cartoon Studies, as he leads a monster drawing session and an interactive reading from his new book, Leo Geo.

Also, CCS student Sophie Goldstein will be joining the Web Comics Panel!

For more information on MeCAF’s program, visit: mainecomicsfestival.com

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CCS Faculty Jon Chad’s Leo Geo

“Chad’s inventive vertical artwork acts as a spoonful of sugar to the medicine of geology lessons.” – Publishers Weekly

Buy 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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CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

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.

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

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.

A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

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.

The Applied Cartooning Manifesto

Download a free copy of The World is Made of Cheese, The Applied Cartooning Manifesto.

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