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Next Up Visiting Artist: Peter Bagge

Alternative comic creator Peter Bagge is best known for the ‘90s comic series Hate, featuring the semi-autobiographical anti-hero Buddy Bradley, and whose ad- ventures have been collected in two volumes: Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey, both from Fantagraphics. Prior to Hate, Bagge wrote and illustrated the comic book series Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics), and has since written two humor titles for DC: Yeah! and Sweatshop.

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Tags: Apocalypse Nerd, Buddy Does Jersey, Buddy Does Seattle, cartoonstudies, Credo, Dark Horse, DC, Drawn and Quarterly, Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me, Fantagraphics, Fire, Founding Fathers Funnies, Hate, MAD, Other Lives, Peter Bagge, Reason Magazine, Reset, Sweatshop, Vertigo, Visiting Artist, Woman Rebel, Yeah

Visiting Artist: KC Green

KC Green has completed work for Mad Magazine, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and probably others. He’s most known for the phrase/comic “this is fine” where a dog burns to his supposed death. But it is a cartoon, so no one takes it that seriously.

Tags: Adult Swim, Boom! Studios, Cartoon Network, CCS Visiting Artist, KC Green, MAD, Mad Magazine, Oni Press, this is fine, Web Comic

Visiting Artist: R. Sikoryak

R. Sikoryak’s books include Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly). He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Onion, SpongeBob Comics, MAD, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and more. He’s hosted his Carousel comics performance series around North America since 1997.

Tags: MAD, Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak, SpongeBob comics, Terms and Conditions, The New Yorker

Visiting Artist: Peter Kuper

Peter Kuper’s illustrations and comics appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY every month. He has written and illustrated many books including Comics Trips, a journal of an eight-month trip through Africa and Southeast Asia. Other works include Stripped – An Unauthorized Autobiography, Mind’s Eye, The System, a wordless graphic novel and adaptations of numerous short stories of Franz Kafka collected in Give It Up!. In 1979 he co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated and remains on its editorial board to this day. Since 1986 he has taught courses in comics and illustration at the School of Visual Arts and currently at Parsons in New York City and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group syndicated through the web at inxart.com.

Tags: INX, MAD, Newsweek, Peter Kuper, political cartoon, Spy vs Spy, Time, World War 2 Illustrated

Al Jaffee’s Wild Pitches

An exhibition of never-before-seen comic strips and panels from the early 1950s by the legendary MAD cartoonist

November 2 – December 6

Location:
The Center for Cartoon Studies Gallery
94 South Main Street
White River Junction, Vermont

Gallery hours:
Fridays, 12-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm

Tags: 1950s, Al Jaffee, Cartoon Exhibit, cartoonist, CCS Gallery, Center for Cartoon Studies, Comics, MAD, Vermont, White River Junction

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 Center for Cartoon Studies

Stories tagged MAD

Next Up Visiting Artist: Peter Bagge

Visiting Artist: KC Green

Visiting Artist: R. Sikoryak

Visiting Artist: Peter Kuper

Al Jaffee’s Wild Pitches

MFA and Certificate Program

Make a Gift to CCS

Online and In-person Workshops

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Cartoon Club

The Schulz Library

FREE! ONE-WEEK CARTOONING WORKOUT

A Free One-Week Cartooning Workout

THE ED KOREN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

BIPOC Cartoonist Fund Accepting Donations

FREE COMICS

CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

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

A 32-page comic on how our government works

The Applied Cartooning Manifesto