Stories tagged Stephen R. Bissette

In Stores Now: The Brood by Stephen R. Bissette

The Brood [hardcover] by Stephen R. Bissette

Stephen R. Bissette, beloved CCS faculty, has recently released a new book, Midnight Movie Monograph on The Brood, where he dives into Cronenberg’s movie The Brood. Similar to Bissette’s previous work, Teen Angels and New Mutants, which deconstructs Rick Veitch‘s graphic novel Brat Pack, Bissette takes a forensic and holistic approach to examining the many facets of this dark jewel of horror that he calls Cronenberg’s first masterpiece.

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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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Alum Spotlight: Ross Wood Studlar

Ross Wood Studlar self portrait with komodo dragons

Ross Wood Studlar ’07 became a fan of both Spider-Man and Ranger Rick when he was four. Today he still draws comics and is a park ranger at national parks. He did the following interview with Angela Boyle ’16.

Who was your thesis advisor and why did you choose them? 

Stephen R. Bissette because his comics work, like mine, primarily features wild animals and monsters.

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Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest in Vermont

Tyrant, Issue 1, page 3, by Stephen R. Bissette

The Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest is back on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont. Plenty of folks from The Center for Cartoon Studies will be there: Sandy Bartholomew ′17, Iona Fox ’15, and Stephanie Zuppo ’15 are all going to be there tabling.

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Alum Spotlight: Reilly Hadden’s Astral Birth Canal

Astral Birth Canal cover by Reilly Hadden

Reilly Hadden ′15 is a stay-at-home father and the hard-working cartoonist behind Astral Birth Canal. The 2-year project (and continuing) is a collection of short and longer stories by Reilly that started as part of his thesis project here at The Center for Cartoon Studies. He currently funds his comic work through Patreon, releasing a mini comic every month from eight to sixteen pages. He also posts Patreon-only comics. Reilly did the following interview with Angela Boyle ′16.

Can you define the overarching mythos of the Astral Birth Canal universe?

Astral Birth Canal is a cosmic fantasy comic about gods and monsters and bird people and children in peril. It’s also an ongoing mini-comic anthology where I can make whatever types of comics that I would like, depending on how I’m feeling at any moment. For example, the stories range from giant space gods discussing creationist concepts, to kids dealing with scary monsters, to the current story about a woman who lives in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, who is a pro wrestler and works at Trader Joe’s. So it’s not really a “universe” more like a multiverse, I guess. And in the stories, the “astral birth canal” is a literal road between dimensions/universes/whatever.

Astral Birth Canal page by Reilly Hadden

There are also some side-series that are exclusive to my subscribers on Patreon (wink wink). One is called Finch Island about a middle aged dad on a mid-life crisis nature retreat that’s co-written by my dad (director and playwright John Hadden).

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“The Land of Many Monsters” by Alum Denis St. John

Cover of The Land of Many Monsters by Denis St. John

Fresh from Denis St. John (′08), The Land of Many Monsters: And Many More Monster Tails is now available from WK Books. This 112-page collection is filled with his short horror comics from the last few years. Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing, penciller) wrote a lengthy and funny foreword.

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Vermont Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest

Science comics

April 23, 10am-4pm
Vermont Folkllife Center
Middlebury, Vermont

Non-fiction comics are a vibrant genre. Autobiographical comics have been popular for a while, but as we can see with the popularity of The Nib, journalism comics are a hit. But that is not the end of it. There are comics about science, biographies, and more. So the Vermont Folklife Center is hosting the Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest on April 23 in Middlebury, Vermont.

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At the Junction of Words and Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies

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Guest curator and Professor of English, Craig Fischer as assembled an impressive The Center for Cartoon Studies ten year exhibit currently on exhibit at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. 

Presentation by James Sturm
January 27, 2016, 7pm

At the Junction of Words & Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) exhibit will feature work by CCS faculty and co-founder James Sturm, Stephen R. Bissette and Jason Lutes as well as by CCS Fellows Chris Wright (2008-09), Julie Delporte (2011-12), Connor Willumsen (2012-13) and Sophie Yanow (2014-15). Also included are examples of art by CCS graduates Dan Archer ′08, Charles Forsman ’08, Colleen Frakes ’07, Sophie Goldstein ’13, Luke Howard ’13, Joseph Lambert ’08, Melissa Mendes ’10 and cartoonists who have collaborated with the school on various book projects. 

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The Center for Cartoon Studies Recent Acquisitions

September 7 – October 27, 2012

An exhibition featuring the works of Alison Bechdel, Walter Berndt, Stephen R. Bissette, Charles Burns, Ernie Bushmiller, Roy Doty, Will Eisner, Sam Glanzman, Ray Gotto, Russ Johnson, David Lasky, Harry Lucey, Jim Mooney, Laura Park, Hilary B. Price, John Rose, Richard Thompson, H.T. Webster, and Jim Woodring.

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

94 South Main Street
White River Junction, Vermont

 

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