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2024 Thesis Exhibition

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! An exhibit featuring work by the graduating class is on display at the CCS Gallery. The gallery is located at 94 South Main Street, in downtown White River Junction, in the Colodny building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm. The Thesis Exhibition will be on display and open to the public from May 8th to May 31st.

The Commencement Speaker for the class of 2024 is Ngozi Ukazu. Ngozi is a New York Times-bestselling cartoonist, a DC Comics artist, and the creator of the award-winning graphic novel Check, Please!, BUNT, and has a forthcoming graphic novel FLIP. Check, Please! began as a popular webcomic, noted as the highest funded project in Kickstarters history. The series won numerous awards including the Reuben and the William Morris Award. Check Please has also been translated into multiple languages. Since 2020 her cartoons have also appeared in The New Yorker. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing and The Arts, and later received a master’s in sequential arts and comics.  Commencement will be held on Monday, May 6th, at 12 noon at Northern Stage’s The Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction.

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Sasha Velour ‘13 Designed Pride Cover of The New Yorker

Happy Pride! Our very own Sasha Velour ‘13 designed the 6/12/23 New Yorker cover, “The Look of Pride.”

Sasha spoke with The New Yorker’s art editor, Françoise Mouly, about the power of drag: “Queer expression, including drag, is the ultimate proof that a person can decide for themselves how to dress, dance, act, and live . . . and still find success, or a life worth living. Drag shows us that we don’t need to be afraid of who we are . . . and, if anything, we should exaggerate our quirks!”

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CCS Alum and Faculty in The New Yorker

Congratulations to Lillie Harris ’21 and Daryl Seitchik ’18 with cartoons in recent issues of The New Yorker! The New Yorker is one of those pinnacles of achievement for a lot of cartoonists, so a lot of hard work goes into getting a comic accepted. Many CCS alum and faculty cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker! The November 20th The New Yorker “Daily Shouts” featured faculty Glynnis Fawkes cartoon “2020 As A Newborn” which reflects on parenting during a pandemic.

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Student Emma Hunsinger ′20 gets Assignment published in The New Yorker

Panel 5 of Emma Hunsinger’s How to Draw a Horse

The Center for Cartoon Studies student Emma Hunsinger ′21 has a comic, How to Draw a Horse, in the current print edition of The New Yorker. Spanning 10 pages in print, the comic initially ran online in May 2019 and was the most popular content on TheNewYorker.com. This comic began as a class assignment.

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Visiting Artist: Lauren Weinstein

Comic page by Lauren Weinstein

Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist and artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. Her acclaimed comic Normel Person was the last weekly comic strip to run in The Village Voice. This year, Weinstein’s Being an Artist and a Mother won a Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, and was published in Best American Comics 2019. Her most recent novella, Mother’s Walk, was selected for the latest issue of Frontier. Weinstein is also the author of three books: Inside Vineyland (Alternative Comics, 2003), the teenage memoir Girl Stories (Henry Holt and Co., 2006), and Goddess of War (Picturebox, 2008). She has received two Ignatz Awards among other nominations. In 2015, Weinstein was awarded the Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators for Carriers, her five-part webcomic about cystic fibrosis that was first published in Nautilus. Weinstein earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

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Visiting Artist: Liana Finck

Cover of Passing for Human by Liana Finck

Liana Finck’s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, and on her Instagram feed. Her most recent book is Passing for Human (Random House, 2018).
Comic by Liana Finck; says "All right, boys and girls, we've had our fun."

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Meet New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren for the release of his new collection, In The Wild

The New Yorker cartoonist and Brookfield, Vermont resident ED KOREN releases a new book and has several appearances scheduled in Vermont and New Hampshire, including in Norwich and Woodstock!

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

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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.

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