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The Schulz Library is packed with zines, graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera— an amazing and inspirational resource for The Center for Cartoon Studies students and faculty.
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Summer Workshops Line-Up
Load ‘em up, coach, the summer workshops at The Center for Cartoon Studies are available and waiting for you to fill the field. Here is a loverly run-down of the workshops (including two new ones!) and some of the fantastic … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoonist, Education, Teaching
Tagged Aaron Renier, Alec Longstreth, Beth Hetland, book binding, cartoonists, Children's Books, comic books, comic narrative, Comics, computer, D.B. Johnson, digital production, drawing, Jason Lutes, Jon Chad, José-Luis Olivares, late night, making comics, master class, Paul Karasik, Robyn Chapman, Scott C., screen printing, story structure, summer fun, workshops, writing
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Visiting Artist Jamboree!
This Spring semester at The Center for Cartoon Studies is chock full of amazing cartoonists, spellbinding story-tellers and groundbreaking designers. In a town where you know everyone on the street, it is quite a blast to turn around one afternoon … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoonist, Children Literature
Tagged Albert Ohams, Amy Lockhart, animated films, Astronaut Academy, Battling Boy, cartoonists, Children's Books, Common as Air, Dave Roman, DB Johnson, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, First Second, Graphic Novels, Hooliganship, Jeff Kinney, Joe Lambert, John Stadler, Josh Neufeld, Lewis Hyde, Marc Bell, Nigerian newspaper, Paul Pope, performance art, Peter Burr, Raina Telgemeier, Sam Hiti, Smile, The Cats of Mrs. Calamari, The Gift, The Influencing Machine, The Sun
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Graphic Novels to Buy with those Gift Cards
In the aftermath of the holidays, we’re all working off all those tasty treats and looking forward to 2012. Snowball fights and knitting circles, or barbeques and suntanning for those in warmer climates. More than likely, you or one of … Continue reading
Posted in Children Literature, New Book
Tagged 2011 books, Americus, apocalypse, banned books, best of 2011, Chi's Sweet Home, Children's Books, Colleen AF Venable, comic books, dark comics, Darwin, Evolution, Fish You Were Here, G.B. Tran, gold rush, graphic novel recommendations, Graphic Novels, Guinea Pig, historical fiction, holiday books, Jay Hosler, Jerry Robinson, Jet Scott, Jonathan Hill, Joshua W. Cotter, Kevin Cannon, kittens, Konami Kanata, libraries, manga, memoir comics, MK Reed, non-fiction comics, reading list, Richard Sala, Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Stephanie Yue, The Hidden, The Klondike, Vietnamerica. Vietnam, Zach Worton, Zander Cannon, zombies
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Nursery Rhyme Comics Time
This week, First Second released the Nursery Rhyme Comics book featuring 50 artists telling 50 tales of mirth, merriment and COMICS. Editor Chris Duffy put this magical book together and we are sure it is one for ages. Nursery Rhyme … Continue reading
Comics in the Classroom: Creating Independent Readers
Note: Steve Bissette and I are teaching a course in contemporary comics history (Survey of the Drawn Story II, as it’s properly known). Our students are required to submit an essay, in blog form, on an aspect of contemporary comics history. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Runton, Beth Hetland, Children's Books, comics in the classroom, Owly, reading
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Big and Little
John Stadler recently visited CCS and walked us through one of his most popular books, Big and Little. This book, and several others, are available in the Schulz Library’s Children’s Books section. I originally wrote about Big and Little on … Continue reading