Tag Archives: James Sturm

OPEN HOUSE!

Cartooning, presentations, book signings. Check out the Post Office building and see CCS at its vital best. We love being in this building.

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New Book features CCS Sketchbooks

In the introduction to his new book, Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents, Steven Heller writes that “looking through artists’ sketchbooks is like viewing those artist naked through a picture window.” Although the statement is certainly … Continue reading

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As Sean Howe writes in his entertaining new book, Marvel Comics, The Untold Story, “Shortly before Christmas in 1949, a speaker system was installed in the artists’ rooms. The artists called it the ‘bitch box.’ Every so often you’d hear … Continue reading

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New on the Shelf

Of Crockett Johnson’s two most famous creations, the comic strip Barnaby and the children’s book Harold and his Purple Crayon, it was the former that I admired and the later that I loved. In fact, my children’s GN, Adventures in … Continue reading

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Remembering Ernest

Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012) starred in one of my all-time favorite movies, Marty. Everything about that movie is perfect. Perfect screenplay. Perfect acting. Borgnine plays a sad-sack butcher whose family walks all over him and calls it love. They practically conspire … Continue reading

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CCS Exit Interview: Blaise Larmee

Blaise, along with Julie Delporte, just completed a year-long fellowship at CCS. This e-mail interview was conducted by James Sturm the week following commencement. J: You’ve just spent the last year in WRJ and I feel like I still don’t … Continue reading

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The Cartoon Crier: Read It and Weep

MoCCA Review: Cartoon Crier is “book of the show” at MoCCA! (Actually, it is a newsprint.) Read about it on The Beat! The word “comic” has always been a bit of a misnomer and The Cartoon Crier hopes to set the record … Continue reading

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More 2012 MoCCA and Stumptown Books!

The books just keep a-rolling off the presses in White River Junction, Vermont, so here are some more sneak peeks of books to find this weekend at Stumptown in Portland and MoCCA in NYC! Nomi Kane (CCS ’11) will have … Continue reading

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JP Coovert on your back!

JP Coovert graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2008 and in his creative wake are many great comics and more than one rad t-shirt. What happened after you graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies? JPC: After graduating … Continue reading

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ICAF in Review Redux: The Comics and Pedagogy Roundtable

The first day of the International Comic Arts Forum conference, September 29th, featured a roundtable discussion on the various challenges and considerations facing an educator when trying to introduce comics into the classroom. The afternoon panel was moderated by Associate … Continue reading

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