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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Arwen Donahue for the 2023 Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship

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White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has selected Arwen Donahue as its sixth annual Cornish-CCS Residency Fellowship for Fall 2023. Arwen will be working on a graphic memoir that explores generational legacies of sexual violence and asks how writing and art can play a role in their transformation.

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Tags: Arwen Donahue, Cartoon Studies, CCS Cornish Fellowship Residency, CCS Fellow, Center for Cartoon Studies, Cornish, Graphic Memoir, Hub City, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Humanities Council, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year, LitHub, New Hampshire, The Nib, The Rumpus, This Is Home Now, University Press of Kentucky, Vermont

The Center for Cartoon Studies Has Big Showing in LA Times Book Prize Finalists

Three Cartoon Studies fellows have been nominated for the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel/Comic of the year! They include:

Robyn Smith ’17 for WASH DAY DIARIES (Robyn Smith/Jamila Rowser). Robyn got her MFA at CCS, was a fellow from 2021-22, and is a member of our faculty.

Tommi Parrish for MEN I TRUST. Tommi was a CCS fellow from 2020-21.

Noah Van Sciver for JOSEPH SMITH AND THE MORMONS. Noah was a CCS fellow from 2015-16.

Shoutout to Jamila Rowser, who wrote WASH DAY DIARIES, she was recently a CCS visiting artist.

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Tags: CCS Alum, CCS Fellow, Graphic Novels, LA Times Book Prize, Robyn Smith, Wash Day Diaries

Visiting Artist: MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017), a co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), and editor of Menopause: A Comic Treatment. With Ian Williams, Matthew Noe, and Alice Jaggers, she manages graphicmedicine.org.

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Tags: ArtisTree, CCS Fellow, event, graphic manifesto, Graphic Medicine, MK Czerwiec, Penn State University Press, Taking Turns, Visiting Artist

MK Czerwiec at ArtisTree

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec, 2019 CCS Applied Cartooning Fellow, will be talking about Graphic Medicine at ArtisTree on Saturday, October 12, at 3pm. In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the field of graphic medicine, which integrates the medium of comics with topics of health, illness, caregiving, and disability. MK will lead several exercises exploring the many ways drawing and comics can enhance our processing of health-related experiences. This workshop will appeal to health care workers, authors, artists, academics, and fans of comics and medicine alike. Absolutely no prior experience with comics or drawing required! Preregistration is requested but not necessary.

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Tags: ArtisTree, CCS Fellow, event, graphic manifesto, Graphic Medicine, MK Czerwiec, Penn State University Press, Taking Turns

CARTOONIST TOMMI PARRISH AWARDED FOURTH ANNUAL CORNISH CCS FELLOW

Cover of Tommi Parrish’s 2018 graphic novel *THE LIE and How We Told It*.

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White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Tommi Parrish its fourth annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellow. This month-long fellowship provides a $3000 stipend and housing and studio space on 12 secluded acres in Cornish, NH as well as full access to all The Center for Cartoon Studies resources including The Schulz Library, production lab, and studio space. The fellow was selected from a pool of fifty-five applicants.

Tommi Parrish is a 4-time Ignatz award-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor based in Montreal, QC. Parrish has comics in the permanent collection at the Gallery of Western Australia and has had shows, delivered workshops, and given talks throughout Australia, North America, and Argentina. Their latest work, The Lie and How We Told It (Fantagraphics) won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel. You can find them on Instagram @Tommi_PG.

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Tags: CCS Fellow, Comics, Cornish Fellow, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novel, Harry Bliss, LAMBDA, Lambda Literary Award, Lammy, THE LIE, Tommi Parrish

CCS recent fellow Liniers is a Guest of Honor at MOCCA 2018

Liniers, well-known Argentine cartoonist, The Center for Cartoon Studies 2016-17 Fellow, will be a Guest of Honor at MOCCA (April 7-8, 2018) alongside Roz Chast, Mike Mignola, Nate Powell, and Andrew Aydin. Liniers’s most recent book is Good Night, Planet (2017) from TOON Books, available in Spanish and English. This Level 2 book (for grades 1 and 2) watches what happens when you are asleep and your toys go out to play.

The 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival will take place April 7-8th, 2018 at Metropolitan West in New York City with programming mere steps away at Ink48 (653 11th Ave).

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Tags: Andrew Aydin, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Good Night Planet, Guest of Honor, Liniers, Macanudo, Mike Mignola, MoCCA, Nate Powell, Roz Chast, Society of Illustrators, The Big Wet Balloon, TOON Books, Written and Drawn by Henrietta

Up Next Visiting Artist: Nicole Georges

Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning graphic novelist, professor, and podcaster. She is the author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home (Mariner Books, 2017), Calling Dr. Laura (Mariner Books, 2013), and Invincible Summer. Nicole was The Center for Cartoon Studies 2013/14 Fellow.

Tags: Calling Dr. Laura, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Fetch, Invincible Sumer, Mariner Books, Nicole Georges

Top Two at the Schulz Library

In the last 12 months, two books are sitting at the top of the heap at the Schulz Library as the most checked out: Kevin Czap’s Futchi Perf (Czap Books, 2017) and Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Sex Fantasy (Koyama Press, 2017). To help push them into first place, Czap is the current fellow at CCS (2017–2018).

Futchi Perf is about optimism and community. Perf’s (the title character) idealized future is full of tight and romantic friends, music, and a little bit of urban magic. The book collections a series of short comics set in the same background into a larger, deeper story.

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Tags: Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Czap Books, Fütchi Perf, Graphic Novels, Kevin Czap, Koyama Press, Schulz Library, Sex Fantasy, Sophia Foster-Dimino

Visiting Artist: Kevin Czap

Kevin Czap is a cartoonist and publisher who’s recently found a home in Providence, RI. Known to some as “Comics Mom,” Czap has been active in the scene since 2010, teaching, blogging, cheerleading, and co-organizing a convention in the meantime. They currently are focused on celebrating comics through the micro-press Czap Books, and continuing to put out personal projects.

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Tags: CCS Fellow, CXC, Czap Books, Fütchi Perf, Graphic Novel, Kevin Czap, micro-press, Uncivilized Books

Visiting Artists:
Mo Willems and Liniers

Mo Willems’s work in children’s books, TV, animation, theater, and bubble gum card painting has garnered three Caldecott Honors, two Geisel Medals, five Geisel Honors, three Carnegie Medals, six Emmys, and multiple bubble gum cards. He is best known for his Elephant & Piggie books and worst known for his Cartoon Network TV series, Sheep in the Big City.

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Tags: Alberto Montt, Animation, Argentina, bubble gum cards, Caldecott Honor, Carnegie Medal, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, children's books, Elephant and Piggie, Emmy, Enchanted Lion, Fellow, Geisel Honor, Geisel Medal, Good Night Planet, Liniers, Macanudo, Mad Magazine, Mo Willems, Sheep in the Big City, The Big Wet Balloon, theater, TOON Books, TV, Visiting Artist, Written and Drawn by Henrietta

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.

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Stories tagged CCS Fellow

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Arwen Donahue for the 2023 Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship