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Keith Knight’s “K Chronicles” in Vermont Seven Days

Seven Days, the Vermont alt-weekly, now includes K Chronicles by Keith Knight. Knight, a recent visiting artist at The Center for Cartoon Studies, has been publishing his semi-autobiographical webcomic since 1993 and it is syndicated across the country. In 2015, Knight published a collection of 20 years of strips commenting on police brutality, They Shoot Black People, Don’t They? With the current political and social issues, his body of work is even more important. As Seven Days writes, “Black Lives Matter protests across the country show: Art about race and racism is as much a part of this moment as COVID-19 case counts.”

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MariNaomi’s Cartoonists databases for visibility, academia, inspiration, and community building

When someone is looking to recruit creators for their comics, MariNaomi has put together some fantastic databases: Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists. These databases spotlight marginalized comics creators and are used by booksellers, librarians, academics, editors, book publishers, event organizers, readers, and more.

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Tags: black lives matter, Cartoonists of Color, CCS Visiting Artist, Disabled Cartoonists, MariNaomi, Queer Cartoonists

CCS Visiting Artist: Lucy Bellwood

Lucy Bellwood is a professional Adventure Cartoonist and educator based in Portland, OR. Her documented expeditions include rafting trips through the Grand Canyon, cutting-edge oceanography in the Pacific, and an expedition aboard the last wooden whaling ship in the world. Her talks and essays explore the intersections of community, authenticity, and financial
sustainability for creators. She is the author of Baggywrinkles: a Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea (Toonhound, 2016), an educational memoir about her time working aboard tall ships, and 100 Demon Dialogues (Toonhound, 2018), a helpful guide to living with imposter syndrome.

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Tags: 100 Demon Dialogs, Baggywrinkles: a Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea, cartoonist, CCS Visiting Artist, Graphic Novel, Lucy Bellwood

Upcoming Visiting Artist: Campbell Whyte

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Campbell Whyte was born in Perth, Western Australia, and makes comics that explore the play between the fantastical, the historical, and the autobiographical. His Eisner-nominated graphic novel, Home Time (TopShelf, 2017), took almost ten years to make and is a wild adventure through a Perth of the imagination.

When not making comics, he runs the monthly Comics Maker Network, teaches comics-making at the children’s art school Milktooth, and helps coordinate the annual Perth Comic Arts Festival.

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Visiting Artist: KC Green

KC Green has completed work for Mad Magazine, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and probably others. He’s most known for the phrase/comic “this is fine” where a dog burns to his supposed death. But it is a cartoon, so no one takes it that seriously.

Tags: Adult Swim, Boom! Studios, Cartoon Network, CCS Visiting Artist, KC Green, MAD, Mad Magazine, Oni Press, this is fine, Web Comic

Visiting Artist: Hillary Chute

Hillary Chute’s book Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere will be out from HarperCollins in December 2017. She has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University and is professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She is also the author of Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form (Belknap, 2016), Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press, 2010), as well as associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus (Pantheon). She has collaborated with cartoonists such as Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel, and has written for publications including Artforum, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry.

Tags: Belknap, Cartoon Studies, CCS Visiting Artist, Disaster Drawn, Graphic Women, Hillary Chute, MetaMaus, Outside the Box, Pantheon, Visiting Artist, Why Comics

Next Up: Paige Braddock

Paige Braddock’s long-running comic strip, Jane’s World, was the first gay-themed work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate in the U.S. Braddock is also the creative director at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. She has illustrated several Peanuts children’s books and the Snoopy U.S. postage stamp, issued in April 2001, was designed by Braddock. In 2008, Braddock co-created a line of science-fiction graphic novels with writer Jason McNamara titled, The Martian Confederacy and in 2015, she began publishing her own line of graphic novels for children with Andrews McMeel titled Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue and Stinky Cecil in Terrarium Terror. She has also written a series of lesbian romance novels with this publisher under the pen name, Missouri Vaun.

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Next Up: Industry Day

In addition to our weekly Visiting Artist Seminar, a special Industry Day event is scheduled every spring. Professionals from the comics industry descend on White River Junction and The Center for Cartoon Studies. The entire day is set aside for the event with guests take part in a panel where the state of the comics industry and publishing are discussed at length. This year’s guests include Robyn Chapman (First Second), Calvin Reid (Publisher’s Weekly), Sheila Keenan (Penguin Random House), Tanya McKinnon (McKinnon McIntyre Literary Agency), Kevin Czap (Czap Books).

Tags: Calvien Reid, CCS Visiting Artist, Czap Books, First Second, Industry Day, Kevin Czap, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Robyn Chapman, Sheila Keenan, Tanya McKinnon

Visiting Artist: Rebecca Mock

Rebecca Mock speaks at The Center for Cartoon Studies.

An instant favorite, Rebecca Mock spoke frankly about the trials and tribulations in pricing her work. She discussed openly how she prices her work now because it benefits only the big companies when artists don’t engage in conversation about how much they make. Rebecca is a freelance illustrator, comic book artist, and animator. Her first graphic novel, Compass South, was written by Hope Larson.

Rebecca Mock explains.

Rebecca is most well known for her beautiful art and “quitely contemplative” gifs, as Benjamin Starr wrote on Visual News. The students asked about how she gets her atmospheric color palettes. The trick is that she uses swatches to easily change the colors. Then she goes through forty or fifty iterations before finally finding the colors she likes.

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Tags: Cartoon Studies, CCS Visiting Artist, Compass South, gifs, Hope Larson, Illustrator, Rebecca Mock, Schulz Library, Visiting Artist

Visiting Artist: Ken Fisher

Ruben Bolling is a pseudonym for Ken Fisher, the author of Tom the Dancing Bug. His pieces demonstrate concern about the power of large corporations and satires about the way government has been corrupted by money, and, particularly since 9/11, Bolling’s concerns of war.

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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 Visiting Artist

Keith Knight’s “K Chronicles” in Vermont Seven Days

MariNaomi’s Cartoonists databases for visibility, academia, inspiration, and community building

CCS Visiting Artist: Lucy Bellwood

Upcoming Visiting Artist: Campbell Whyte

Visiting Artist: KC Green

Visiting Artist: Hillary Chute

Next Up: Paige Braddock

Next Up: Industry Day

Visiting Artist: Rebecca Mock

Visiting Artist: Ken Fisher

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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