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Alum Spotlight: Eleri Harris

From “Dark Arts” on The Nib, by Eleri Harris

Eleri Harris ′14 is the deputy editor at The Nib and a swift cartoonist. Based in Australia, she has posted four comics on The Nib already this year, in addition to her editorial duties.

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Alum Dan Archer’s Daily Draw shows the Pyeongchang 2018 Games from a different perspective

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Take The Center for Cartoon Studies ONE-WEEK CARTOONING WORKOUT

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Need a refresher regimen to get you back into a creative groove?  Whether you are interested in graphic memoir, comics journalism, or fantasy genres, this seven-day email course is designed to help build your cartooning muscles. Click here to sign up!

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Visiting Artist: Susie Cagle

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Susie Cagle is a 2015-2016 John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she researches labor shifts, employment trends, and sustainable cooperative models to support freelance workers in media and other industries. She is a columnist at Pacific Standard, and a frequent contributor of journalism to other outlets such as the Guardian, Forbes, Next City, Aeon, and others. Susie’s work has been featured on NPR, in Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Print Magazine, BoingBoing and others, and she’s spoken at South by Southwest, Adobe MAX, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has been honored with awards from the Online Journalism Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. Susie has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia.

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Alum Dan Archer Keynote Speaker at Digital Media Festival

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The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Dan Archer ′08 to speak on transmedia storytelling at the Woodstock Digital Media Festival, Friday October 16.

Dan Archer is a graphic journalist who uses comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues in situations where video or photographic equipment is inappropriate or, at worst, traumatic for those involved.

Archer is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies, was a 2014-2015 RJI Fellow and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught nonfiction graphic novel writing from 2008 to 2014. His current work explores the crossover of interactive comics with transmedia storytelling and virtual reality.   Archer’s work has been published by the BBC, CBC, Vice magazine, Fusion, San Francisco Public Press, American Public Media, Truthout and PBS.

Read more about Dan’s work and the Woodstock Digital Media Festival in Seven Days!

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Visiting Artist: Herblock Prize Winner Jen Sorensen

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Jen Sorensen is a nationally-syndicated political cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Nation, Daily Kos, Austin Chronicle, NPR, Ms., Politico, and many other publications. In 2000 she won a Xeric grant to publish her first collection of strips. She was the recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Jen was once clue “12 down” in the Time Out New York crossword puzzle and her work made cameos on the “Queer as Folk” television series. Sorensen is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and National Cartoonists Society. For more information and links to Jen Sorensen’s work, visit:  jensorensen.com

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Visiting Artist: CCS Alum Dan Archer

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Dan Archer creates non-fictional, journalistic comics to offer a new perspective on US foreign and domestic policy and give voice to stories that wouldn’t otherwise be heard. His journalistic pieces have been published by the Huffington Post, Alternet, The Guardian UK, Presente, Operamundi (Brazil), Expressbuzz (India) and Independent World Report. He was recently awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford University and received his MFA in cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont and co-teaches the Stanford Graphic Novel Project through the Creative Writing Program.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Josh Neufeld

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Josh Neufeld is a cartoonist who works primarily in the field of nonfiction comics, specifically as a comics journalist. Josh is the writer/artist of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, and the Xeric Award-winning graphic travelogue A Few Perfect Hours (and Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe). He is also the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller The Influencing Machine: Brook Gladstone On the Media. A longtime artist for Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor, and Josh’s art has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows in the United States and Europe.

 

 

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Cartoon Studies Alumni Dan Archer to Speak at Woodstock Digital Media Festival

Telling [True] Stories Session
Woodstock Digital Media Festival 2012

Saturday, June 23, 11am

The ʺTelling [TRUE] stories strand of Festival programming brings some of the most innovative leaders of non-fiction narrative forms and platforms to Woodstock where they will share their work and explore the emerging possibilities of the form. For more information, visit: woodstockdigital.com

Visit Dan Archer’s site: archcomix.com

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Cartoon Studies Alumni Dan Archer to Speak at Woodstock Digital Media Festival

Telling [True] Stories Session
Woodstock Digital Media Festival 2012

Saturday, June 23, 11am

The ʺTelling [TRUE] stories strand of Festival programming brings some of the most innovative leaders of non-fiction narrative forms and platforms to Woodstock where they will share their work and explore the emerging possibilities of the form. For more information, visit: woodstockdigital.com

Visit Dan Archer’s site: archcomix.com

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