Stories tagged Graphic Novel Workshop

Summer Workshop Spotlight: Graphic Novel Workshop with Paul Karasik

Ho to Read Nancy

Summer 2019 you can work with Paul Karasik (How To Read Nancy, City of Glass) to get your own graphic novel off the ground! You’ll have a week, from July 29 to August 2 or August 5 to 9, to produce the first draft of a longer comics project. The course makes use of lecture, collaborative exercises, book discussions and more. And if that week isn’t enough for you, you can sign up for the optional online extension from August 13 to October 4!

“How To Read Nancy” , by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, is the deconstruction of a single Nancy comic strip to reveal the hidden language of comics.“How To Read Nancy” received an Eisner Award 2018: Best Comics-Related Book of the Year!

Tags: cartoonstudies, City of Glass, Eisner Award, Graphic Novel Workshop, How To Read Nancy, Paul Karaisk, Summer Workshop

2017 Summer Workshop Line Up!

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NEXT UP SUMMER WORKSHOPS!:

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP
with Paul Karasik
July 31-August 4
or August 7-11
Optional Online Extension

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP
with Jo Knowles
and Tillie Walden
The Young Adult Genre
July 31-August 4

GRAPHIC MEMOIR WORKSHOP
with Melanie Gillman
August 7-11

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Animation, Beth Hetland, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Comics, create comics, Graphic Memoir, Graphic Novel Workshop, Hilary Price, Jo Knowles, Jon Chad, Josh Kramer, Luke Howard, Melanie Gillman, Paul Karasik, Study Comics, Summer Camp, Tillie Walden

Summer Workshop Registration is Open!

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CREATE COMICS

Session I: June 20-24
Session II: July 11-15

CARTOONING STUDIO

June 27-July 1

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12
Optional Online Extension:
August 15 – October 7

Space is limited.

Tags: Cartoon Studies, Cartoon Studio, Comic Camp, create comics, drawing, Graphic Novel Workshop, Graphic Novelist, Illustration, Narrative Storytelling, Sequential Art, Summer Workshops

Summer Workshops Announced!

Announcing the 2016
Summer Workshop Line Up:

CREATE COMICS

Session I: June 20-24
Session II: July 11-15

CARTOONING STUDIO

June 27-July 1

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12
Optional Online Extension:
August 15 – October 7

Tags: Cartoon Camp, Cartoon Studio, Comic Camp, Comic Narrative, create comics, Graphic Novel, Graphic Novel Workshop, Paul Karasik, Summer Camp, Summer Workshop, Vermont

Bring Comics To Your College Classroom

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To commemorate The Center for Cartoon Studies’ 10 year anniversary, we want to share our comics’ knowledge and passion with your college. Throughout the 2015-16 academic year, a CCS faculty member will beam into 10 classrooms for a free 30-minute presentation.

Whether it’s a tools and technique demo, professional practice lecture, or artists talk, presentations can be tailored to your classroom’s needs. Find out why The Center for Cartoon Studies is the premier cartooning school in the country.

First come, first serve.
Sign up today:
comicworkshop@cartoonstudies.org

If thirty minutes isn’t enough and you’d like a faculty member for a one, two, or three day cartooning workshop let us know. From Swarthmore College to the Ringling College of Art and Design, CCS’s workshops have brought our dynamic curriculum to schools throughout the country.

Tags: Cartoon Studies, Cartooning, Cartooning Class, CCS, Comic Class, Comic Workshop, Comics Class, Graphic Novel Workshop, History of Comics, MFA

CCS Summer Workshops! Register Now!

Next up!

Create Comics:
July 20-24
Cartooning Studio:
July 27-31
Graphic Novel Workshop:
August 3-7 FULL!
August 10-14 FULL!
Request a spot on the wait list
Cartoon Club Summer Session:
July 6-10 • July 13-17

Tags: Cartoon Camps, Cartoon Studies, Cartooning School, Cartooning Studio, Comic School, create comics, Graphic Novel Workshop, Sequential Workshop, Vermont, visual storytelling, White River Junction

Summer 2016 Workshops Announced!

Announcing the 2016
Summer Workshop Line Up:

CREATE COMICS

Session I: June 20-24
Session II: July 11-15

CARTOONING STUDIO

June 27-July 1

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12
Optional Online Extension:
August 15 – October 7

Space is limited.

Tags: Cartooning Studio, cartoonist, Comics Camp, create comics, drawing, Graphic Novel, Graphic Novel Workshop, Paul Karasik, Sequential Art, Study Comics, Summer Camp, Vermont

Summer Workshop: Register Now!

Create Comics:
June 15-19 • July 20-24
Cartooning Studio:
June 22-26 • July 27-31
Graphic Novel Workshop:
August 3-7 FULL!
August 10-14 FULL!
Request a spot on the wait list
Cartoon Club Summer Session:
July 6-10 • July 13-17

Tags: Cartoon Artist, Cartoon School, Cartoon Studies, Comics, Graphic Novel Workshop, MFA, school cartoon, Seminar, Study Comics, Vermont

Watch “How to Draw Some Attention to my Graphic Novel Workshop” by CCS instructor Paul Karasik

Graphic Novel Workshop:

Session 1: August 3-7 – FULL!
Session II: August 10-14 – FULL!

Request a spot on the wait list

Optional online extension!

Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level?

Put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a week in White River Junction, Vermont. Workshop instructor Paul Karasik is a cartoonist (The New Yorker, City of Glass), a comics scholar (I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, How To Read Nancy), and a renowned teacher who really knows how to take good cartoonists and make them better.

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Tags: Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Comics, Graphic Novel, Graphic Novel Workshop, How to Draw, Paul Karasik

Summer Workshop Registration Is Now Open!

Create Comics:
June 15-19 • July 20-24
Cartooning Studio:
June 22-26 • July 27-31
Graphic Novel Workshop:
August 3-7 FULL!
August 10-14
Cartoon Club Summer Session:
July 6-10 • July 13-17

Tags: Cartoon Club, Cartoon Studio, CCS, Comics, create comics, Graphic Novel Workshop, Paul Karasik, Summer Workshops

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.

The Center for Cartoon Studies

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