Stories tagged The New Yorker

Sasha Velour ‘13 Designed Pride Cover of The New Yorker

Happy Pride! Our very own Sasha Velour ‘13 designed the 6/12/23 New Yorker cover, “The Look of Pride.”

Sasha spoke with The New Yorker’s art editor, Françoise Mouly, about the power of drag: “Queer expression, including drag, is the ultimate proof that a person can decide for themselves how to dress, dance, act, and live . . . and still find success, or a life worth living. Drag shows us that we don’t need to be afraid of who we are . . . and, if anything, we should exaggerate our quirks!”

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Tags: CCS Alum, drag, Pride, Queer, Sasha, Sasha Velour, The New Yorker

CCS Alum and Faculty in The New Yorker

Congratulations to Lillie Harris ’21 and Daryl Seitchik ’18 with cartoons in recent issues of The New Yorker! The New Yorker is one of those pinnacles of achievement for a lot of cartoonists, so a lot of hard work goes into getting a comic accepted. Many CCS alum and faculty cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker! The November 20th The New Yorker “Daily Shouts” featured faculty Glynnis Fawkes cartoon “2020 As A Newborn” which reflects on parenting during a pandemic.

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Tags: Americana, Emma Hunsinger, Glynnis Fawkes, How To Draw A Horse, How To Survive In The North, Lillie Harris, Luke Healy, Luke Howard, Mitra Farmand, Nomi Kane, Our Mother, Permanent Press, Talk Dirty to Me, The New Yorker

Student Emma Hunsinger ′20 gets Assignment published in The New Yorker

Panel 5 of Emma Hunsinger’s *How to Draw a Horse*

The Center for Cartoon Studies student Emma Hunsinger ′21 has a comic, How to Draw a Horse, in the current print edition of The New Yorker. Spanning 10 pages in print, the comic initially ran online in May 2019 and was the most popular content on TheNewYorker.com. This comic began as a class assignment.

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Tags: cartoonist, Emma Hungsinger, How to Draw a Comic, The New Yorker

Visiting Artist: Lauren Weinstein

Lauren Weinstein is a cartoonist and artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. Her acclaimed comic Normel Person was the last weekly comic strip to run in The Village Voice. This year, Weinstein’s Being an Artist and a Mother won a Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, and was published in Best American Comics 2019. Her most recent novella, Mother’s Walk, was selected for the latest issue of Frontier. Weinstein is also the author of three books: Inside Vineyland (Alternative Comics, 2003), the teenage memoir Girl Stories (Henry Holt and Co., 2006), and Goddess of War (Picturebox, 2008). She has received two Ignatz Awards among other nominations. In 2015, Weinstein was awarded the Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators for Carriers, her five-part webcomic about cystic fibrosis that was first published in Nautilus. Weinstein earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Tags: Alternative Comics, Being an Artist and a Mother, Best American Comics, Bookforum, Carriers, Frontier, Girl Stories, Goddess of War, Henry Holt, Ignatz Award, Inside Vineyland, Lauren Weinstein, Mother's Walk, Nautilus, New York Times, Normel Person, Picturebox, Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Visiting Artist

Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

Tags: Angoulême, cartoonstudies, Dark Horse, DC, Hill and Wang, Marvel, Nike, Prince of Cats, Ronald Wimberly, The New Yorker, Vertigo, Visiting Artist

Visiting Artist: Liana Finck

Liana Finck’s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, and on her Instagram feed. Her most recent book is Passing for Human (Random House, 2018).

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Meet New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren for the release of his new collection, In The Wild

The New Yorker cartoonist and Brookfield, Vermont resident ED KOREN releases a new book and has several appearances scheduled in Vermont and New Hampshire, including in Norwich and Woodstock!

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Tags: Ben Cohen, Cartoonist Laureate, Ed Koren, Howard Norman, In The Wild, New Yorker, New Yorker Cartoonist, The New Yorker, Vermont Cartoonist Laureate

Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

Tags: Angoulême, Cartoon Studies, Dark Horse, DC, Hill and Wang, Marvel, Nike, Ronald Wimberly, The New Yorker, Vertigo

Visiting Artist: R. Sikoryak

R. Sikoryak’s books include Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly). He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Onion, SpongeBob Comics, MAD, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and more. He’s hosted his Carousel comics performance series around North America since 1997.

Tags: MAD, Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak, SpongeBob comics, Terms and Conditions, The New Yorker

The Center for Cartoon Studies announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. This year, the month-long residency will be held during the stunning fall season and will include a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2017.

Located in Cornish, NH, The Cornish CCS Residency is designed to create a focused and inspiring environment for cartoonists to create exceptional work. Cornish is located 16 miles from The Center for Cartoon Studies (VT), in beautiful rural New Hampshire.

This residency is made possible by former CCS board member, cartoonist Harry Bliss, whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker. “I want to attract the best cartoonists working today and create a residency that is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for storytellers who are pushing the boundaries of the medium,” Bliss said.

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Tags: cartoonist, CCS, Cornish CCS Residency, Drawn and Quarterly, Fellowship, Harry Bliss, New Hampshire, Nick Drnaso, Sarah Lawson, The Center for Cartoon Studies, The New Yorker, Vermont

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 The New Yorker

Sasha Velour ‘13 Designed Pride Cover of The New Yorker

CCS Alum and Faculty in The New Yorker

Student Emma Hunsinger ′20 gets Assignment published in The New Yorker

Visiting Artist: Lauren Weinstein

Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Visiting Artist: Liana Finck

Meet New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren for the release of his new collection, In The Wild

Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Visiting Artist: R. Sikoryak

The Center for Cartoon Studies announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

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