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Visiting Artist Talk: Cara Bean

Self-portrait by Cara Bean

A Will Eisner Week lecture

Thursday March 7, 3pm
CCS Post Office building, 46 South Main Street

This lecture is open to the public.

Cara Bean is the author of Draw 500 Funny Faces and Features and has been teaching art in the United States for thirteen years. Her work has been featured in Pen America Illustrated, The Women’s Review of Books, and Teaching Arts Magazine. She provides public drawing and creativity workshops that explore how the beginning of complex ideas emerge from the simple act of doodling on paper. Cara has taken a leave from her teaching position to focus on creating comics that speak directly to kids about mental health. She is The Center for Cartoon Studies Cornish Residency Fellow.

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week: Read A Graphic Novel

Will Eisner Week (March 1-7, 2019) is an annual celebration honoring the legacy of Will Eisner, champion of the graphic novel. This international event is dedicated to promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech, and the sequential arts.

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week: READ A GRAPHIC NOVEL!

Will Eisner Week is an Annual Celebration in March, Promoting Comics, Graphic Novel Literacy, Free Speech, and the Legacy of Will Eisner.

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2017 is The Will Eisner Centennial Year!

Help us celebrate Will Eisner Week, March 1-7! Read a comic or graphic novel! Pick one up your local library, bookstore, comic shop! To learn about Will Eisner, a champion o the graphic novel, visit: willeisner.com

 

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Will Eisner Week Lecture: Sophie Yonow

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In celebration of Will Eisner Week, Sophie Yanow, CCS fellow and cartoonist from Northern California whose work fluctuates between the macro and the micro, will talk about her approach to nonfiction, autobiography, and poetry in comics making. In the fall of 2011 she moved to Montreal, Quebec where she joined the well regarded Colosse comics collective. In Situ, a collection of journal comics documenting her transition to Montreal, won wide acclaim in US and Canada. Her work has also frequently appeared online on Top Shelf Comix, Te Rumpus, the Nib, and many others. Her latest book, War of Streets and Houses published by Uncivilized Books, was nominated for an Ignatz Award for ‘Outstanding Graphic Novel’ in 2014.

Thursday, March 5, 3pm
At The Center for Cartoon Studies Post Office Building

Free and open to the public.

Special thanks to our reception sponsor Maple Street Catering and Big Fatty’s BBQ!

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Will Eisner Week Event at The Schulz Library

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Celebrating comics and the graphic novel
at The Schulz Library

Open House:
Friday, March 6, 5-7pm

Location:
Schulz Library
The Center for Cartoon Studies
46 South Main Street
White River Junction

Explore The Center for Cartoon Studies’ collection of comics and graphic novels and browse a special display of books by the legendary Will Eisner at its Schulz Library. The Schulz librarians will be offering guided tours of the library collection. Free comics for those who attend!

A special exhibit of original art from the CCS Archive is also on display in the CCS Gallery.

 

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Will Eisner Week:
March 1-7, 2015

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WILL EISNER WEEK LECTURE
at The Center for Cartoon Studies

CCS Fellow Sophie Yanow

Thursday, March 5, 3-5pm

Location: The Center for Cartoon Studies, Post Office building, 46 South Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont. Free and open to the public.

In celebration of Will Eisner Week, Sophie Yanow, CCS fellow and cartoonist from Northern California whose work fluctuates between the macro and the micro, will talk about her approach to nonfiction, autobiography, and poetry in comics making. For more information on Sophie Yanow, visit situology.com

Will Eisner (1917-2005) was America’s most influential comic artist, an artist who changed comic books, created comic strips, and is recognized at the “Father of the Graphic Novel.”

For a list of all upcoming CCS Will Eisner Week events, click here.

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Will Eisner Week:
March 1-7, 2015

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An annual celebration promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech and the legacy of sequential art legend, Will Eisner. Stay tuned for The Center for Cartoon Studies events and more! For more information, visit: willeisnerweek.com

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