July 25, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the third year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. The month-long residency is held during the height of New England’s fall foliage season and will include a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2018.

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.

Last year’s fellow was Ali Fitzgerald who worked on her series of comics investigating the aesthetics of nationalism and propaganda. Her graphic novel Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe will release in fall 2018.

“The Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship was a formative and singular artistic experience for which I am incredibly grateful. Focus on comics in the relative solitude of a New England Autumn is a real gift and during my month-long stay I was able to refine my work while also enjoying a restorative quiet.” –Ali Fitzgerald

For more information about the Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency including how to apply, go to: cartoonstudies.org/cornishfellowship

Read Sarah Lawson’s piece about the Cornish residency in The New Yorker.