James Sturm
James Sturm is a cartoonist and the cofounder of The Center for Cartoon Studies. He is the editor of CCS’s graphic guide series and his writings and illustrations have appeared in publications that include The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The Paris Review, The Onion, The New York Times and on the cover of The New Yorker. James was a 2020-21 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a 2008 and 2015 MacDowell Colony Fellow.
Books
Market Day
Off Season
The Golem’s Mighty Swing
Satchel Paige, Striking Out Jim Crow (with Rich Tommaso)
Forthcoming: Watership Down, The Graphic Novel (with Joe Sutphin)
Children’s Books
Birdsong
Ape And Armadillo Take Over The World
The Adventures in Cartooning Series (with Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost)
Comics and Writing Online
The Sponsor
How Hard Is It To Get Into the New Yorker?
Offline, What Happened When I Gave Up The Internet
Slate Diary: On Starting The Center for Cartoon Studies
The World is Made of Cheese: The Applied Cartooning Manifesto
Speaking
TEDx Talk on Visual Literacy
Virginia Commonwealth University
Exhibitions
Graphic Jews, Negotiating Identity in Sequential Art at Skidmore College
Denys Wortman at the City Museum of New York
Committed to Comics at Swarthmore College
Media
James Talks with Diane Sawyer
Profiled in Spring 2015 Vermont Life
