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Cartoon College Turns 20, Alumni Still Explaining To Relatives What Graphic Novels Are

White River Junction, VT. September 23, 2025 – No joke! This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), a nationally recognized institution dedicated to the education and advancement of cartooning and graphic storytelling located in White River Junction, Vermont.

Founded in 2005 by Michelle Ollie and James Sturm, CCS has built an international reputation for training some of the most original and influential voices in comics today. Its alumni have gone on to publish award-winning work, teach, and lead in creative fields across the globe.

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2018 Thesis Exhibit 

2018 Thesis Exhibit

An exhibit featuring work by the graduating class and fellow

May 8th-June 8th

Opening reception Saturday May 5th, 12noon-2pm
Location: CCS Gallery in the Colody Building, 94 South Main Street
Gallery hours: M-F, 12noon-4pm

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On Exhibit at CCS: Original art by The Center for Cartoon Studies Fellow, Argentinian Cartoonist Liniers!

Liniers, a well-known Argentine cartoonist, The Center for Cartoon Studies 2016-17 Fellow, has over 30 original pieces of art on exhibit!

Liniers’s most recent book is Good Night, Planet (2017) from TOON Books, available in Spanish and English. This Level 2 book (for grades 1 and 2) watches what happens when you are asleep and your toys go out to play.

Liniers is currently living in Vermont palling around CCS where he continues to work and lives with his family. He published ten volumes of Macanudo, his newspaper comic in Argentina, in Spanish.

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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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The Center for Cartoon Studies Archive

From the comic strip to the comic book to the graphic novel, The Center for Cartoon Archive includes all kinds of original cartoon art. Whether its work by Alison Bechdel, Jamie Hernandez, Chris Ware, Harry Lucey, Richard Thompson, Will Eisner, or Ernie Bushmiller, the collection is a vital part of CCS’s curriculum, regularly brought into the classroom and exhibited to inspire the next generation of cartoonists. If you are interested in donating original art we would encourage that conversation. Inquiries can be made to studio@cartoonstudies.org. The Center for Cartoon Studies is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization.

 

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In the CCS Gallery: Panels & Screens

Motion picture studios have long recognized the rich potential in adapting comic strips and comic books to film, as well as the potent impact of utilizing cartooning in movie advertising. Panels & Screens: Comics & Cartoonists in Movie Advertising & Ballyhoo is a gallery exhibition that embraces both aspects of the relationship between comics, cartoonists, and the movies, presenting a selection of rare memorabilia from movies either adapted from comic strips or comic books, or movie ad campaigns using comics imagery and/or comics artists to lure audiences into movie theater; curated by Jon Chad and Stephen R. Bissette (from his SpiderBaby Archives collection).

The exhibition will be on display in the CCS Gallery, in the Colodny Building, through March 1st.

Gallery Hours: Fridays, noon-5PM

For details about what’s on the walls, click “more.”

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Al Jaffee’s Wild Pitches

 

An exhibition of never-before-seen comic strips and panels from the early 1950s by the legendary MAD cartoonist

November 2 – December 6

Location:
The Center for Cartoon Studies Gallery
94 South Main Street
White River Junction, Vermont

Gallery hours:
Fridays, 12-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm

 

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Berlin by Jason Lutes

The second volume of CCS faculty Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Buy a copy today.

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CCS Denys Wortman exhibition in NYC

The Center for Cartoon Studies
and the Museum of the City of New York present

Denys Wortman Rediscovered:
Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953

Nov 19 through Mar 20

Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 is an exhibition of original cartoon drawings made for the World-Telegram and Sun illustrating episodes of everyday life in New York City.

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New! Denys Wortman’s New York: Portrait of the City in the 30s and 40s

Denys Wortman's New York: Portrait of the City in the 30s and 40s

by CCS’s James Sturm and Brandon Elston (CCS ′09)

The Center for Cartoon Studies Denys Wortman’s New York is not only a tribute to Wortman, but it is a tribute to New York, the city that sparked Wortman’s voracious creative output. From coal cellars to roof tops, from opera houses to boarding houses, Wortman recorded the sailors, dish washers, con artists, entertainers, pushcart peddlers, construction workers, musicians, hobos, society matrons, young mothers, secretaries, and students who collectively make New York the city it is.

Many thanks to our community partner, FairPoint, for making this project possible by donating archiving space.

Buy Denys Wortman’s New York today!


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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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