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Vermont’s Sixth Cartoonist Laureate Appointed

MONTPELIER, VT—Windsor resident and internationally recognized cartoonist Stephen R. Bissette will be appointed Vermont’s sixth Cartoonist Laureate on April 9 when he will be recognized at the Vermont State House.

Bissette first gained wide recognition as co-creator and artist of “Saga of the Swamp Thing” (with Alan Moore), which helped to redefine horror comics for a new era. His other creative work spans an impressive range—from the ambitious dinosaur epic Tyrant to his adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s “1941” into a graphic novel, and collaborations on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles projects. Across genres, his storytelling combines emotional depth, technical mastery, and a lifelong commitment to creator-owned art.

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At the Junction of Words and Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies

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Guest curator and Professor of English, Craig Fischer as assembled an impressive The Center for Cartoon Studies ten year exhibit currently on exhibit at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. 

Presentation by James Sturm
January 27, 2016, 7pm

At the Junction of Words & Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) exhibit will feature work by CCS faculty and co-founder James Sturm, Stephen R. Bissette and Jason Lutes as well as by CCS Fellows Chris Wright (2008-09), Julie Delporte (2011-12), Connor Willumsen (2012-13) and Sophie Yanow (2014-15). Also included are examples of art by CCS graduates Dan Archer ′08, Charles Forsman ’08, Colleen Frakes ’07, Sophie Goldstein ’13, Luke Howard ’13, Joseph Lambert ’08, Melissa Mendes ’10 and cartoonists who have collaborated with the school on various book projects. 

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Faculty Stephen Bissette Comic Featured In World War I Tribute Anthology

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Above the Dreamless Dead, edited by Chris Duffy, features a stunning  double-page ‘adaptation’ of a Rudyard Kipling poem by CCS faculty Steve Bissette. Above the Dreamless Dead is a moving and illuminating tribute to those who fought and died in World War I. Twenty poems are interpreted in comics form by twenty of today’s leading cartoonists, including Stephen Bissette, Eddie Campbell, Kevin Huizenga, George Pratt, and many others. Order a copy today!

 

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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

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CCS and Howe Library Present Graphic Novels: Not Just For Kids

Graphic Novels: Not Just For Kids,  summer discussion and lecture series sponsored by the Howe Library and The Center for Cartoon Studies, concludes with a special lecture by CCS faculty Steve Bissette on the history of the graphic novel.

Friday, August 3, at 6pm at The Center for Cartoon Studies Colodny Building (94 South Main Street) in White River Junction, Vermont.

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Entertainment Weekly Interviews Steve Bissette

Clark Collis recently interviewed Steve Bissette for the Entertainment Weekly blog Shelf Life.  Steve talked candidly about the work of Rick Veitch, the place of the teenager in the media, and the new direction comics took in the mid-to-late 80s.
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Stephen Bissette’s Teen Angels & New Mutants Reviewed on FOG

From a review on Forces of Geek:

“Way more than a loving tribute to the work of a dear friend, this is the absolute, authoritative text on the subject, and should be required reading in every Sociology of Media program…It is a work unique to the subject matter, and I speak not only of the genre of comic book analysis, but of pop-culture autopsy. Bissette has pioneered a new field of criticism nearly thirty years after he helped reinvent the horror comic.”

-Stefan Blitz
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CCS faculty Stephen Bissette’s Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

CCS faculty Stephen Bissette’s share of the book — a full third of the workload — includes a lengthy exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman, as well as chapters on Gaiman’s MIRACLEMAN run and the author’s various comics, graphic novel and movie projects (from the English translation and dub of PRINCESS MONONOKE to BEOWULF and STARDUST). All this (and more) is being published in Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman. Visit the Prince of Stories site.

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