CCS boasts a superior faculty. The following instructors will be teaching and working with CCS students week in and week out throughout the course of the year.
Faculty
Stephen R. Bissette won many industry awards in his quarter-century in comics as a cartoonist,
writer, editor and publisher. A pioneer graduate of the Joe Kubert School
of Cartoon & Graphic Art, he is best-known for Saga of the Swamp
Thing, Taboo, '1963,' Tyrant, co-creating John Constantine, and
creating the world's second '24- Hour Comic,' invented by Scott McCloud
as a challenge for Bissette. His comics efforts fueled many films, (CONSTANTINE,
FROM HELL, TMNT II: SECRET OF THE OOZE, etc.) and he and his son Daniel
created the comic that appears in the award-winning indy feature HEAD
TRAUMA. He illustrates books and has authored fiction (including the
Stoker Award-winning novella Aliens: Tribes) and non-fiction
(co-authoring Comic Book Rebels, The Monster Book: Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, and solo articles/essays for film books, magazines and
his own book series Green Mountain Cinema). His previous work
in education includes lecturing at Yale, Dartmouth College, Duquesne
University, Smith College, Marlboro College, etc., and Middlebury College's
Breadloaf Young Writers Workshop. His papers reside in the Special Collections
of HUIE Library at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Robyn Chapman received her BFA in Sequential Art and has been independently producing, publishing and printing her own comics and zines ever since. In 2000 she received a Xeric Grant for her first comic, Theater of the Meek. Robyn's work has been featured in several anthologies and publications, including Scheherazade, Stuck in the Middle, and the NY Metro. In 2004 Robyn
was a featured cartoonist in The Comics Journal's young cartoonist issue. In
2005 Robyn became CCS's first fellow. In addition to CCS, Robyn has taught
cartooning in after-school programs, workshops, and at the New School in New
York City
Tom Devlin is the publisher and visionary
behind the art-comics publishing house Highwater Books. Specializing
in comics that don't fit into the publishing profiles of other companies,
Highwater has carved out a niche in the comics publishing world as an
idiosyncratic, art-first/artists first comics publisher. Devlin also
draws an infrequent strip on the Highwater Web site. In the past, Devlin
has guest-edited The Comics Journal, managed a Diamond Comics
Distribution warehouse, designed covers and content for nearly all the
other independent comics publishers as well Harvard University Press,
sat on the Steering Commitee of the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland,
lectured at Universities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Montreal,
had artwork displayed in galleries in Boston and Portugal, and managed
a comic store.
Rachel Gross received her MFA in
printmaking from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She taught printmaking,
drawing, and design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah,
Georgia. Rachel is currently an artist member of the Two Rivers Printmaking
Studio in White River Junction, Vermont.
Jenny Hansen
designs color for comics and animation. Recent projects include background
painting and color styling for such clients as Disney and Warner Bros.
She is the lead colorist on MTV's Annecy award winning animated series
Happy Tree Friends which also appears in comic form for the German
edition of Mad Magazine. She splits her time between New Hampshire and
San Francisco where she earned both her Bachelor of Fine Art degree
and Master of Fine Art degree from the Academy of Art University.
James Kochalka's
comics have been published internationally by almost every alternative
comics publisher; he's recorded several music CDs under the name James
Kochalka Superstar (making him a favorite at college radio stations
across the country); and he's developed animated cartoons for Nickelodeon.
Best known for his graphic novel, Monkey vs Robot, and his critically
acclaimed Sketchbook Diaries, Kochalka currently lives in Burlington,
Vermont.
Jason Lutes is the cartoonist responsible for the critically acclaimed Jar of Fools, which was serialized in the weekly paper The Stranger. He is currently working on the ambitious historical graphic novel Berlin. His other works include The Fall with Ed Brubaker and Houdini the Handcuff King with Nick Bertozzi.
Peter Money
is a former student of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
He has published in journals such as The American Poetry Review,
The Sun, Provincetown Arts, Hawai'i Review, Solo, Art/Life, and
many others. As well, Garrison Keillor read Peter Money's work on The
Writer's Almanac radio program. Peter's books include These Are My
Shoes (1991), Minor Roads (1993), A Big Yellow (1996), Between Ourselves
(1997), Instruments (1998), Finding It: Selected Poems (2000), and
To day --- Minutes only (2004). He received a Bachelor of Arts
in English from Oberlin College, Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College
(C.U.N.Y.), and Master of Library and Information Science from San Jose
State University. He is a past Writing and Literature Chair at Lebanon College and is currently the editor of Across Borders and Harbor Mountain Press.
Sarah
Stewart Taylor was educated at Middlebury College and Trinity
College, Dublin. She is the author of four mystery novels published
by St. Martins Press, O' Artful Death (2003), Mansions
of the Dead (2004), Judgment of the Grave (2005), and
Still as Death (2006). Her work has been nominated for an Agatha
Award and two of her novels have been chosen as Booksense Notable Books.
She has taught writing at Lebanon College, Granite State College and
the Bread Loaf Young Writers Conference, as well as the Center for Cartoon
Studies. She lives in Hartland, Vermont.
Michelle
Ollie is co-founder of The Center
for Cartoon Studies. She taught marketing and design and was a Director
at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is faculty for New York
Institute of Technology's graduate business program, and prior was the
Development Manager for Banta, a technology and market leader in printing.
She received her MBA from the University of St. Thomas and is the Associate
Editor of Mechademia, a new academic journal on anime, manga,
and design, published by the University of Minnesota Press.
James Sturm's comics and graphic
novels have been translated into several languages and have won numerous
awards including "Best Graphic Novel of 2001" by Time Magazine.
Michel Vrana
is a Montreal-based graphic designer and former publisher of Black Eye
Books. His studio is the exclusive outside design consultant for Drawn
and Quarterly Books, one of the most influential and respected graphic
novel publishers in the world.
Fall 2007 Visiting Faculty
t edward bak is a North American artist and cartoonist whose work has appeared in various anthologies and his own self-published comics. In 2002, he produced his first handmade experimental narrative comix-loteria project, The Firefly Waltz, and founded the small press comics and music showcase, Fluke, in Athens, Georgia. His comic strip, Service Industry, appeared in Athens' alternative arts newsweekly, Flagpole Magazine, from 2002-2005. His work has also appeared in the anthologies Studygroup12, Project:Romantic, Orchid and the upcoming Drawn & Quarterly Showcase. He is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Fellowship at The Center for Cartoon Studies and is currently at work on his first graphic novel.
Lynda Barry is an artist, novelist, and playwright whose work appears, as she says, "all over tarnation." Her syndicated alternative comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek is nationally known. She has published several illustrated novels, including The Good Times Are Killing Me, which won the Washington State Governor's Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Cruddy, was described by The New York Times as "a work of terrible beauty."
Eleanor Davis was introduced to minicomics when she was fourteen years old and has made thirty-three minis since then, depending on your definition. She went to Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in Sequential Art, and graduated in 2006. She has appeared in several anthologies and currently contributes to Mome. She is also working on a graphic novel for kids called The Secret Science Alliance.
David Macaulay's books include Cathedral, Mosque, and The Way Things Work. His books have sold more than two million copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered a number of the most prestigious awards. Amongst these are the MacArthur Fellows Program award (The "Genius Award"), the Caldecott Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, and an American Institute of Architects Medal. In June 2007 he was the subject of the exhibition "David Macaulay, the Art of Drawing Architecture" which opened for a limited run through January of 2008 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Garry Trudeau is the creator of Doonesbury. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1990. He was also nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film for The Doonesbury Special, in collaboration with John and Faith Hubley. The Doonesbury Special eventually won the Jury Special Prize of Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Other awards include the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1994 and the Reuben Award in 1995. In addition to his work on Doonesbury, Trudeau has written plays (such as Rap Master Ronnie and Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy) and the 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner '88, directed by Robert Altman and the miniseries sequel Tanner on Tanner in 2004.
Kevin Scalzo considers himself largely self-taught, and some of his influences include underground comics, Japanese pop culture, cubism, textile designs, the Chicago imagists, and almost any old animated cartoon. To date Kevin has published two issues of his full color comic book Sugar Booger to much acclaim, and they have sold out in many countries including, Italy, Japan, Spain, Britain, Canada, and France. His paintings and drawings have been shown in numerous galleries around the country.
R. Sikoryak's cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Drawn & Quarterly, Raw, Fortune, Business 2.0, among many other publications, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He was awarded artists' fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The American Antiquarian Society for his comics adaptations of the classics. Sikoryak presents his cartoon slide show series, "Carousel," around the U.S. and Canada, and he teaches in the illustration department at Parsons School of Design.
Drew Weing, since graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2001, has done a variety of web- and mini-comics, including The Journal Comic, and Pup for Serializer.net. He's done illustrations and comics for children's publications, such as Nickelodeon Magazine, and is currently doing a monthly series for Disney Adventures Magazine called Wulf and Merl. His other current project is a nautical adventure comic, Set to Sea, currently being serialized panel by panel at www.drewweing.com
Kriota Willberg teaches anatomy in the dance department of Marymount Manhattan College, pathology and massage at the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences, has taught at Bard College and NYU, and teaches anatomy and injury prevention classes in New York and internationally. She has studied personal training and exercise, and is a licensed massage therapist. With encouragement from her husband, cartoonist R. Sikoryak, she has also become an anatomical illustration hobbyist.
Spring 2007 Visiting Faculty
Christian Trimmer is an assistant editor at Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group, where he works primarily on young adult fiction and graphic novels. Current projects include: The Market, the story of a young woman's efforts to achieve "blue chip" status in her senior class; Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, a sweeping narrative of the famed Negro Leagues pitcher; and El Cazador, a bind up of the Eisner-nominated CrossGen comic series.
Skip Morrow achieved international acclaim for his best selling I HATE CATS series first published in 1980. In addition to selling millions of greeting cards throughout North America and Australia, Skip has published over a dozen books, most recently The Joy of Smoking (The Ink Group, 2000). Skip and his wife Laraine are partners in running The Art of Humor Gallery, located at their studio/home compound in Wilmington, VT.
Greg Cook has comics in numerous publications, such as Nickelodeon Magazine, Pulse Magazine, True Believer, New Art Examiner, Arthur, Non, and L'Association's Comix 2000. His work was featured in the exhibit "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation," which toured the US in 2003 and 2004. The success of his book, Catch As Catch Can (Highwater Books, 2001), helped him to win the "Promising New Talent" award at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD, in 2002.
Tom Hart is the creator of the Hutch Owen graphic novels and strips critically acclaimed by The Comics Journal, Time.com, Publishers Weekly, and the Library Journal. He has produced art and Flash animation for prominent companies such as Old Navy and the US Treasury Department. Tom teaches classes all over the New York City area, where he lives with his wife and fellow cartoonist Leela Corman.
Leela Corman has produced illustrations for numerous clients and publications, including Simon & Schuster, The New York Times, WNET/Thirteen, The Boston Phoenix, BUST Magazine, and more. Her comics have been featured in several anthologies, and her graphic novel, Queen's Day, was a Xeric Award winner in 2000.
Harry Bliss is a staff artist at The New Yorker. A regular contributor to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's series "Little Lit," Bliss has illustrated many children's books, including A Fine, Fine School by Sharon, The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory, and two New York Times best-sellers, Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin.
Judy Hansen is the founder of the Hansen Literary Agency, representing the unique vision of artists and writers around the world. Her clients include comics legends R. Crumb and Will Eisner, as well as James O'Barr, Chuck Dixon, Mark Schultz, and CCS' own James Sturm.
Paul Karasik was the associate editor of Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's avant-garde international comics and graphics review, RAW. His graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass, done in collaboration with artist David Mazzucchelli, has been published in six languages and was named one of the best 100 comics of the century by The Comics Journal.
Kelly Link's debut collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was described by Salon as "?an alchemical mixture of Borges, Raymond Chandler, and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Her second collection was selected for best of 2006 lists by Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, The Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Capitol Times. Kelly has taught and visited at numerous schools and workshops, including Bard College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, The Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University, and New England Institute of Art and Communications. She now lives in Northampton, MA.
Scott Dikkers is Editor-in-Chief of the Onion, America's premiere news-parody publication. Scott worked as a cartoonist during the Onion's first year, then bought the paper in 1989 with Pete Haise, the paper's current publisher. Following the Onion's 1996 launch into cyberspace, Time Magazine ranked Dikkers in their Top 50 Movers and Shakers in the Digital Realm. Scott is also known for his comic strip "Jim's Journal," which chronicles the mundane details of ordinary life. The definitive Jim's Journal collection, The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury, was published in 1999 by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Dan Nadel is the art director and editor for PictureBox Inc, a visual culture studio specializing in bringing artists' visions to print in startling and unexpected ways. Dan also edits The Ganzfeld, and won a Grammy award in 2005 for his work on the CD package design for Wilco's album "A Ghost Is Born." Dan's most recent book, Art Out Of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969, has been hailed by the LA Weekly as "an invaluable work of pop archaeology."
Brian Belott is an artist and collector of found art, renowned for his intricate, hand-made collage books and striking use of color. His work in collage and glass has appeared in galleries worldwide, including the Atelier Cardenas Bellanger in Paris, CANADA in New York City, Galleri Christine Wilson in Copenhagen, and Galleri Loyal in Stockholm.
Phil Grauer is an artist affiliated with the CANADA gallery in New York City. His work in sculpture and photography has appeared in exhibitions across the US and Canada, as well as in Europe. Philip recently participated in a group showing entitled The Armory Shows, NYC, with fellow CANADA artists Brian Belott and Sarah Braman.
Sarah Braman is an abstract sculptor known for her strong geometric designs and use of low-status materials like plexi-glass and painted cardboard. Her work has been exhibited in galleries all over the world, including the Dicksmith Gallery in London, Galeria Comercial in San Juan, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, and CANADA in New York City. Sarah also has permanent installations in Barcelona, Baltimore, Providence, and North Adams, MA.
Jay Hosler is an assistant professor at Juniata College in Huntington, PA. In addition to contributing several articles to scientific publications such as Behavioral Neuroscience and The Journal of Experimental Biology, Jay has published numerous comics and two graphic novels with biological themes. Clan Apis, a Xeric Award winner for 2000, and The Sandwalk Adventures (2003) present detailed educational material within the framework of a narrative. A project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop a chapter of a Biology textbook in comic form is currently in progress.
Denis Kitchen has been an active cartoonist, writer, editor, publisher, and entrepreneur since 1968. In its 30-year run, Kitchen Sink Press published some of the best underground and alternative comics and graphic novels available, from artists such as R. Crumb, Will Eisner, Dave McKean, Scott McCloud, and Alan Moore. Although KSP closed its doors in 1999, The Kitchen empire of publishing, art sales, and merchandise continues through Denis Kitchen Publishing, The Kitchen & Hansen Agency, and Steve Krupp's Gallery and Curio Shoppe. Denis also continues to serve as president of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which he founded in 1986.
Mark Siegel is the Editorial Director at First Second Books, a publishing company that aims for "high quality, literate graphic novels for a wide age range." A former designer at Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, Mark is the illustrator of several picture books and graphic novels, including the upcoming To Dance: A Ballerina's Story.
Brendan Burford, in addition to his duties as puzzle editor for King Features Syndicate, is the creator of "Despondent Duck" and numerous minicomics, several of which have been collected into a volume entitled "Brendan Comics." Brendan is the creator/editor of the comics anthology Syncopated Comics, now celebrating the release of its third volume. Brendan lives in Sunnyside, NY with his wife and fellow cartoonist Rina Piccolo.
Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. He represents both fiction and nonfiction in a plethora of genres including literary fiction, mystery, young adult and middle-grade fiction, biography, business, popular science, religion, memoir, international affairs, and psychology. Esmond has represented the work of authors such as James C. Mitchell, Sabina Murray, Anna MacLean, Todd Balf, David J. Rothkopf and many more.
Chris Duffy has been the comics editor at Nickelodeon Magazine since 1997. Chris was co-editor and one of the central contributors to Bizarro Comics (DC Comics, 2001), an irreverent compilation of indie-comics veterans' unique take on the classic characters of the superhero genre.
Visiting Artists & Writers
The following is a partial list of CCS's Visiting Faculty. These cartoonists and comic industry professionals will be coming to White River Junction for extended lectures, workshops, and week-long seminars.
David
Berona author of Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels, has written and published many articles and reviews
concerning the history of woodcut novels and wordless stories. Berona's
articles have appeared in The Comics Journal and The International
Journal of Comic Art, and the book The Language of Comics: Word
and Image.
Alison
Bechdel, author of the self-syndicated comic strip
Dykes To Watch Out For, has become a countercultural institution.
Ten book-length collections of the strip have been published. Bechdel
has contributed work for many publications including Ms., Slate,
The Stranger, Out, and The Advocate. Her work is widely anthologized
and her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, and,
strangely, Finnish.
Harry Bliss is a staff artist at
The New Yorker. A regular contributor to Art Spiegelman and Francoise
Mouly's series "Little Lit," Bliss has illustrated many children's books,
including A Fine, Fine School by Sharon, The Cat Who Came for
Christmas by Cleveland Amory, and two New York Times best-sellers,
Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin.
Ariel Bordeaux
collaborates with her husband Rick Altergott on the comic book series
Raisin Pie, which received a Harvey nomination in the 'best new
series' category in 2003. She is the author of the acclaimed minicomic
Deep Girl and the novella No Love Lost, and has done comics
and illustration work for several publications, including Bust Magazine,
Bizarro Comics, Hate, Nickelodeon Magazine, The New York Press, and
The Stranger.
Ivan Brunetti has written and drawn three issues of his
comic book series Schizo, as well as a collection of gag cartoons
HAW!, for Fantagraphics Books. He has also drawn comics and illustrations
for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, TIME
Digital, Spin, Mother Jones, Fast Company, New City, The Stranger, The
New York Press, The Baffler, The Comics Journal, Green, Verbatim, In These
Times, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, and Cartoon Network Presents.
Brunetti's comics have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Czech, and
Swedish.
L. Perry Curtis Jr. is a retired professor of history at Brown University.
His works include Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature, an exploration of
turn-of- the-century political cartoons and how they reinforced Irish cultural stereotypes.
Bill Griffith is best known for being
creator of the comic strip Zippy the Pinhead, which appears today in over 200 newspapers worldwide. Griffith was an active and influential part of the underground comix movement throughout the 70s and 80s. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the cartoonist Diane Noomin.
Sammy Harkham started making his own comics and a zine,
Kramers Ergot which has evolved into one of the most highly influential comics anthologies being published today.
His comic strip Poor Sailor, originally published in Kramers Ergot 4,
was subsequently included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2004 and has been published in French, Korean, and Italian.
He studied experimental animation and filmmaking at Calarts and was nominated in 2002 for an Ignatz Award for 'Promisng New talent', and Kramers Ergot has been
favorably reviewed and placed on numerous best of the year list's including the LA Weekly, Time.com, Dazed And Confused, The Comics Journal, and Publisher's Weekly.
Harkham currently lives in Los Angeles working on his comic series Crickets and the next volume of Kramers Ergot.
Kevin Huizenga was named
"Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year" by The Comics Journal
for his critically acclaimed minicomic series Supermonster.
His current comic book series Or Else is published by Drawn and Quarterly books.
D. B. Johnson, a freelance illustrator
for more than twenty years, has created editorial cartoons, comic strips,
and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country.
Mr. Johnson's first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a
New York Times Bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Bestseller as well as an
American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists." Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards and
accolades including the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Books,
the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, the Massachusetts Book Award for Best Children's Picture Book, a
Booklist Editors' Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year,
a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Flying Start.
Ed Koren has published over 900 cartoons in ,The New Yorker.
His work, which has appeared in dozens of other publications,
is included in the collections of the Fogg Museum and is regularly displayed in
art exhibitions around the world.
Koren has illustrated many children's books and also has written and illustrated some of his own,
including Very Hairy Harry and Behind the Wheel.
He has taught at Brown University, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jason Little's cartoons have been published in various anthologies,
and his book Jack's Luck Runs Out, brilliantly based on a deck of cards,
won a 1997 Xeric Award. His latest work includes Shutterbug Follies, published by Doubleday in 2002,
and Bee, which appears in many alternative news weeklies.
Little currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, writer Myla Goldberg.
Alec Longstreth has been self-publishing his subscription-based comic book
PHASE 7 since 2002. He is also the mastermind behind The Dvorak Zine, an
educational comic promoting the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout.
The web comic version of the zine became an internet phenomenon,
garnering over 30,000 hits in its first two months. Alec
lives and draws in New York City where he is currently working on his first graphic novel Basewood.
Ana Merino is assistant professor of Latin American and Spanish literature and
culture at Dartmouth College. She has published a scholarly work on comics titled El Comic Hispanico (C?tedra, 2003) and
four books of poetry, and was a recipient of the Adonais and Fray Luis de Leon awards for poetry.
She is a member of the executive committee for the International Comics Art Festival and
member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art.
Merino's articles on comics have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal,
International Journal of Comic Art, and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for
two comics exhibitions, one in the US titled Comics Release, and another in Spain
dedicated to Fantagraphics for La Semana Negra. She is also the author of the bilingual catalogue
Fantagraphics creadores del canon. Ana Merino has also published five books of poetry: Preparativos para un viaje (1995), Los días gemelos (1997), La voz de los relojes (2000), Juegos de niños (2003), and Compañera de Celda (2006). Cell Mate (translated by Elizabeth Polli), Harbor Mountain Press, 2007.
Anders Nilsen is the author of a number of graphic novels including The Ballad of the Two Headed Boy, Big Questions, and Dogs and Water. He is a member of The Holy Consumption,
the Chicago based art collective formed with Jeffrey Brown, John Hankiewicz and Paul Hornschemeier. He received two Ignatz Award nominations for Big Questions #4 in
2002 for Promising New Talent and Outstanding Comic. In 2004 he received a further Ignatz nomination for Big Questions #6 for Outstanding Mini Comic.
Joseph Olshan is the award-winning author of seven novels,
including Clara's Heart, which was made into a film by Warner Brothers in
1988 starring Whoopi Goldberg, and the internationally acclaimed and best-selling Nightswimmer.
A former professor of creative writing at New York University,
he was editorial director at Delphinium Books/HarperCollins.
James
A. Owen is the creator of the critically acclaimed Starchild
graphic novel series; the designer and editorial director of the award-winning
publications International Studio and Argosy Quarterly; and the author
of the Mythworld series of novels. He works at the Coppervale Studio in
Silvertown, Arizona, where he lives with his family.
Aaron Renier is a cartoonist who's work has appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine, the
Portland Mercury and Young Dancer Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies,
and a handfull of self published minis. His debut graphic novel, Spiral-Bound, was recently
released by Top Shelf Productions to critical acclaim. He is currently negotiating a
proposal for a full-color graphic novel series with a major children's book publisher.
He lives with his dog Beluga in beautiful Brooklyn, New York.
Joe Schenkman was an active underground cartoonist
in the late '60s and early '70s working alongside such cartoonists as S. Clay Wilson and Art Spiegelman.
Schenkman is currently head of Schenkman Books, a company known for its
academic titles concerning sociology and social welfare.
Seth, author of It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken,
has been translated into many languages and was selected one of the
100 best comics of the 20th century by the editors of The Comics Journal.
He is also the designer of the best-selling Complete Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
His work is regularly featured in the pages and cover of The New Yorker and has been profiled in the
Magazine section of The New York Times Magazine.
Barron Storey has freelanced for Time, National Geographic, NASA,
The American museum of Natural History, and the Franklin Library. He has taught at several colleges including Pratt, School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, California College of Arts and Crafts, and San Jose State. His students have included such comic artists as George Pratt, Dan Clowes, and Scott McCloud. Storey was winner of the NY Society of Illustrators Gold Medal in 1976 and its Educator of the Year Award in 2001.
Ben Towle is a cartoonist and freelance artist living in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His debut full-length work, Farewell, Georgia,
was published by Slave Labor Graphics in 2003. He received an Eisner nomination that year in
the category of "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition."
His work has also appeared in 24-Hour Comics: Highlights 2004, SPX 2004, and Strange Eggs.
He holds an MFA in sequential art from The Savannah College of Art and Design and a
B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College. He has taught at the North Carolina Governor's School,
and the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art.
Rick Veitch graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover,
N.J., in 1978, its first graduating class. Rick was a regular contributor to Heavy Metal and
Marvel's Epic Magazine. His graphic novels include Abraxax and the Earthman and Heartburst,
Brat Pack, The Maximortal,
and three collections of his dream comics Rare Bit Fiends.
His comic books include the six-issue miniseries The One and work on
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing for DC Comics. His collaboration with Alan Moore continued on the
first retro comics series, "1963," and "America's Best Comics" line.
He is currently writing The Question for DC Comics. In 1998, Veitch and Steve Conley
launched comiccon.com, now one of the biggest
comics sites on the Internet. Veitch's original 350-page graphic novel Can't Get No will be released
in 2005 by Vertigo.
Brian Walker is a cartoonist and a founder of the International Museum of Cartoon Art,
has written and edited more than a dozen books, including Abrams' The Comics Since 1945.
Since 1984 he has been part of the creative team that produces the strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois.
He lives in Wilton, Connecticut. He co-curated Masters of American Comics a national exhibition featiromg fifteen of the most influential
artists working in the medium throughout the 20th century.
Rob Walton has worked as writer,
director, actor, cartoonist, publisher, and storyboard artist, hailing
from East Toronto. He has worked in the animation industry since 1991
when he joined Nelvana's design department for the TV cartoon show Beetlejuice.
He began storyboarding full-time in 1994, subsequently working as an
Assistant Director on many projects and as Supervising Director on COMMITTED
(2000) starring Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara. He has written and
drawn several comic book series, including Grendel: The Devil's
Hammer (1993) and his self-published satire Ragmop (1995-1997),
for which he earned two Eisner Award Nominations. Rob self-published
the fully revised and updated graphic novel edition of Ragmop
to critical acclaim in 2006.
Chris Ware is the author of the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan - the Smartest Kid on Earth
(Pantheon Books, 2000), which received the Guardian First Book Award in 2001,
the American Book Award in 2000, and the prestigious French comics award L'Alph Art in 2003.
He is one of America's most respected popular artists, and his work has appeared in many national and
international art exhibits, including the Whitney Art Museum of New York in 2002.
In his spare time, Ware publishes The Rag Time Ephemeralist, an exquisitely designed and
informative journal devoted to the exploration, preservation, and celebration of early 20th century
American popular music.
Lauren Weinstein
Her comics and illustrations have appeared in Glamour, McSweeney's, The New York Times, LA Weekly, The Chicago Reader, and Seattle's The Stranger.
She has also contributed to such anthologies as Kramer's Ergot, Hotwire, Legal Action Comics, Scheherazade, and The Ganzfeld.
This fall, her work will appear in Yale University Press's Anthology of Graphic Fiction, edited by Ivan Brunetti.
Thesis Advisors
2007-2008
Alison Bechdel
Nick Bertozzi
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