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A new step by step comic to teach kids how to Grow a Garden by CCS alumni Alexis Frederick-Frost

Alexis Frederick-Frost ’07 created a graphic novel for First Second’s Maker Comics series with six gardening projects. Maker Comics: Grow a Garden is out now! You’ll follow along with Will, Violet, and Basil at the Garden Gnome Academy. Will and his friends learn about soil and compost. To follow along, you don’t need a big backyard—just a little bit of space and a lot of sunlight.

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CCS schedule and exhibitors at Small Press Expo 2019

Here is a line up for CCS at SPX 2019!:

The Small Press Expo (SPX) is coming up on September 14 -15, and there are plenty of ways to see The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) grads while you are there! CCS will be present at table W28 with copies of This Is What Democracy Looks Like.

As part of the tour for This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Dan Nott ′18 (Table A7) will be on the Graphic Advocacy panel with Archie Bongiovanni (A Quick & Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns), Box Brown (Cannabis), and Matt Bors (The Nib). Hallie Jay Pope will be the moderator. The group will discuss using comics as a powerful tool in sharing a particular mission and point of view.

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NEW! Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action

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James Sturm’s new book created with alumni Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost, Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action, the Knight, Edward the horse, and of course the Magic Cartooning Elf are back for more fun, but this time they’re sharing the stage with a host of new characters. Buy a copy today!

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Release and Signing with Joe Lambert and James Sturm at CCS

Saturday, October 5, 11:30am

at The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont

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James Sturm’s new book created with alumni Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost, Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action, the Knight, Edward the chubby horse, and of course the Magic Cartooning Elf are back for more fun, but this time they’re sharing the stage with a host of new characters.

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The Center for Cartoon Studies alum and Eisner-award-winning graphic novelist Joseph Lambert  piece in Fairy Tale Comics is an adaptation from Dora Lee Newman’s retelling of the traditional American folktale “Br’er Rabbit Won’t Help,” in which the titular trickster gets his just desserts from the other animals of the forest.

Location:
The Center for Cartoon Studies
Post Office building
46 South Main Street
White River Junction

Norwich Book Store will be selling books at CCS! 

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The New York Times Motherlode features our “Comics to Santa”

Adventures in Cartooning, meet Adventures in Parenting: The New York Times parenting blog Motherlode gives our Holiday Challenge a shout-out! In their latest book, Adventures in Cartooning, Christmas Special, The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) director James Sturm and alumni Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost asked kids to send a comic to Santa. Check out the amazing results from one talented class of 3rd graders here, or on the Motherlode blog!

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A Panel-Powered Holiday Comic

An original comic by James Sturm, Frederick-Frost (′07) , and Andrew Arnold (′07) about what two kids do when the lights go out. Click here to read the entire comic on School Library Journal.

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Adventures in Christmas Gets Starred Review by Publisher’s Weekly

“As smart as it is funny – and it’s very funny.” –Publisher’s Weekly

Adventures in Cartooning: Christmas Special by James Sturm, and alumni Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost gets a Starred Review by Publisher’s Weekly.

Read the complete Publisher’s Weekly Review online: publishersweekly.com

Adventures in Cartooning Christmas Special released September 18th. Order your copy today!

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Nursery Rhyme Comics features 5 CCS Alumni!

Edited by CCS thesis advisor Chris Duffy, this destined-to-be-a-classic collection of 50 nursery rhymes features the work of CCS alumni Andrew Arnold, J.P. Coovert, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Lucy Knisley, and Mo Oh. Buy a copy today!

Read the Schulz Blog story featuring alumni stories from the book!

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Alum Alexis Frederick-Frost presenter at 2010 Boston Book Festival

Alexis Frederick-Frost is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont.  His book, Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics, written with James Sturm and CCS graduate Andrew Arnold, was the recipient of numerous awards, including Booklist’s Top Ten Art Books for Kids, School Library Journal’s Best Book of the Year, and theLibrary Media Connection’s “Best of the Best.”

The Boston Book Festival (BBF) will take place October 16.
For more information visit: bostonbookfest.org

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AIC Wins 2010 Gryphon Award

Adventures in Cartooning, written and illustrated by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost, has received the 2010 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.

…a stupendous new high for children’s graphic novels…a tale that works just as well as a read-aloud for the very young as it does a lesson for everyone from fans of the form to the wholly uninitiated.”

— Booklist, Starred Review
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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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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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