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Students travel from across the U.S. and around the world to study comics at CCS in a diverse and vibrant community in Vermont.
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Tillie Walden ’16, graduate and faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2024 list. “…Vermont appointed Tillie Walden the cartoon laureate, and at 26, she’s the youngest artist to receive the honor. Walden, who has published more than 10 books, often centering queer narratives, is also one of the youngest recipients of an Eisner Award, often referred to as the Oscars of the comics industry.” –Forbes. Click here to read more and see the complete list of young artists and designers reimagining how we see the world.
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MONTPELIER, VT—Norwich resident Tillie Walden will be appointed Vermont’s fifth Cartoonist Laureate on Thursday, April 13, 2023, when she will be recognized on the Vermont Statehouse floor.
Walden is one of the most celebrated and accomplished cartoonists working today. She won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel memoir “Spinning,” making her at 22 one of the youngest Eisner Award winners ever.
Beautifully crafted and charged with emotion, Walden’s work is celebrated for its intimate and authentic portrayal of adolescence that often explores queer themes. Entertainment Weekly named her as one of “the most essential graphic novelists of her generation.”
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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is thrilled to announce that the Cartoonist Studio Prize is back for its 10th year running! This year we are teaming up again with The Beat to recognize the year’s most exceptional graphic novels and webcomics. The winning creators in both categories- print and webcomics – will each receive $1000 and a Wacom One Creative Pen Display. Details can be found here: cartoonstudies.org/studioprize
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Seven Days, the Vermont alt-weekly, now includes K Chronicles by Keith Knight. Knight, a recent visiting artist at The Center for Cartoon Studies, has been publishing his semi-autobiographical webcomic since 1993 and it is syndicated across the country. In 2015, Knight published a collection of 20 years of strips commenting on police brutality, They Shoot Black People, Don’t They? With the current political and social issues, his body of work is even more important. As Seven Days writes, “Black Lives Matter protests across the country show: Art about race and racism is as much a part of this moment as COVID-19 case counts.”
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The Center for Cartoon Studies student Emma Hunsinger ′21 has a comic, How to Draw a Horse, in the current print edition of The New Yorker. Spanning 10 pages in print, the comic initially ran online in May 2019 and was the most popular content on TheNewYorker.com. This comic began as a class assignment.
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Lucy Bellwood is a professional Adventure Cartoonist and educator based in Portland, OR. Her documented expeditions include rafting trips through the Grand Canyon, cutting-edge oceanography in the Pacific, and an expedition aboard the last wooden whaling ship in the world. Her talks and essays explore the intersections of community, authenticity, and financial
sustainability for creators. She is the author of Baggywrinkles: a Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea (Toonhound, 2016), an educational memoir about her time working aboard tall ships, and 100 Demon Dialogues (Toonhound, 2018), a helpful guide to living with imposter syndrome.
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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), the Leslie Center for the Humanities Program at Dartmouth College, and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation present Phoebe Gloeckner.
Thursday, April 11, 4:30pm
Location:
Dartmouth College
Haldeman Building, Room 041
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Phoebe Gloeckner is a graphic novelist and a professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. Gloeckner is the author of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (now a film) and A Child’s Life and Other Stories, as well as many short stories, illustrations and comics, which have appeared in a variety of publications over the last 25 years.
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April 6-7, 2019
MOCCA Arts Festival
at Metropolitan West, 639 W 46th Street, New York
Visit The Center for Cartoon Studies table F214! Meet students, buy comics, and learn more about The Center for Cartoon Studies MFA and Certificate program, and summer workshops.
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Art Spiegelman is the first-ever cartoonist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal. MacDowell is one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations, and it has been awarding this medal annually since 1960 to artists who have made an outstanding contribution to American culture.
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Are you considering applying to The Center for Cartoon Studies MFA or Certificate program? Join us for our virtual campus open house and portfolio day. Learn about the campus and the renowned collection of the Schulz Library, hear from current students and graduates, and meet faculty and staff for a portfolio review*!
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CCS wants your old comics! These comics and many more were donated to support CCS's BIPOC Cartoonist Fund. If you're interested in making a comic book or cash donation drop us a line.
Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.
Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.
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.
Download a free copy of The World is Made of Cheese, The Applied Cartooning Manifesto.
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