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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Arwen Donahue for the 2023 Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship

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White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has selected Arwen Donahue as its sixth annual Cornish-CCS Residency Fellowship for Fall 2023. Arwen will be working on a graphic memoir that explores generational legacies of sexual violence and asks how writing and art can play a role in their transformation.

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Tags: Arwen Donahue, Cartoon Studies, CCS Cornish Fellowship Residency, CCS Fellow, Center for Cartoon Studies, Cornish, Graphic Memoir, Hub City, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Kentucky Humanities Council, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year, LitHub, New Hampshire, The Nib, The Rumpus, This Is Home Now, University Press of Kentucky, Vermont

SPRING EISNER LECTURE: Jillian Tamaki in Conversation with Glynnis Fawkes

The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Leslie Center for Humanities at Dartmouth,, and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation present Jillian Tamaki in conversation with Glynnis Fawkes.

Attention Upper Valley Community! Award-winning artist and creator, Jillian Tamaki is our featured speaker for the annual Spring Eisner Lecture! In addition, our award-winning cartoonist and faculty member, Glynnis Fawkes will be moderating! We are very excited, and we hope to see on Thursday, April 20, at 5 PM for the free lecture at Dartmouth College’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Room 001. We hope you will join us!

Thursday, April 20, at 5 PM
This event is free and open to the public.

The Norwich Bookstore will be selling books and Jillian will be signing after the talk.

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Tags: Adventure Time, Cartoon Studies, Center for Cartoon Studies, Comics, Dartmouth, Drawn and Quarterly, Eisner Spring Lecture, Glynnis Fawkes, Graphic Novel, Jillian Tamaki, Leslie Center for Humanities at Dartmouth, Mariko Tamaki, SKIM, This One Summer, Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation

New Book Alert! On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden ′16

On A Sunbeam (First Second) by Tillie Walden ′16

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Tags: Alum, Alumni, Book People, Boston Book Festival, Brazos Bookstore, Cartoon School, Center for Cartoon Studies, Chevaliers, Comic, Comic Art, First Second, Graphic Novel, MICE, On A Sunbeam, Print Bookstore, Study Comics, The Novel Neighbor, Tillie Walden, White River Junction

Spotlight: Robyn Chapman

Robyn Chapman on books

Robyn Chapman has a long history with CCS, from our founding days! She is currently an editor at First Second, but she also makes her own mini comics when she has time and runs The Tiny Report, a chronicle of the comics micro-press movement to help bring awareness to the books this movement gets published.

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Tags: Alum, Cartoon Studies, Center for Cartoon Studies, First Second, Industry Day, Mini-comics, Robyn Chapman, The Tiny Report

This Year’s Commencement Speaker: Nate Powell

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT: On Friday, May 6, The Center for Cartoon Studies will hold its 10th commencement ceremony. This year’s speaker is New York Times best-selling cartoonist Nate Powell, whose work includes March, a graphic novel autobiography of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; a graphic adaptation of Rick Riordan’s novel The Lost Hero; and graphic novels You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence Of Our Friends, and The Year of the Beasts.

Powell’s work has received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selections, a Best American Comics selection, and has been nominated for a total of eight Eisner Awards and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Tags: Best American Comics, Center for Cartoon Studies, Commencement, Graphic Novel, John Lewis, March, Nate Powell, Northern Stage, The Barrette Center for the Arts, YALSA

Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize

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Congratulations to our two winners, who each receive $1,000 and, of course, eternal glory, and join our previous winners: Richard McGuire and Winston Rowntree; Taiyo Matsumoto and Emily Carroll; and Noelle Stevenson and Chris Ware.

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The winner of the Best Print Comic prize is Carol Tyler for her momentous Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father (Fantagraphics), a collection of Tyler’s three mournful, angry, beautiful memoirs about her dad, Chuck Tyler, his experiences on the European front in World War 2, and the PTSD—or “soldier’s heart”—that affected not just the rest of his life but his daughter Carol’s as well.
SLATE_BOOKS_webcomic The winner of the Best Web Comic prize is Boulet for his characteristically witty and madcap comic, “I Want to Believe.” The French cartoonist is a three-time nominee in this category and this year came away with the prize.

Read the complete story on Slate.com and to see the rest of the excellent shortlist!

Tags: Cartoon, cartoonist, CCS, Center for Cartoon Studies, Comic, Graphic Novel, Slate, studio prize, Web Comic

The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 Makes Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015

The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 makes the Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015! The science fiction comic also recently won two Ignatz awards for “Outstanding Graphic Novel” and “Outstanding Comic!”

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Tags: Ad House Books, Best Books 2015, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Center for Cartoon Studies, Graphic Novel, Ignatz, Mini-comic, Outstanding Graphic Novel, Publishers Weekly, PW, Science fiction comic, Sophie Goldstein, The Oven

Next Up: Julie Delporte

Julie Delporte is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. She is one of the organizers of Montreal’s annual 48 Heures comics festival. In 2011, Delporte was a fellow at The Center for Cartoon Studies. She is perhaps best known for The Dream of the Disaster, published with Vincent Giard, the zine The Last Mile, Journal, published by Koyama Press, and Everywhere Antennas with Drawn and Quarterly. Delporte has also worked as a journalist, studied film, and illustrated textbooks. Colored pencils and dogs with long ears are her favorite antidepressants.

Tags: 48 Heures comics festival, CCS, Center for Cartoon Studies, Drawn and Quarterly, Everywhere Antennas, Graphic Novel, Journal, Julie Delporte, Koyama Press, The Last Mile

Farm life, War Experience, Back Home, Trauma, 30 Lost Years, Massage

CCS student Kelly Swann’s
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NHPR on The Cartoonists Veteran Project: A Powerful Account of a Veteran

Listen to New Hampshire Public Radio on The Center for Cartoon Studies collaboration with the VA Medical Center. This past year students and faculty from The Center for Cartooning Studies (CCS) invited veterans and their families to learn about cartooning and share their stories with the intention of turning those stories into comics.

The cartoonist veteran project is funded in part with support from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Tags: Applied Cartooning, Cartoon Studies, Cartoonist Veteran Project, CCS, Center for Cartoon Studies, Comics, Kelly Swann, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, NHPR, PTSD, VA Medical Center

Apply Now!

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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a course of study designed for a small group of dedicated students with a passion and appreciation for graphic novels, storytelling, writing, drawing, comics, and design. CCS offers the Master of Fine Arts degree and certificates. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes. Learn how to apply…

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CCS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE

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*!

THE ED KOREN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

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BIPOC Cartoonist Fund Accepting Donations

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.

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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Stories tagged Center for Cartoon Studies

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Arwen Donahue for the 2023 Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship

SPRING EISNER LECTURE: Jillian Tamaki in Conversation with Glynnis Fawkes

New Book Alert! On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden ′16

On A Sunbeam (First Second) by Tillie Walden ′16

Spotlight: Robyn Chapman

This Year’s Commencement Speaker: Nate Powell

Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize

The Oven by Sophie Goldstein ′13 Makes Publishers Weekly Best 20 Books of 2015

Next Up: Julie Delporte

Farm life, War Experience, Back Home, Trauma, 30 Lost Years, Massage

Apply Now!

MFA and Certificate Program

Make a Gift to CCS

Online and In-person Workshops

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Cartoon Club

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A Free One-Week Cartooning Workout

CCS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE

THE ED KOREN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

BIPOC Cartoonist Fund Accepting Donations

FREE COMICS

CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

A 32-page comic on how our government works

THE APPLIED CARTOONING MANIFESTO