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CREATE COMICS Workshop

Create Comics Workshop at CCS

Create Comics Workshop next session: July 24-28!

Create Comics Summer Workshop is a ‘boot camp’ for cartoonists. The 5-day workshop packs in the essentials for producing your own comics. For ages 16+

In Create Comics Workshop you will learn about story structure, page composition, pacing, materials and techniques, character design, environmental drawing, and comic production! Collaborate on a comic anthology that you will self-publish during the workshop. Create Comics summer workshop is for both beginner and advanced students age 16 and over! Come learn about comics!

Instructors: Beth Hetland and Luke Howard!

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This workshop didn’t just teach me how to create comics or how to cartoon, it got me inspired!! I learned tons of valuable information that makes my comics desirable and interesting. AND I made great friends with the students and teachers. Not only is this program stuffed with crucial skills and the key to getting your own cartoons exactly how you want them, its completely fun and never a dull moment!
– Rose, Montclair, NJ

Best crash course in comics making – bar none!
-Philip, Montpelier, Vermont

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Summer 2016! Graphic Novel Workshop With Paul Karasik

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“Paul Karasik has a kind of intelligence combined with earnestness that comes from someplace deep not a recipe book. He is very, very, very intelligent.”
– Art Spiegelman
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, “MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale”

Graphic Novel Workshop:

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12

Optional online extension available!

Eventbrite - The Center for Cartoon Studies 2016 Summer Workshops

Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level?

Put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a week in White River Junction, Vermont. Workshop instructor Paul Karasik is a cartoonist (The New Yorker, City of Glass), a comics scholar (I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, How To Read Nancy), and a renowned teacher who really knows how to take good cartoonists and make them better.

“If you ever had any interest in taking a comics class, I recommend THIS ONE. Paul is probably one of the most insightful and all around influential and amazing teachers I’ve ever had…I give this class ten thumbs up, if I only had thumbs for each finger.” – Heather Benjamin, Cartoonist

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Dylan Horrocks

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Dylan Horrocks was born in 1966 and has been making comics since the mid-80s. His breakthrough comic, Hicksville, has been translated into French, Spanish, and Italian and won the 2002 Eisner for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.

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That year, his comic Atlas won the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Bring Comics To Your College Classroom

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To commemorate The Center for Cartoon Studies’ 10 year anniversary, we want to share our comics’ knowledge and passion with your college. Throughout the 2015-16 academic year, a CCS faculty member will beam into 10 classrooms for a free 30-minute presentation.

Whether it’s a tools and technique demo, professional practice lecture, or artists talk, presentations can be tailored to your classroom’s needs. Find out why The Center for Cartoon Studies is the premier cartooning school in the country.

First come, first serve.
Sign up today:
comicworkshop@cartoonstudies.org

If thirty minutes isn’t enough and you’d like a faculty member for a one, two, or three day cartooning workshop let us know. From Swarthmore College to the Ringling College of Art and Design, CCS’s workshops have brought our dynamic curriculum to schools throughout the country.

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CCS Scholastic Art Magazine Comics Project

Scholastic Art Magazine teams up with The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) to make a hands-on comics classroom project for any age. Featured in this month’s magazine, read by teachers all over the nation, is CCS’s Make a Comic lesson plan with step by step instruction on how to turn one sheet of paper into an 8-page mini comic. In conjunction with this special comics feature, Scholastics announced a national One-Sheet Comic Contest.

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THE ED KOREN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

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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*!

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. 

FREE COMICS

CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

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.

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

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

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.

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.

THE APPLIED CARTOONING MANIFESTO

Download a free copy of The World is Made of Cheese, The Applied Cartooning Manifesto.

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