Slideshow Comics is a free event happening on Saturday November 23 at 8pm at Main Street Museum, just a few blocks from The Center for Cartoon Studies. Inspired by R. Sikoryak’s carousel comics, cartoonists from CCS will be reading their own comics aloud to slideshows and a variety of other acts!
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Tags: Coco Fox, event, Main Street Museum, reading Kristen Shull, Vermont
MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017), a co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), and editor of Menopause: A Comic Treatment. With Ian Williams, Matthew Noe, and Alice Jaggers, she manages graphicmedicine.org.
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Tags: ArtisTree, CCS Fellow, event, graphic manifesto, Graphic Medicine, MK Czerwiec, Penn State University Press, Taking Turns, Visiting Artist
Saturday, October 5
Fleming Museum of Art
Robyn Smith ′17 will be talking at the Fleming Museum of Art, the University of Vermont, on October 5 at noon with cartoonist Whit Taylor. Robyn wrote The Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town to explore the intersections of Blackness and mental health. She and Whit Taylor—author of Ghost Stories (Rosarium Publishing, 2018), The Anthropologists, and many other comics—will discuss mentorship and networks among female cartoonists of color.
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Tags: event, Fleming Museum of Art, Robyn Smith, talk, The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town, University of Vermont, Whit Taylor
MK Czerwiec, 2019 CCS Applied Cartooning Fellow, will be talking about Graphic Medicine at ArtisTree on Saturday, October 12, at 3pm. In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the field of graphic medicine, which integrates the medium of comics with topics of health, illness, caregiving, and disability. MK will lead several exercises exploring the many ways drawing and comics can enhance our processing of health-related experiences. This workshop will appeal to health care workers, authors, artists, academics, and fans of comics and medicine alike. Absolutely no prior experience with comics or drawing required! Preregistration is requested but not necessary.
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Tags: ArtisTree, CCS Fellow, event, graphic manifesto, Graphic Medicine, MK Czerwiec, Penn State University Press, Taking Turns
On May 19, Sunday, Hannah Kaplan ′15 is hosting cartoonists reading their comics and in general being funny at Good Good Comedy in Philadelphia, PA. Hannah, creator of A Quick and Easy Guide to Finding a Husband, is hosting
Tickets are $5 and the show starts at 9:30 PM. So grab a ticket now and get ready to take Monday the 20th off so you can recuperate from having your sides split with laughter.
Tags: Anna McGlynn, Ben Miller, cartoonstudies, event, Hannah Kaplan, Meghan Turbitt
Post by Angela Boyle (′16).
Tags: Alumni, Beer is for Everyone, Brooklyn Brewery, Cartoon Studies, Em Sauter, event, interview, signing
Non-fiction comics are a vibrant genre. Autobiographical comics have been popular for a while, but as we can see with the popularity of The Nib, journalism comics are a hit. But that is not the end of it. There are comics about science, biographies, and more. So the Vermont Folklife Center is hosting the Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest on April 23 in Middlebury, Vermont.
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Tags: Angela Boyle, Bridget Comeau, comic fest, event, Iona Fox, Kane Lynch, Kelly Swann, nonfiction, panels, Stephanie Zuppo, Stephen R. Bissette, Vermont Folklife Center
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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.
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