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Peggy Burns to speak at The Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Ceremony

The Center for Cartoon Studies commencement ceremony will take place on Saturday May 4, 11am, 2019 at The Barrette Center for The Arts, with speaker PEGGY BURNS.

Peggy Burns is the publisher of Drawn & Quarterly Press in Montreal. SInce its founding in 1989, Drawn & Quarterly has grown into an internationally renowned publisher of the world’s top cartoonists. It has published luminaries including Lynda Barry, Chris Ware, Seth, and Kate Beaton, as well as international authors including Guy Delisle, Tom Gauld and Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The publishing house is celebrated for its high production values, design, editorial integrity, and artistic autonomy.

The event is free and open to the public.

Please join us for the Thesis Exhibition Opening immediately following the ceremony. The exhibit features original work by the graduating class!

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Seth’s 2018 Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech on The Comics Journal

“Cartooning is a beautiful art form and you are among the first few generations of artists allowed to explore it with the freedom and pleasure that other artists have always been granted with their mediums. Take that to heart but take advantage of it, as well. It is a remarkable opportunity…” – Seth

Read Seth’s entire speech online.

 

 

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Congratulations 2018 Graduates!

This year’s diploma drawing is by Jaime Hernandez!

 

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The 2011 Diploma by Aaron Renier

Each year The Center for Cartoon Studies commissions a cartoonist to create a one-of-a-kind diploma for our graduating class. This year, the insanely talented Aaron Renier, creator of The Unsinkable Walker Bean, created a masterpiece. Click here to see the image in all its glory.

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Commencement Speaker: Evan Dorkin

“I adore what Evan Dorkin does.
I think he is the funniest guy in comics.”
— Frank Miller, author of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Commencement Ceremony will take place Saturday, May 15, at 11am at Northern Stage Theatre at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, Vermont.

Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception immediately following.
Exhibition runs Monday-Saturday, 10am-2pm, through Saturday, June 12.

Evan Dorkin is the Harvey, Eisner and Ignatz-award winning creator of Milk and Cheese, Dork, and Hectic Planet, released sporadically, if at all, through SLG Publishing. He’s also put time in at Marvel (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Comic, Agent X, The Thing: Night Falls on Yancy Street), Dark Horse (Hellboy: Weird Tales, Predator, The Mask) and DC (Superman and Batman: World’s Funnest, Bizarro Comics, Superman Adventures), among other comic book publishers, most of whom are out of business. His comics and illustration work has appeared in Esquire, Spin, The Onion and Nickelodeon Magazine (R.I.P), as well as two books, Generation Ecch and the acclaimed novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper.

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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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