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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Beatrix Urkowitz and Agnes Lee as the fifth annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellows

White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Beatrix Urkowitz and Agnes Lee for its fifth annual Cornish-CCS Residency Fellowship for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. Due to the pandemic, CCS was unable to welcome a Cornish-CCS Fellow during Fall 2020 so have offered two fellowships this academic year. These month-long fellowships provide a $3000 stipend and housing and studio space on 12 secluded acres in Cornish, NH as well as full access to all The Center for Cartoon Studies resources including The Schulz Library, production lab, and a downtown White River Junction studio space. The fellows were selected from a pool of sixty applicants.

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The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the fifth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

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White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the fifth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. Due to the pandemic, CCS was unable to welcome a fellow Cornish CCS Fellow during Fall 2020, so this year we are opening up two month-long fellowships: one in Fall 2021, and one in Spring 2022.

The month-long residency includes a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is July 1, 2021 for both residencies. The 2021 Residency dates are Ocober. 15 – November 15 and the 2022 Residency Dates are March 15 – April 15.

Located in Cornish, NH, The Cornish CCS Residency is designed to create a focused and inspiring environment for cartoonists to create exceptional work. Cornish is located 16 miles from The Center for Cartoon Studies (VT), in beautiful rural New Hampshire.

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CARTOONIST TOMMI PARRISH AWARDED FOURTH ANNUAL CORNISH CCS FELLOW

Cover of Tommi Parrish’s 2018 graphic novel *THE LIE and How We Told It*.

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White River Junction, Vermont –The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Tommi Parrish its fourth annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellow. This month-long fellowship provides a $3000 stipend and housing and studio space on 12 secluded acres in Cornish, NH as well as full access to all The Center for Cartoon Studies resources including The Schulz Library, production lab, and studio space. The fellow was selected from a pool of fifty-five applicants.

Tommi Parrish is a 4-time Ignatz award-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor based in Montreal, QC. Parrish has comics in the permanent collection at the Gallery of Western Australia and has had shows, delivered workshops, and given talks throughout Australia, North America, and Argentina. Their latest work, The Lie and How We Told It (Fantagraphics) won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Graphic Novel. You can find them on Instagram @Tommi_PG.

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Announcing the fourth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

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White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the fourth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. The month-long residency is held during the height of New England’s fall foliage season and will include a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2019.

This residency is made possible by former CCS board member, cartoonist Harry Bliss, whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker. “I want to attract the best cartoonists working today and create a residency that is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for storytellers who are pushing the boundaries of the medium,” Bliss said.

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Tags: Ali Fitzgerald, Comics, Cornish CCS Residency, Fellowship, Graphic Novel, Harry Bliss, New Yorker, Nick Drnaso

The Third Annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship Awarded to Cartoonist and Educator Cara Bean

Cara Bean’s work has been featured in Pen America Illustrated, The Women’s Review of Books , and Teaching Arts Magazine. She is the author of Draw 500 Funny Faces and Features and she provides public drawing and creativity workshops that explore how the beginning of complex ideas emerge from the simple act of doodling on paper. Cara has been teaching art in Lexington, Massachusetts for thirteen years.

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Announcing the third year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

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White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the third year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. The month-long residency is held during the height of New England’s fall foliage season and will include a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2018.

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Tags: Ali Fitzgerald, Comics, Cornish CCS Residency, Fellowship, Graphic Novel, Harry Bliss, New Yorker, Nick Drnaso

The Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship AWARDED TO ALI FITZGERALD

In 2015, Ali began a series of comic workshops with refugees which were then supported by Comic Invasion and Amnesty International. Her first graphic novel, based on these workshops as well as Berlin’s historical//contemporary relationship to immigration and bohemia, will be published by Fantagraphics in the Spring of 2018. At The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency, she’ll work on a series of comics investigating the aesthetics of nationalism and propaganda.

Ali lives in Berlin and mostly works in the milieu of socially-critical visual narratives. She currently contributes comics and visual essays to New York Magazine’s The Cut and The New Yorker. She has also contributed art-world comics to Art Magazin and Modern Painters and created the popular comic Hungover Bear and Friends for McSweeney’s, which ran from 2013 to 2016.

She has been a regular arts writer for Art21 since 2010 and founded the column Queer Berlin in 2013. Her artwork has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Europe as well as featured or mentioned in the New York Times, Artlies!, Afar, The Berlin Quarterly, The Guardian, The Economist, Taggespeigel, Tip Magazin, Varoom Magazine and Art in America. For more information on Ali Fitzgerald visit: alifitzgerald.net

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The Center for Cartoon Studies announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

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White River Junction, Vermont – The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency. This year, the month-long residency will be held during the stunning fall season and will include a $3000 stipend. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2017.

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Cartoonist Residency Now Accepting Applications

The Cornish CCS Residency is a month-long residency designed to create a focused and inspiring environment for a cartoonist in order to create exceptional work. Cornish (NH) is located 16 miles from The Center for Cartoon Studies (VT) in rural New Hampshire. Dates, deadlines, and application information can be found here.

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Visiting Artist: Harry Bliss

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Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine and others. His first book A Fine, Fine School by award winning author Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. He went on to illustrate many other books, including, Which Would You Rather Be by William Steig; Countdown To Kindergarden by Alison McGhee; the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin; and Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DeCamillo. Harry Bliss lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

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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*!

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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.

A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

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 Harry Bliss

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has named Beatrix Urkowitz and Agnes Lee as the fifth annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellows

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) announces the fifth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

CARTOONIST TOMMI PARRISH AWARDED FOURTH ANNUAL CORNISH CCS FELLOW

Announcing the fourth year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

The Third Annual Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship Awarded to Cartoonist and Educator Cara Bean

Announcing the third year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

The Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship AWARDED TO ALI FITZGERALD

The Center for Cartoon Studies announces the second year of The Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency

Cartoonist Residency Now Accepting Applications

Visiting Artist: Harry Bliss

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A 32-page comic on how our government works

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