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Next Up Visiting Artist: Peter Bagge

Alternative comic creator Peter Bagge is best known for the ‘90s comic series Hate, featuring the semi-autobiographical anti-hero Buddy Bradley, and whose ad- ventures have been collected in two volumes: Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey, both from Fantagraphics. Prior to Hate, Bagge wrote and illustrated the comic book series Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics), and has since written two humor titles for DC: Yeah! and Sweatshop.

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Visiting Artist: KC Green

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KC Green has completed work for Mad Magazine, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and probably others. He’s most known for the phrase/comic “this is fine” where a dog burns to his supposed death. But it is a cartoon, so no one takes it that seriously.

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Visiting Artist: R. Sikoryak

R. Sikoryak’s books include Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly).  He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Onion, SpongeBob Comics, MAD, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and more.  He’s hosted his Carousel comics performance series around North America since 1997.

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Visiting Artist: Peter Kuper

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Peter Kuper’s illustrations and comics appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY every month. He has written and illustrated many books including Comics Trips, a journal of an eight-month trip through Africa and Southeast Asia. Other works include Stripped – An Unauthorized Autobiography, Mind’s Eye, The System, a wordless graphic novel and adaptations of numerous short stories of Franz Kafka collected in Give It Up!. In 1979 he co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated and remains on its editorial board to this day. Since 1986 he has taught courses in comics and illustration at the School of Visual Arts and currently at Parsons in New York City and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group syndicated through the web at inxart.com.

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Al Jaffee’s Wild Pitches

 

An exhibition of never-before-seen comic strips and panels from the early 1950s by the legendary MAD cartoonist

November 2 – December 6

Location:
The Center for Cartoon Studies Gallery
94 South Main Street
White River Junction, Vermont

Gallery hours:
Fridays, 12-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm

 

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