Stories tagged Marvel

Spring Eisner Lecture:  Roxane Gay in Conversation with Whit Taylor

CCS NEWS ALERT! Award-winning and renowned writer and creator, Roxane Gay is our featured speaker for the annual Spring Eisner Lecture! And award-winning comics creator and faculty member, Whit Taylor will be moderating! We are beyond thrilled, and we hope that you will join us on Thursday, March 31, at 3 PM EST for the free live stream viewing.

Roxane Gay is a preeminent and prolific writer, editor, publisher, professor, and social commentator. For our comics fans, she wrote the six-part series, WORLD OF WAKANDA by Marvel. A few of her many critically acclaimed books include, BAD FEMINIST, DIFFICULT WOMEN, and HUNGER. Roxane Gay also writes regular opinion pieces for the The New York Times, produces THE AUDACITY newsletter, and is currently working on several television and film projects, with more books forthcoming.

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Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Ronald Wimberly

Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Ronald Wimberly

Ronald Wimberly is an artist who works primarily in design and narrative. He is an accomplished illustrator and cartoonist, having designed several graphic novels as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse. Ronald was the 2016 Columbus Comics resident and two time resident cartoonist at Angoulême Maison des Auteurs.

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Visiting Artist: Rick Veitch

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Rick Veitch is known as a distinctive fantasy artist and writer for Marvel’s Epic Comics line, for which he created three graphic novels, Abraxas and the Earthman, Heartburst, and The One. Veitch worked on DC’s Swamp Thing with his friends Totleben and Bissette. He also created the graphic novels Bratpack and The Maximortal, and created his own publishing imprint, King Hell Press. In 2011, Veitch wrote and pencilled the book The Big Lie.

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James Sturm to speak at VCU

Sturm at VCU

Monday, September 16, 7pm
Virginia Commonwealth University
Singleton Center

The Center for Cartoon Studies Director James Sturm’s writings and illustrations have appeared in scores of national and regional publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times, Slate, and on the cover of The New Yorker.

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Marvel vs. Jack Kirby: Legal Rights & Ethical Might

CCS & Vermont Law School present

Marvel vs. Jack Kirby: Legal Rights & Ethical Might

Friday, October 21, 2:30pm

Location:
Nina Simon Classroom
Vermont Law School

Join The Center for Cartoon Studies’ Steve Bissette and Vermont Law School’s Oliver Goodenough as they discuss the legal, ethical, and moral issues of the Kirby decision for both Marvel/Disney, the consumers of superhero stories, and the talent that creates them.

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Halloween Heroes: The Rutland Parade

October 23 – November 20

Halloween Heroes, on exhibit at The Center for Cartoon Studies, features these comics that have made the Rutland Halloween Parade famous in the cartooning world, as well as period photos of Rutland’s own “Halloween Heroes” reveling at the event.

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