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2024 Thesis Exhibition

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! An exhibit featuring work by the graduating class is on display at the CCS Gallery. The gallery is located at 94 South Main Street, in downtown White River Junction, in the Colodny building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm. The Thesis Exhibition will be on display and open to the public from May 8th to May 31st.

The Commencement Speaker for the class of 2024 is Ngozi Ukazu. Ngozi is a New York Times-bestselling cartoonist, a DC Comics artist, and the creator of the award-winning graphic novel Check, Please!, BUNT, and has a forthcoming graphic novel FLIP. Check, Please! began as a popular webcomic, noted as the highest funded project in Kickstarters history. The series won numerous awards including the Reuben and the William Morris Award. Check Please has also been translated into multiple languages. Since 2020 her cartoons have also appeared in The New Yorker. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing and The Arts, and later received a master’s in sequential arts and comics.  Commencement will be held on Monday, May 6th, at 12 noon at Northern Stage’s The Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction.

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Spring Lecture Series with Ngozi Ukazu and Joel Christian Gill

The spring lecture series at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring will feature Ngozi Ukazua and Joel Christian Gill. They are each bringing their skills in three-week intensives as part of the CCS MFA and Certificate program. Joel will discuss using comics to convey historical events, personal history, and the process of adaptation. And in the Publication Workshop, Ngozi will focus on digital coloring techniques and approaches, along with production workflow. Both of these charismatic cartoonists have been CCS Visiting Artists in the past. And Ngozi has taught two digital coloring workshops at CCS, including one during the first-ever season of winter workshops at CCS.

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Visiting Artist: Ngozi Ukazu

Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of Check, Please!, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever. She graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a degree in Computing and The Arts.

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CCS Special Guests at SPX

SPX 2018 banner by Molly Ostertag

At SPX this year, faculty Jason Lutes (Berlin) and Max de Radigues (CCS fellow) (Weegee) are both special guests. Jason will be there with the final volume of his trilogy, Berlin. Max de Radigues has also released a new book in French, Stig & Tilde 1 : L’île Du Disparu (The Island of the Disappeared).

Cover of Berlin by Jason Lutes

Jason will be part of the panel “The Epic, Serialized,” with Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Tongues), Ngozi Ukazu (Check, Please), and Matthew Thurber (Art Comics). Moderator Isaac Cates (Cartozia Tales) will get them to discuss how long comics change over time, serialization, and how outside influences affect long projects.

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