Stories tagged Paul Karasik

CCS graduates to exhibit and present at MICE expo in Cambridge

MICE, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, is coming up on October 19 and 20 in Cambridge, MA. A perennial favorite, MICE is showcase space for artists and writers in the greater-Boston area working in the field of comics. The show is free and open to the public of all ages. And you can find lots of CCS grads and instructors tabling and in various workshops throughout the weekend.

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Summer 2019 Workshop Line Up!

Drawing and Writing Single Panel Comics  with Hilary Price: June 3-6
Cartooning Studio: June 17-21
Graphic Memoirs with Melanie Gillman: June 24-28
Introduction to Hand-Drawn Animation with Alec Longstreth: July 8-12
Create Comics: July 15-19
Queer Comics with Tillie Walden: July 29-August 2
Creating Graphic Novels for the Young Adult Market with Jo Knowles and Tillie Walden: August 5-9
Graphic Novel Workshop with Paul Karasik:  July 29-August 2 or August 5-9

NEW! Children’s Book Workshop: Exploring Jewish Themes and Content

Sponsored by PJ Library, June 3-7
A week-long intensive workshop to help eight visual storytellers create a draft of a children’s book.
Learn more about this workshop and how to apply!

PLUS! Cartoon Club Summer Session

Kids + Comics = YOWZA! Cartooning Club: Summer Edition! All the fun of our Saturday Cartoon Club, plus summer, multiplied by five! If you’re at least 9 years old and want to spend a week or two drawing comics, register now for our Summer Cartoon Club.

Session I: July 8-12
Session II: July 15-19
Register online now!

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Beth Hetland, create comics, Graphic Memoirs, Graphic Novels, Hilary Price, Jo Knowles, Jon Chad, Melanie Gillman, Paul Karasik, Queer Comics, Single Panel Comics, Summer Workshops, Tillie Walden, Young Adult Graphic Novels

The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels

How to Read Nancy (Fantagraphics) illuminates the art of comics by analyzing the Ernie Bushmiller classic. Written by The Center for Cartoon Studies longtime summer faculty member Paul Karasik along with co-author Mark Newgarden, it won 2018 Eisner Award Winner: Best Comics-Related Book. Nancy is a beloved comic strip, and Bushmiller was known for his deep understanding of the comics format. Karasik and Newgarden use Nancy to explore how to make a comic and offer insight not only into Nancy but into the entire discipline of comics.

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Tags: cartoonstudies, Comics, Ernie Bushmiller, How to, Mark Newgarden, Nancy, Olivia Jaimes, Paul Karasik, The Ride Together

Longtime Summer Workshops Instructor wins Eisner!

Longtime CCS summer instructor Paul Karasik wins an Eisner for How To Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels. Congratulations to both Paul and Mark Newgarden!

“Not only does How to Read Nancy give insight into Bushmiller’s brilliance, it’s also a great, concise educational [book] about visual storytelling through the analysis of a single strip.” —— BoingBoing

Tags: Eisner, Fantagraphics, How To Read Nancy, Mark Newgarden, Paul Karasik

Alum Spotlight: Carl Antonowicz

Carl Antonowicz ′11 is, as he puts it, a “ferret enthusiast and ink-spattered eldritch sea beast.” He is currently working on a live comic, Büer’s Kiss. He sells his mini comics in his own shop as well as at Quimbys (Chicago, IL), and Left Bank Books (Hanover, NH). He did the following interview with Angela Boyle ′16.

Büer’s Kiss, page 1

Who was your thesis advisor and why did you choose them?

My thesis advisor was the great Guy Davis, creator of The Marquis (Darkhorse, 2009) and artist on Sandman Mystery Theatre (Vertigo, 1995) as well as a significant chunk of BPRD (Darkhorse, 2003). Guy works primarily as a creature designer now, having provided beasties for a bunch of Guillermo del Toro films.

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Tags: Baker Street, BPRD, Büer’s Kiss, Carl Antonowicz, Cartoon Studies, Guy Davis, interview, Paul Karasik, performance, Sandman Mystery Theatre, The Marquis, thesis advisor, tools

2017 Summer Workshop Line Up!

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NEXT UP SUMMER WORKSHOPS!:

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP
with Paul Karasik
July 31-August 4
or August 7-11
Optional Online Extension

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP
with Jo Knowles
and Tillie Walden
The Young Adult Genre
July 31-August 4

GRAPHIC MEMOIR WORKSHOP
with Melanie Gillman
August 7-11

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Animation, Beth Hetland, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, Comics, create comics, Graphic Memoir, Graphic Novel Workshop, Hilary Price, Jo Knowles, Jon Chad, Josh Kramer, Luke Howard, Melanie Gillman, Paul Karasik, Study Comics, Summer Camp, Tillie Walden

11th Commencement Ceremony with Speaker Paul Karasik

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT: This year’s Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement speaker is the critically acclaimed cartoonist and educator Paul Karasik. In addition to being a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Karasik is the co-creator of the graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass (with David Mazzucchelli), named by The Comics Journal as one of the “Best Comics of the 20^th Century.”

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) Commencement Ceremony takes place on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at the Barrette Center for the Arts at Northern Stage.

Paul Karasik’s book, The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family, (written with his sister, Judy) was chosen by the Autism Society of America as the “Best Literary Work of the Year.” He has edited two books collecting the complete works of cartoonist Fletcher Hanks. The first volume, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets, received an Eisner Award in 2008.

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Tags: Cartoon Studies, City of Glass, Commencement, New Yorker, Paul Karasik

Summer 2016! Graphic Novel Workshop With Paul Karasik

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“Paul Karasik has a kind of intelligence combined with earnestness that comes from someplace deep not a recipe book. He is very, very, very intelligent.”
– Art Spiegelman
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, “MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale”

Graphic Novel Workshop:

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12

Optional online extension available!

Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level?

Put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a week in White River Junction, Vermont. Workshop instructor Paul Karasik is a cartoonist (The New Yorker, City of Glass), a comics scholar (I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, How To Read Nancy), and a renowned teacher who really knows how to take good cartoonists and make them better.

“If you ever had any interest in taking a comics class, I recommend THIS ONE. Paul is probably one of the most insightful and all around influential and amazing teachers I’ve ever had…I give this class ten thumbs up, if I only had thumbs for each finger.” – Heather Benjamin, Cartoonist

Tags: Cartoon, City of Glass, Comic Workshop, Comics, Graphic Novel, New Yorker, Paul Karasik, Sequential Art, Summer Camp, Vermont, visual narrative, White River Junction

Summer Workshops Announced!

Announcing the 2016
Summer Workshop Line Up:

CREATE COMICS

Session I: June 20-24
Session II: July 11-15

CARTOONING STUDIO

June 27-July 1

GRAPHIC NOVEL WORKSHOP

Session I: August 1-5
Session II: August 8-12
Optional Online Extension:
August 15 – October 7

Tags: Cartoon Camp, Cartoon Studio, Comic Camp, Comic Narrative, create comics, Graphic Novel, Graphic Novel Workshop, Paul Karasik, Summer Camp, Summer Workshop, Vermont

The Winners of the Cartoonist Studio Prize

The Slate Book Review and The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) are proud to announce the winners of the third annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winners were selected by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois; the faculty and students at The Center for Cartoon Studies, represented by CCS fellow Sophie Yanow; and this year’s guest judge, cartoonist Paul Karasik.

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The winner of the Best Print Comic prize is Richard McGuire for Here, a decades-in-the-making, centuries-spanning epic of time and space, as seen through the complete history of a single room in a single house. Published by Pantheon.

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The winner of the Best Web Comic prize is Winston Rowntree for Watching, a beautiful, detailed story of time travelers observing life in the present day.

Read the complete story on Slate.com!

Tags: Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, cartoonist studio prize, Comics, Dan Kois, Graphic Novel, Here, Pantheon, Paul Karasik, Richard McGuire, Slate, Sophie Yanow, Study Comics, Watching, Web Comic, Winston Rowntree

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 Paul Karasik