Stories tagged Revitalization

CCS Denys Wortman exhibition in NYC

The Center for Cartoon Studies
and the Museum of the City of New York present

Denys Wortman Rediscovered:
Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953

Nov 19 through Mar 20

Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 is an exhibition of original cartoon drawings made for the World-Telegram and Sun illustrating episodes of everyday life in New York City.

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Cartoonists Drawn to Vermont

December 31, 2009

TONIC

The economy of White River Junction, an aging railroad town in Vermont, has been revitalized by an unlikely source: cartoonists.

The Center for Cartoon Studies, one of the few cartooning schools in the country, attracts a million dollars a year into the local economy, according to the school’s president. That’s not bad for something that was just a dream a few years ago.

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