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Turner Family Stories with Robyn Smith ’17 and Lillie Harris ’21

*Turner Family Stories* cover art by Robyn Smith ’17

Coming out this summer, the Vermont Folklife Center is publishing Turner Family Stories. The book is a collection of comics drawn from the epic story of the Turner Family as shared by Daisy Turner. The work includes a beautiful cover by Robyn Smith ’17 and a tale from Daisy’s own life drawn by Lillie Harris ’21. Daisy Turner was born in 1883 in Grafton, Vermont, the daughter of formerly enslaved Alec and Sally Turner. In 1983, VFC founder Jane Beck met then 100-year-old Daisy and recorded approximately 60 hours of interviews about her family. These interviews are now being used to create these comics.

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Tags: Daisy Turner, Graphic Novel, Lillie Harris, new book, Robyn Smith, Turner Family Stories, Vermont Folklife Center

CCS at Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival

The Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium is coming up at the end of October. CCS faculty Jason Lutes (Berlin, Drawn and Quarterly, 2018) presented the pre-conference keynote address on September 27. And another CCS faculty, Stephen R. Bissette, provided the excellent Sasquatch illustration for their poster.

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Tags: Allison Bannister, Belchville VT, Berlin, cartoonstudies, Daryl Seitchik, Drawn and Quarterly, Exits, First Second, Jamila Roswer, Jason Lutes, Jon Chad, Koyama Press, Leo Geo, Marek Bennett, Pulp Culture Comics Arts Festival and Symposium, Roaring Brook Press, Robyn-Brooke Smith, rosemary mosco, Solar System, Stephanie Zuppo, Stephen R. Bissette, Tom O'Brien, Vermont Folklife Center, Volcanoes, Wash Day, Who Is the Silohuette, Wit's End

Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest in Vermont

Tyrant, Issue 1, page 3, by Stephen R. Bissette

The Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest is back on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont. Plenty of folks from The Center for Cartoon Studies will be there: Sandy Bartholomew ′17, Iona Fox ’15, and Stephanie Zuppo ’15 are all going to be there tabling.

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Tags: Berlin, Cartoon Studies, Iona Fox, Isaac Cates, Jason Lutes, Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest, Sandy Bartholomew, Stephanie Zuppo, Stephen R. Bissette, Tyrant, Vermont Folklife Center

Vermont Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium Features Faculty Jason Lutes, Sophie Yanow, and recent Alum

Keynote presentations by Art Spiegelman (October 19), Joe Sacco (October 20) and Alison Bechdel (October 21), and a day-long event at the Fleming Museum on October 21 featuring panel discussions and over 40 cartoonists from New England and Quebec.

Presenters include The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) faculty Jason Lutes and Sophie Yanow, along with alum Iona Fox. Alum Bridget Comeau, Iona Fox, and Stephanie Zuppo will have work on exhibit.

October 19, 20 and 21, 2017

Sponsored by Burack Distinguished Lecture Series, Fleming Museum, German and Russian Department, Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visiting Artists, Vermont Humanities Council, UVM Humanities Center,UVM Marsh Professor-at-Large Program, and The Center for Cartoon Studies.

For more information, visit: vermontfolklifecenter.org/panels/

Tags: Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman, Bridget Comeau, Fleming Museum, Iona Fox, Jason Lutes, Joe Sacco, Sophie Yanow, Stephanie Zuppo, UVM Humanities Center, Vermont Folklife Center, Vermont Humanities Council

Vermont Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest

Science comics

April 23, 10am-4pm
Vermont Folkllife Center
Middlebury, Vermont

Non-fiction comics are a vibrant genre. Autobiographical comics have been popular for a while, but as we can see with the popularity of The Nib, journalism comics are a hit. But that is not the end of it. There are comics about science, biographies, and more. So the Vermont Folklife Center is hosting the Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest on April 23 in Middlebury, Vermont.

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Tags: Angela Boyle, Bridget Comeau, comic fest, event, Iona Fox, Kane Lynch, Kelly Swann, nonfiction, panels, Stephanie Zuppo, Stephen R. Bissette, Vermont Folklife Center

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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