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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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Eisner Spring Lecture: Nora Krug

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NORA KRUG‘s memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (foreign edition title Heimat), about WWII and her own German family history was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018, as one of The Guardian’s 50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018 and Best Books of 2018, as an NPR Book of the Year 2018,

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week

2020 Will Eisner Week poster

Will Eisner Week (March 1-7, 2020) is an annual celebration honoring the legacy of Will Eisner, champion of the graphic novel. This international event is dedicated to promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech, and the sequential arts.

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Spring Eisner Lecture: Phoebe Gloeckner

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), the Leslie Center for the Humanities Program at Dartmouth College, and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation present Phoebe Gloeckner.

Thursday, April 11, 4:30pm

Location:
Dartmouth College
Haldeman Building, Room 041

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Phoebe Gloeckner is a graphic novelist and a professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. Gloeckner is the author of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (now a film) and A Child’s Life and Other Stories, as well as many short stories, illustrations and comics, which have appeared in a variety of publications over the last 25 years.

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Visiting Artist Talk: Cara Bean

Self-portrait by Cara Bean

A Will Eisner Week lecture

Thursday March 7, 3pm
CCS Post Office building, 46 South Main Street

This lecture is open to the public.

Cara Bean is the author of Draw 500 Funny Faces and Features and has been teaching art in the United States for thirteen years. Her work has been featured in Pen America Illustrated, The Women’s Review of Books, and Teaching Arts Magazine. She provides public drawing and creativity workshops that explore how the beginning of complex ideas emerge from the simple act of doodling on paper. Cara has taken a leave from her teaching position to focus on creating comics that speak directly to kids about mental health. She is The Center for Cartoon Studies Cornish Residency Fellow.

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week: Read A Graphic Novel

Will Eisner Week (March 1-7, 2019) is an annual celebration honoring the legacy of Will Eisner, champion of the graphic novel. This international event is dedicated to promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech, and the sequential arts.

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The Center for Cartoon Studies Will Eisner Spring Lecture with BEN KATCHOR

 

Join us for The Center for Cartoon Studies Will Eisner Spring Lecture with Ben Katchor.

Ben Katchor’s picture-stories include Julius Knipl, Real-Estate Photographer, The Jew of New York, The Cardboard Valise, Hotel & Farm, and Shoehorn Technique. He has collaborated with Mark Mulcahy on a number of music-theater productions. He lives in New York City and teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Thursday, April 12, 4:30pm

Location: Dartmouth College, Silsby 113

Presented by The Center for Cartoon Studies and The Leslie Center for Humanities at Dartmouth College. Sponsored by the Will and Ann Eisner Foundation.

Free and open to the public.

 

 

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Celebrate Will Eisner Week: READ A GRAPHIC NOVEL!

Will Eisner Week is an Annual Celebration in March, Promoting Comics, Graphic Novel Literacy, Free Speech, and the Legacy of Will Eisner.

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Congratulations The Center for Cartoon Studies Eisner Nominees!

Congratulations to all the Eisner Award Nominees, including The Center for Cartoon Studies Daryl Seitchik ′18, Tillie Walden ′16, and co-founder James Sturm:

Best Graphic Album—New
EXITS
by Daryl Seitchik ′18 (Koyama Press)

Best Digital Comic
On a Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden ′16

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8), Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World
by James Sturm (Toon Books)

For the complete list of nominees, visit: comic-con.org

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2017 is The Will Eisner Centennial Year!

Help us celebrate Will Eisner Week, March 1-7! Read a comic or graphic novel! Pick one up your local library, bookstore, comic shop! To learn about Will Eisner, a champion o the graphic novel, visit: willeisner.com

 

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CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

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Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.

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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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