Academia Nuts: CCS Students to present at Dartmouth

Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, is hosting its third annual Comics, Illustration, and Animation Conference this weekend. The programming includes a variety of academics from such far-flung climes as Hanover, Germany; Coventry, UK; and, oddly enough, White River Junction, VT.

First year student Nikolaus Gulacsik has been working in close collaboration with Dartmouth professor Michael A. Chaney to organize a book fair and presentations to be held Friday in Dartmouth’s Haldeman Hall (6-7pm in room 041, if you’re planning on dropping in).

Gulacsik said that the presence of Center for Cartoon Studies students at the conference is just a continuation of the long-standing–albeit tenuous– relationship between CCS and Dartmouth. “There has been a little give and take in the past,” he said. “James [Sturm] was close with [CCS Board member] Ana Marino, who was at Dartmouth some years ago.”

The book fair promises to be a well-attended one, despite its short duration: 12 CCS students, alumni, and associates are presenting or selling their work at the event. Confirmed attendees include current CCS Fellow Nicole Georges, first years Rebecca Roher and Jonathan Rotztain, second years Eleri Harris and Tom O’Brien, and alumnus Carl Antonowicz.

The remainder of the conference will feature panels and presentations on a wide variety of comics and animation related topics, including Motion and Guided Views, Graphic Autobiography, History in Comics, and marginal cultures as represented in comics.

CCS also partners with Dartmouth on the annual Will Eisner Lecture. Past lecturers in that series have included Joe Sacco and Jules Feiffer.