Author Archives: Jen Vaughn

Lewis Hyde to Speak on Creativity & Property

This Thursday, Lewis Hyde will speak on the measures of our gifts at Dartmouth College thanks to the Center for Cartoon Studies, the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth and the Will and Ann Eisner Foundation. This essayist, poet … Continue reading

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Summer Workshops Line-Up

Load ’em up, coach, the summer workshops at The Center for Cartoon Studies are available and waiting for you to fill the field. Here is a loverly run-down of the workshops (including two new ones!) and some of the fantastic … Continue reading

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Industry Day Upon Us

One week a year, comic book publishers, critics and a journalist or two fill the trains, planes and automobile to White River Junction. Industry Day gives both the students a chance to have their portfolios looked at by the best … Continue reading

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Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller is OUT!

Joseph Lambert‘s book Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller is out in the world this week and already receiving high praise from book reviewers and literary sources. The fifth book in the collaboration of The Center for Cartoon … Continue reading

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Carol Thompson: Full House

Carol Thompson is a West Coast gal through-and-through. She packed all her bags in California to attend The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2009 and graduated in 2011. Then she packed up all her belongings in a rather fantastic ‘mailing … Continue reading

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Jeff Kinney: Wise Words from Wimpy Kid Writer

Today, cartoonist and household name Jeff Kinney stopped by The Center for Cartoon Studies to talk about his empire built upon one unusual book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The main character, a doofy ‘cad’ named Greg character comes from … Continue reading

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Paul Pope and Sam Hiti

Last Thursday, long time friends Paul Pope and Sam Hiti visited The Center for Cartoon Studies. They talked not about their long line of comics and publisher histories but on the drive behind their comic creative successes and how they … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist Jamboree!

This Spring semester at The Center for Cartoon Studies is chock full of amazing cartoonists, spellbinding story-tellers and groundbreaking designers. In a town where you know everyone on the street, it is quite a blast to turn around one afternoon … Continue reading

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Joe Lambert’s Big Year

2011 was a great year for cartoonist and CCS ’08 alum Joseph Lambert. His new book I Will Bite You from Secret Acres won the sacred brick Ignatz award at the Small Press Expo last September (two to be exact, … Continue reading

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Graphic Novels to Buy with those Gift Cards

In the aftermath of the holidays, we’re all working off all those tasty treats and looking forward to 2012. Snowball fights and knitting circles, or barbeques and suntanning for those in warmer climates. More than likely, you or one of … Continue reading

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