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Visiting Artist: Raina Telgemeier
Babysitter’s Club cartoonist Raina Telgemeier visits CCS this month! One of the many wonders of The Center for Cartoon Studies Schulz Library is having several of Raina’s self-published mini-comics in the zine collection. Raina’s most recent book, Smile, is about her battle within … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoonist, Children Literature, Visiting Artist
Tagged Babysitter's Club, Drama, Raina Tegemeier, Scholastic, Smile
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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
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
Posted in Cartoonist, Children Literature
Tagged Albert Ohams, Amy Lockhart, animated films, Astronaut Academy, Battling Boy, cartoonists, Children's Books, Common as Air, Dave Roman, DB Johnson, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, First Second, Graphic Novels, Hooliganship, Jeff Kinney, Joe Lambert, John Stadler, Josh Neufeld, Lewis Hyde, Marc Bell, Nigerian newspaper, Paul Pope, performance art, Peter Burr, Raina Telgemeier, Sam Hiti, Smile, The Cats of Mrs. Calamari, The Gift, The Influencing Machine, The Sun
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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
Posted in Children Literature, New Book
Tagged 2011 books, Americus, apocalypse, banned books, best of 2011, Chi's Sweet Home, Children's Books, Colleen AF Venable, comic books, dark comics, Darwin, Evolution, Fish You Were Here, G.B. Tran, gold rush, graphic novel recommendations, Graphic Novels, Guinea Pig, historical fiction, holiday books, Jay Hosler, Jerry Robinson, Jet Scott, Jonathan Hill, Joshua W. Cotter, Kevin Cannon, kittens, Konami Kanata, libraries, manga, memoir comics, MK Reed, non-fiction comics, reading list, Richard Sala, Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Stephanie Yue, The Hidden, The Klondike, Vietnamerica. Vietnam, Zach Worton, Zander Cannon, zombies
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JP Coovert on your back!
JP Coovert graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2008 and in his creative wake are many great comics and more than one rad t-shirt. What happened after you graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies? JPC: After graduating … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoonist, CCS Alumni, Children Literature, Interview, Self-publishing
Tagged Alexis Frederick-Frost, Andrew Arnold, Brad McGinty, CCS Alum, CCS Alumni, James Sturm, Joe Lambert, Jordan Shiveley, JP Coovert, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Indie Expo, MIX, Nursery Rhyme Comics, One Percent Press, Simple Routines, Target
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Nursery Rhyme Comics Time
This week, First Second released the Nursery Rhyme Comics book featuring 50 artists telling 50 tales of mirth, merriment and COMICS. Editor Chris Duffy put this magical book together and we are sure it is one for ages. Nursery Rhyme … Continue reading
ABC-Book Library Rumble: Let’s Blow These Alphabets into Alpha-Bits
By Katie Moody – A smattering of alphabet books live among the various children’s books here at the Schulz Library. Good alphabet books are deceptively simple, and—just like good comics—read so effortlessly that you suspect that making the thing must’ve … Continue reading
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The Big Furry Deal with Guinea Pig: Pet Shop Private Eye
When it comes to children’s books about furry creatures, we can think of DOZENS upon THOUSANDS like Paddington Bear, Richard Scarry’s world-building, Carl Barks with Uncle Scrooge. Funny animals are a tradition in comics! Within the last year, one particular … Continue reading
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Big and Little
John Stadler recently visited CCS and walked us through one of his most popular books, Big and Little. This book, and several others, are available in the Schulz Library’s Children’s Books section. I originally wrote about Big and Little on … Continue reading
Wilhelm Busch!
Who are these punks? Meet — if you haven’t met them before — Max und Moritz, one of the many ‘offspring’ of the amazing Wilhelm Busch, one of the 19th Century’s founding fathers of what we now call comics, comix … Continue reading