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CCS Portfolio Day, March 6

Save the Date! CCS PORTFOLIO DAY Saturday, March 6 10am-1pm Bring your sketchbook!  Show your portfolio for an admissions review • Learn more about the program and courses • Meet faculty and students • Tour the campus Who should attend?  … Continue reading

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Mini Comics of Note, 2009

Compiling a comprehensive “Best Of” list would be a monumental task – instead, I’ll share some of my favorite mini comics from 2009. Best Innovation in Mini Comics Minicomic of the Month Club by Liz Baillie As soon I read … Continue reading

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New Kids Meets Teen Humor

Straight out of 1991!  I’m always on the look out for romance and teen humor comics, so my My buddy Mark Bilokur lent me this.  Perhaps it’s not a particularly note-worthy piece of comics literature, but it’s a fun example … Continue reading

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Bears and Blitsers

On Friday CCS held the closing reception for Bears and Blisters: An Exhibition of Colleen Frakes and Ken Dahl. For more photos, visit our flickr site. This exhibit showcased original art from Frakes’ Woman King and Dahl’s Monsters.  Be sure to … Continue reading

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First Friday at CCS: Bears and Bears and Bears, Oh My!

Get ready for a bear attack! Colleen Frakes Jon Chad Nick Patten Join us at The Center For Cartoon Studies for a First Friday reception of Bears and Blisters: An Exhibition of Colleen Frakes and Ken Dahl. An author talk and … Continue reading

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Badaboom Twist

As I was moving about CCS today I noticed a mini-comic on several desks. It was an autobio/diary comic called Badaboom Twist by David Libens. I was instantly taken with it. Art wise it was somewhere between Mark Marek Jeffrey … Continue reading

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Jen Vaughn Made the Bitch List!

Jen Vaughn, powerhouse cartoonist and staff librarian here at the Schulz Library, has just made the prestigious “Bitch List”.  That is, she came in at number 11 in Bitch issue 45. Bitch (The Feminist Response to Pop Culture) regularly publishes a … Continue reading

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Recommended: Nine Recently Read Books

In No Particular Order… 1. Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory This Xeric award-winning book by Erroyn Franklin documents the dissolution of her marriage and the ensuing emotional vortex that results.  The illustrations on each page are white paper … Continue reading

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Sturm Speaks!

Listen to CCS Director James Sturm (or as I like to call him, “the chief”) share his graphic novel wisdom with NPR listeners.  James was guest on Vermont Edition.   For a program created for a lay audience, the discussion holds … Continue reading

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All Across the Ocean

Recently CCS second year student, Kevin Kilgore, embarked on two journeys. First, he and his wife (Nahee) brought a new life into the world. Affectionately called Baby X by his dad’s peers, our new friend accompanied Dad even to the library. … Continue reading

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