Category Archives: Visiting Artist

Visiting Artist: Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson is a rising star in the comics world; a success that started with Nimona, that was followed by Lumberjanes. In art school, Noelle struggled with what she thought of as illustration. One day a teacher saw her doodles … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: David Sipress

For our first visiting artist of the 2015/2016 school year, we had the very kind and soft-spoken David Sipress. He has been a New Yorker cartoonist since 1998, but it took him 20 years of rejections to get in. One of … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Danielle Corsetto

Danielle Corsetto is the creator of Girls with Slingshots, a recently completed web comic that ran for over a decade. She visited The Center for Cartoon Studies as the last speaker for the 2014/15 year. It was her first time … Continue reading

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Industry Day 2015 with Jen Vaughn

Industry day brings professionals to The Center for Cartoon Studies to talk to and review art by the current students. This year, CCS welcomed Jen Vaughn ’10, Tom Kaczynski, Chris Pitzer, Allison Baker, and Bill Kartalopoulos to campus. Jen Vaughn … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Ellen Forney

Ellen Forney, creator of Marbles, is a cartoonist from Seattle, Washington. She visited The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) and Dartmouth College in conjunction with the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College as part of CCS’s annual spring Eisner … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: George Pratt

George Pratt is a comic artist, award-winning painter, writer and photographer. He came to visit The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) last week as a visiting artist, and to present at the CARTOONIST DRAWING VETERANS event at the White River … Continue reading

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George Pratt Watercolor Demo

While George Pratt was in town as the visiting artist to The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), he gave a watercolor demo of an interesting technique he learned from Burt Silverman. Silverman did the cover of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung album … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen is a political and journalist cartoonist. Originally from Lancaster, PA, she came to visit The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) from Austin, TX. She has a degree in cultural anthropology, which has been useful in her career observing … Continue reading

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Visiting Artist: Dan Archer

Dan Archer, from London, is a graphic journalist and a CCS grad from ’09. He started making comics when he was assigned jury duty and used it to express his feelings of helplessness at a not entirely just system. He … Continue reading

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Will Eisner Week – Events at CCS and The Schulz Library!

Will Eisner (1917-2005) was America’s most influential comic artist, an artist who changed comic books, created comic strips, and is recognized as the “Father of the Graphic Novel.” Every year, The Center for Cartoon Studies and Schulz Library celebrates Will … Continue reading

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