Tag Archives: Bill Bedard

Kickstart My Heart: Joyana McDiarmid and Maple Key Comics

The Center for Cartoon Studies alumna Joyana McDiarmid launched a Kickstarter last month to crowd-fund the first two issues of her new bimonthly comics anthology Maple Key Comics. The project is an ambitious one, to say the least–McDiarmid’s first issue alone … Continue reading

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2013 SPX Debuts Part 5

  The Small Press Expo, North America’s Premiere Independent Cartooning and Comic Arts Festival is just around the corner! Come September 14th-15th, droves of CCS students, alumni and faculty will be headed down to both attend the show and sell their … Continue reading

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Congratulations, Class of 2012!

A new brand of cartoonist for the modern age, like water soaking into a brick road they can bend, fold and melt into any shape. Whether you need storyboards drawn, an advertising campaign mascot, a memoir adapted into a graphic … Continue reading

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Freshmen Anthologies are in!

The notorious Freshmen Anthology project is a foreboding one, but as usual CCS’s newest class pulled through in style! For the assignment, the class is randomly divided into quarters, making for around 5 students per group. Each group gets to … Continue reading

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Survey 1 Comic Strip Essays: Bill Bedard on “Little Nemo in Slumberland”

Note: This is the third in a series of essays written by the current Class of 2012 for Survey of the Drawn Story I, CCS’s comics history class. They are posted here in approximate chronological order of when their chosen … Continue reading

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