Sketch-notes
Visiting Artist - Dash Shaw
Our final visiting artist for the year was Dash Shaw. Check out his Amazon Author Page for a list of all his comics! His lecture at CCS was followed by a premier of his new animated film, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, at Dartmouth College....
Visiting Artist - Jaime Hernandez
Today's visiting artist was Jaime Hernandez who, with his brother, Gilbert, create the Love and Rockets comic books. I think the way he draws women is really beautiful. His most devastating quote was "Real artists don't draw with ballpoint pens." Uh-oh!...
Graphic Medicine - Class 6
Our last Graphic Medicine class last night. The medical students had created an anthology with comics on the theme of "STRESS". We read through it and then were visited by CCS faculty and cartoonist - Luke Howard. Luke reviewed the comic and talked about his own work "Our Mother" which we...
Visiting Artists - a whole bunch!
Last week's visiting artist was the newly appointed Vermont Cartoonist Laureate - Alison Bechdel! We got to witness Ed Koren handing over the Laurels. Alison is famous for so many things... • Her graphic novel, FUN HOME, which won lots of awards and was made into a Broadway musical. • Her long-running comic strip, DYKES...
Visiting Artist - Alec Longstreth
The Visiting Artist today was my hero and my Thesis Advisor - Alec Longstreth! Alec is just vibrating with energy and ideas and I do think he crammed about four hours of instruction into a mere two hours. The Fireman came to class with me today and even HE was highly entertained and engaged by...