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...

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...

We had the fourth Graphic Medicine class with the Dartmouth Medical School students. Once again, I am really impressed with their cartooning! And I learn a lot too... I had no idea goats were sacrificed before midterms... I'm pretty sure that was symbolic, not actual... anyway... And a bit MORE excitement... I'...

A great lecture yesterday with visiting artist Ann Telnaes. Besides being very funny, she gave an interesting alternative path from her intention to be a Disney Animator to being the President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. She works for the Washington Post and won a Pulitzer Prize for her cartoons in 2001. Lately,...

I just came back from an excellent Lettering Workshop with Laura Di Piazza at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The best part was learning to use a COLA PEN (often made by folding a piece of a Coke can!) I loved the loose, scratchy, messy freedom. The faster and harder you press, the more splatters...