School

A collection of 25 posts

Events

I've got an MFA!!

Tons of photos ahead... it's almost like being there! Before and After? Seriously! This picture... ... was taken during orientation - TWO YEARS AGO! And this picture... ...was taken last Saturday morning just before we headed off to the Northern Stage Theatre to get our diplomas! On the far left is

Events

Graduation and Thesis Exhibit

If you are reading this blog, then you have backed my Kickstarters and helped me get through Cartoon School... you are invited to join me for Graduation and the Opening of the Thesis Exhibition! Commencement is at the Northern Stage Theatre, May 13th at 10am. Hope to see you there!

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BEGin AGAIN Kickstarter

OK - let's DO this!! We got the first part of the Thesis comics funded, now I just launched the Kickstarter for the second part... It's pretty cool to start right out of the gate as a "Project We Love" - note the heart! I'm also doing this as part

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Cover designs...

If you are wondering what I do for the rest of the week... it mostly involves staying up incredibly late trying to pull together my Thesis comics. This week I met with my printer to get quotes to print the comics. It's going to be (if I can pay the

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Visiting Artist - Ruben Bolling

Visiting Artist this week was editorial cartoonist Ken Fisher who draws cartoons under the name Ruben Bolling. His recent popular comics are "Donald and John" a (Trump) spoof of Calvin and Hobbes and Tom the Dancing Bug. He was very funny and teamed up with our fearless leader, Luke Howard,

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Graphics and Visiting Artist - Rebecca Mock

Lots of classes and note-taking last week! The second session of the Dartmouth Medical School - Graphic Medicine class was very entertaining! We did a group prompt where each group was given a slip of paper with a description... ours was "Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion playing strip poker.

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Graphic Medicine Class

I feel quite honored to have been asked to Sketch-note this new class being offered at CCS for a group of Dartmouth Medical School students! I have a huge interest in both visual note taking and the use of comics and images in the medical field. This first class was

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Senior Presentations and Poster Exhibit!

These photos (the four below) were taken by Abe Olsen, our school's own paparazzi, and posted on the school's Flickr page. If you click the image, it should take ya there! These pics might give one the impression that I was super calm and knew what I was doing! That

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Sept. 23 - The Week and Visiting Artist - K.L. Ricks

I had a great Birthday... Week. I was fed well, and on Thursday, The Fireman threw a lovely party for me! Tuesday in Thesis Seminar we talked about some comics. They didn't really get me excited, but I liked my notes, so... Our teacher, Sophie Yanow, shared her own process

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First Week - Phew!

My first full week as a SENIOR at CCS! This is a really big deal to me because - I have NEVER been a Senior in College. How is that possible since I have a BFA? Well - every time I left a school (Brown to SVA to RISD) -

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Cartooning Studio - Friday

The last day. The End. It's all over now. Some kind of magical chaos happening outside the storm... A few of the students were still inking in the classroom. Others were in the lab photocopying. I had been up till 3am again, but I had all the art scanned, cleaned

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Cartooning Studio - Thursday

Day Four - but who's counting, right? Oh? Deadline is counting? Eeeek!! That's quite a turbulent storm going on around him... Lots more good workshops today - Lettering (I adore lettering!), Webcomics, and how to photocopy, reduce and assemble the mini-comics the old-school way (without computers). Jon Chad also showed

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Cartooning Studio - Wednesday

Day 3... ummm... yeh - more intenser-er! I haven't gotten much sleep this week. Staying up till 2 or 3am and class starting at 9:30am. Yawn.... Luckily, our teachers are full of pep and energy. Here they are embellishing the Skull of Deadline Doom and giggling maniacally... No stress.

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Cartooning Studio - Tuesday

Day Two... starting to get more intense! When I signed up for this workshop, I had intended to work on what had started out as the "Rip-Off" graphic novel project (this past spring) - the magic trailer park story. I have about 8 pages done on that story and wanted

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Cartooning Studio - Monday

Ending a Kickstarter JUST before starting a week of intensive Comic Summer Camp... maybe not the best planning - but it fits my M.O.  I apologize for the sudden flood of the whole week's worth of blog posts you are about to get... but I think you'll find some

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Concord Monitor Article

On Sunday, May 15, 2016, The Concord Monitor wrote an article about the Center for Cartoon Studies and an interview with me! They featured one of my comics on the main page, and the online version of the article showed more of my art as well as photos.

Exciting News

Join me for Year Two?

I hope you enjoyed going to Cartoon School with me this year? I got so many great emails and comments - so I'm assuming the answer is "Yes!" - you had fun too. I've also had a lot of messages asking how to get the blog posts for the next

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Block Party!

Graduation yesterday was exciting - it was held at Northern Stage and I was one of the ushers. I couldn't help wondering if I'd make it to my own graduation this time next year? And our class (2017) is tiny compared with this year's (2016). I do wish I had

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Done. Dah-dah-DONE! The Final Project

Always feels like there should be bells ringing or something when a big project is finished... I just - quietly - ate a piece of carrot cake. But I know you all will understand the momentous-ness of this momentous occasion, so here are the behind-the-scenes details... I've shown you some

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PS - Dinos!

Friday's Life Drawing class was a fun twist. Our model posed while "getting dressed". We had a model before who put on different outfits and then held the same pose - paper doll-like. But this time, the model posed in the act of putting on her undies, then pulling on

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And That Concludes Semester 1

Whoa! It's done! One of four semesters. Finished. Sigh. Our last class, instead of Visiting Artists, was a Reading Party. What a great way to end the semester and then head off to break. There were tons of yummy cakes and cookies, including some decorate your own cookies. My fireman

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It Figures

We had semester reviews in Life Drawing class on Thursday. I pinned up 10 sets of figure drawings and it was interesting to see the work on the wall. Usually, I see it close up as I'm working, then flip to the next page. Rinse and repeat. I took some

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Orientation!

In the past two weeks so many amazing things have happened it's like "If it's Monday, I must have taken my kid to college," "if it's Tuesday, I think I bought a car..." In case you didn't hear, my Kickstarter Project was funded (wink wink) - thanks to YOU! And

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Lego and comics...

The kids helped me bring a mini-van load of boxes and important stuff - like my drafting table and a bunch of pancake pillows... to my new apartment near the cartoon school. Then they gave me their opinions on what furniture I should have moved - or not. Lilah and

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5/10/13 - Life - the Ultimate Learning Experience

Two weeks! Yes, I have been away for two weeks. I went to Maine for a fabulous art retreat... by myself. I will do another post to tell you about that, but for this post, I want to tell you about learning experiences. Every few years, I get an overwhelming