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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.

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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Graphic Medicine Class #4 and Seven Days Paper!

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

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Visiting Artist - Ann Telnaes

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

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Lettering Workshop - Laura Di Piazza

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

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Visiting Artist - Dean Haspiel

Visiting Artist today was Dean Haspiel - a very amusing and multi-talented comic book artist. His work runs the gamut from TMNT/super cute - to dark, brooding superheros.

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Graphic Medicine #3

The graphic medicine class with the Dartmouth Medical students is turning into a really fun event. The students, and the teachers, are getting into the swing of creating comics - its very impressive! The class is even planning an Anthology. I can't even wrap my head around that right now

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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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Visiting Artist and Ladybroad Ledger

Our Visiting Artist this week was Nick Drnaso. As you can see... ... my sketch notes are not up to my usual standards. (blush) I was multi-tasking, working on another project. Actually, I suck at multi-tasking. So I asked Kurt Shaffert if I could borrow his notes to share with you

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Visiting Artist - Dana Walrath

Our Visiting Artist this week was writer, artist, and anthropologist - Dana Walrath. The first half of her presentation was about how she came to comics from her science background. After burning out in academia, she created an incredible mixed-media comic book about Dementia. Based on her experiences and stories

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Double Feature - Chris Duffy and Summer Pierre

We had the chance to meet with Chris Duffy during Senior Studio this morning. He told us about his experiences as an editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and then SpongeBob Comics. It was fascinating to hear a different perspective and what it is like to work with cartoonists. He showed us

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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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Visiting Artist - Jeremy Sorese

Second semester started this week and we had our first Visiting Artist today - Jeremy Sorese. Jeremy's comic work was unusual - artsy and mixed media - all done with traditional tools. Take a look at his website to see his range. Our four weeks of Winter Break went by

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VA Hospital Sketch-notes

The program at the Veteran's Hospital is getting very interesting. The most recent session was about how to NOT over-empathize with every story we hear. Made me realize that I (and maybe a lot of other cartoon students) am not the best option to listen to the Vets stories and

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Thesis Stuff

Feels like I have mostly been doing "homework", going to meetings and classes, and working (very late at night) on the science kits for the Montshire Museum... but I HAVE been doing some work on my Thesis. If you follow my comics, either here on the Glyphs & Glitches Comic blog

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Sketch-Notes and Visiting Artists!

Catching up... (all images)

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Visiting Artist - Spike Trotman

Our Visiting Artist this week was "Spike" Trotman. She runs a small comics publishing company, Iron Circus and is the Queen of Kickstarter comics with thousands of backers for each project! I was completely blown away by this woman - she is a force of nature and I want to

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Visiting Artist - Marjane Satrapi

Our second Visiting Artist this week was one of my new heros! Marjane Satrapi visited Dartmouth College on Thursday and our whole school trekked up there (a few miles! Phew!) I had read her books, Persepolis and Embroideries, but borrowed them from CCS' library. Now, I wanted my OWN copy

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Visiting Artist - Richard Fairgray

We had an "extra" Visiting Artist this week! Richard Fairgray came all the way from New Zealand to talk to us about his work, the state of comics in New Zealand, Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey and how that relates to children' books (the First Year students are working

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Lots of Sketch-notes and Visiting Artist - Jo Knowles

We had lots of visitors and guest professors, and we learned a lot about story structures and plot. I guess it was the Week of The Story - even our Visiting Artist, was actually a Visiting Author. Jo Knowles writes YA books based on her own experiences. I've got a