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!...
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 had...
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 the...
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,...
