The Center for
Cartoon Studies (CCS)
Students travel from across the U.S. and around the world to study comics at CCS in a diverse and vibrant community in Vermont.
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Do you have burning questions about CCS’s MFA and certificate programs but aren’t able to make it to one of our admissions events? Drop us a line at outreach@cartoonstudies.org and we can set up a 1-on-1 video chat session to answer any of your questions about the curriculum, the application process, student housing, financial aid, living in Vermont, or anything else you need to know about applying to CCS!
Congratulations to the Class of 2025! An exhibit featuring work by the graduating class is on display at the CCS Gallery. The gallery is located at 94 South Main Street, in downtown White River Junction, in the Colodny building. Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4 pm. The Thesis Exhibition will be on display and open to the public until June 9. The exhibit is free and open to the public. The gallery is closed on Memorial Day.
Congratulations to the Class of 2025:
Adrienne Adkins
Sydney Austin
Amelia B.C. Dutton
Maia Foster O’Neal
Clayton Fralin
Edea Lee Giang
Taylor Hunt
Sofia Martin
Joshua Murdock
Fernanda Nocedal
Jimmy Pavlick
Fern Pellerin
Gabrielle Peñalver Dumas
Malcolm Smith
How It All Ends has been nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids. Congratulations Emma Hunsinger ’20!
“Hunsinger explores what it’s like to be an especially inexperienced fish out of water in this vibrant, comedic character sketch.” —Publishers Weekly
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Join us this Summer to brush up on your cartooning skills or learn new ones! Click here to check out the complete line-up and to register and learn about scholarship information! In-person and online workshops, from beginner to advanced.
REEL LIFE, the new middle grade graphic novel by Kane Lynch ‘16, is now available via Scholastic Graphix at your local bookstore!
“…A thoughtful drama with richly drawn characters, and a meaningful exercise in empathy for young readers.” –School Library Journal
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Congratulations to Emma Hunsigner ’20 for winning the Vermont Book Award for Children’s Literature for her graphic novel, How it All Ends!
The Vermont Book Awards are annual prizes for outstanding literature by Vermont authors, presented by Vermont Humanities and the Vermont Department of Libraries. Every year prizes are awarded for books written by Vermont authors and published in the previous calendar year in four categories: Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction, and Children’s literature. See the complete list of Vermont’s highest literary prize 2025 winners at Seven Days Vermont!
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100 Goats and Granny! by Atinuke and illustrated by Lauren Hinds ’10 released May 20th!
“…Atinuke’s text rollicks while Hinds’ illustrations urge readers to slow down to take in every delicious detail. . . Great goatish fun.” –Kirkus Reviews
A Publishers Weekly starred-reviewed graphic novel by Mary Shyne ‘18 is out May 13 by Henry Holt Books! YOU AND ME ON REPEAT is a YA rom-com about two former friends stuck in a time loop on graduation day.
“Once close friends, Alicia and Chris have history—lots of it. As they got older, the pair fell out after Chris ditched her for the ‘cool kids’ and left her in the dust. But when you’re looping side by side, you never know if friendship might rekindle or what new feelings could spark along the way.” —Henry Holt Books
