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!
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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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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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
Top Shelf Books just published LOW ORBIT, the new YA graphic novel by Kazimir Lee ‘16!
“A moving journey of self-acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews
Top Shelf Books describes Kazimir’s new YA novel as “an atmospheric and profound coming-of-age graphic novel about a Malaysian-American teen carving out her own identity in the uneasy space between friends and family.”
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.
Congratulations to CCS alumni who made the American Library Association ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading list!
Coco Fox ‘19 for LET’S GO, COCO!; HarperAlley.
Colleen Frakes ‘07 for KNOTS; HarperAlley.
Emma Hunsinger ‘20 for HOW IT ALL ENDS; Green Willow Books.
TillieWalden ‘16 for art for TEGAN AND SARA: CRUSH; Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Luke Healy ‘14 for color for CURLFRIENDS: NEW IN TOWN by Sharee Miller; Little, Brown Ink.
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BECOMING A DOG PERSON is the debut graphic novel of Donna Almendrala ‘12. It is the semi-autobiographical story of how Donna adopted a rescue dog named Max, and how he turned her life upside down. Written and illustrated by Donna, it is out now via her Mad Macaques Press.
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