Stories tagged Alec Longstreth

Online Winter Workshops

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers workshops for both beginners to cartooning and advanced, with topics from tools and techniques to writing and drawing for both comics and graphic novels. Our winter 2021 session workshops include Digital Coloring with Ngozi Ukazu, Graphic Memoir with Melanie Gillman, and Introduction to Hand-Drawn Animation with Alec Longstreth. Workshops will run January 11-15, 2021. Click here for more information and to register.

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Comic Workshops

Seattle: Short Run Comix + Arts Festival

Short Run is coming on November 9 in Seattle, WA, and despite being on the opposite coast from The Center for Cartoon Studies, you can find some CCS grads with their comics. With a focus on comics, Short Run includes all sorts of self-publishers and small press. Free to the public!

CCS faculty Glynnis Fawkes, Short Run special guest (Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre)
Alec Longstreth (faculty) (Basewood, Isle of Elsi)
Angela Boyle ′16 (editor of Awesome ‘Possum)
Ben Horak ′11 (Grump Toast)
Colleen Frakes ′07 (Iron Scars, Prison Island)

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Angela Boyle, awesome 'possum, Basewood, Ben Horak, Charlotte Bronte before Jane Eyre, Colleen Frakes, Convention, Glynnis Fawkes, Graphic Novels, Grump Toast, Iron Scars, Isle of Elsi, Prison Island, Short Run

CCS grads up for Small Press Expo Ignatz Awards!

In just a few weeks, Small Press Expo will be opening its doors for another year in Bethesda, Maryland. One of the largest small press comic shows in North America, it is also host to one the Ignatz Awards. Though the shortlists are juried, the final votes come from attendees at SPX. We wish the best of luck to Lucy Knisley ′09, Julie Delporte (Fellow), Eleri Harris ′14, and Alec Longstreth (Instructor)! Also, this year’s SPX illustration is by Tillie Walden ′16! SPX takes place on September 14-15.

Lucy Knisley ′09 is up for Outstanding Artist on Kid Gloves (First Second). This memoir explores Lucy’s troubles with getting and staying pregnant. Kid Gloves is also up for Book of the Year at the Harvey Awards.

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Andy Warner, Death, Drawn and Quarterly, Eleri Harris, Family, First Second, Graphic Novel, Ignatz Awards, Isle of Elsi, John Carvajal, Julie Delporte, Kid Gloves, Lucy Knisley, Luke Healy, Nicole Georges, Rachel Dukes, Sophie Yanow, SPX, The Nib, The Nib Magazine, This Woman's Work, webcomic

CCS grads and faculty in the Ringo Awards

Nominees for the Ringo Awards have been announced. Both fans and professionals can vote until September 18. Winners will be announced at Baltimore Comic-Con on October 19.

The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow ′16 is up for Best Webcomic. Sophie’s fictional autobiography follows her year abroad in France.

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, awards, Baltimore Comic-Con, Be Prepared, Berlin, CCS Alumni, Drawn and Quarterly, First Second, Jason Lutes, nominees, Ringo Awards, Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions, Vera Brogsol, webcomic

CCS in the Eisners

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The short lists for the Eisners are here! And CCS is well represented. From humor to reality, adult to children, we’ve got it covered. The Eisners are comic industry awards presented at San Diego Comi-Con International every year. You can view the complete list of nominees and all comic professionals, including students, can vote.

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Andrew Ardnold, Eisner Awards, Fante Bukowski, First Second, James Kochalka, Monk, Penelope Bagieu, Robyn Chapman, The Divided Earth, The Nameless City

Alec Longstreth’s Isle of Elsi on Kickstarter

Alec Longstreth, currently the outreach director at The Center for Cartoon Studies, is a comics workhorse. A stay at home father, he continues working on his Phase 7 series of mini-comics. He runs Phase 8, his new publishing house. And he has an ongoing webcomic, Isle of Elsi, which is currently on Kickstarter for the print book. The book collects the first three Isle of Elsi stories: The Dragon’s Librarian, A Menagerie of Messengers, and The Search for Spinoza. This kid’s comic is full of wordplay, from alliteration to puns to rhymes.

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Tags: 24-hour comic, Alec Longstreth, Basewood, cartoonstudies, Isle of Elsi, Kickstarter, Phase 7, Phase 8, Web Comic

Summer 2019 Workshop Line Up!

Drawing and Writing Single Panel Comics  with Hilary Price: June 3-6
Cartooning Studio: June 17-21
Graphic Memoirs with Melanie Gillman: June 24-28
Introduction to Hand-Drawn Animation with Alec Longstreth: July 8-12
Create Comics: July 15-19
Queer Comics with Tillie Walden: July 29-August 2
Creating Graphic Novels for the Young Adult Market with Jo Knowles and Tillie Walden: August 5-9
Graphic Novel Workshop with Paul Karasik:  July 29-August 2 or August 5-9

NEW! Children’s Book Workshop: Exploring Jewish Themes and Content

Sponsored by PJ Library, June 3-7
A week-long intensive workshop to help eight visual storytellers create a draft of a children’s book.
Learn more about this workshop and how to apply!

PLUS! Cartoon Club Summer Session

Kids + Comics = YOWZA! Cartooning Club: Summer Edition! All the fun of our Saturday Cartoon Club, plus summer, multiplied by five! If you’re at least 9 years old and want to spend a week or two drawing comics, register now for our Summer Cartoon Club.

Session I: July 8-12
Session II: July 15-19
Register online now!

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Beth Hetland, create comics, Graphic Memoirs, Graphic Novels, Hilary Price, Jo Knowles, Jon Chad, Melanie Gillman, Paul Karasik, Queer Comics, Single Panel Comics, Summer Workshops, Tillie Walden, Young Adult Graphic Novels

Nott Just Another Drawing of White River Junction

“I really loved the process and learned a lot about where I live. I think that capturing a sense of place is often about capturing the details that are easy to overlook, which together depict the history of the town. And by pulling back and seeing the town situated in its unique geography, it reveals what WRJ really is and what makes it special—a small community at the junction of rivers, railways, highways, and state lines. When you add CCS into the mix—a group of cartoonists converging on the town from all across the country and the world—it’s clear what a junction this place really is.” –Dan Nott ′17

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Dan Nott, Drawn to the village, Illustration, Location, map, process, Visit Us, White River Junction

CCS at Short Run

If you are going to be in the Seattle area, Short Run is coming up on November 3, and CCS has a table with Alec Longstreth, creator of Phase 7. From 1–3, he will be doing portfolio reviews. And all day someone will be there to answer questions you might have about attending the school. No need to RSVP, just swing by with your stuff.

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Tags: Alec Longstreth, Angela Boyle, awesome 'possum, Ben Horak, cartoonstudies, Colleen Frakes, DW, Fantagraphics, Flying Dodo Publications, Grump Toast, Her Blood and Bone, Montebank, Phase 7, portfolio review, Prison Island, Retrofit, ShortRun, Sophie Yanow, What Is a Glacier?, Zest Books