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Whit Taylor Joins CCS Faculty this Spring

Whit Taylor (Ghost Stories) is joining the faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring as the facilitator of Visiting Artist Seminar. The course features weekly guests including the most celebrated cartoonists, children’s books authors, designers, writers, and designers. Guests share their creative process and professional pathways. In addition to lecturing at CCS as a previous visiting artist, Whit was also the keynote speaker at the International Comics and Medicine Conference in 2019 (see photo above). A big thanks to R. Sikoryak who facilitated the most recent fall term of Visiting Artist Seminar. His Constitution Illustrated was a top ten The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2020.

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Visiting Artists at CCS Spring 2020

A wide variety of creators are coming to talk comics with the students at The Center for Cartoon Studies:

Connor Willumsen, creator of Anti-Gone (Koyama Press) and Bradley of Him (Koyama Press)
Whit Taylor, creator of Ghost Stories (Rosarium Publishing)
Aatmaja Pandya, creator of the webcomic Travelogue and Phantom (One Percent Press), and she is currently working on a graphic novel for Random House Graphic
Alison Wilgus, writer of Science Comics: Flying Machines (First Second) with artist Molly Brooks, writer of The Mars Challenger with artist Wyeth Yates, and creator of Chronin (Tor Books), and co-host of Graphic Novel TK with Gina Gagliano
Rick Veitch, creator of The Spotted Stone
Nora Krug, creator of Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home in conversation with Jason Lutes (Berlin) for the Eisner Lecture Series
Keith Knight, creator of The Knight Light (Grand Central Publishing) and the webcomics (th)ink and K Chronicles

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Comics and Medicine Conference: Keynote Addresses Open to Public

The Comics and Medicine Medicine conference is in just a few days at The Center for Cartoon Studies, August 16–18. And though the conference is sold out, the keynote presentations are open to the public! Even if you can’t attend the rest of the sold out conference, grab a seat for this keynote addresses

The final keynote, Saturday (8/18) at 4pm, at Dartmouth College, Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium, David Macaulay (The Way Things Work Now) will discuss his history with graphic medicine. Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator and currently a Vermonter.

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