Stories tagged Robyn Chapman

CCS schedule and exhibitors at Small Press Expo 2019

Here is a line up for CCS at SPX 2019!:

The Small Press Expo (SPX) is coming up on September 14 -15, and there are plenty of ways to see The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) grads while you are there! CCS will be present at table W28 with copies of This Is What Democracy Looks Like.

As part of the tour for This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Dan Nott ′18 (Table A7) will be on the Graphic Advocacy panel with Archie Bongiovanni (A Quick & Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns), Box Brown (Cannabis), and Matt Bors (The Nib). Hallie Jay Pope will be the moderator. The group will discuss using comics as a powerful tool in sharing a particular mission and point of view.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: A Quick and Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns, Adventures in Cartooning, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Amelia, Andi Santagata, Archie Bongiovanni, Bedside Press, Beth Hetland, Box Brown, Cannabis, Carol Tyler, Chimps in Space, Conundrum Press, Czap Books, Dakota McFadzean, Dan Nott, Denis St. John, Donna Almendrala, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, Fütchi Perf, Half Asleep, Hallie Jay Pope, Jed the Undead, Jess Johnson, Kazimir Lee, Keren Katz, Kevin Czap, Kid Gloves, Late Bloomer, Laughter Birth, Laura Weinstein, Lucy Knisley, Marnie Galloway, Mary Shyne, Masterpiece Comics, Meghan Tubitt, Miles and Honesty in SCFSX, Mother's Walk, Mott Bots, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode In On, R. Sikoryak, Rachel Masilamani, Robyn Chapman, Robyn Smith, Slightly Plural, Soldier's Heart, SPX, The Nib, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Tiny Report, Uncivilized Books, Wash Day, We Conceive

CCS in the Eisners

Image result for A Perfect Failure: Fanta Bukowski 3 cover

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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

Alum at Comic Arts Brooklyn 2017

In a few weeks on November 11, 2017, is Comic Arts Brooklyn. The event is at a new location this year, the Pratt Institute. You can see a few alum there this year.

Sophie Goldstein will be there for the release of her graphic novel House of Women with Fantagraphics. House of Women is a sci-fi story about four women trying to “civilize” the natives of a distant planet. Get it early: They go fast.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cab, Cartoon Studies, Comic Arts Brooklyn, Cooper Whittlesey, House of Women, Luke Howard, Omens of Normal Living, Our Mother, Retrofit, Robyn Chapman, Sophie Goldstein, The Age of Elves, The Micro-Press Yearbook 2016, Uncivilized Books

Industry Day 2017

Robyn Chapman, Calvin Reid, Sheila Keenan, Tanya McKinnon, and Kevin Czap.

Industry Day 2017 panel

This Industry Day, The Center for Cartoon Studies was treated to a wide range of industry veterans from agents and editors to publishers. From the big comics publishers, we had our own Robyn Chapman, currently an editor at First Second. Representing the publishing industry news reporters, Calvin Reid is the senior news editor at Publisher’s Weekly, a weekly news magazine about the international book publishing business. Representing the big publishers, Sheila Keenan is a nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. A comics agent, Tanya McKinnon came from McKinnon McIntyre. And from the independent comics publishers, we had Kevin Czap from Czap Books.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alumni, and Kevin Czap, Calvin Reid, Cartoon Studies, Czap Books, First Second, Industry Day, McKinnon McIntyre, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Robyn Chapman, Sheila Keenan, Tanya McKinnon

Spotlight: Robyn Chapman

Robyn Chapman on books

Robyn Chapman has a long history with CCS, from our founding days! She is currently an editor at First Second, but she also makes her own mini comics when she has time and runs The Tiny Report, a chronicle of the comics micro-press movement to help bring awareness to the books this movement gets published.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alum, Cartoon Studies, Center for Cartoon Studies, First Second, Industry Day, Mini-comics, Robyn Chapman, The Tiny Report

Next Up: Industry Day

In addition to our weekly Visiting Artist Seminar, a special Industry Day event is scheduled every spring. Professionals from the comics industry descend on White River Junction and The Center for Cartoon Studies. The entire day is set aside for the event with guests take part in a panel where the state of the comics industry and publishing are discussed at length. This year’s guests include Robyn Chapman (First Second), Calvin Reid (Publisher’s Weekly), Sheila Keenan (Penguin Random House), Tanya McKinnon (McKinnon McIntyre Literary Agency), Kevin Czap (Czap Books).

Tags: Calvien Reid, CCS Visiting Artist, Czap Books, First Second, Industry Day, Kevin Czap, Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly, Robyn Chapman, Sheila Keenan, Tanya McKinnon

Society of Illustrators Exhibit: The Center for Cartoon Studies, Ten Years of Fellowship

Art by Connor Willumsen

On exhibit until April 30

The Society of Illustrators128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY

The Center for Cartoon Studies Fellows will also be attending the MoCCA Arts Festival, held on April 2 – 3 at Metropolitan West in NYC.

Over the last ten years, CCS Fellows have produced some of the most moving, provocative, and groundbreaking work in comics. CCS Fellows include Robyn Chapman, Gabby Schulz, T. Edward Bak, Chris Wright, Alec Longstreth, Max de Radigues, David Libens, Blaise Larmee, Julie Delporte, Connor Willumsen, Nicole Georges, Sophie Yanow, and Noah Van Sciver.

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Blaise Larmee, cartoonist, Chris Wright, Connor Willumsen, David Libens, Fellowship, Gabby Schulz, Julie Delporte, Max de Radigues, MoCCA, Nicole Georges, Noah Sciver, Noah Van Sciver, Robyn Chapman, Society of Illustrators, Sophie Yanow, T. Edward Bak

Noah Van Sciver Named CCS Ten Year Anniversary Fellow

Noah_Sciver_ccsFellow

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) is proud to announce its 2015-16 fellow, Noah Van Sciver. Noah is an accomplished cartoonist whose work has appeared in Mad magazine, The Best American Comics, The Believer, Wired, Vice and The Stranger, as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver has four graphic novels: The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Youth Is Wasted, Saint Cole and Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer.

Currently living in Denver, Van Sciver is “…looking forward to coming to White River Junction this fall, meeting and working with this year’s students and finishing my book on Johnny Appleseed.”

This is the tenth year of CCS’s fellowship program. To support their work, fellows are provided studio space, a full access pass to CCS’s programing, production lab, and Schulz Library as well as afforded teaching opportunities.

CCS’s current fellow is Sophie Yanow; past fellows include Nicole Georges, Connor Willumsen, Julie Delporte, Blaise Larmee, David Libens, Max de Radigues, Alec Longstreth, Chris Wright, T. Edward Bak, Gabby Schulz, and Robyn Chapman.

Tags: Alec Longstreth, Blaise Larmee, Cartoon Studies, CCS Fellow, Chris Wright, Comic Art, Connor Willumsen, David Libens, Fantagraphics, Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer, Gabby Schulz, Julie Delporte, Max de Radigues, Nicole Georges, Noah Sciver, Robyn Chapman, Saint Cole, Schulz Library, Study Comics, T. Edward Bak, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Vermont, White River Junction, Youth Is Wasted

Visiting Artist: Ariel Bordeaux

deepgirlcover

Ariel Bordeaux is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies. She is the author of No Love Lost, a graphic novella published by Drawn & Quarterly, and Raisin Pie, co-authored with her husband, Rick Altergott, published by Fantagraphics. All five issues of her self-published mini comic series, Deep Girl, were recently republished by PaperRocket mini-comics.

Original Art on Exhibit
CCS Gallery, Colodny Building, 94 South Main Street

Pick up a copy of Deep Girl at Comic Arts Brooklyn, November 9

Tags: Ariel Bordeaux, CCS, Comics, Deep Girl, Fantagraphics, PaperRocket, Raisin Pie, Robyn Chapman

Bordeaux Goes Deep

Bordeaux fans, rejoice! All five issues of CCS class of ′12 alumna Ariel Bordeaux’s unflinchingly autobiographical minicomic, “Deep Girl” will be republished this March in a limited edition collection by Paper Rocket Minicomics. Long out of print, Bordeaux’s “Deep Girl” addresses sex, self-esteem, and body issues with the kind of raw, fiercely funny introspection the mid-nineties’ minicomics pioneers were known and loved for. Paper Rocket Minicomics will release the collected issues in a 128-page hand-bound volume with a screen-printed cover and jacket. A book signing and release party, co-hosted by Ariel Bordeaux and Paper Rocket proprietor Robyn Chapman, will take place on March 1st at Desert Island in Brooklyn.

Tags: Ariel Bordeaux, Deep Girl, Desert Island, Paper Rocket Minicomics, Robyn Chapman