First Friday at CCS: Bears and Bears and Bears, Oh My!
Get ready for a bear attack! Colleen Frakes Jon Chad Nick Patten Join us at The Center For Cartoon Studies for a First Friday reception of Bears and Blisters: An Exhibition of Colleen Frakes and Ken...
View ArticleBears and Blitsers
On Friday CCS held the closing reception for Bears and Blisters: An Exhibition of Colleen Frakes and Ken Dahl. For more photos, visit our flickr site. This exhibit showcased original art from Frakes’...
View ArticleWarning: there are cartoonists in the audience.
The idea hit Colleen Frakes like a baby grand piano after cutting the tenuous string tied to it: cartoonists drawing at the theater! The Portland Mercury recently featured an article called Comic...
View ArticleMoCCA Comic Debuts!
The Schulz Graphic Novel Library is proud to announce the mini-comic and comic book MoCCA debuts of students, alumni and faculty of the Center for Cartoon Studies. Look for these amazing comics and...
View ArticleSPX 2011 Debuts
This weekend, the streets of White River Junction may look a lot like a ghost town with the flood waters of Hurricane Irene canceling our local train festival Glory Days. But a lot of students are...
View ArticleZine Scene & the Pony Express
Retrofit Comics started when Philly-based cartoonist Box Brown realized a lot of the independent comic publishers were cutting back on the production of floppy comics created by their curated pool of...
View ArticleStumptown Vs. MoCCA
FIGHT! Okay, not really. But two great comic conventions are happening the same weekend this year and guess what? A TON of great new comics are coming out from students and alum of the Center for...
View ArticleMore 2012 MoCCA and Stumptown Books!
The books just keep a-rolling off the presses in White River Junction, Vermont, so here are some more sneak peeks of books to find this weekend at Stumptown in Portland and MoCCA in NYC! Nomi Kane (CCS...
View Article2013 SPX Debuts Part 2
The Small Press Expo, North America’s Premiere Independent Cartooning and Comic Arts Festival is just around the corner! Come September 14th-15th, droves of CCS students, alumni and faculty will be...
View ArticleThe Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature Featuring CCS Alum and Visiting...
One of the most exciting recent acquisitions at the Schulz Library is The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature, a companion volume to the more adult-oriented, three volume Graphic Canon, edited by...
View ArticlePrison Island by Colleen Frakes
As difficult as being a teenager can be, Colleen Frakes ’07 spent hers moving every few years as her parents were promoted as guards and staff at various prisons. Moving and having prison guard parents...
View ArticleIgnatz Winner Sophie Goldstein
SPX 2015 has breezed by us. The CCS tribe had four people up for Ignatz nominations: Audry, Colleen Frakes, Dakota McFadzean, Noah Van Sciver, Rebecca Miller, and Sophie Goldstein! Sophie Goldstein...
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