Author: James Sturm

  • The Humanities and Mass Incarceration 

    In March, the Applied Cartooning Lab was invited as a community partner (thank you, VT Humanities) to attend a special national convening, Inside & Out: The Humanities and Mass Incarceration. The Lab is currently developing a public education campaign about mass incarceration, so this was an ideal opportunity to deepen our understanding of the subject.…

  • Queer Joy Collective Zine Workshop 

    Earlier this February, Shay Mirk, the 2023-24 Applied Cartooning Fellow, led a Queer Friendship Making Zine workshop hosted by Queer Joy Collective. Here’s a dispatch from Sebastian Crissey, the Collective’s co-director: “Bringing together queer youth from across the country to attend this virtual workshop provided a space for us to not only create but also…

  • Global Health & Applied Cartooning

    Working with the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, the Applied Cartooning Lab partnered with global health researchers, including the African Academy for Public Health (AAPH) and University of Dodoma (UDOM), to translate a page of Let’s Talk About It, A Graphic Guide To Mental Health into Swahili to be shared in a workshop of ten…

  • Mental Health Comic: Fall Update

    This fall over 8000 copies of a newly updated edition of Let’s Talk About It, A Graphic Guide to Mental Health are being given away at comic book shops throughout the country thanks to a partnership with Diamond Comics Distributors. Copies of the comic and the guide’s creator, Cara Bean were also on hand for this…

  • First Friday

    On First Friday, cartoonists and community members stopped by for The Applied Cartooning Lab’s “official” opening. CCS students and alum doodled away and perused books and comics while curious passersbys wandered in. “What is this place?” and “What’s applied cartooning?” they asked. Across the street, another community-minded non-profit, Cover, opened its new bookstore. Things are…

  • Koren’s Community

    On Sept. 24, hundreds of people filled the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, VT to celebrate the life and legacy of Ed Koren. It seemed like everyone in that crowded auditorium had a personal connection to Ed. As celebrated a cartoonist Ed was, it was equally clear that fostering community was his life’s work as…