• Career-Spanning Profile of James Sturm in Seven Days

    Seven Days published a cover story on James Sturm’s career, with a focus on his role cofounding CCS, launching the Applied Cartooning Lab, and his recent adaptation of Watership Down with Joe Sutphin. From the profile:  In October, the center christened its Applied Cartooning Lab, where students and faculty work with outside organizations on mission-driven, community-based nonfiction comics,…

  • ACL to Exhibit at the Nonfiction Comics Fest

    The Applied Cartooning Lab will be tabling at the Nonfiction Comics Fest in Burlington, and we’ll have all our graphic guides on hand (and staffed by AC Lab director James Sturm). Come say hi! This year’s poster was made by the Applied Cartooning Lab contributor and CCS Faculty member Dan Nott. The Fest’s special guests…

  • “Hidden Systems” Longlisted for a National Book Award

    Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the System We Use Every Day, a debut nonfiction graphic novel by Dan Nott, was Longlisted for a National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. You can read the announcement at The New Yorker.  Dan is in involved in many Applied Cartooning projects, including as…

  • 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…

  • Eleri Harris Talks Nonfiction Comics at CCS

    Eleri Harris, a 2014 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, lectured at CCS this semester as a visiting artist. In a two hour talk and workshop, Eleri provided an overview of her work as a comics journalist and editor, a history of the Nib, and gave a brief workshop on comics storytelling for an…

  • 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…

  • Launching the Lab

    As part of White River Junction’s First Friday’s festivities, there will be an open house at the Applied Cartooning Lab’s new headquarters from 5-8pm on October 6 at 173 S. Main Street in the old Progressive Market. Stop by the open house to read nonfiction comics, snag free zines, learn how to make your own…