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Drawn and Paneled

Novel graphics from The Center for Cartoon Studies

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“Drawn and Paneled” gives Seven Days readers a glimpse into the world’s only cartoonschool, right here in Vermont, and into the minds of students whose creativity is, well, channeled into panels. These pages will be archived at For more info, visit CCS online at www.cartoonstudies.org.

guns

4.guns

by Max de Radiguès

Author and publisher at L'employé du Moi, Max de Radiguès comes all the way from Brussels, Belgium, to live in White River Junction, where he is the 2009-10 Center for Cartoon Studies fellow.

Meanwhile

Meanwhile in White River Junction

by Max de Radiguès

Author and publisher at L'employé du Moi, Max de Radiguès comes all the way from Brussels, Belgium, to live in White River Junction, where he is the 2009-10 Center for Cartoon Studies fellow.

King

Woman King

by Colleen Frakes

Colleen Frakes graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2007. She was awarded a Xeric Grant in 2007, and an Ignatz for Promising New Talent like two weeks ago. Right now she is drawing a scary comic book for kids.

fashion

After a Fashion

by Alec Longstreth

Alec Longstreth lives and draws in White River Junction, Vt., having just completed a year as a fellow of the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Dur

L'Age Dur: Detention

by Max de Radiguès

Author and publisher at L'employé du Moi, Max de Radiguès comes all the way from Brussels, Belgium, to live in White River Junction, where he is the 2009-10 Center for Cartoon Studies fellow.

Girls

Girls

by Nick Patten

Nick Patten is a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies. He wishes lake monsters were real.

Genie

The Genie Appeared Before Dawn

by Chris Wright

Chris Wright was born and raised in Vermont. He attained his master's in fine art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., and was co-fellow at the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2008-2009. To further explore his mind and madness, click here.

Summerbaby

Summerbaby

by Colleen Frakes

Colleen Frakes graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2007, and since then has made comics for Myspace Dark Horse Presents, Tales of the TMNT, and BASH! Magazine. She just moved and can't remember where she packed her socks, which is funny and sad. To read more about this problem, click here.

It's Raining

It's Raining

by Mo Oh

Mo Oh is attending the Center for Cartoon Studies with hopes of learning how to draw. Contact Mo at mooh.mail@gmail.com.

Boy Story

Boy Story

by Alexis Frederick-Frost

Alexis Frederick-Frost is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives with his wife in a tiny house on the shores of the Little Bay in New Hampshire. He recently cowrote and illustrated the graphic novel Adventures in Cartooning with James Sturm and Andrew Arnold for First Second Books. In addition to drawing, he teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt. To see more of his work, click here.

Horses

Horses

by José-Luis Olivares

José-Luis Olivares braved his first winter as an MFA student at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Born in balmy South Texas, he graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 2005, and then taught English to high school students in Japan.

Rocky

Rocky

by Penina Gal

Penina Gal is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. She's currently working on a kids' fantasy comic called The Fire Messenger. When not drawing, she can be found checking on her tomato plants.

Santa's Pizza

Santa's Pizza

by Sam Gaskin

Sam Gaskin graduated in the inaugural class of the Center for Cartoon Studies. He is the author of the Xeric Award-winning series "Pizza Wizard" and his book Fatal Faux-Pas is available from Secret Acres Publishing.

Regret

White River in Spring: CSS Commencement 2009 Part 1

by Alec Longstreth and Joseph Lambert

Alec Longstreth lives and draws in White River Junction, VT., having just completed a year as a fellow of the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Regret

White River in Spring: CSS Commencement 2009 Part 2

by Alec Longstreth and Joseph Lambert

Joseph Lambert is another guy who lives and draws in White River Junction. He graduated from CCS in 2008.

Regret

Eagle Fight Squad 2030 A.D.: Regret

by Alex Kim

Alex Kim is a recent graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Having once worked on a comic sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, he has high hopes for his new Freedom Securer character.

Swing

Swing at Night

by Ken Dahl

Ken Dahl is the pen name of Gabby Schulz, the 2006-07 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. A collection of his work Welcome to the Dahl House, is out now from Microcosm Publishing. Monsters, his semi-autobiographical first novel, will be published this fall by Secret Acres. He currently lives in Vermont.

Last Explorer

The Last Explorer

by Jeff Lok

Jeff Lok is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies. His gag cartoons appeared once upon a time in Readers's Digest, The Wall Street Journal and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He now does comics about cats and bears doing bad things to each other and the apocalypse. Sometimes people print them, and sometimes he just goes off and prints them himself!

Dear Bill

Dear Bill

by Melissa Mendes

Melissa Mendes is a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Someday she wants to start an artist-mentoring program for high school kids, while still making her own comics and maybe children's books.

25 Cents

25 Cents: A Caterpillar Tale

by Katherine Roy

Katherine Roy has lived in many states and been to many countries, but currently resides in White River Junction, Vt., where she is pursuing an MFA ub Cartooning at the Center for Cartoon Studies. She loves stories that explore the beautiful, the magical and the relationship between characters big and small. Her first book, A Kid's Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail, will be released in the spring of 2009.

Clubfoot

Clubfoot

by Chuck Forsman

Chuck Forsman graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2008. He self-publishes his award-winning comic book, Snake Oil, and makes sandwiches in a deli. He lives in White River Junction with a girl.

Everything

Everything Put Together

by Mario Van Buren

Mario is an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in bacon. Click here to see his endearingly disturbing comics

Wooof Boy

Woof Boy

by José-Luis Olivares

José-Luis Olivares is braving his first winter as an MFA student at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Born in balmy South Texas, he graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 2005, and then taught English to high school students in Japan.

2009 Resolutions

2009 Resolutions

by The Center for Cartoon Studies

This week's comic is brought to you by your friends at The Center for Cartoon Studies: Biking John Chad is a member of CCS's staff; Healthy Eater Josh Rosen is a first-year CCS student; Napping James Sturm is CCS's co-founder; French-learning Morgan Pielli is a CCS graduate; Nesting Michelle Ollie is CCS's co-founder; and Organized Joseph Lambert is a CCS graduate.

Ask Jenny

"Ask Jenny"

by Lauren O'Connell

Lauren O'Connell is a cartoonist, painter and fledgling therapist. Since graduating from the inaugural class of the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2007, she has moved back to Los Angeles, where she lives with her dog and cat. To see more of her work, click here.

Fall, Part 1

Fall (Part 1 of 5)

by Joseph Lambert

Joseph Lambert grew up in Newton, Kansas. After spending time in New York and Denver, he attended the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where he lives with his wife. He graduated from CCS in May 2008. Joseph designed Vermont Public Radio’s 2008 Artist Series mug and is an editor and designer of the self-published Sundays Anthology. His comic “Turtle, Keep It Steady” was published in Houghton Miffl in’s The Best American Comics 2008, for which he also designed the endpapers. Look for more of Joseph’s work at www.submarinesubmarine.com.

Fall, Part 2

Fall (Part 2 of 5)

by Joseph Lambert

Fall, Part 3

Fall (Part 3 of 5)

by Joseph Lambert

Fall, Part 4

Fall (Part 4 of 5)

by Joseph Lambert

Fall, Part 5

Fall (Part 5 of 5)

by Joseph Lambert

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