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You guys, it’s been a long, emotional few weeks, but I’m looking forward to being friends with you again.
In the last month, I completed, printed, and bound my thesis at The Center for Cartoon Studies, went to the MoCCA Festival in New York, received my MFA(!), and engaged in celebration and revelry with some of the dearest people in my life.
This will be a brief post, but I’m hoping to get back on the blogwagon pretty soon. I’ve been thinking a lot of thoughts lately, and I’d like to post said thoughts on the internet so that people can engage in a dialogue using all-caps broken language.
In the meantime, here are a couple of neat things:
Here is what this year’s CCS diplomas look like, drawn by the wonderful Elenoar Davis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cartoonstudies/7188596442/
Here is the gift the CCS Class of 2012 made for faculty member Alec Longstreth (Careful! It’s 1.2 MB!)
Alec is moving back to the West Coast, so to thank him for everything he brought to CCS, we found a spread from Uncle Scrooge Comics by Carl Barks (Alec’s favourite cartoonist), and each student in the class redrew one of the panels in their own style. Here is the orinal spread:
I’ll post a more thorough reflection on my time at CCS in the future, but in the meantime, I’ll simply say thanks for everything, CCS.
And now to get back to Canada!
Look! New Stuff!
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In the studio is the place to be.
If you visit this site semi-regularly, you may have noticed a lot of changes over the last couple of weeks. It’s all part of my final project for Alec Longstreth’s Professional Practices class at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
Originally, I started designing a basic hub/portfolio at dakotmcfadzean.com, but I quickly realized it was redundant because most of the links directed you back here to my blog. SO! Instead I incorporated what I had into my blog, and set up a blank redirect on dakotamcfadzean.com. This will be the last major overhaul to this site until I get the time/guts to install wordpress and comicpress (or some similar thing) onto dakotamcfadzean.com, thus doing away with this subdomain silliness I’ve gotten myself into.
Happy Holidays!
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Every year, The Center for Cartoon Studies sends out a Christmas Card to a bunch of supporters, visiting artists, alumni and other community members. And this lucky guy got to do this year’s card.
Why yes, that is CCS spiritual founder Inky Solomon masquerading as good ol’ Sandy Claws. Though this was James Sturm’s suggestion, as my initial sketches just had three elves working. That’s why he’s the headmaster at Hogwarts, and I’m still trying to get wingardium leviosa to work.
Anyway, this was the first thing I did after classes ended. It was a Christmas miracle!
How Romantic!
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We recently spent some time learning about Romance Comics at CCS. Robyn Chapman came in to share her vast knowledge of all things comical and romantic. After we covered the history of romance comics in Survey of the Drawn Story, Steve Bissette assigned each of us an era of romance comics in Drawing Workshop. We then had to design our own covers authentic to the assigned time period.
I was given ‘The Swinging Sixties”, which for the purposes of this assignment was about 1966-1971. This was long after the Comics Code Authority had been introduced, so while the covers weren’t particularly racy compared the pre-code comics, they did demonstrate a hilarious misunderstanding of counter-culture. I guess that’s what happens when a bunch of out-of-touch old guys get together and try to figure out what’s hep with the kids.
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