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So, the big final project for the first CCS semester is a group anthology project. The class is split into groups selected by the darkest most secretive divination techniques available to CCS instructors (an online psychological test if rumours are to be believed), and we must produce a cohesive anthology together.
I was placed with Sean K., Moody, and Amelia Onorato. AKA team best-friends-in-a-car-listening-to-Celebrity-Jeopardy clips-from-SNL. Seriously, it was an awesome group, and I’m pretty happy with what we managed to pull together.
The book focuses on each of our personal reactions to religion in our lives. There are personal stories, historical reflections and fiction as well.
Anyway, the plan is to do a larger print run of the book so that we can sell it at MoCCA, SPX, and other cons. In the meantime, here are some samples of my contribution…
The rest is a secret, but you can read more about everyone’s anthologies at the Schulz Library Blog, written by our super-cool librarian Caitlin McGurk! If you want to read the whole story, wait until I someday get a paypal account set up or come to MoCCA!
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We were assigned this project just as we were starting our anthologies. It was a stressful time in the semester! Basically, the premise is this: you get a book, pick a random page, and a random sentence on that page, and then you use that as the start of your story. Do this two more times for two more plot points. The idea is to encourage different stories than you would usually tell.
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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