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CCS Diary Comic # 5

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Most of the time, I don’t think of my teenage years much. For the most part, I wasn’t a particularly exciting teenager. I went to school, and then went home and played video games and drew pictures. That was it.

But every time I find myself in a mountain forest, I suddenly have a jolt of memories.

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CCS Diary Comic #4

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The story in this week’s diary comic is becoming increasingly true as more and more of my time is spent working on assignments. Faculty, alumni, and second-year students refer to the first semester at CCS as cartoonist boot camp, and they’re not kidding when they say this. Every week I think the workload couldn’t possibly get any heavier, but…

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CCS Facebook 2010

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This ain’t your grandkid’s Facebook. The Center for Cartoon Studies Facebook is one of the first major projects undertaken by new students each year. The idea is simple: everyone creates a bio that can be reproduced on a photocopier, and a self-portrait in the form of a screen print. Then everything is bound together to make a book of memories and friendship that students will cherish into old age when they are impoverished and alone from a lifetime of underappreciated cartooning.

I volunteered to be on the design team, along with Bill Bedard, Melanie Gillman, Sean Knickerbocker, and Katie Moody. After much nerdy discussion, we decided to work with an arcade fighting game theme for this year’s Facebook. So, Street Fighter II is what I’m trying to say, I guess.

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CCS Diary Comic #3

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On the third week of classes, Steve Bissette took us to his poet friend Peter Money’s property, which looks up at Mount Ascutney. Peter encouraged us to inform our own writing with details of our surroundings. As CCS students suddenly living in small town Vermont, it made a lot of sense to investigate our new backdrop.

I enjoyed the outing for a number of reasons, but the silence and feeling of solitude was what really stayed with me. The only parameter for the diary comic this week was to include Mount Ascutney in some way.


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Gag Me With a Spoon

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We covered gags cartoons in Cartooning Studio a couple of weeks ago, and the homework assignment asked for three different kinds of gags:

1) Gags about White River Junction – I found these to be the most difficult. WRJ is a funny town, but to convey everything in a single panel in a way that will make sense to someone who has never been here, and still be funny, is damn near impossible (for me anyway). Unfortunately, these cartoons ended up being more like in-jokes, and so they are explained below.

There is a group of moderately creepy people in WRJ that convene in various public places. Most CCSers refer to them as The Lawnchair Brigade.

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Emotion, Animal, Occupation

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During my undergrad I tried to enjoy every class, but sometimes it was hard to wake up and go to Boring Abstract Formulas Lacking Any Discernible Application to Anything 100.

At CCS, there are no dead-weight classes. That said, I think Cartooning Studio taught by Jason Lutes is quickly becoming my favourite class. This is simply due to the fact that Jason has a diabolical mind that concocts only the maddest of class projects … like, say, that time on the first day of classes when we had to make 45-second drawings that clearly communicate an assigned scenario.

For our first homework assignment, we were provided with an emotion, an animal, and an occupation. We then had to design a character that clearly communicates all three elements without words or backgrounds. This was infinitely more difficult than I expected it to be.

Guesses?

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