THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES PORTFOLIO DAY Saturday, November 17, 10am-1pm

Show your portfolio for an admissions review, Learn more about the program and courses, Meet faculty and students, and Tour the campus!

Who should attend? Prospective students, Applicants, High School seniors and graduates, College students.

Location: The Center for Cartoon Studies, 94 South Main St., White River Junction, VT (directions) Questions? (802) 295-3319.

R.S.V.P. Space is limited! Contact Robyn Chapman: chapman at cartoonstudies dot org.

24 Hour Comics Day is coming up this Saturday October 20. If you would like to attempt the venerable challenge of creating 24 pages of comics in 24 hours, then here are the official event hosts (those that have registered at 24hourcomics.com) in our region:
-Artists’ Mediums, 300 Cornerstone Dr. Williston, VT 05495 (802) 879-1236
-Center For Cartoon Studies, 94 S Main St. White River Jct, VT 05001 (802) 295-3319
-Modern Myths, 34 Bridge St. Northampton, MA 01060 (413) 582-6973

Time is running short to sign up for E.J. Barnes’s non-credit workshop in Editorial Cartooning at Greenfield Community College! It runs We. 10/24 - We. 11/14, 6:30–8:30pm. It’s for those who have some cartooning basics and will concentrate on aspects specific to editorial & political cartooning. The cost is $69 and will meet at GCC’s Downtown Center in Greenfield, MA. The class code is CSW-183-2. Registrants under 17 require approval of the Dean of the Community Education Program. Registration info is here.

Vermont cartoonist Edward Koren, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker for 45 years, will be presented the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts at a public ceremony to be held Oct. 26 at the Statehouse. Congratulations to him! You can read the full article at the Burlington Free Press.

We finally have a devoted Trees & Hills email address: treesandhills at gmail dot com. Also, I’ve managed to get our online calendar to display in a more sensible fashion, so email us if you’d like to be able to post events on it (also email us if you’d like to be able to post items to this blog).

Howard Cruse is launching a new free publication on August 1 - click the image for details on that day’s launch party, sure to be remembered as a historic event! Read more about the origin of the Perp at Howard’s blog.

While you’re reading cartoonists’s blogs, check out Marek Bennett’s ongoing series chronicling his whirlwind summer teaching comics to kids over at his blog. Then head over to comics podcast Indie Spinner Rack to hear Marek interviewed during their MoCCA coverage. He’s about an hour in, a ways after noted Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel (herself a prolific blogger, as you know if you’ve been watching our blogroll down to the right).

Our next cartooning party will not be on the 3rd Saturday of June, but rather the 2nd - June 9 from 1-5pm at the Center For Cartoon Studies, 94 S. Main St., White River Junction VT. Bring drawing supplies & snacks & prepare for good times! The Senior Thesis Exhibition will still be up, so it’ll be a good chance to check the quality work of CCS’s first graduating class. For more info or to RSVP, contact Robyn Chapman (chapman at cartoonstudies dot org).

The next monthly Pioneer Valley Comic & Cartoon Schmooze will be June 12 7pm at the Northampton Brewery in downtown Northampton, MA. Schmmoze, eat, drink & maybe draw w/the cool cartoonists & friends of the region! For more info or to RSVP, email E.J. Barnes (art at ejbarnes dot com).

That same night, Alison Bechdel will read from the new paperback version of her graphic memoir Fun Home at the Stowe Free Library in Stowe, VT. Then on June 21 she’ll appear at 7pm at Everyone’s Books, 25 Eliot St., Brattleboro VT. Don’t miss it!

Trees & Hills will have a table at the MoCCA Art Festival indie comics convention June 23-4 11-6pm at the Puck Building, 293 Lafayette at Houston, New York City. The table will staffed by Daniel Barlow, Marek Bennett, and Colin Tedford, with appearances by various other T&H folk, and we’ll have a new mini-anthology for sale! E.J. Barnes will also have a table, as likely will other folks from the region.

This coming Saturday, April 7 we will be having a drawing party at the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT from 1-5pm. There will be drawing, socializing, and snacking, as well as talk about projects and some T&H planning. It promises to be a swell time. The address is 94 South Main St; here’s a link for directions. Please RSVP to Robyn Chapman (chapman at cartoonstudies dot org) if you plan to attend.