The Trees & Hills comics group will celebrate the end of a long winter this year by hitting the road for a spring tour.
The 2008 SPRING THAW TOUR features the debut of several new comics by members of Trees & Hills and a chance to meet with local comic fans and other creators.
Trees & Hills members will appear at two conventions in New Hampshire in May before trekking out to New York City for the MoCCA festival in June. [Read more →]
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As you can see, reconstruction of our website continues. New header image (thanks to Marek Bennett) & 3 awesome columns are in place; things should basically be functional, but please pardon our appearance until we get everything looking ship-shape.
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The long-awaited reconstruction of the Trees & Hills website is now in progress, so please pardon our appearance. There are a few things that will take a while to get to, but everything should be pretty functional soon, and I’ll post about the new features.
Goodbye, Blogger - Hello, WordPress!
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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).
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A month later, the first installment of the Trees & Hills Hourly Comics Day 2007 Crossover Event is up on the Comics page - more to follow! The strips’s author, Tim Hulsizer, has just concluded his Charity Auction, raising enough money to purchase a water buffalo for the needy!
The Western MA Comics Creator’s group meets at Modern Myths in Northampton, MA Tuesday 3/6 at 6:30pm - email Scott Sheaffer (kmacalp at aol dot com) for info.
The Fine Toon art show at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, VT runs through 3/31 and features art by Alison Bechdel, Stephen Bissette, Harry Bliss, Jeff Danziger, Gareth Hinds, James Kochalka, Edward Koren, Hal Mayforth, Frank Miller, Skip Morrow, Tim Newcomb, Rick Veitch, James Sturm, and more! The next T&H party might be cancelled due to St. Patrick’s Day - how about a trip to Stowe instead?