Trees & Hills Comic Group

The Shop Is Back

Colin Tedford — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:37:00 +0000

The Trees & Hills Distro is back online! Sorry the renovations took so long; it wasn't too much work, but some personal matters tore my attention away for a while. Anyway, now the world may once more purchase the minicomics of our fair region from one convenient online location.

New features!
- A Store Finder listing shops that have been known to carry our work.
- Comments - Post reviews of the minicomics!
- Artist List in menu, so you can see who we stock & what we have by them more easily.
- Individual product pages so you can link to a specific item you want to tell someone about instead of hoping they find it on the site.
- Bigger cover images! Well, actually they're still pretty small, but as I scan and upload new comics, you'll be able to click the thumbnail for a larger view.

The distro's website has lagged behind what we actually have in stock for some time, but now those items are finally finding their way to the site. The first "new" items in stock are Booty #20 by Anne Thalheimer and A Taste Of Paradise by Megan Baehr. Yay! More comics will be joining the online stock in the weeks to come.

You may notice that some items are marked "out of stock" - why the heck did I bother posting them? Well, after I got the site back up, Hub Comics in Somerville, MA ("the comics shop for NPR listeners") ordered a bunch of minis! Which caused some things to run out, and made me realize some thing were already gone (whoops!). Anyway, if you live near Somerville, definitely check out Hub Comics, because they clearly love good comics. Thanks, Hub!

The main site here is next up for an overhaul. I'm planning to take a single day to do most of the work, though, so it shouldn't be a lingering process.

Trees & Hills drawing party at CCS from Feb. 23

Daniel Barlow — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:52:00 +0000

Cat Garza of White River Junction, Vt. works on the latest installment of his "Year of the Rat" comic as he snacks.

Here's a view of the main teaching room at the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Megan Baehr of Putney, Vt. colors one of her comics.

Trees & Hills/ CCS drawing party Feb. 23

Daniel Barlow — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:14:00 +0000

Cartooning Party at CCS
with Trees & Hills Comics Group

Saturday February 23rd, 1-5pm

Join the Trees & Hills comics group and students from the Center for Cartoon Studies for a social cartooning party at the White River Junction, Vt. school. Bring your art supplies and come ready to draw!

This event is co-hosted by the Trees and Hills Comics Group, a collective of cartoonists and other comic creators from New Hampshire, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts. CCS is a two-year college dedicated to the study of comics and visual narrative.

The event is open to the public, although we ask that you be over 18 years of age and RSVP. The school can be found at 94 South Main Street in WRJ, Vt. Please contact Roby Chapman at chapman@cartoonstudies.org or (802) 295-3319 to RSVP.

Light snakes and refreshments will be served at the party and we ask that you help out our hungry bellies by bringing something tasty to share too.

For more information on Trees & Hills, visit www.treesandhills.org

First wave of Hourly Comics highlights

Daniel Barlow — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:51:00 +0000

Hourly Comics Day has come and gone! I'm lazy and I haven't scanned my comics from yesterday in yet. And Colin Tedford will hopefully be posting his soon too. Until then, here's a few hourly comics from Trees & Hills folks and a few other we like a lot.

(The art above is from Tim Hulsizer's comic this year)

Tim Hulsizer (NSFW)

Lucy Knisley

Dean Trippe

Box Brown

John Campbell

Hourly Comic Day

Colin Tedford — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:49:00 +0000

It's time once again for Hourly Comic Day! On February 1, cartoonists around the world will draw a journal comic for each hour they are awake. Here's the skinny from Hourly Comic inventor John Campbell:

"THE GUIDELINES:

-for every hour that you are awake on february first (that's february first for whatever time zone you happen to be in), you make a comic describing something about the past hour. maybe you ate some cereal? maybe you used the restroom?

-say you wake up at 7am. make a comic some time before it becomes 8am! then after 8am, make a comic before it becomes 9am! it is pretty simple.

-when you are done, scan the comics in and post them on the message board (this year's will be HERE, and previous years went HERE and HERE.) , so we can all look at each other's days. i think that will be neat!"

Free Stuff Maybe We Can Use

Marek Bennett — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:54:00 +0000

I just wanted to post a few FREE tools that have come up recently, since they might be of use to hard-working (penny-pinching) comics creators:

http://bananalbum.com/ = A graphics portfolio tool currently in vogue with the Cowboy Orange gang. It gives a lovely smooth presentation of your graphics, but is it searchable by other sites?
http://www.digication.com/ = Online portfolios, mostly used by art schools and for some other educational applications. Potentially good for clear, simple, easily navigable graphical presentations.
http://www.google.com/analytics/ = This is some really cool site traffic software! You sign up, add some code to your site's pages, then sit back and watch your visitors crawl around... They'll also help you set "goal" pages that you want to make sure people tend to visit. Intriguing for the online promotion biz! (Alec Longstreth blogged it recently, so you know it's the real thing.)
http://www.google.com/calendar/ = I just have to mention this, too. Colin's right. It's awesome.

I'm interested in these sorts of tools, because they could be really useful for community groups and schools and kids who want to promote and publish their grassroots comics efforts.

What are some other tools out there that we should know about?

Hilary Price Book Event; Website Reconstruction

Colin Tedford — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:53:00 +0000

Western Massachusetts cartoonist Hilary Price will present her new book Pithy Seedy Juicy Pulpy at Broadside Books in Northampton, MA at 7pm on Tuesday, January 22. The book compiles many of her syndicated Rhymes With Orange strips, along with a mighty multitude of extras.

The Trees & Hills Comics Distro is under reconstruction; unrelated troubles caused some delays, but I'm hoping to have it finished and up to date soon (maybe within a week or so). When that's done, I'll begin work on the main site. Marek Bennett has been bubbling and frothing (so to speak) with blogging ideas, so the new, not-yet-entirely-settled-upon look will be more of a change than originally planned. If you have any suggestions, send them to treesandhills at gmail dot org.

Megan Baehr also recently redesigned her website, hopping on the WordPress bandwagon. Where will this madness end?!

Happy New Year!

Colin Tedford — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:56:00 +0000

I hope everyone is having a nice 2008 so far. Marek Bennett has redesigned his website around the popular Wordpress blogging platform, and now has individual feeds for Mimi's Doughnuts and his comics workshops. You may notice several of those entries in the trusty T&H Blogwatch Box right here; that's because sometimes when you add a new feed to Google Reader, it treats all the existing posts as brand new. C'est la vie...

The Trees & Hills website is due for a makeover as well. I'll be working on this, also using Wordpress, and hope to have it done this month. I think I am going to convert the distro first, then the rest of the site. As with any construction project, things may go wonky for a little while, so please bear with us. It'll be much nicer in the end, though!

Sketches From The Stars & Skulls Craft Fair

Colin Tedford — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:18:00 +0000

The Stars & Skulls Crafty Craft Fair (in Holyoke, MA Dec. 2) was fun, and I sold a decent amount of comics. Nice people fed me weird chocolates, and other nice people fed me soup. I saw three mohawks, two of which appear below (the little kid wandered off too quickly). Here are some sketches from that day, for those of you who weren't there:

New Stars Release Party Sketches

Colin Tedford — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:19:00 +0000

I don't have a camera, but I've finally starting sketching from life somewhat regularly, so here are some drawings from the New Stars release party at Comic Boom. We have: pastries Dan Barlow brought (sent by Phayvanh Luekhamhan), Marek Bennett making music, the Sputnik pinata, and Comic Boom owner Corey Milotte doing important work.

"New Stars" Launch Party Photos

Marek Bennett — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:05:00 +0000

Presenting some unofficial PHOTOS from the event!

Here, Colin & Megan deal with a big crowd around the display table...

And here, the chief architects of the Trees and Hills Sputnik Project reveal their handiwork to the press. The elegant basketball-sized device boasts a gleaming aluminum coating, and a core of unknown composition, possibly enriched candy.

Thanks to Keene's own COMIC BOOM for hosting the event!

Next Appearance: Stars & Skulls Craft Fair 12/1

Colin Tedford — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:58:00 +0000

Moving on from the release party (though photos & sketches should appear at some point), Trees & Hills will have a table at the Stars & Skulls Crafty Craft Fair Saturday, December 1 from 10am-5pm at the American Legion Hall, 162 Russell St., Hadley, MA. Anne Thalheimer and (I think) E.J. Barnes will also have tables.

T&H Sputnik Moves to Launch Pad

Marek Bennett — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:31:00 +0000

Technicians used a complex system of home-made cat toys to hoist this ponderous device into position for Saturday's launch.

Trees and Hills Build Satellite

Marek Bennett — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:21:00 +0000

Here are some photos of confirmed Trees and Hills operative Dr. Colin Tedford, hard at work in an undisclosed laboratory location.

Authorities believe Dr. Tedford is constructing some sort of satellite for next weekend's New Stars Release Party!

An anonymous source within the Trees and Hills command hierarchy insists that Dr. Tedford's aims are "totally, totally peaceful... Well, okay, maybe he's gonna fill the satellite with treats and have someone whack it with a stick, but otherwise, TOTALLY peaceful." The same source later confided that Dr. Tedford had contracted with several agencies to purchase Papier Mache technology, and that Trees and Hills agents had collected scrap newspapers from local grocery stores.

How much more evidence do we need?

NEW STARS Release Party!

Colin Tedford — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:05:00 +0000

Come on out and celebrate our newest anthology at Keene, NH's newest comic shop this coming Saturday!

Also remember to check out our calendar for all the other cool doings, like the monthly Pioneer Valley Comic & Cartoon Schmooze coming up November 13.

In other news: I redesigned my website! Trees & Hills is next.

LitGraphic Exhibit in Stockbridge, MA

Marek Bennett — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:22:00 +0000

Hey, everybody! While you're cruising all the big art exhibit openings in Massachusetts on Saturday, November 10th, you can cruise on over the the Norman Rockwell Museum!

Illustration Show

Colin Tedford — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:39:00 +0000

Anthology Lead & Free Photocopiers

Colin Tedford — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:53:00 +0000

I've just received word of a new quarterly quarter-size anthology called Candy Or Medicine, edited by Josh Blair - not produced in our region, but looking for submissions. Deadline for the next issue is December 10; submission guidelines are here, and you can order Volume One here.

In other news, if you feel you have space for a photocopier, check out the free ones in this NH Craigslist listing, or email me (colintedford at gmail dot com) about the one I rashly got on Freecycle that's too big for my tiny living space. Makes me wish we had a Trees & Hills studio!

Vermont cartoonist Ed Koren honored by state leaders

Daniel Barlow — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:12:00 +0000

I had a great time Friday evening at the ceremony to honor New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren.

October 27, 2007

By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau

MONTPELIER – Amid a stream of congratulations, playful verbal jabs and thunderous applause, Edward Koren became the first cartoonist to be given the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts Friday evening.

Koren, a Brookfield resident who has drawn cartoons for the New Yorker magazine for four decades, was praised at the Vermont Statehouse by Gov. James Douglas, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch and others for his ability to poke fun at modern life in Vermont in his single-panel creations.

As Koren prepared to take the crowd of nearly 200 people gathered in the House chambers through a sampling of his rustic cartoons, he noted that he has always been suspicious of awards that involve the words excellence and the arts.

"That is, until right now," he quipped.

Presenters and speakers mined Koren's talent of drawing hairy and furry monsters in his cartoons and his strong civic mind, including his ongoing stint as a member of Brookfield's volunteer fire department.

Margaret "Peggy" Kannenstine, the chair of the Vermont Arts Council board of trustees, joked that she was happy to "honor the most renowned firefighter from Brookfield."

She went on to mention that Koren is part of the growing community of cartoonists who call Vermont home, noting that two years ago the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction opened its doors.

"It feels good to have welcomed Mr. [Garry] Trudeau to Vermont in the same week that we are honoring Ed Koren today," Kannenstine said, referring to the Doonesbury cartoonist who held a fundraiser at Junction opened its doors.

"It feels good to have welcomed Mr. [Garry] Trudeau to Vermont in the same week that we are honoring Ed Koren today," Kannenstine said, referring to the Doonesbury cartoonist who held a fundraiser at CCS on Monday.

Letters from Vermont's two U.S. senators were read by staff members to congratulate Koren. Sen. Patrick Leahy's letter noted that Koren is "clearly the most talented artist in the Brookfield Fire Department." Sen. Bernard Sanders' letter called him a "cartoonist of the first order."

Welch, Vermont's freshman representative, attended the event and noted that he was proud to hang a Koren original in his Washington, D.C., office, which was given to him soon after his election to the office last year.

Welch, without describing the cartoon, said that it is "provocative and politically incendiary" and that anyone who wants to see it is free to "come down and take a look."

He then praised Koren's cartoons for giving people a "greater understanding of who we are together."

Tunbridge filmmaker John O'Brien, a close friend of Koren's, upped the humor ante in his remarks, which included showing off early nudes that Koren had drawn at the dawn of his career and reading from a paperback science fiction novel that shares its title with Koren's last name.

In his remarks just before Koren was awarded the prize, Douglas, who picks the winner based on recommendations from the Vermont Arts Council, noted that he was "no stranger to cartoons," especially those that satirize him and appear in local newspapers during legislative sessions.

When he discovered there was a cartoonist among the award candidates, he prepared his "trusty pair of scissors" to remove him from the list, Douglas joked – until he found out that cartoonist was one of Brookfield's most famous residents.

"Ed's work is a classic reminder of what it means to live in Vermont and be a neighbor," Douglas said.

Koren, who read punch lines from more than a dozen of his cartoons that were displayed on an overhead screen in the House chambers, spoke very little during the ceremony.

But he beamed with pride and smiled strongly as he and his wife, Curtis Koren, sat near the speaker's podium.

"I don't think I would be here today if I was an editorial cartoonist," he told the crowd, which, as expected, exploded with laughter.

Koren joins other luminaries who have received the Arts award since it was first offered in 1967, including writers David Mamet, Grace Paley and Howard Frank Mosher, and filmmaker Jay Craven.

Contact Daniel Barlow at Daniel.Barlow@timesargus.com

A Few Quick Notes of Interest

Daniel Barlow — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:04:00 +0000

Burlington artist Gregory Giordano – who did that fantastic NEW STARS cover for us – landed the cover of Seven Days this week, Vermont's large alternative weekly, with a Halloween-themed cover. Giordano went the extra mile to get a mention of the Sputnik-theme anthology comic and the Trees & Hills comics group in his bio that the paper published! These are just a few of the reasons we love him.

Congratulations to CCS grad Colleen Frakes , who returned to Vermont from SPX last week to discover that she has been awarded an Xeric Grant. Frakes plans to use the grant to publish a collection of her awesome mini-comic TRAGIC RELIEF for MoCCA 2008.

In case you didn't hear: Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau came to the Center for Cartoon Studies! Here's the Associated Press story about him speaking to the students there and here's my story for the Rutland Herald and the Times Argus on his lecture he gave that evening to a sold-out crowd of 250.

Keene, N.H. Cartoonist Tim Hulsizer, the fine artist of the first issue of $ELL OUTS, first issue out in March 2008, has posted rare strips that Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson did for his college newspaper. His find has been linked by Heidi MacDonald's The Beat, BoingBoing and others. But we all know Tim is really just upping the ante for me to post the Frank Miller high school newspaper strips that I have.

There's a few Trees & Hills members that also appear in the new DEAD MAN'S HAND anthology ,published by Tree Fort Press, a new publishing group that has formed in the CCS community in the White River Junction, Vt. area. The square-bound book looks great and is shock full of western comics, including a new story by Stephen R. Bissette. Other notable contributors include Morgan Pielli, Cat Garza, Bryan Stone, Colleen Frakes, Megan Baehr and a story written by myself and drawn by Bill Couture!

If you meet Edward Koren, you may end up in The New Yorker

Daniel Barlow — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:48:00 +0000

Between the publication of NEW STARS and my trip to SPX, I totally forgot to post my recent profile of Vermont cartoonist Edward Koren.

For 40 years, Koren has been one of the most popular NEW YORKER cartoonists to draw comics in a small single box. He's receiving the Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of, er, I mean the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt.

I'll probably be covering that ceremont tomorrow night too. Anyway, this was published in the Times Argus and the Rutland Herald on Oct. 7. Ed left me a nice message a few days after it ran, saying the profile was "more flattering than [he] deserves."

By DANIEL BARLOW
Vermont Press Bureau
Photo: Stefan Hard

Edward Koren's little creatures – furry, monstrous things with horns, large teeth and wide eyes – are all over his home in the quiet, off-the-beaten-path village of Brookfield.

They're printed on the tiles of his kitchen counter and they hang in numerous portraits on the walls.

He's drawn them on scraps of paper that are now stuffed in the corners of his busy art studio and has carved them from wood, giving these little monsters a three-dimensional, lifelike quality.

"They're extreme, they're aggressive, they're horripilations," Koren says with a sharp smile when asked to describe the unidentifiable creatures that often pop up in his single-panel cartoons.

Just don't call them cute.

"I hate the word 'cute,'" he says, adding that he sees the creatures as extreme and fierce representations of regular people. "It's a quick read of a subject that is far more nuanced. They're not cute, they are complex."

Despite his contempt for the blandly endearing, Koren – who has spent 45 years drawing cartoons for The New Yorker – is a chatty, likable and polite man whose comics, although satirical and pointed, could hardly be considered mean or menacing.

Koren, 71, started his career as a cartoonist in New York City, but nearly 30 years ago moved to a spacious 19th-century home in the heart of Brookfield, a central Vermont town of about 1,200 that is known mostly for a floating bridge rather than as the inspiration for one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today.

That geographical move has infused Koren's work with characters and quirks inspired by his new surroundings. Astute readers will notice Montpelier-area restaurants as settings or the name of a local school or community group on a character's shirt.

Koren will be honored for his artistic contributions when he is given the 2007 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts this month.

"He really loves Vermont," says Mark Singer, a longtime New Yorker writer who befriended Koren more than 30 years ago. "Everyone knows that when you go to Vermont, you have to visit Ed. It's a state that he was really drawn to."

Koren was born in New York City and attended the private Horace Mann School and Columbia University, where he honed his cartooning skills while drawing for the college's humor magazine, a sort of 1950s version of the famous National Lampoon periodical.

At the time, Koren aimed his wit and pen at what he and some peers decided was the greatest threat to the academic institution: the college president's plan for students to volunteer part of their time in the community as a requirement for graduation.

Koren believed that would distract the students from their academic work, which he considered their mission there at the college.

"The proposal had the campus in an uproar," Koren remembers. "They had to shelve those plans, although I can't attest to the fact that we were responsible for that."

But his outlook on that issue has clearly changed over the years.

"I can see now that it was a very narrow vision that I had," he says. "Wisdom has caught up with me."

Today, Koren exemplifies the ideal Vermont citizen. For 19 years he has been a volunteer with the Brookfield Fire Department, including several years spent as its captain. He helped raise money to renovate the community's historic town hall and often donates art for fundraisers by organizations including Vermont Public Radio.

"Joining the fire department was one way of doing something for the community and getting to know the people here," he explains. "I've become friends with people I would probably have never interacted with in New York."

Koren got his artistic break in May 1962 when The New Yorker accepted one of his cartoons. This one featured a sloppy-looking writer, cigarette dangling from his lips, sitting before a typewriter. Printed on his sweatshirt is one word: Shakespeare.

"Let me explain that one," Koren says. "This was before people had slogans on their shirts. Everyone wore plain shirts."

That comic launched a lifetime freelance relationship between Koren and The New Yorker. After several years of continued publishing, he quit his teaching job at Brown University and devoted himself full-time to cartooning.

Koren says his art started out in a more traditional style. But over the years, in a move he says was more subconscious than intended, he developed the scratchy, etching-like style that he has become renowned for.

"Ed's style is unique, and that's really the only way to put it," Singer says. "No one has even tried, if they were smart, to replicate Ed's style and look."

In an era when cartoonists are now doing much of their work on computers, Koren still draws by hand, using pencil and pen, in his cluttered and darkened studio space on the first floor of the family home. He and his wife are now empty-nesters.

Koren says he is a constant doodler, and his art – drawn on scraps of paper or whatever else was handy at the time – sits in piles on the two drawing tables in the studio. Posters he created for benefit concerts 20 years ago are piled next to the art he drew just last week.

His bookshelf is filled with collections of famous and forgotten cartoonists; underneath his drawing tables are shelves full of his own work, nearly all of which he has kept over the years.

To fix his artistic mistakes, Koren uses an eraser nub and a razor blade, which can scratch out a regretted thin line. He also draws on paper too large to scan into a computer and instead mails his work to The New Yorker.

"I'm a draftsperson as much as I am an artist," he says. "This method has worked for me over my lifetime, and I don't plan on changing."

Koren's early comics focused on upper-middle-class life in the city. They still do sometimes, but his work now has a purely Vermont flavor — beat-up trucks with shaggy dogs riding in the back, overalls and baseball caps.

A 1989 drawing of his featured a suited businessman approaching two anglers by a stream in a beautiful Vermont setting. He asks, "Could you fellas tell me if there's anyplace around here where I could find a fax machine?"

"Ed was part of that whole world of people who moved to Vermont after the late '60s," says John O'Brien, the filmmaker behind the "Tunbridge Trilogy" who met Koren through mutual friends about 20 years ago. "He has really documented that perfectly in his cartoons, and when he skewers people for it, he's also poking fun at himself."

Koren says his cartoons can be appreciated both by the city types who are typical of The New Yorker's audience and his neighbors and friends here in Vermont. Similarly, he finds jokes in both conservative and liberal positions.

Asked about his political beliefs, Koren first describes himself as a "left-of-center Democrat, but not a full-blown Progressive." But he also describes himself as a social conservative.

"I'm concerned about sprawl, about development, about the lack of general education."

Wary of sounding like a cranky curmudgeon, Koren still says he is greatly concerned with what he calls "the general dumbing down of the population." It's disappointing that the younger generations are watching TV or playing video games instead of reading books, the local newspaper or, yes, cartoons, he says.

Although he knows some might still refer to him as a flatlander, Koren sees himself now as a true-blue Vermonter. He still returns to New York several times a year, yet says he doesn't feel at home anymore among the lights of the city.

While the place he calls home has changed, Koren's muse has not. People, as always, are his inspiration.

"What was funny to me then," he says about the subjects of his early work, "is still funny to me now."

Edward Koren will receive the 2007 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in a public ceremony Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. at the Statehouse in Montpelier. The award is given each year to a Vermont artist who has achieved national or international stature for advancing his or her art form.

CCS Portfolio Day

Colin Tedford — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:28:00 +0000

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.

NEW STARS available in the shop!

Colin Tedford — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:18:00 +0000

Trees & Hills latest anthology NEW STARS is now available for online purchase at Trees & Hills Comix Distro! The anthology debuted at SPX in October 2007, and since that month also marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, we took that as our theme. We're not some kind of fascists, though, so every piece didn't have to be about Sputnik itself - most of them do relate to space in some way, though. This all-ages anthology by the Trees & Hills Comic Group features an eye-popping full-color cover by Gregory Giordano and comics by Daniel Barlow, Marek Bennett, Miles Cota, Colleen Frakes, Cat Garza, Chris Grotke, Jade Harmon, Tim Hulsizer, Matt Levin, Keith Moriarty, Kathie Mullen, Raymond Prado, Matthew Reidsma, Colin Tedford, and Anne Thalheimer. 5.5" x 8.5", 52 pgs. $3.00

24 Hour Comics Day & Other News

Colin Tedford — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:42:00 +0000

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).

CCS hosts 24-Hour Comics this weekend!

Daniel Barlow — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:27:00 +0000

Center for Cartoon Studies student Bryan Stone wrote in today to let us know that the school WILL BE hosting a 24-Hour Comic event this Saturday, Oct. 20 in White River Junction, Vt.

Start time is noon Saturday and the whole thing will finish by noon Sunday. I'm sitting this one out (still too tired from SPX), but I'm sure several other Trees & Hills regulars will be over there.