Accepted to CCS

Our reactions to me getting accepted at the Center for Cartoon Studies, which, if you have not heard, is where I will be attending to get my MFA starting this fall.

Still does not feel real. We are moving across the country, almost as far as it is possible to go, in 2 months. And I still can't believe it. They believe it at work though. Preparations are being made. My job is dwindling away before my very eyes. I kind of wish it had been more abrupt. This is brutal. I gave 5 months notice!

Abe's monkey dance? He does that whenever he is really excited. This is not the first time I have seen it.

Awesome

Here's what I actually intended to post last Thursday. This might not seem super amazing, but this is the cover of the comic I did as part of my MFA application to the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. The awesome part is, I got in! We are all moving to Vermont in August sometime. I hope to be able to keep up this comic. I don't plan to have a regular job while going to school. It is going to be a lot of work, but I think I should be able to do both.
Anyways, you can read the whole comic online.

READ IT HERE

 

 

The sweats

Eee-yikes. I have never been so gross in my life as that amazing week.
Last comic about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Macs?!

Stupid Macs screwing with my head, man.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Main Street Museum

Wow this place was nuts. I had a great time and really look forward to taking Abe there sometime. Never seemed so much taxidermy in one place before. The concert afterwards was pretty great too, but I have no idea who it was. Forgot to write down their names.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

WRJ Art Walk

So sad I was done. It was fun to just hang around in the town. And there really are some amazing artists.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Most beautiful comic

LITERALLY took my breath away and my heart skipped a beat. I was super impressed.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Lack of drinks

No drinks for me.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Eating out

My favorite Indian dishes are Aloo Ghobi (potatoes and cauliflower) and Mango chicken curry. Yummers. I want to eat them all the time now.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

More cheese

Despite the amount of cheese, my food was actually really good. I loved having an apple and chunk of corn bread for lunch most days. And the muffin and grande tea for breakfast! Yum.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

So much pizza

At least it was tasty pizza. Lovely thick crust. Nice tasting sauce. Was looking forward to not eating pizza again for a while when I left, though.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Lucille

More about the wonderful Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Books!

I didn't even go into the library until Wednesday or Thursday. What a waste! I grabbed a handful of books and even traded with Allie. I read Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme and I think that was the best book of my trip. I started reading Big Questions by Anders Nilsen, too but didn't have time to finish it. I do want to get that book though. They were both fantastic. In fact, I was just thinking about Lucille again yesterday on the drive home.

More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Binding

This might have been the greatest epiphany of the week. Perfect binding and Coptic binding. So perfect. I want to do them to everything. I have used the coptic binding a lot, but I haven't really printed anything I want to perfect bind. Soon maybe. That's Luke Healy up there teaching us binding. (He's currently a senior in the Master's program at CCS.)
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Messy mess mess

Oh boy. When she said that, I think there were 8 drinks on my desk. They are all drawn on there. There might have been others I missed.
I am also well know for my messy and unprofessional desk at my current job, technical writer at a government financial software company. Fortunately, the cleaning crew has started taking away my empty soda cans. But they have yet to take away my awesome Leaning Tower of Tea Bags.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Sweaty sweat sweat

Huh. That fourth panel is me thinking a bit too close up of that sweat on my chin dripping into my comic. I would have been very upset. I don't think I have sweat so much in my life than that week in Vermont. I think White River Junction is to this day covered in particles of my sweat.
More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

Making stuff, reaching goals

Looks like I forgot about posting on Thursday, but I think I will finish all these and then get my back log drawn back up. So that should get me through next quarter.

That was my first time screen printing and it was awesome. I really want to do some more. And I think I will. Also, I now think her name was Izzy, not Lizzy.

More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

More folks. So many.

More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. So this is being posted the day after my last class. This only only the 7th page of the 23 I did. I suppose I will keep posting them. Then I can get a whole stack of more comics done before I start class again and hopefully won't run out until July. Since I will complete this certificate program on June 18.
You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

It's folks!

More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Appearing here: Jon Chad, Alec Longstreth (there are so many awesome comics you can read on that site), Laurel Lynn Leake, Luke Healy, and Izzy Rotman.
You can also buy the whole book with these comics and the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.

This is breakfast?

More comics about the Cartooning Studio workshop I went to in Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies. There were 20 of us or so taking the workshop and I think it doubled the amount of people in the town.
You can also buy the whole book with these comics an the two mini comics I made during the week: Cartooning Studio 2013.