Cartoon College 2012

Every fall The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, Vermont for a noholdsbarred education in comics. Those who complete the twoyear program earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and are ready to face the hardship of a career in one of the world s most drudgeryinducing art forms. This is their story. Cartoon College is a documentary about a small cartooning school in Vermont (perhaps the morefamous Joe Kubert School in New Jersey wouldn t play ball). Famous (to a comic book fan like your humble reviewer) faces appearing include Stephen R Bissett, Scott McCloud and Art Spiegleman (still tagged as the author of Maus a couple of decades after that graphic novel s publication hasn t he done anything else ) The students include a Mormon who is working on a comic about how his older brother used to torture him shortly before discovering he (the brother) was terminally ill.