Here’s a quick preview of “Tragic Relief #3″, which will be out in June. Issues #1 and #2 are already available through the IKJK store!

Since Joe just posted, I’ll post a page of the 9 pager which he wrote, and I drew. Part domestic drama, part superhero, part horror, part Good Ol’ Fashioned Guy Can’t Stop Vomitting Up Shiny Black Bugs.

I’ve been working on this weekly comic, Roosevelt Park, for almost a year now. I’ll start off with strip #50. A full run of the strip is available on my site.

Many thanks to John at Drawn!

He just posted about IKJK on his blog. Check out his website, there’s a lot of really cool cartoons and illustrations up there.

May 19- June 16, 2007
THESIS EXHIBITION

Commencement: Saturday, May 19th, 1pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19th, 2-5pm

An exhibition featuring work by students of the inaugural class of The Center for Cartoon Studies.

On display through June 16, Monday thru Saturday, 10am-4pm

For more information, visit: cartoonstudies.org

Opening June 1, 2007
ARTS, CRAFTS, AND JACKALOPES!
Area craftswomen exhibit top-notch wares at the Main Street Museum

White River Junction, VT. June, 2007- The Main Street Museum is proud to announce “Arts, Crafts, and Jackalopes, ” a month- long exhibition celebrating the handiwork of some of the Upper Valley’s most talented women artists. The show will feature: photography; paintings; apparel; accessories; jewelry; log cabin quilts; and soft sculpture. A wine and cheese reception will be held on the the exhibit’s opening night at 7pm on June 1, 2007.

Featured Artists: “Ankhin,” Elizabeth Chasalow, Colleen Frakes, Judith Howland, Sigrid Lium, and Josie Whitmore

Arts, Crafts, and Jackalopes will open on June 1, 2007 at 7pm at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

Sunday, April 22
At Center for Cartoon Studies, 94 S Main
White River Junction
Sponsored by the Center for
Cartoon Studies

Writing Your Movie: How
to Write a Screenplay People Will Read
1:30-3:30 PM • $10 ($8 students)
More than 100,000 scripts get written every year. 98% of them are terrible. Of
the 2% that are not, only about 1/5 are made. This workshop will explore how to
get yours into the top-half of that 2%. We’ll look at character, structure, dialogue, format, and professional reader pet-peeves.

WRIF Fundraiser:
Silent Auction and Sale
3:30-4:00 PM
Bid on fi lm paraphernalia, apparel, posters and other goodies and help WRIF sustain its mission! There will also be items for sale immediately.

Green Mountain Cinema:
Vermont Films & Filmmakers, 1896-2006
4:00-6:30 PM • $6
Vermont’s film making history is far more expansive– and entertaining!–than you know. Amply illustrated with film and video clips from the silent era to the 21st Century, this program presents a comprehensive overview of the state’s cinematic legacy, from Lillian Gish floating down the ice on the White River (in D.W. Griffith’s 1921 classic Way Down East) to the current era of digital film making.

WRIF Fundraiser: Auction
6:30-7:00 PM
Join us for a brief but boisterous real live auction in support of WRIF. There are certain to be cinematographic items you simply can’t live without including wild and wacky movie paraphernalia, ranging from antique fi lm equipment to a bustier rumored to belong to Lillian Gish!

Viva la Dance: An American
Cinédance Sampler
7:00-9:00 PM • $6
Film historian Bruce Posner presents a selection of films and videos culled from the March 2007 National Gallery of Art’s series, “Cinédance in America.” The program
reflects a creative approach to fi lmmaking in order to capture the dancer’s art of movement, shape, and form– a unique hybrid medium known as a cinédance.

What does an artist do to follow up an Ignatz-winning minicomic? The second chapter, of course!

Ken Dahl is in San Fran this weekend at Alternative Press Expo with mucho copies of Monsters #2. I got the privilege of seeing some of the original art and it is AMAZING thanks to Ken Dahl’s new love in life, the G-nib (it’s from Japan).

We’ll have the book for sale here once APE is over, for those not able to make it to California from where ever you may be.

We wanted to thank the other comics bloggers out there for getting the word out about IKJK over the past couple days. So thanks to the blogs Top Shelf, the Comics Reporter, Meathaus, and Newsarama, as well as CCS prof Steve Bissette on his blog Myrant.

It’s great to see companies and blogs that we’ve all been following for a long time post something about us. Maybe next people will start reading our books (we hope!).

Welcome to the “I Know Joe Kimpel” blog, your best source for news on the Center for Cartoon Studies, student activities and projects, current visiting artists, samples of the work you can purchase on this site, and anything else we might feel like writing about at the time. Whatever appears here, it’ll most likely be related to comic art.

That’s all for now. Check back often, there’s always something new going on around here.

CCS Class of ‘07

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