Two years after graphic novelist James Sturm (The Golem's Mighty Swing, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow) founded Vermont's Center For Cartoon Studies (CCS) in 2005, he presented the first diplomas to a new generation of cartoonists, comics artists, and graphic novelists. But those diplomas didn't exactly resemble the framed pages you'd see on doctors' or lawyers' office walls. The students who received MFA and Certificate degrees instead took home colorfully drawn diplomas (with a new one designed each year by, respectively, Ron Rege Jr, Michael Kuperman, Ivan Brunetti, and Jim Rugg, among others), making for a fitting culmination of intensive cartoon training.
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