AN MFA IN COMICS?

For those of us who write stories with both words and pictures, here's an option off the beaten path: the Center for Cartoon Studies, a two-year program in White River Junction, Vermont, now offers an MFA degree. With excellent faculty, great facilities, and a lot of incoming talent, it's a workshop environment in which an unbelievable amount of work actually gets done. Want proof? Check out I Know Joe Kimpel: a site devoted to distributing the mini-comics work of CCS students and alumni.

My only beef with the school is that it doesn't have much funding -- but that should change in the next few years as it matures and finds some more sponsors...

For those of you who are interested, the filmmaker Tara Wray is currently making a documentary about the school. Here's the trailer for Cartoon College: