Dan Nott

Dan Nott is a cartoonist, illustrator, and editor living in Vermont.

Dan’s comics and illustrations have appeared in a range of publications including NJ Advance Media, PA Spotlight, The Nib, WBUR, Resist!, Fusion’s Graphic Culture, Medium’s Editor’s Picks, Seven Days, among others. He’s currently writing and drawing a book about infrastructure called Hidden Systems for Random House Graphic, represented by Farley Chase at Chase Literary Agency. Dan graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies with an MFA in 2018.

Alec Longstreth

Alec Longstreth has been self-publishing his minicomic Phase 7 since 2002. In 2007, Phase 7 won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic and the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut. Alec self-published the collection of his Basewood comic, a 5-year project. Alec’s gag cartoons have been featured in Nickelodeon Magazine and National Geographic Kids, and he has illustrated promotional items for Weezer and for Harry and the Potters. He is currently working on a kid’s web and print comic, Isle of Elsi. He most recently crowd funded the printed hardback Isle of Elsi, volume 1.

Jason Lutes

Jason Lutes was assistant art director at Fantagraphics Books until 1993. During this time, he created the critically acclaimed Jar of Fools (Drawn and Quarterly), which was serialized in the weekly paper The Stranger. Upon collecting this comic, he began his recently released, 20-year-in-the-making, ambitious historical graphic novel Berlin (Drawn and Quarterly). His other works include The Fall (Draw and Quarterly), written by Ed Brubaker, and Houdini: The Handcuff King (Disney) with Nick Bertozzi. Jason has been nominated for—and won—many Ignatz and Eisner Awards. Most recently Berlin was nominated for a Ringo, Harvey, and Eisner, and won the 2019 Book of the Year and Best Educational Comics from the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards. He also recently won the prestigious Comic-Con International’s Inkpot Award. 

Emma Hunsinger

Emma Hunsinger started her career making New Yorker gags before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Her short comic How to Draw a Horse appeared in the New Yorker and was nominated for an Eisner Award and National Cartoonist Society Division Award. Her comic She Would Feel The Same was one of the AV Club’s “Best Comics of 2020”. Her picture book with fellow faculty member Tillie Walden My Parents Won’t Stop Talking comes out in February 2022. She’s currently working on her debut graphic novel How It All Ends will be out in Summer 2023 with Greenwillow Books. 

James Sturm

James Sturm is the co-founder of The Center for Cartoon and his graphic novels include Off Season, Market Day, and The Golem’s Mighty Swing (Drawn and Quarterly). Working with Andrew Arnold ′07 and Alexis Frederick-Frost ’07, he has co-authored eight books in the Adventures in Cartooning series (First Second Books). James is the recipient of two Eisner Awards including one for his Fantastic Four series, Unstable Molecules (Marvel) and another for Satchel Paige, Striking Out Jim Crow (Hyperion/Disney).

Kori Michele Handwerker

Kori Michele Handwerker is an avid zinester who loves making small, intimate, weird books about romance, identity, and LGBTQ experiences.  Publishing comics since 2011, their work has been included in a dozen comic anthologies, including Beyond, 1001 Knights, and their own co-edited anthology, The Other Side. Kori has an MFA in Cartooning from CCS, a BFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art, and experience in many corners of the comic industry. They’re currently self-publishing journal comics, screen-printed zines, and erotic adult comics as well as organizing collaborative fanzines and doing freelance comics work that includes authenticity reading and color flatting.

Teppi Zuppo

Teppi Zuppo is a cartoonist and educator living in Vermont. They’re constantly brainstorming ways to make the comics industry more accessible, inclusive, and awesome through community work and digital resources. Previous projects include founding VT’s free femme alt-comics newspaper, The Ladybroad Ledger, running Words and Pictures Community Print Shop and Burlington’s 24 Hour Comic Day. Their comics work has been published through Vermont Public Radio, The Nib, The Vermont Folklife Center, Wake Forest University Magazine, and many independently produced publications.
Teppi has a MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies (’15) and a BFA in Illustration and Graphic Design from Moore College of Art and Design. They are also a professor in the department of Communications and Creative Media at Champlain College.

Whit Taylor

Whit Taylor (Ghost Stories) is joining the faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring as the facilitator of Visiting Artist Seminar. The course features weekly guests including the In addition to lecturing at CCS as a previous visiting artist, Whit was also the keynote speaker at the International Comics and Medicine Conference in 2019.

Bill Scavone

Bill Scavone medical and scientific illustrations have won awards from the Association of Medical Illustrators and Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, including a Members’ Choice Award from the Guild’s Annual Juried Exhibition. He contributed a comic about Varroa mites and honey bees to Awesome ‘Possum, Volume 3.  He is a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, and the Graphic Artists Guild. He received his MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.