{"id":5781,"date":"2016-01-29T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:13:58","slug":"james-sturm-lectureten-years-of-ccs-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"James Sturm Lecture\/Ten Years of CCS Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday I drove up to Boone, NC to hear James Sturm talk about the history of The Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a> and to check out the exhibit of CCS-related original art at the Turchin Center<\/a>. The exhibit was organized by my friend comics writer\/comics professor Craig Fischer, who you may know from our annual “mega-panels” at HeroesCon. James was a professor at SCAD when I was a student there years ago, so it was great to have an opportunity to catch up with him as well. I’ve been up to visit CCS a few times, but the most recent was in maybe 2006, so it’s been a while.<\/p>\n

James’s lecture covered a bit of his comics-making process and then went over the “origin story” of CCS. Afterwards there was a reception in the CCS exhibit hall. Two bits of interesting info that came up in my conversation with James earlier in the day: First, he has not one, but two, forthcoming children’s books from TOON Books. I got a look at a physical copy of one and a PDF of the other. They both look great. Second: In a discussion about what original comics art folks owned, James mentioned that either he or the school (I can’t recall which) has never-seen sample\u00a0pages that Craig Thompson did for the James Sturm written Fantastic Four series, Unstable Molecules<\/em>. Apparently Thompson was considered for art on the book before Guy Davis was settled on. The pages include the (in)famous “Johnny Storm masturbating” scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a small handful of pictures from the event:<\/p>\n\n\t\t