James Sturm has created an online preview for his latest graphic novel Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (another baseball story, after his The Golem’s Mighty Swing).
In addition to page samples, the site features a look at the creation of the artwork, from Sturm’s detailed roughs to artist Rich Tommaso’s finished ink drawings, as well as a teacher’s guide and interview with Sturm. All graphic novels should have such informative sites.
Here’s a trailer from an upcoming documentary about James Sturm’s Center for Cartoon Studies, which is located in White River Junction, Vermont. The trailer includes clips of interviews with Steve Bissette, Art Spiegelman and of course Sturm, himself. Looks really interesting.
The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont offers a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative. I was pretty sure we had posted a link to the school before (which is headed up by James Sturm) but I’m glad we haven’t because I also get to share this link: LiveJournal user tundraboy visited an open house of the school and gives us a great photo tour of the facilities, which include exhibits of famous cartoonists, a library funded by Jeannie Schulz, and a state-of-the-art production studio. I sure wish a place like this was around when I was finishing highschool.
