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Every fall The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, Vermont for a no-holds-barred education in comics. Those who complete the two-year program earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and are ready to face the hardship of a career in one of the world’s most drudgery-inducing art forms. This is their story. ’Cartoon College’ is a documentary about a small cartooning school in Vermont (perhaps the more-famous Joe Kubert School in New Jersey wouldn’t play ball). Famous (to a comic book fan like your humble reviewer) faces appearing include Stephen R Bissett, Scott McCloud and Art Spiegleman (still tagged as “the author of ’Maus’“ a couple of decades after that graphic novel’s publication - hasn’t he done anything else?) The students include a Mormon who is working on a comic about how his older brother used to torture him shortly before discovering he (the brother) was terminally ill.
