The Cartoonist Veteran Project kicks off at 6 p.m. He writes in an email, “I know how it takes some time for many vets to get comfortable with sharing their stories.” For that reason, the project has no firm deadline, though Sturm expresses the hope that, by summer of this year, it will produce a collection of print and digital comics, as well as a possible exhibition at CCS. Among the participants will be Jess Ruliffson, whose comic Invisible Wounds, about a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, won a 2014 Award of Excellence from New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.ĬCS cofounder and director James Sturm, who has volunteered at the VA for the last year, is hopeful that the event will encourage vets to share their stories as a way of coping with their wartime experiences. The first event of this months-long partnership takes place at the VA Center on Wednesday, February 25, when CCS cartoonists will give a presentation about comics and invite veterans to share their stories. The school has invited veterans and their families to take part in the Cartoonist Veteran Project, in which CCS students and faculty will help vets to tell their stories in graphical form. White River Junction is home to two important institutions that, until now, have not formally collaborated: the White River Junction VA Medical Center, and the Center for Cartoon Studies. This month, the town will witness yet another union, this one somewhat more unlikely: cartoonists and veterans. It’s where the rivers come together, the railroads, the highways. The Upper Valley town of White River Junction has long been just that: a junction. A panel from Jess Ruliffson's comic Invisible Wounds.Courtesy of the Center for Cartoon Studies.She was shortlisted for Slate's 2017 Cartoonist Studio Prize. Her work has been featured by Buzzfeed, the Boston Globe, the Nib, and Pantheon books. Ruliffson, Jess: - Jess Ruliffson teaches comics, gouache, and drawing at The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, FL, and The School of Visual Arts in NYC. In this compassionate, probing book, Ruliffson reveals how America's endless entanglement in wars have affected the psyches of the people who wage them. Identity lies at the heart of these stories, as they grapple with their gender, their race, and the brutality they've witnessed and caused. In these illustrated interviews, Ruliffson shares the stories of men, women, and non-binary ex-soldiers who struggle to reconcile their wartime experiences with their postwar lives. What she finds is that the real experience of soldiers at war is a far cry from depictions in popular media like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont.
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