This week I'm talking to four graduates from The Center for Cartoon Studies: Lucy Knisley, Melissa Mendes, Joe Lambert, and Steve Seck.

The Center for Cartoon Studies is a school in White River Junction, Vermont, which offers an MFA in cartooning, as well as one and two year certificates. I talk to each of the graduates about how they decided to attend CCS, what their experience there was like, and how things are going now that they're out in the real world. I also admit my intense jealousy that I can't spend two years up up in a remote location doing nothing but drawing comics.