PAST EVENT
Melissa Mendes in Conversation with James Sturm at MASS MoCA R&D Store in North Adams, MA
Thursday, September 4, 2025
05:00pm
James Sturm
James Sturm lives in Hartland, Vermont, where he helps run The Center for Cartoon Studies, a school he co-founded in 2005. He is the author of several acclaimed graphic novels, including The Golem’s Mighty Swing, Market Day, and James Sturm’s America. His other works include Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, Denys Wortman’s New York, Watership Down: The Graphic Novel, and the Adventures in Cartooning series. His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Onion, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many other publications. A co-founder of Seattle’s The Stranger, Sturm has been recognized with fellowships from both MacDowell and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
PAST EVENT
Barbara Brandon-Croft, Tom Gauld, and more at CXC 2022
Saturday, October 8, 2022 to Sunday, October 9, 2022
11:00am
PAST EVENT
James Sturm in Winnipeg for The Golem’s Mighty Swing puppet performance 11/21
Thursday, November 21, 2019 to Thursday, November 21, 2019
07:30pm
PAST EVENT
D+Q Authors at MoCCA 2019
Festival
Saturday, April 6, 2019 to Saturday, April 6, 2019
11:00am
PAST EVENT
James Sturm In Conversation with Martin Philip
Speaking engagement
Thursday, August 23, 2018 to Thursday, August 23, 2018
07:00pm
PAST EVENT
James Sturm launches The Golem’s Mighty Swing
Launch
Saturday, June 10, 2017 to Saturday, June 10, 2017
06:30pm
July 25, 2020
Three D+Q artists on making comics against the canon at SDCC
A thoughtful discussion took place in Thursday’s Teaching & Making Comics panel about the avenues creators take to...
May 22, 2020
James Sturm awarded fellowship with Harvard Radcliffe Institute
James Sturm is the cofounder and director of the Center for Cartoon Studies. His comics address issues of faith, race, ...
December 29, 2019
The Irish Examiner names Clyde Fans, Off Season and Making Comics in their comics roundup
Clyde Fans
After spending 20-years serialising the story of the Matchcard brothers and the family electric-fan business...
December 8, 2019
The Guardian Lists Off Season, Clyde Fans, Palimpsest, and Grass in Best of 2019
A heartbreaking wartime tale of a Korean ‘comfort woman’ stands out in an excellent year in which stalwarts Seth and...
August 16, 2019
The Financial Times Reviews Off Season
In September 2016, Slate magazine began publishing Off Season, a comic series by James Sturm set against the real-time e...
July 9, 2019
World Literature Today reviews Off Season
Graphic novelist extraordinaire James Sturm returns with this quiet but turbulent story of a marriage in decay, played o...
July 8, 2019
The Toledo Lucas County Public Library recommends Off Season
Best Comics of 2019 So Far
Comics are for everybody. No matter who you are, there’s a comic for you! And odds are...
June 6, 2019
Wonderland Reviews “Off Season”
“Off Season” (Drawn and Quarterly) starts off depressing and heads toward despair. In this new graphic ...
Burlington Book Fest 2013: James Sturm
Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and educator James Sturm gives a multimedia presentation entitled “James Sturm: A Cartoonist’s Course- Thoughts about creating and…