Cartoon College

In the summer of 2007 filmmakers Josh Melrod and Tara Wray left New York City and moved to the wilds of Vermont to begin principle photography on CARTOON COLLEGE. They spent most of the next three years in and around the ramshakle village of White River Junction, following the lives of nearly a dozen students and faculty members at the Center for Cartoon Studies, the nation's premiere institution of higher learning for aspiring literary cartoonists and graphic novelists. Along the way they interviewed some of the most famous names in independent comics, including Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Scott McCloud, Francoise Mouly, R. Sikoryak, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, among others, in addition to traveling across the country to meet comic book store owners, museum curators, critics, librarians, and college professors, all to find out what it takes to make it in the world of indie comics.