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Special Guest Speakers:
Frank McLaughlin - Comic book & Gil Thorp Artist
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Frank McLaughlin will be here to talk with us and give us some drawing lessons. He is the cartoonist of Batman, Wonder Woman and the DC Universe.
Frank McLaughlin is a forty year veteran of the comic-book industry. During his tenure, Frank worked with virtually every major comic-book publisher which included DC, Marvel and Defiant, as well as serving in an editorial capacity for Charlton Comics. While employed by these companies, Frank worked on such well known titles as Superman, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman and many, many more. Frank has also contributed to many newspaper comic strips and has taught cartooning and visual storytelling at "Paier College of Art" in Hamden, Connecticut as well as other schools.
Frank was also the co-developer of "Writing to Read" program, produced for the JHM Corporation through Nova University. "Writing to Read" employed the use of comic-book storytelling to teach and encourage people of all ages to read.
Presently Frank is still teaching at Paier College, does freelance projects and produces art work for the daily comic strip "Gil Thorp" for Tribune Media Services.
George Sellas - Manga artist, Caricaturist and Cartoon Academy Instructor
and
Kayleigh - Camp Counselor and Animator
All the campers will have their caricatures drawn by George and Kayleigh. You'll be able to bring your caricature drawing home with you that day.
George's Anime & Manga Class description and examples of his work are HERE.
George's first published work came at the age of three. It was a black and
white drawing of a rabbit with a very large head and a Charlie Chaplin-esque
moustache. Don't ask him why the rabbit had a moustache because to this day he
has no idea.
Despite the fact that without his glasses he could only see about four inches in
front of his face, he continued drawing
throughout his childhood and into adulthood. As a child his favorite subjects
were the action-adventure and sci-fi
cartoon characters of the 1980s and his tastes have shifted surprisingly little
in the intervening years. He now enjoys
illustrating scenes from classic adventure fiction and sci-fi novels such as
"The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
(As seen at www.georgesellas.com)
George pursued a degree in illustration at Paier College of Art in Connecticut
where he studied under some of the finest
oil painters since the days of the old masters. He quickly learned, however,
that oils were not his strong suit, so he
decided to stick with pencil and pen combined with digital media, which is much
cleaner and far less smelly than
vats of turpentine and linseed oil.
He still gets a huge kick out of being able to create something from nothing and
he hopes that will never change. George contributed to the critically acclaimed instructional book, "HOW TO DRAW THOSE BODACIOUS BAD GIRLS OF COMICS" by Mike Gold and Frank McLaughlin, with his own section on how to draw Manga and Anime. The GGCA is lucky and proud to have George as an Instructor.
Bonus Field Trip! - AA Baseball Action!
We are planning a group trip to a Rock Cats vs. Sea Dogs baseball game in New Britain. Campers get a souvenir and will meet a Portland Sea Dogs (AA Red Sox affiliate) player!
Special Surprise Sports Guests will be here.
a Special Surprise Sports Guests will be here.
Jerri Griswold - "The Bat Lady"
"The Bat Lady", Jerri Griswold, will be here with her bats! She brings her live bats with her and will give us a fantastic program which is fun and educational.
Kids will have the opportunity to examine live bats and learn about their importance from "The Bat Lady", Geraldine Griswold (a licensed wildlife rehabilitator). " Bats are the kindest, gentlest creatures on our planet. They are of no harm to humans if humans just leave them alone. What bats do for our planet is astonishing! The earth cannot survive without the contributions made by bats. They are the number one controller of night flying insects worldwide. They are primary pollinators and seed dispersers for many plants such as bananas, mangoes, cashews, dates, and figs."
Chris Sheehan - Camp Song and Folk Singer
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
We'll have Camp Songs with folk singer Chris Sheehan. If you'll be here with us during that session, think of your favorite camp song and we'll all sing it while Chris plays his guitar.
Frank Bolle - Serial Comic Strip Artist
Frank Bolle, cartoonist of Apt. 3-G, The Phantom & Winnie Winkle will visit us.
Examples of Frank Bolle's work can be found HERE.
Frank Bolle was born and raised in New York City. An inveterate doodler he remembers that as a child he drew on any scrap of paper he could find. He went to the High School of Music and Art.
And then served with the Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946. After the war, Bolle found work in the booming comic book industry while attending Pratt Institute to continue his studies where he graduated with honors.
Frank is one of the most prolific comic book artists of all time, with his career starting in 1948 (a mere ten years after the dawn of the Golden Age and 8 full years before the Silver Age began) and going straight through to today.
Bolle started at Magazine Enterprises illustrating westerns, Tim Holt, Redmask and Best of the West. He designed and illustrated Childrens' records and albums. He worked for Western Publishing, Illustrating dozens of books from the "Golden Books" to Sherlock Holmes and other Adventure novels. He also did science fiction comic books like Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Dr. Solar (Man of the Atom). His best remembered superhero Is "Doctor Solar, Man Of The Atom".
While working for Western Publishing. They asked him to illustrate Grimm's Ghost Stories, Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery and Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone. Around the same time, Bolle began writing and drawing Childrens'Tales. A Syndicate Sunday feature with original stories and adapted fairy tale classics.
Bolle drew The Heart of Juliet Jones for King Feature from 1982 to 1999, and the long- running soap-opera strip Winnie Winkle dailies and Sundays for twenty years.
Veteran artist Frank Bolle now draws APARTMENT 3-G, one of the nation's most enduring soap-opera comic strips. APARMENT 3-G details the adventures of three young career women who share an apartment in New York City.
The remarkable strip was one of the first realistic portrayals of working women in the comic pages. King Features Syndicate distributes it to more than 100 newspapers nationwide and international.
Frank Bolle Lives in Weston, CT. He is a member National Cartoonist Society. He is president of Connecticut Classic Arts. Frank loves to paint and does pet portraits by commission. He has won a number of awards for his watercolors plus three Grumbacher Gold Medallions.
Special Suprise Cartoonists Guests will be here.
We'll have Special Suprise Cartoonists Guests!
Adam Harris - "The Cool Reptiles Show"
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
"The Cool Reptiles Show" will be presented by Adam Harris. He'll bring in his large snakes, giant turtles and other cool reptiles.
Mal-sun S. Marletto - Farmington Valley Fencing Academy
We present an awesome fencing demonstration by Malson Marletto, owner of the Farmington Valley Fencing Academy.
Visit the Farmington Valley Fancing Academy web site by clicking HERE.
Mal-sun Marletto, USFCA Moniteur d'Escrime in Foil and Epee, started fencing in Belgium at the Cercle Royal d'Escrime de Bruxelles (the Royal Fencing Club of Brussels) at 12 years of age. While in Europe, she competed in many international competitions in Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands. She then moved to the United States in 1992.
In 1995 she began fencing for the Hartford Fencing Club in Hartford, Conn., and gained extensive regional, national and international tournament experience. She even competed in a World Cup! She has since received the titles of Connecticut Women's Foil Champion in 2000, 2002 through 2004, and Connecticut Women's Epee Champion in 2003 and 2006.
Mal-sun became a USFCA-certified Moniteur (an internationally recognized certification) in foil and epee in 2004 and is the highest USFA-rated female referee in the Connecticut Division (5th highest overall in CT). She continues to attend regional and national fencing clinics and conferences, as well as fencing tournaments of all levels.
Mal-sun hopes to instill the passion for the sport in her students as well as giving them the adequate environment to accomplish even greater results than hers.
Mal-sun also coaches the Simsbury High School Fencing Team and gives lessons at the Pioneer Valley Fencing Academy on Thursday evenings. She has a BA in Art/Graphic Design and speaks fluently Italian and French and understands Spanish.
During the summer we will be having lunch time celebrations with some of our cherished American War Veterans.
We will also have some Surprise Guests All Summer Long including Gary Waslewski. He was the pitcher for the Red Sox in the 1967 World Series. He'll be talking about his baseball experiences, sportsmanship and he'll be signing autographs.
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