Here is the August issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Adam Kaiser, Colin Tedford, Tim Hulsizer, & Marek Bennett.

Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. If you do, drop us a line (organize@treesandhills.org) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!

On to the comics! Click to enlarge.

To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to organize@treesandhills.org (should be suitable for “general audience”).

The deadline for Seeds is coming up August 15, so ready your submissions!

Here are some samples of work we have received so far:

“My Sunflowers” by Adam Kaiser

Left: “Food Chain” by Daniel Barlow, Keith Moriarty, & Matthew Reidsma; Right: “Drawn From Life: Jersey Girls Dairy” by Dan Archer

Hooray for food and comics!

A.W.P. Comic Book Reading
Friday August 1, 6pm
Main Street Museum
58 Bridge Street, White River Junction, VT

AWP (Artists with Problems) is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist collective. Since 2003, the group has held weekly comic drawing parties at secret locations throughout Brooklyn. Its members include some of the best emerging talent to come from New York’s comics community (including Vanessa Davis, Jonathan Bennett, Gabrielle Bell, Aaron Renier and many, many more).

On August first (first Friday!) AWP members Robyn Chapman, Jon Lewis, Alec Longstreth and Karen Sneider (AWP’s founder and President For Life) will offer a slideshow comic reading at the Main Street Museum. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Here is the fourth issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Tim Hulsizer, Colin Tedford, Jade Harmon, Marek Bennett, & Jennifer Omand.

Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!

On to the comics! Click to enlarge.

To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).

Know this: All kids like drawing comics. Let’s keep ‘em drawing. And Marek Bennett (above) clearly knows how.

More photos from Trees & Hills’ appearance at the Arts Alive! Festival in Dover, NH on Saturday can be found at our new official Flickr page.

This set is from Mr. Bennett. Pay him a visit at www.marekbennett.com

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO NEW COMICS ANTHOLOGY

The Trees & Hills comics group is looking for your comics and cartoons about food for a new anthology to be published early this fall.

SEEDS, our fifth anthology featuring creators from Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts, is themed around food – why we like it, why we need it and where we get it.

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TREES & HILLS COMICS EXTENDS 2008 SPRING THAW TOUR

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Fresh off a successful weekend at the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City, the Trees & Hills comics group extended its Spring Thaw Tour to include a final convention date in New Hampshire.

Members of the social cartooning group will engage the audience at the Arts Alive Festival in Dover, N.H. in a massive participatory comics jam. Festival-goers of all ages will create their own original comics panels and add them to a series of interactive ongoing comic strips, organized by award-winning cartoonist and comics educator Marek Bennett and other members of the Trees and Hills group.

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“MIMI’S DOUGHNUTS” WINS XERIC AWARD

Prestigious Self-Publishing Grant Goes to New Hampshire Comic Strip

Henniker, New Hampshire — The weekly comic strip “Mimi’s Doughnuts” has won a coveted Xeric Grant for comic book self-publishing. With this award, creator Marek Bennett will self-publish a trade paperback anthology of the past four years of his comics.

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Here is the third issue of our free monthly comics flyer TWIG, featuring work by Tim Hulsizer, Colin Tedford, Marek Bennett, & Jade Harmon. Sorry it’s so late - MoCCA madness got in the way.

Right-click and download the PDF to print, copy & distribute in your area. If you do, drop us a line (treesandhills@gmail.com) to let us know where you’re putting them so we can know how cool you are!

On to the comics! Click to enlarge.

To submit material, send your 300dpi comics to treesandhills@gmail.com (should be suitable for “general audience”).