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Madhappy’s birthday party

Events

First off, congrats to all the cartoonists that made it out to our 24 Hour Comics event in SF last weekend. A big shout out to Jeff Plotkin and Carmen for completing the full 24 pages. Can’t wait to see all the books.

Nate from Madhappy’s sent out this email about the local publication’s 1 year party:

Madhappys Birthday party!! Oct. 21st!!!
8pm-midnight
@
ArtSF
110 Capp St.
(16th & Capp)
5th floor
(dial 5-0-0)
SF, CA
–> 415 55-ARTSF
www.madhappys.com
($5-15 donation requested)

Live music! DJs! Art!

some of you we haven’t seen in awhile, but since you’ve been contributors to the magazine in the past, we’d like to encourage you to submit a piece for this show. We’ll be hanging work in the evenings the tuesday & wednesday before the show, work will be up for around two weeks… but whatever you do, you should attend the party!

madhappys is a unique creature in the publishing/comix/visual art world, and we’d like to think of it like a tortoise living to one hundred. thanks for being part of it, we’d love to have you continue! Come on down and meet your fellow collaborators!

¡¡coffee! and ¡exclamation points!! do not mix! ask me if you have any questions….

peace,

Nate

SF Zine Fest Pics

Events

This is long overdue, but I’m posting pictures up from the recent Zine Festival at Cell Space in San Francisco. Here is a picture of Ryan Shiga, the author of Fleep. Meeting Ryan was probably the coolest part of the whole fest for me.

I spent the friday before the event printing up two new comics that were pretty much intended as giveaways or trade for any other cartoonists. The one on the left is sort of an introductory book on what we do at the SFCC and the one on the right is an 8 page linear story called Unicorns Unvenge.
Here is a crowd shot from the main area of the event. Table s around the outer walls, and an island in the middle. Apparently this was the most successful Zine Fest at Cellspace yet, both for the vendors and the promoters (who sold out of tables about two months before the event).
Another crowd shot, you can see fellow conspirator Brian from Atomic Bear Press in the teal shirt.
Speaking of Big Bear, here is Brian’s table featuring his Great Chimney comics and Other Worlds (his newest book).
Another conspirator, Jeff Plotkin, tabling his Happy Freak Show comics. I’ve tabled with Plotkin at APE before and let me say that this man is very popular. He’s been plugging away at the comics scene for a long time and has been a fixture of the Conspiracy since the early days. People love his comics and he gets respect for being an extremely consistent creator.
Mary Van Note; comedian, crafster, stalker, comics writer, and perv. Her newest book is about her obsession with local comedian Brent Weinbach. I’d guess it’s about 400 pages long.
A pic from the entrance to the event, you can see part of a silkscreen workshop in progress.

Farewell Brunch

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I mentioned on my blog that a few of us SF Cartoonists got together last Sunday for a farewell brunch to our friend Tanya who is going back to Edinburgh.

In her honor we did a series of pirate themed exquisite corpses.

For most of you who may be familiar with this exercise, our group is doing a fun twist on it. We fold the paper in thirds, but each artist only does a pencil sketch then passes it on. After the page is finished a fourth person then inks the whole piece to give it a coherent look and working magic on the sometimes weird results of the unfolded pages. I’ll also mention that we never have any rules about the top section being a head, the middle being a torso and so on. It just happens that that is what happened with this piece, which made it such a surprise when we openened it and saw how well it all worked. Here are some photos from Sunday:


In the midst of the SF 24 Hour Comic Day

24 Hour Comics, Events, Projects

So, we started with ten cartoonists at 5:45 pm all crammed into Craig’s apartment.

At about 7pm we moved our get together to Muddy Waters to meet join the normal Cartoonist Conspiracy get together (which consisted of ; Jeff Plotkin). That’s were we started losing people, sore backs, not enough sleep, yadda yadda. So it looks like there are 6 of us going the full 24, one of those is only focusing on a 7 page project, so… yeah.

Brian is doing something about a Fairy that gets lost in the city.

Tanya is doing a 7 page web comic about Jack and Daxter.

Craig (with a K) is doing a “space opera” comic. He doesn’t like to talk about it though.

Rio is trying a stream of conscious comic.. It has a roach in it.

I’m doing a 1001 Arabian Nights type comic…

24 Hour Comic Jam

24 Hour Comics, Jam Comics, Projects

This Thursday at 5pm, a group of 4 San Francisco Cartoonists will start a 24 hour comic jam. Similar to the super big mega official 24 Hour Comic Day that happens every year, except locally organized.

We have two people signed up for sure, and would like to host two more local cartoonists for the marathon, anyone interested can contact Doc@doctorpopular.com

This even will not supersede the October 7th 24 Hour Comic day event at Last Gasp Publishing, but is just something to tide some of us over until then.

Events


Wednesday night there will be a Comic Book Art show at Queens Nails Annex in San Francisco’s Mission District. The event will feature some local Cartoonist Conspirators and out of towners (like Jeffrey Brown). It’s one night only and proceeds from the event go towards will go to benefit 826 Valencia’s cartooning workshops and other comics-related programming for Bay Area youth. After party at 12 Galaxies w/ Hey Willpower.


 3191 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Wed 05/17/06 (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM)

Alternative Press Expo

Events
I love Ape-ril. It’s definitely the cartooning highlight of the year for me and my friends here in the Bay Area.
This year was my fave Alternative Press Expo yet. Jeff Mulleti, Meredith Scheff and myself got a table at the event as The San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy. We each had some of our own merch as well as two brand spanking new SFCC books.
The Remedy is a new 40 something page book, collecting several months of Cartoonist Conspiracy jam comics. The comics are 10-12 pages each, and every page has several different artists creating each panel.
The other book we had exclusively for APE was The Hamster That Wasn’t There. This 12 page book was created during the last two meetings before APE. This book was very unique for us, the creation was very spontaneous. At the beginning of a meeting, we decided to create a book about a boy and his missing hamster. Every page would be completely created by an individual artist (instead of just trading off panels). Working together we came up with a loose plan of what happens on each page, then we went to work. I think this book is the best front to back Jam Comic we’ve created yet.
APE highlights include that guy with the one page comic “Guess the superhero by their genitalia game”, Mulleti finally finished his Super Van comic, setting up my merch on Saturday morning only to realize the table right next to me ALSO had planned on selling lots of yo-yos, and hanging out with the guys from New Mexico Sunday night (and Monday morning).
Matt Groening was there. So was John Malkovich. I felt I had to mention that. Yeah, there where several cartoonist celebrities there, but they haven’t crossed over into that same realm of pop culture, thus they are unimportant and left out from this journal.
So the good news is I think everyone at our table broke even, some of us even made profit (all spent on comics and expensive expo food) and we about 40 new folks sign up on our mailing list because they are interested in attending one of our bi-monthly meetings. Hopefully we’ll see some of them this Thursday.
I also met up with Andy Singer and Bob Lipski, midwestern co-conspirators and inspiring artists.

Now it’s time for winding down, and reading as many mini comics as possible before Thursday’s meeting.