My name is Jenny Sullivan and I work for the School Age Care program for ISD #197.
The week of July 26th I will be teaching a comic book making class for the School Age Care summer program.
I am contacting you to see if you may know of any local cartoonist that would be willing to volunteer their time to come speak to my students about their careers?
If you are interested, please send me an e-mail.
jenjer925 [“at” symbol] hotmail.com
Thanks!
We have ten possible categories to vote on for the focus of the 2011 comic art show at Altered Esthetics.
Please only vote if you plan to participate in the show. Note that it is not required that you be a Minnesota resident to participate.
The deadline for participation in little funny Series II is JULY 22nd.
Read more about little funny and how to participate in series II here.
The Lutefisk Sushi Volume D show is coming up this August… and we’re already thinking about what we want to for our collaboration with Altered Esthetics for NEXT year. Let’s get it figured out shall we?
Here are some of the many possible ideas we have discussed for next year’s comic art show, in no particular order:
PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOK — Wherein each artist illustrates a chapter from a public domain book.
ANTHOLOGY — An anthology of some sort. Â Specific topic and printing details TBD.
COMIC COOKBOOK — Spiral bound cookbook with recipes and art submitted by artists. Â Could cook some of the dishes during the opening. Â Categories can be split among the potential artists based on last name just like when dividing up a potluck (e.g. A-D salads, E-J meats, etc.).
LOOSE SHEETS — Each artist makes a multi-page comic and they are bound like loose leaf newspaper pages, or in a 3-ring binder.
SONG COMICS — Each artist picks a favorite song and creates a comic based on this song.  This allows for maximum flexibility as artists may create whatever type of comic art they want. Musicians could cover some of these songs during the opening.  We could produce a “mix tape” list to give out (people would have to purchase their own songs). Karoake?  — Comic – Oke.
SCRIPT SWAP — Artists could draw comics based on other people’s scripts. Â This would give comic writers a chance to collaborate with local artists. Â We could also create comics based on the scripts of young children, which could get pretty hilarious.
EDUCATIONAL COMICS –Each artist makes an educational strip on a subject of their choosing.
COMIC POSTER ART — Partner with poster artists who would print comics designed by cartoonists.
Suggest ideas you would like to participate in in the comments below, and we’ll discuss and vote on them very soon on the message board.
Over 50 Minnesota cartoonists made the deadline for Lutefisk Sushi Volume D… you can see the list of contributors here (note if you contributed and do not see your name on that list, please let us know).
Whether or not you made that deadline, there is another way you can participate in the Lutefisk Sushi Volume D show. The show will also include a vending machine filled with boxes of teeny-tiny minicomics, and you do not even have to live in Minnesota to make one!
little funny series II is intended as a prominent “sideshow†to the Lutefisk Sushi Volume D project. little funny is a series of mini-comics sold in an old cigarette vending machine at Altered Esthetics. The first series was compiled in conjunction with the BIG FUNNY show in 2009.
The deadline for participation is JULY 22nd.
Read more about how to participate in little funny series II here.
Tomorrow from 1PM to 4PM, the Conspiracy will be collaborating with kids to make mini-comics and drawing caricatures on request as part of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts 25th Anniversary event. Cartoonists, feel free to just show up (ideally around 12:50) and participate. We’ll be in the Bindery.
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts has been a wonderful collaborator to the Twin Cities Conspiracy for a number of years, donating our monthly open studio space, hosting our 24 hour comic days, and inviting us to participate in gallery shows in their space. They are a wonderful organization, and we feel very lucky to have them for friends.
1-4pm: Make your own mini-comic with artists from the International Cartoonist Conspiracy, and get a personalized caricature! (for tweens and teens)
Frederick Melo is looking for an artist to collaborate with him on a comic strip… here is a description of the project from him, and his contact information:
Peanuts meets Zippy with a pinch of Doonesbury?
I’m a Minneapolis writer looking for a local artist who works for peanuts (Peanuts, get it?). My cartoon idea is called “Magellan.” This would be a simply drawn, 1, 2- or 4-panel strip, heavy on dialogue, featuring four urban hipsters in their late 20s. The common thread between them is Ferdinand Magellan, a somewhat sensitive, frustrated and neurotic copyeditor / headline writer at a Web service. Email reporterguy (at) hotmail.com and I’ll forward you up to 17 sample scripts.
Here’s an example of the typical four-panel repartee between Ferdinand and his best friend Weezie:
Ferdinand: Sometimes I feel damn useless.
Weezie: But swearing makes you so manly!Ferdinand: So I have a college degree. If this were Caveman Days, I’d be eaten alive by mountain lions!
Weezie: The feline of the species is deadlier than the mountain goat.Ferdinand: In Pioneer Days, I’d freeze to death.
Weezie: Michael Landon, protect us!Ferdinand: In the Great Depression, I’d be selling my computer for parts.
Weezie: Effete intellectuals and blue state metrosexuals, unite! (Reboot! Reboot!)
little funny series II is intended as a prominent “sideshow” to the Lutefisk Sushi Volume D project. little funny is a series of mini-comics sold in an old cigarette vending machine at Altered Esthetics. The first series was compiled in conjunction with the BIG FUNNY show in 2009, and it is almost sold out… it is time to restock the machine.
No entries will be rejected provided they follow the specs (these comics need to be a specific size to fit inside the boxes in the vending machine). You do not have to be a Minnesota artist to participate.
You can view pictures of little funny series I here.
You can see what the vending machine looks like here.
Additionally, we have a limited number of vending slots available for people who would like to vend a non-little funny comics project from the machine. All projects will need to fit in a 3†x 2†x 1†box. Email tonytudisco (at) alteredesthetics.org for more information on this opportunity.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
In addition to the comics please include your name, address, phone number and email address.
DEADLINE FOR PARTICIPATION IS JULY 22nd.
THINGS TO NOTE:
There is a lot of evidence piling up that this will be the best year ever to be a Minnesota cartoonist! Open your calendar now and write yourself down some dates…
I’ve heard rumor of some other things as well. Get ready to be busy and have a lot of fun.
Our friends at The Loft Literary Center (along with the Hennepin County Library) are putting on “The Graphic Novel & Comic Book Writing and Illustrating Conference” June 19th. The event is free but registration is limited. Registration opens May 22nd. Presenters will include Gene Yang, Barbara Schultz, Zander Cannon, Robin Schwartzman, Lars Martinson, Jude Nutter and Linda E. Davis. Also, the Cartoonist Conspiracy will be having a special jam at the end of the conference, open to anyone who wants to participate, as always.
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