Too much fun in Minneapolis this weekend!
Category Archives: Minneapolis
Minneapolis Jam: October 2011
NORDEAST COMICS SUMMIT
Summary: Adrean Clark gave a lively presentation on the subject of human facial cues & gestures that, if used wisely, can make or break a comic. Best tip: Stay away from the “Uncanny Valley” — that zone inhabited by realistically rendered humans who are just slightly off enough to be creepy — unless, of course, you’re drawing a villain or a zombie.
Coming up next!:
NOV. 3: Maxeem Konrardy, “Theft & Borrowing in Comics” – and the idea of how do you write something new in a world where everything’s already been written.
NOV. 5 & 6: The Nordeast Comics Summit at MIX! Spend some time with watercolor guru Sarah Glidden and digital maestro Gordon McAlpin as they demonstrate their unique artistic processes. Both events are at 1pm, see MIX program page for full details.
DEC. 1: Steven Stwalley & Kevin Cannon, “First Annual Holiday Comix Game Show!” – Jeopardy-style quiz show with comics-themed trivia. THERE WILL BE PRIZES!
If there’s a topic you’d like to see or even lead yourself, contact me at nordeastcomics [at] gmail.com. The next available date is January 5, 2012.
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INTERNATIONAL CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY
Two big names in American culture recently dropped out of the limelight — one, an American who built one of the most successful brands in world with products that enrich millions of peoples’ lives, and the other, an American who shoots animals from a helicopter. We focus on the latter:
Sarah Palin’s Retirement and People Helping People
Click image for pdf — a iRresistible 10.3 mb!
Please enjoy.
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis Starts at 9AM Tomorrow! (Saturday October 1st)
24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!
Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.
I hope you’re already asleep in preparation!
Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.
Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.
Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!
Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
in the gallery, flexi space (after 12:30 on Saturday), and bindery (until 9am Sunday)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?
Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.
The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog
Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.
Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.
24 Hour Comics Day is This Weekend! Come to the Minneapolis Event!
24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!
Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.
UPDATES:
Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.
Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.
Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!
Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
in the gallery, flexi space (after 12:30 on Saturday), and bindery (until 9am Sunday)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?
Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.
The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog
Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.
Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.
POM POM POM
Do you hear that?
There is less than a month until 24 Hour Comics Day!
Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.
We better get some sleep!
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?
Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.
Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.
Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.
Recent Twin Cities Cartoonist News!!!
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Jon Sloan is going to be the Comic Book Guest of Honor at MarsCon 2012!!!
Tom Kaczynski was just featured on TCJ talkies, the new Comics Journal podcast!!! His Trans-Utopia mini-comic was recently nominated for an Ignatz award for outstanding mini-comic!!!
Sarah Morean was just featured in and article on her and MIX in the City Pages!!!
Bill Prendergast and his anti-Michelle Bachmann comics were just prominently featured on an Australian news site!!! Bill was featured on CNN recently as well!!!
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Lutefisk Sushi: Volume E — The Ballot Boxes Are Open!
Hey cartoonists!
Minnesota’s premier comics art show LUTEFISK SUSHI is back for its fifth season in 2012. While the opening reception is over fifteen months away, we need to decide on a featured artist ASAP! As in past years, the featured artist will design the sushi box, and will have a whole wall devoted to their artwork during the gallery show at Altered Esthetics in November, 2012. See websites of past shows here.
NOMINATION PROCESS:
To nominate a cartoonist, please send the following info to nordeastcomics [at] gmail.com:
– The artist’s name
– The artist’s website (if there is one)
– The artist’s email (so we can contact them to confirm if they want to run)
NOTE: Artists must reside in Minnesota or have some strong connection to the state.
NOTE: If an artist does not wish to be nominated, or does not respond to us before August 25, they will not be listed as a nominee.
CALENDAR:
August 15: Nominations open
August 25: Nominations close; Voting begins
September 1: Voting closes at noon; Winner is formally announced at 6pm at the Nordeast Comics Summit, and online.
VOTING PROCESS:
As in past years, voting will take place on www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/conspire. So jump on that site between August 25 and September 1 to vote! Voters must register on the Cartoonist Conspiracy website (it’s free). Voters may vote only once.
Past featured artists are Vincent Stall, Ken Avidor, Kevin Cannon, and Danno Klonowski.
Questions? Post them in the comments section below.
The 2011 City Pages Comix Issue is Out Today!
…and the comics are already online here. Wow, what a lot of submissions!
Mpls. Sat. Open Studio, Aug. 13, noon to 4 p.m.
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Draw and chat this Saturday with your fellow cartoonists. The Open Studio is at the Minnesota Center for Books Arts. We’ll be at the high tables this time — so that’s nice. There’s also a nice coffee shop nearby and free, semi-functioning wi-fi. Perfect for cartooning.
Saturday, August 13, from noon until 4 p.m., MCBA Bindery (high tables)
This is an open studio — all are welcome.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Future Sat. Open Studios:
Sept. 10 (bindery — high tables)
** Oct. 1st – 2nd. is 24-hour Comic Day! **
Nov. 12 (bindery — high tables)
Dec. 17 (bindery — high tables)
Minneapolis Jam: August 2011
NORDEAST COMICS SUMMIT
Summary: Rob Stenzinger discussed how to take your comics and turn them into games, and highlighted the architectural similarities between successful games and successful comics. As always, we videotaped the Summit, and those videos will be posted online eventually.
BONUS: Rob’s entire presentation is available to view through prezi.com!
Next month the Nordeast Comics Summit is excited to welcome Danno Klonowski to the stage for a discussion about collaboration in comics — the joys, the pitfalls, the triumph, and the heartache. Bring a friend! And after that look for Adrean Clark to discuss body language and visual iconography in comics (Oct. 6), Maxeem Konrardy on artistic theft (Nov. 3) and then a special non-denominational holiday GAME SHOW episode of NCS complete with prizes and so forth (Dec. 1).
If there’s a topic you’d like to see or even lead yourself, contact me at nordeastcomics [at] gmail.com. The next available date is January 5, 2012.
Follow us on Twitter! handle: NORDEASTCOMICS
INTERNATIONAL CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY
We don’t like to be political here at the Cartoonist Conspiracy, in fact we try to maintain a level G-Rating as much as possible, but after the past few weeks of Washington bickering we thought it only fair to pay homage to the unruly Capitol Hill bunch with:
Hostage Crisis on Capitol Hill
Click image for pdf — a fiscally sound 5.4 mb!
Please enjoy.