Monthly Archives: May 2010

Graphic Novel & Comic Book Writing and Illustrating Conference June 19th in Minneapolis

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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.

CLICK THE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION.

Mpls. Sat. Open Studio, May 15, noon to 4 p.m.

Minneapolis, Springcon

[Artist isn't there]

Okay. So the scheduled Open Studio happens to fall right on top of SpringCon. That means attendance will probably be light. And that means not so much talking! Fewer distractions mean that you will probably be able to get a lot of work done on your Lutefisk Sushi submission! Nice.

Sat., May 15, noon to 4 p.m., MCBA FlexiSpace (metal tables)

If you can’t find us in the MCBA building, ask the friendly person working in the MCBA bookstore. This is an open studio — all are welcome.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
(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:
June 12: Print Studio (basement)
July 3 – Bindery
August 14 – Flexi Space

SPRINGCON is THIS WEEKEND in the TWIN CITIES! (May 15th and 16th)

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The Midwest Comic Book Association’s Springcon event is this weekend, and you won’t want to miss it. They decided to do Fallcon in the Spring this year… it will be all weekend long at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Our friends at the MCBA know how to put on one hell of a fun and friendly convention… you won’t want to miss it.

READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT HERE.

Here is a promotional chicklet I made you can put on your site, social network, or whatever it is you kids do with these things these days to help promote good things…

We could use some additional Conspiracy volunteers to hang out at our space over the weekend. If you can help out please email me at:

Hope to see you there!

Reminder: San Francisco Comic Jam this Thursday MAY 13, 2010

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Reminder that the ‘Second Thursday’ Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco meet up is in a few days on May 13, 2010

When: The SECOND and LAST Thursday of the Month

Time: 6:30pm to 10pm
note: The café will not be making coffee drinks after 9pm since they need to clean-up the equipment, but we can stay and draw.

Location:
Borderland Cafe
870 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 970-6998

Upcoming MAY 2010 Comic Jams in San Fransico.

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This is your monthly reminder for the MAY 2010 Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco meet ups, so mark your calendars.

May 13, 2010 (second Thursday)
May 27, 2010. (last Thursday)

When: The SECOND and LAST Thursday of the Month

Time: 6:30pm to 10pm
note: The café will not be making coffee drinks after 9pm since they need to clean-up the equipment, but we can stay and draw.

Location:
Borderland Cafe
870 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 970-6998

Lupus Foundation Cartooning Opportunity

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Friend of the Conspiracy and author of the upcoming book Superheroes, Strip Artists, & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists, Britt Aamodt, has passed on the following opportunity to us…

I think I may be covering part of Springcon for the Lupus Foundation of MN newsletter. I guess the con collects money for the Lupus fdn.

The Foundation newsletter editor, Sara Otto, was hoping one of you talented cartoonists would create a small Lupus Foundation-themed cartoon for their newsletter. I told her that would be a lot of work for someone–with no pay–but if you know a cartoonist who’d like to get his/her work in print this is a chance. They can contact Sara at: sotto (at) lupusmn.org.

MPLS Jam is Thursday, May 6th–a folk hero to be honored???

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Just throwing this out there…..  Meet SVEN IVAN O’MYRON WISNEWSKI!  He was ‘Nordeast’ Minneapolis’ own multi-national, arm-rasslin’, polk music-lovin’ folk hero during the 1970’s.   Anyone want to tell his tale on Thursday?

The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.

Generally, we draw collaborative “jam” comics, socialize and drink caffeinated beverages. Afterwords, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else.

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe
1618 Central Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bus info here.

Please spend some money at Diamond’s while you’re there, even if it is just a cuppa coffee… they are excellent hosts, and we wanna stay welcome there.