Well, some of us are still drawing here in San Francisco at Comic Outpost with one finished comic and unfinished comic exiting all ready. 7 artists are striving to finish their work. We still five hours to go and we are all in for the long hall.
We will post links through out the next few weeks when the final results come online.
If you want to see photo of the Mission: Comics jam, visit Doc Pop’s flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/docpopular/sets/72157622511923512/
Hey all, with 24 Hour Comic Book Day just three days away, I wanted to encourage folks in the area to come and out and visit the artist as they are hard at work. We are close to having a full house of artist at both locations, so it should be a pretty amazing year for drawing comics with very little sleep. Below is all the information on how to either a) Visit in person or b) Visit virtually
Saturday October 3, 2009 – Sunday October 4, 2009 from 11:00am Saturday – 11:00am Sunday
Both stores will be open for business the entire time!
First off, we would like to THANK our sponsors….
Self Edge http://www.selfedge.com/
North Beach Pizza http://northbeachpizza.com/
RoboGames http://robogames.net/
Ritual Roasters http://www.ritualroasters.com/
Anthony’s Cookies http://www.anthonyscookies.com
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Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cartoonistSF (thanks Romy)
Blog: https://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/conspire/?cat=6 (Brian and Doc)
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location: Mission: Comics & Art
3520 20th ST. STE B
San Francisco, California 94110
Twitter: http://twitter.com/missioncomics
Blog: http://blog.missioncomicsandart.com/
Live Video Feed: (thanks to Doc Pop) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/doctor-popular-does-stuff
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location: Comic Outpost
2381 OCEAN AVE.
San Francisco, California 94127
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheComicOutpost
Blogger: http://comicoutpost.blogspot.com
Live Video Feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-comic-outpost-live!
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Some of your artist pals from the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco will be at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore for Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday September 19, 2009. We will be on hand drawing pirates for the 100 pirate challenge as well as selling our books and chatting with guests. Plus some folks might be in costume too. The event is Free (does not included admission to the museum) so come and join us from 11am to 5pm.
– The bookstore will be giving a 10% discount for anyone in pirate costume!
BTW: the artwork for the event is by me as well. ©2009 Brian Kolm
Hey hey hey you comic drawing folks…
it’s time for our regular Thursday night comic jam at the Church St. Café, (These jams run the Second and Last Thursday of every month and are easy to get to from public transportation.)
With 24 Hour Comic Book Day coming in a bit less then a month, maybe we could practice and talk about strategies for getting our comics done at the event. Or how about bringing your APE projects in and getting feed back.
The Jam runs from 6:30 on September 10th and all artist are invited to attend. So bring your favorite drawing tools and come on down and draw
a spell. Hey even better bring a friend or two!
Description: The San Francisco cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy meets twice a month from on the second and last Thursday of the month from 6:30-10PM
location: Church St. Cafe. 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114
Getting there: I have started a thread on the Google group that we can post ideas on getting to the Jam on MUNI, BART and driving/parking. There is not driving/parking info yet since I do not do that, so if you have some knowledge please go and add it.
http://groups.google.com/group/cartoonist-conspiracy-sf
Hello all you cartooning cats,
it’s time for our regular Thursday night comic jam at the
Church St. Café, (These jams run the Second and Last Thursday of every
month and are easy to get to from public transportation.)
We would like to welcome all the great new folks who found out about
us at Zinefest 2009. Romy did an excellent job of promoting.
The Jam runs from 6:30 on August 27th and all artist are invited to
attend. So bring your favorite drawing tools and come on down and draw
a spell.
Description: The San Francisco cell of the International Cartoonist
Conspiracy meets twice a month from on the second and last Thursday of
the month from 6:30-10PM
location: Church St. Cafe. 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 9411
COME AND JOIN OUR GOOGLE GROUP http://groups.google.com/group/cartoonist-conspiracy-sf
OK all. Here is another E-Comic to download and read from the artists at the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco. This was our first attempt to create comics with each panel being a Sticky Note. This process has since been refined at other Jams.
Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
CLICK below to DOWNLOAD the COMIC (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
Well, it’s been a while since your artist pals in San Francisco uploaded some comics for you to read, but today we are going to change that.
This is the ‘Wrestling’ zine we created a few months ago. Artist teamed up and each was responsible for one of the characters and their actions. The process is very much like in 2D drawn animation where each artist/team handles one character only.
To read, click here to download the PDF>> ccsf wrestle zine(web)
And here is the awsome cover by Jaime Crespo
The Cartoon Art Museum bookstore and the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco present:
Sunday August 16, 2009
Where: Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA
When: 11am to 5pm
The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco art group and the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore are proud to present the second Comic Book Art Jam at the Cartoon Art Museum (CAM JAM). The event invites artist of all levels into the Museum’s lobby to create sequential art (i.e. Comics!) and to push their creativity.
Our Goal: To draw complete short comic book stories between 11am and 4pm, then to get them printed at the copy store nearby so artist can take them home.
NOTE: The price per-book cost will not be determined until we know what the final page count is.
Space: There is room for at least 18 artists, but no one will be turned away and every effort will be made to find space.
Optional Theme: Once Upon a Time.
In honor of one of the museums newest exhibit ‘Once Upon a Dream – the Art of Sleeping Beauty’ the theme will be Fairy Tales. Of course who knows if the Three Bears had superpowers or if Hansel and Gretel were secret agents?
Cost: The event is FREE and will be held in the Museums Lobby. All artists who participate in the Jam will get free admission to get into the Museum as well.
Goodie Bag: The CAM bookstore will also offer goodie bags for a $2.00 donation that will include: a bottle of water, sweet treats, ‘mood’ pencil, 15% off coupon, raffle ticket and other surprises.
SCHEDUAL:
11 am – Museum Opens. Bring your comics, portfolio and favorite drawing tools on down and come ready to create.
Warm-up art challenge: To get ready to draw we will have a warm-up art challenge. Inspired by the by the evil fairy Maleficent who is seen in the current exhibit ‘Once Upon a Dream: the art of Sleeping Beauty’ our challenge will be to draw OUR interpretations of the great Disney animated villains. The artwork will be posted in the bookstore afterward and everyone (including the museum guests) can vote on their favorite and the winner will be picked at 4pm. Also, with the artists permission the art will be displayed both in the store as well as used for a Halloween window display.
11:45 am – Let’s get started!
We will regroup into teams of 2-3 artists to create a variety of different art jam collaboration through out the day with a goal to finish our comics by the end of the day.
Lunch Break: Artist can take a break whenever they want with a bag check available at the front desk. The CCSF and Cartoon Art Museum are not responsible for the loss of items.
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3:30 pm – The home stretch to finish our stories by 4 pm.
4 pm – PENCILS UP! Time to stop.
– Members of the CCSF will take the artwork and run it over to a local copy shop to produce some books which (hopefully) will be ready by 5pm at the latest. (See 5pm.)
– We will count up the votes for the Warm-up Art challenge and Contest and pick a winner. You do not have to be present to win.
– Network, Chat and Clean up.
5pm – Mini comics of the days work will be available to the artist at the cost of printing. (We might require the help to assemble the books.)
– After jam drinks and snack at a nearby establishment.
Legal stuff…
*By participating in the Comic Jam you give permission for the CCSF to post your work on-line and to print a one time run of books to be sold to the participating artist at-cost. Extra copies will be sold to the general public as fundraising for the Cartoon Art Museum and CCSF.
RSVP:
If you think you will be joining us, why not drop us an email so we can get an idea of the number of people attending. Email organizer Brian Kolm at theatomicbear@gmail.com with your RSVP and/or questions too.
Cartoonist Conspiracy website: http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cartoonist-conspiracy-sf?hl=en&pli=1
Twitter Updates: http://twitter.com/cartoonistSF/
Facebook: look us up as Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco
Cartoon Art Museum: http://www.cartoonart.org
CAM Bookstore Twitter: http://twitter.com/CAMBookstore
CAM Twitter: http://twitter.com/cartoonart
CAM Bookstore on Facebook: friend Sparky Joe
CAM on Facebook: search for Cartoon Art Museum
Speed Comic Jam
History: First done at the Cartoon Art Museum Comic Jam on May 31, 2009
Idea: The idea of this jam is to work fast. Some of us artist have a habit of getting stuck on our comics projects and spending too much time. The jam produced interesting results and has some different variations. I could see this being a way to develop an idea with out getting stuck. You sort of just try to draw in ‘real time’.
How does it work: The idea of the jam is that each artist only takes a minuet or two to draw each panel We recommend that artist draw with pen since it forces us to not get too careful and work faster. We worked in a format based on Darwin Cookes’ “New Frontier” which features 3 CinemaScope panels per page. The wider panels requite some more details and storytelling sometimes, but also make the project go faster. We made copies of the template and then tapped them up on an easel.
We did the first jam in pencil with four artist, but that seemed to make it harder to follow, but it might be worth a try. See the variations below.
Materials:
– Printed comic templates. You can use any format you like or none at all, but we are not experience with it that way.
– Art materials, we recommended pens. Sharpies work well.
– Two artist at least
– Someone or Something to keep time. Watch, iPhone, Clock Watcher, etc.
– Easel or wall to put up the pages on. I think it’s better to stand and get lots of energy flowing.
– Way to get a random idea. We had printed slips of ideas generated from the website http://seventhsanctum.com/
Sample:
– Tape up 2, 4 or more of printed templates on the easel or the wall. Make sure you won’t damage the wall with your pens of choice.
– Pick one to a couple of random ideas, or just pick them from the audience or non-participating artist.
– Pick who goes first.
– The first artist draws for two minutes (one minutes is harder) the first panel.
– The second artist continues in the second panel.
– The first artist draws the third panel etc.
– Continue to the last panel on the last page. Can you have the story end on the last page?
Here is a sample of some of our jams by way of Flickr.
• This is my Mike Hales and Roberto who alternated panel by panel…
photo by Rick Lucy
• Variation: (below) Each artist drew their panels at the same time, but only on two pages per person. The theme was “Glam Rock Beach Party”…by Brian Kolm and Mike Hales.
photo by Rick Lucy
• Variation: Lots of people.
More then two people draw. One person per panel.
• Variation: Faster or slower. Use less time per panel or more time.
• Variation (not tried yet): Layered.
One person draws on the panel with a light pencil for one/two minutes. Then another artist goes over with ink for one/two minute. Then another artist adds the word balloons. Another adds the background. It really can be any variation mixed with the ideas above.
and You can have it so one artist starts with the first step and goes panel by panel at one/two minutes of time each and then the second person does not start till the first person moves to the next page.
— by Brian Kolm
P.S. please let us know if try this type of Jam and how your experience was.
Well, today 26 people came to the Cartoon Art Museum to create comics and art. Members of the Cartoonist Conspiricy San Francisco joined with the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore for a Comic Jam.
Starting at 11 am artist begin to arrive at the Museum and were given a special custom lanyard while we finished setting up in the Museum’s lobby.
First off, artist were invited to help design the Bookstore’s online persona ‘Sparky Joe.’ Sparky Joe is a mash up of Olive Oyl, Wendy the good little witch, wolf girl from Lil’ Abner, and Disney’s version of Tinkerbell.
At noon we started the comic jams. One table did a series of illustrations that had an adventuring girl over the course of a day. The other table had two groups who worked on comics on Sticky Notes. The Sticky Notes allowed for us to create a collaborative story that can be rearranged and adjusted creating a more solid tale. The jams will be on-line in the next few weeks.
Later in the day we tried something new, Speed Comic Jams. We took pre-printed pages with three cinema scope panels and posted four of them on a tablet on a stand. The first time had each artist taking turns filling in the panels one by one with only one minutes per panel. We drew in pencil with a random theme with the words: Cinderella and Detective Tale. That produced loose rough drawings. The next version had two artist drawing two pages at the same time with two minutes per panel. The theme was Glam Rock Beach party. This time we drew with Sharpie pens which made the artist work simpler and cleaner. We did the challenges a few more times, finially returing to panel by panel at two minutes a time.
Around 4pm we had a few more artist finish some “Sparky Joe” drawings and then at 5pm we all voted along with shoppers in the Bookstore. Manager Heather had a hard time picking from all the designs so this made it easier. In the end there was a three way tie, so we had another round of voting with the winner being artist Audry Soffa (of the web comic the Bunny System) who’s art will be uploaded soon to Facebook.
If you want to be a friend of the Cartroon Art Museum Bookstore, just search Facebook for Sparky Joe or you can follow on Twitter as well.
It seemed that everyone had a really good time and we were really productive. We hope to have some comics on-line soon and look forward to returning to the museum sometime soon.