Category Archives: Altered Esthetics

Ask Not What Your Conspiracy Can Do for You… Call for Volunteers for Lutefisk Sushi Volume E Project

We are looking for a few more volunteers to help us put our upcoming Lutefisk Sushi Volume E event together (reminder… deadline this Saturday September 15th!). Specifically, we are looking for:

– A person to help promote the event online, ideally someone who digs using the social networking stuff the kids seem to like using these days.
– A person to help make signs for the event
– A person to coordinate food for the event

We’ll also want additional help with collating the boxes when the time comes… but it is usually pretty easy to find people for that.

Thanks for considering helping out.

To volunteer, please contact lmcginty(at)alteredesthetics.org

Lutefisk Sushi Volume E Deadline in Less Than Two Weeks!

The Lutefisk Sushi Volume E Deadline is in Less Than Two Weeks!

And, gee… that is really more than enough time to get something together! We’re not building the freaking Taj Mahal, here! I’ve seen mini-comics masterpieces drawn and printed in under eight hours! What the hell are you freaking out about? Don’t make me slap you! I swear, I’ll do it!

We want your mini-comics!*

To participate:
-Draw, print and deliver 160 copies of a mini-comic (any format) to Altered Esthetics before September 15th.
-Show up for the opening gallery celebration November 2nd at Altered Esthetics and have a good time.

That’s it. All submissions are accepted until the unlikely event that we can no longer cram them into a box. Every person who submits 160 mini-comics gets a box.**

Lutefisk Sushi is a hand-silkscreened, limited-edition box set of Minnesota mini-comics. This is the fifth edition… previous editions have contained between 35 and 55 comics each. This year’s featured artist and box-cover creator is Eisner-Award-winning cartoonist Zander Cannon (Double Barrel, Top 10, Chainsaw Vigilante).

Read more about submission details here.

* You must be Minnesotan to particiapte.
** limit one per artist regardless of number of works submitted, and artists who team to create a comic must share a box

VOTE for next year’s featured artist!

Here are the featured artist nominees for next year‘s comic art show. They are all awesome, and I wish they could all win, but…well, we have to choose just one. Voting will take place on the conspiracy message board. The poll will be open for 7 days.

Please only vote if you intend to participate in the project. Note that you do NOT have to be a resident of Minnesota to submit work to the 2013 project.

NOMINEES:

Britt Sabo
Bsabo.com
Xeric-winning cartoonist!

From her website:
“After graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in 2007, she went on to co-author and draw Francis Sharp in the Grip of the Uncanny! with her friend Anna Bratton. They were awarded a Xeric Grant in 2010 to publish this book, and are currently working on the next in the series.”

Dan Murphy
Murphycommadan.com
Musician and illustrator!

From Dan’s bio at Crowded Comics:
“His work has appeared in publications including the City Pages and The Rake. When he’s not drawing, he plays music in a few local bands, and acquires more books than he has shelves for.”

DWITT
Dwitt.com
He does rock posters!

From his website:
“Witt’s illustrations, paintings, and limited edition screen prints have been exhibited around the globe and reproduced in books and publications including The Art of Modern Rock, Gigposters Vol. 1, I Want Your Skull, German collective Bongout’s anthologies, and the series of graphic novels he’s illustrated for Lerner Publishing.

Gordon McAlpin
Multiplexcomic.com
Creator of Multiplex! Illustrator guru!

From the Multiplex website:
“Multiplex is an online comic about the movie-loving and customer-weary staff of your local movie theater. It is written and illustrated by Gordon McAlpin. It has been running continuously since July 2005, and serves over 60,000 unique visitors per month (or over half a million per month).

Click this link and login to vote!!!
http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=5495

WANTED: Featured Artist for 2013 Comic Art Show

Next year’s comic art show at Ae will be the big music project. (Comics Fuckin’ Rock? Big Funky? Just Add Instruments?) The show is slated for November 2013. I know it sounds like it’s a long way off, BUT we need to vote on a featured artist ASAP!

NOMINATE SOMEONE! DO IT TODAY!

Nominations will be open until August 24. Eligibility: Any Minnesota cartoonist who has not already been the featured artist of one of our comic art shows. To nominate a cartoonist, please send the following info to lmcginty(at)alteredesthetics.org:

– The artist’s name
– The artist’s website
– The artist’s email (so I can ask them if they want to run)

If an artist does not wish to be nominated, or does not respond before August 24, they will not be listed as a nominee.

CALENDAR:

August 24: Nominations close
August 25: Voting begins
August 31: Voting closes at midnight
September 1: Winner will be announced

VOTING PROCESS:

As in past years, voting will take place on www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/conspire. Voters must register on the Cartoonist Conspiracy website (it’s free). Voters may vote only once.

Suit Up, then Sushi Up

The next Lutefisk Sushi E meeting will be held at Ae on Wednesday, August 15, at 8:30 pm, immediately after Suit Up–so why not go to both?

DRAW volunteer models in a variety of costumes and poses! SEE Lupi wear something embarrassing! PLAN Lutefisk Sushi with us! Achieve awesomeness!

Altered Esthetics is a non-profit art gallery located in Northeast Minneapolis.
1224 Quincy St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Vote to Determine the Topic of the 2013 Comic Art Show at AE

Here are the proposed possible topics for the 2013 Comic Art show to be held at Altered Esthetics gallery in Minneapolis (based on verbal discussions and the online discussion here). (AE is hosting our Lutefisk Sushi Volume E show this November)

The option with the most votes will be the basis of next year’s project.

Please only vote if you intend to participate in the project. Note that you do NOT have to be a resident of Minnesota to participate in the 2013 project.

Here are the proposed topics:

Comic Music Project: cartoons about or inspired by music, packaged with record or cd

Poster Art Project: posters of huge cartoon canvasses

Public Domain Anthology: cartoon reinterpretations of public domain works (like Grimm fairy tales for example)

Moving Parts Show: Comics with a moving element (like pop-up mechanisms, for example)

Punchline: Anthology of comics about death

Mystery Box: Mysterious limited edition box full of mysterious comics and art.

Voting ends sometime on August 10th. Sometime shortly after that we will be taking nominations and voting on a featured artist for the show.

GO HERE TO VOTE.

Lutefisk Sushi E Planning

Planning is underway for Lutefisk Sushi E, and we could use a couple more volunteers! If you want to be part of the planning process, come to our next meeting on Wednesday August 1, at 9pm at Altered Esthetics. If you can’t make the meeting, but still want to help, email me at lmcginty[at]alteredesthetics.org and I’ll give you something to do.

Altered Esthetics is a non-profit art gallery located in Northeast Minneapolis.
1224 Quincy St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Altered Esthetics 2013 Comic Art Project

Altered Esthetics gallery, our collaborators on numerous projects including the upcoming Lutefisk Sushi Volume E show, needs us to figure out what we want to do for the 2013 comic art show they will be hosting.

Here is a forum thread for discussing the possibilities.

A few possible options to get the discussion started:

1) Comic poster art show
2) Book anthology on a theme
3) “Mystery box” of mini-comics and other mysterious strangeness

Please only suggest ideas you are interested in actively helping make a reality. Thanks for participating!