Now available for download — Pizza, the jam comic produced at the February 7000 BC meeting.

The St. Paul cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy meets again one week from today, and they need your help to decide the subject of the jam comic they will draw at that meeting.

Go here:

http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2589&sid=974b2cdfd188e526a79fe66db5e3a7e7

to view the five suggested jam comic subjects and cast a vote for your favorite.

CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY GALLERY TOPIC FOR FEBRUARY: UNDISCOVERED CRYPTIDS

I just set up a public image sharing group for us on the photo-sharing site flickr. A preview of images appear on the right side of our group blog and on the top of our gallery page. Anyone with a flickr account should be able to join the group and start posting.
Please Note that flickr has been known to shut down accounts that feature nothing but illustration for some unfathomable reason, so you will want to post some photos on your account when you start it to avoid this happening. Also, note that they don’t make images from an account public until you have four or five images posted.

We’re also going to have suggested topics for the gallery each month… we’ll vote on them on the message board after this month. Go here to suggest and vote on a topic for March. This month’s topic is UNDISCOVERED CRYPTIDS. It is only a suggested topic, though. Feel free to post images on that subject, or any other subject you wish.

In spite of its shortcomings, hopefully this will become a fun public gallery for the Conspiracy… I look forward to seeing your cartoons!

Calling all single Cartoonist! Calling all single Cartoonist! This valentines day celebrate romance by…DRAWING COMICS.

The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco is meeting is this coming Thursday February 14th, so bring your favorite drawing tools and come on down.

We meet on the second and last Thursday of each month at the Church St. Café from 6:30 pm to sometimes between 9 and 10 pm.

WHEN: Thursday February 14th, 2008

Here is where we are: (the green cabin is the café and the blue markers are MUNI bus stations)

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Breakin Hearts | Saturday, Feb 16th |
6 pm-midnight | UNM Student Union Building Grand Ballroom | Albuquerque, NM

7000 BC will once again have a table at Breakin Hearts, Albuquerque’s hip-hop festival, this weekend on Saturday, February 16. A larger venue with plenty of activities (including afternoon workshops) will make this their biggest and best yet. Look for Fakin’ The Funk and other comics from local creators at the 7000 BC table.

This just came in from Andrew Farago at the Cartoon Art Museum…

We’ll be screening comic-book documentary film Independents at the Cartoon Art Museum this Tuesday, February 12 from 7-9pm. Director/Fillmmaker Chris Brandt will be on hand for a Q&A session, and we’ll also be featuring a brief live-and-in-person interview with Wendy Pini, creator of the classic indie comic Elfquest. They will be interviewed by manga authority Deb Aoki after the film. Admission is only $5, and the event is free to Cartoon Art Museum members.

Best,
Andrew Farago
Gallery Manager
Cartoon Art Museum

Cartoon Art Museum Event: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm

$5 General Public, Free for Cartoon Art Museum Members

Please click on these links for more information:

http://cartoonart.livejournal.com/8106.html

http://manga.about.com/b/2008/02/08/212-sf-event-wendy-pini-independents-at-cartoon-art-museum.htm

At the risk of sacrificing some of the spontaneity of the jam comics produced every third Thursday by the St. Paul cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy, I’ve asked anyone who cares to, to suggest a topic for the February 21, 2008 jam comic.

The talented Jeff Smith has asked his collegues who were involved with the Self Published comics movement in the 80’s and 90’s to write about there experiences on his boneville.com blog.

Jeff writes….

In the weeks that follow, I’ll be posting guest blogs from people who were there, like Colleen Doran, Larry Marder, Paul Pope, Terry Moore, Charles Brownstein, and others. I am currently extending invitations to newer indie cartoonists and professionals working now in the current era of web comics, indie comics, and graphic novels.

As I read the essays coming in, I’m reminded how much fun we had analyzing the industry and the comics community, and making up rules as we went along. But I’m also reminded how difficult it was. Our credo was to own and control your work. Something that isn’t as easy as you might think.

First up is an essay from the creator of A Distant Soil, Colleen Doran. It’s an excellent and fascinating read.

At our most recent SFCC meeting, we created a series of cartoons that were inspired by the popular “Fail” meme. This was a great challenge and everyone seemed to enjoy the challenge. You can see all of our fail comics in this flickr set.