Now available for download — the latest issue of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC.
Download a PDF of string #14 and check out future issues every month. In with all the other independent comic goodness, Circe presents the first part of her first story, Dahlia contemplates a tattoo, and you, too, can learn how to make a voodoo dollie.
7000 BC is once again pleased to participate in the UNM Young Writers Conference on Saturday, June 6 at University of New Mexico’s Student Union Building. Pete and Shirl will be leading the Comic Book Scripting workshop from 10:15-11:45, teaching the fundamentals of writing for sequential art.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts will be hosting an exhibition of zines titled
³Independent Variables: Contemporary Zine Publications² from June 26 to
September 6, 2009 in the Open Book Lobby Gallery.
To participate in this exhibition, work must be received by 5 pm June 26. It
may be dropped off at MCBA¹s Shop desk or mailed (MCBA, attn: Jeff
Rathermel, 1011 Washington Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55415). Please include
contact information with your submission, including an email address.
Note: Work will handled by the public and will be fastened to the wall by a
cord. This may involve drilling into the publication to make a hole for
fastening. Do not submit work you are not willing to have altered and
handled by multiple readers. Works should weigh a pound or less.
We will do our best to exhibit all work submitted. Multiple works by a
single artist are permitted. If the number of submissions is great, the
number of works exhibited by a single artist will be limited.
Work will be available for pick up at the Shop desk the week following the
show. Work will not be returned by mail. Items not picked up by Sept 11,
2009 will be added to the MCBA archives and used for educational purposes.
If you have questions, please email Jeff Rathermel, MCBA¹s Artistic
Director, at jrathermel (at) mnbookarts.org.
June Meeting and Comics-making Workshop | Saturday, June 13 | 1:00-3:00 | Warehouse 21 | Santa Fe, NM
The June 7000 BC meeting will be held at Warehouse 21 and combined with a comics-making workshop. We’ll begin around 1:00 (so that anyone coming from Albuquerque can take the Rail Runner) with the basics, and then move on to getting participants creating their comics with assistance from the group. Around 3:00 we’ll head out for food, probably to Second Street Brewery.
The workshop is free and new members are always welcome. Send an email with any questions.
Summertime. And the drawing surface is sticky. Hey, you don’t have to sweat over your artwork on Saturday. Join us for some air-conditioned drawing and socializing at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. (Sorry, but you do have to wear a shirt.)
Sat., June 6, noon to 4 p.m., MCBA Flexi-space (the low tables)
Join us at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and draw for a while. 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 Studio schedule:
July 11 Bindery (high tables)
August 1 Flexi-Space (low tables)
    In addition to a shorter jam this month, we will also be taking part in the http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/ project where an artist does a recreation of a comic cover. ANY comic cover, not just the “classics” like AMAZING FANTASY #15 or something.
      The guidelines are pretty simple to follow if you want to submit your cover to be posted on the Covered blog (http://www.robertgoodin.com/submission.html).
     Bring one(or more) of your favorite covers to redo, or to share with the group (yes, everyone gets their comics back). Other comics will be there to parooze as well if you forget to bring one. 11×17 paper will also be provided, but feel free to bring any kind of drawing surface you prefer.
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).
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.
Big Time Attic hosts our monthly jam meetings at Diamond’s… they will be supplying us with a big old plate of pastries or something. Thanks fellas!
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