Mpls April 2013

Hey All!

The “Big Book of Space Sheriff & Happy Space Boy” Graphic Novel is complete! I’ll be debuting this HUGE book at the upcoming @MNCBA SpringCon (May 18th – 19th). Advanced digital and print copies and  are available through my website, www.spacesheriff.com

Twitter: @dataredcomics

Space Sheriff and Happy Space Boy Big Book Graphic Novel

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.

Come on down to the open studio on Saturday, March 30, at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Meet, talk, and draw with a few of your fellow cartoonists. We’ll be at the bindery (high tables).

The coffee shop will be open. There are outlets for your devices, plus coffee-shop wi-fi.

There is free parking in the MCBA lot immediately east of the building. If the lot is full, go for the meter parking on 3rd Street (one block south of Washington Ave.) for 25 cents an hour, or on the other streets for more than 25 cents an hour.

This is an open studio — all are welcome. Feel free to hang, draw, or whatever.

Saturday, March 30, from noon to 4 pm, at the bindery (high tables)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(just west of Big Brain Comics)
Minneapolis, 1011 Washington Ave. South

http://www.mnbookarts.org/

612-215-2520

Future Saturday Open Studios:
April 27: flexi-space (low tables)
May and beyond: TBD

Here are some photos from the Minneapolis Mini-Comics Day event at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis. Thanks to everyone who participated! Many delightful and ambitious mini-comics were made… you can see pictures of some of them below.

Thanks also to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts for being such fantastic hosts, and to Wet Paint for bringing the wonderful art material sample bags for participants!

Male Interior by Dan Murphy

Happy Endings by Azìsa Moor

The Van by Matt Reints

Nipples the Clown “Looks for a Job” by Mike Toft

Plotz #3 by Stwalley

Go here to read Nick Straight’s wonderful untitled mini-comic.

If anyone else from the event posts their comic online, let me know and I’ll get it added on the Mini-Comics Day website.

Come on down to the open studio on Saturday, March 30, at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Meet, talk, and draw with a few of your fellow cartoonists. We’ll be at the bindery (high tables).

The coffee shop will be open. There are outlets for your devices, plus coffee-shop wi-fi.

There is free parking in the MCBA lot immediately east of the building. If the lot is full, go for the meter parking on 3rd Street (one block south of Washington Ave.) for 25 cents an hour, or on the other streets for more than 25 cents an hour.

This is an open studio — all are welcome. Feel free to hang, draw, or whatever.

Saturday, March 30, from noon to 4 pm, at the bindery (high tables)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(just west of Big Brain Comics)
Minneapolis, 1011 Washington Ave. South

http://www.mnbookarts.org/

612-215-2520

Future Saturday Open Studios:
April 27: flexi-space (low tables)
May and beyond: TBD

More information here.

Thanks again to Athena Currier for the wonderful poster for the event.

St Paul March 13

Hello. Mike “Brain Food” Toft here. I just watched this BBC documentary about R. Crumb from 1987 that’s worth a look. Crumb wrote it himself, so I assume it’s showing him the way he wanted to be shown.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_confessions_of_robert_crumb.html

It’s not that much new information if you’ve seen “Crumb” (1994), but still worth checking out. This Open Culture web site looks interesting, too. You’re welcome.