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24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis Starts at 9AM Tomorrow! (Saturday October 1st)

September 30, 201124 Hour Comics, event, Events, Minneapolis, mnSTWALLSKULL

Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.

I hope you’re already asleep in preparation!

Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.

Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.

Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!

Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!

24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
in the gallery, flexi space (after 12:30 on Saturday), and bindery (until 9am Sunday)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520

Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?

Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.

The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog

Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.

Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.

Special New Supply Try-Out Jam at Wet Paint This Thursday!

September 27, 2011event, Events, jam, Jam ComicsSTWALLSKULL

We’re having a special extra jam this Thursday at Wet Paint in St. Paul, as part of their Celebration of Sketching event. They will have new supplies for folks to try out and experiment with. The fun starts at 5:30, and goes until 7:30. Hope to see you all there!

24 Hour Comics Day is This Weekend! Come to the Minneapolis Event!

September 27, 201124 Hour Comics, event, Events, Minneapolis, mn, OpportunitiesSTWALLSKULL

24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!

Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.

UPDATES:

Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.

Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.

Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!

Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!

24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM

Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?

Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.

The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog

Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.

Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.

RIP Dylan Williams

September 17, 2011Good CausesSTWALLSKULL

Sparkplug Comics publisher and cartoonist Dylan Williams recently passed away from cancer at the age of 41. There are tributes to him at a number of places around the web… Zak Sally’s is particularly moving. I did not know Mr. Williams, but I’ve had the good fortune to appreciate a number of the comics he published, and he certainly leaves behind quite an impressive and passionate legacy. A benefit to help with his hospital expenses was started before he died… and his family obviously still needs help with this. Please consider helping by donating artwork to an ongoing benefit auction or buying Sparkplug books.

Reminder: Rain Taxi Brings Craig Thompson to MCAD to Speak September 26th

September 17, 2011event, EventsSTWALLSKULL

Info at Rain Taxi here.

CRAIG THOMPSON
Monday, September 26, 2011, 7:00 pm
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Auditorium
2501 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis
Click here for directions

Acclaimed graphic novelist Craig Thompson returns from a seven-year hiatus this fall with the publication of Habibi, an epic romance that investigates the history of religion and storytelling. Habibi is a hugely anticipated release that Thompson says looks at Islam the way his previous graphic novel, Blankets, looks at Christianity. Blankets was once banned from some libraries, and Habibi is expected to be no less controversial and no less enthusiastically received as a watershed moment in the art form of comics.

At this special Twin Cities appearance, Thompson will give a visual presentation and discussion of his work. Not to be missed!

. . . his brilliantly realized artwork transforms whatever potential for triteness lies in his message into profundity. . . . Goodbye, Chunky Rice is a heartfelt masterpiece.
â€”Rain Taxi Review of Books

Blankets magically recreates the high emotional stakes of adolescence. Thompson has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth.
â€”Time Magazine

Craig Thompsonâ€™s previous graphic novels include Blankets (for which he received three Harvey Awards for Best Artist, Best Graphic Album of Original Work, and Best Cartoonist; and two Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist); Goodbye, Chunky Rice; and Carnet de Voyage. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Twin Cities Zinefest is Next Weekend (Saturday, September 24th)!

September 17, 2011conventions, event, Events, Festivals, Opportunities, ZinefestSTWALLSKULL

Get the scoop on Zinefest on their site here!

Note that a number of Conspirators will be exhibiting there.

Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives at The University of Iowa October 5th-8th

September 17, 2011conventions, event, Events, FestivalsSTWALLSKULL

Yesterday, I heard for the first time about a pretty amazing-sounding event happening in Iowa City, Iowa October 5th-8th that I suspect some of you may be interested in attending (note Minneapolis folks that Iowa City is a 5 hour drive). The University of Iowa is putting on a three day symposium on comics called Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Comics luminaries on the guest list include Gilbert Hernandez, Jamie Hernandez, Pheobe Glockner, Joe Sacco, Craig Yoe, John Porcellino, Jessica Abel, James Sturm, Gary Groth and Peggy Burns, as well as a number of comics scholars and historians.

You can see the schedule for the symposium here.

There are other comics-related events happening in Iowa city before and after the symposium.

Here in an article about the event.

POM POM POM

September 8, 201124 Hour Comics, event, Events, Minneapolis, mn, St. PaulSTWALLSKULL

Do you hear that?

There is less than a month until 24 Hour Comics Day!

Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.

We better get some sleep!

24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520

Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?

Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.

Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.

Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.

Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.

Zander Cannon is the Featured Artist for Lutefisk Sushi Volume E!

September 6, 2011Lutefisk Sushi, mnSTWALLSKULL

Few people realize that Zander Cannon is actually only eight inches tall!

We voted the other week to pick who would be the featured artist for Lutefisk Sushi Volume E, and Zander Cannon won in a close race (thanks to everyone who participated). Congratulations Zander! Zander, if you do not know, is an Eisner-Award winning cartoonist whose best-known work includes The Replacement God, Top Ten, Smax, and numerous non-fiction graphic novels with his partner Kevin Cannon at Big Time Attic. Zander has around 20 years of professional cartooning under his belt… it is going to be hard to pick what pieces to feature in the exhibit. Next year will also be the debut of Zander’s wonderful romp into Hell, Heck! from Top Shelf Comix.

Lutefisk Sushi Volume E will be debuting November 2012 at Altered Esthetics gallery in Nordeast Minneapolis. As with the four previous Lutefisk Sushi shows it will feature a big, limited-edition bento box of handmade mini-comics by Minnesota cartoonists. The cover will be hand-silkscreened with a design by Zander Cannon. Any resident of Minnesota is welcome to contribute their mini-comics to be included in the box… watch this site for details.