All posts by STWALLSKULL

About STWALLSKULL

Learn more about Stwallskull here: http://www.stwallskull.com

Kickstart Altered Esthetics’ Calendar, Become a Master of Time

Altered Esthetics, Good Causes, Kickstarter

Hey! Are you looking for a cool art calendar for your wall next year for less than the price of a pair of chattering teeth?

Please consider supporting Altered Esthetics’ Kickstarter campaign to print their 2012 calendar (disclaimer: the campaign ends in three days, none of which will be included on the calendar).

It will feature art by the brilliant Zander Cannon, among others. Zander will be the featured artist for Lutefisk Sushi Volume E, the fifth box set of Minnestota mini-comics put together by The International Cartoonist Conspiracy (in collaboration for the last two volumes with Altered Esthetics… who also collaborated with us on Just Add Ink, Big Funny, and Alley Cat among other things).

Unlike inferior digital calendars, this one can also serve to cover the unsightly holes you punched in your wall.

Altered Esthetics is not only unarguably the single greatest art gallery in the entire world that there has ever been, but it is also a non-profit, community-centered art gallery that does a tremendous amount to support not only artists, but cartoonists, in the Twin Cities area!

You’re only a Lincoln away from mastering time in 2012. If Lincoln had only had one of these, perhaps the ugly night in Ford’s Theater could have been avoided completely.

Jam and NE Comics Summit Tonight! Thursday October 6, 2011

event, Events, jam

TONIGHT!

Summit No. 7: The Secret Language of People

Info on the Northeast Comics Jam here.

TIME: 6 – 6:30 pm (right before the Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam)

LOCATION: 1618 Central Ave NE, Ste. 216, Nordeast MPLS

Then the jam 6:30-?

The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.

Afterwards, please join us to draw some 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.

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

24 Hour Comics, event, Events, Minneapolis, mn



24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!

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.

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

24 Hour Comics, event, Events, Minneapolis, mn, Opportunities



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

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.

RIP Dylan Williams

Good Causes

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

event, Events

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.
—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.
—Time Magazine

Craig Thompson’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.