This is from last Friday, Feb 28 2008. Visit the official photo to see notes on who all was there.
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Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco jam Thursday February 28th
The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco is meeting is this coming Thursday February 28th! Bring your favorite drawing tools and come and draw with us. It’s challenging! It’s fun! AND It won’t get you arrested!
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 28th, 2008
Where: Church St. Cafe
Description: The San Francisco cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy meets twice a month from on the second and last Thursday of the month from 6-10PM at Church St. Cafe. Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Transit info for San Francisco can be found here: transitinfo.org
Here is where we are: (the green cabin is the café and the blue markers are MUNI bus stations)
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WONDERCON 2008 begins tomorrow!
Wondercon 2008 beings in down town San Francisco CA tomorrow afternoon. There will be comic books, video games, artist and writers. You can check them out HERE on the official site. It’s gonna be fun.
WonderCon celebrates its 22nd year as Northern California’s most popular comics and pop culture event with a return to Moscone Center South on February 22-24, 2008. The February date solidifies WonderCon’s status as the first major convention of the year in the United States.
Valentines Day comic jam in San Francisco
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
Where: Church St. Cafe
Description: The San Francisco cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy meets twice a month from on the second and last Thursday of the month from 6-10PM at Church St. Cafe. Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Transit info for San Francisco can be found here: transitinfo.org
Here is where we are: (the green cabin is the café and the blue markers are MUNI bus stations)
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See "Independents" and meet Windy Pini (Elf Quest) Tuesday February 12 7-9pm
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
Remembering the Self Publishing Movement essays at Boneville.com
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.
Frank Cartoons
Jim Woodring’s Frank the Cat comes to life from a collection of animated shorts from some talented folks in Japan. (via Cartoon Brew) It’s always fun to see how others interpret someones art through animation.
VISIONS OF FRANK collects 8 wild Frank animations made by some of Japan’s most innovative and idiosyncratic filmmakers: Taruto Fuyama, Eri Yoshimura,art unit COCOA,DROP INC., Masaki Naito,Kanako Kawaguchi, Naomi Nagata. Each piece is an interpretation of a classic Frank comic and is scored by musicians from Japan and the USA. The films run the gamut of animation techniques: 3DCG, paper craft, clay, iron sand and traditional cel 2D. These original and imaginative expressions present anew the world of JW as seen through each filmmaker’s eyes. For each animation, you are able to choose between the original music and the newly composed music by other musicians. Participating musicians include James McNew (from Yo La Tengo), The Coctails, Dame Darcy, Kicell, Milk Yabe, and others. Comes with 16-page booklet with a reprinted Frank comic and introductions to the animators and musicians. As a bonus Woodring’s own animated WHIM-GRINDER is included, with a live soundtrack composed and recorded by Bill Frisell at a performance of Mysterio Simpatico.
I think it would be cool to have someone animate my characters, what do you guys think?
Creig Flessel at the Cartoon Art Museum starting February 2nd,2008
The Cartoon Art Museum is honored to celebrate the life and work of cartoonist Creig Flessel with a special exhibition opening on Flessel’s 96th birthday, February 2, 2008. The exhibition will include over 30 examples from Flessel’s long creative career, including original comic book artwork from the 1930s, newspaper advertisements from the 1950s, comic strips from the 1960s, Playboy cartoons from the 1980s and recent commissioned artwork from the 1990s onward.
Mr. Flessel created both the Sandman as well as the Shining Knight who are still part of the DC Comics Universe. The San Francisco Chronicle has a list of 11 things about the artist HERE.
Mr. Flessel is still doing art as well, check out this nice drawing he did for the late cartoonist Phil Frank when he was in the hospital. If I can only be so lucky to create art half as good when I am 96 years old.
San Francisco Jam – Thursday January 31st
The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco is calling all Bay Area Artist to come and draw with us. Our next meeting is this coming Thursday January 31st, 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 January 10, 2008 and Thursday January 31, 2008.
Where: Church St. Cafe
Description: The San Francisco cell of the International Cartoonist Conspiracy meets twice a month from on the second and last Thursday of the month from 6-10PM at Church St. Cafe. Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Transit info for San Francisco can be found here: transitinfo.org
Here is where we are: (the green cabin is the café and the blue markers are MUNI bus stations)
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Story ‘Corpses’
At the last CCSF meeting (Thursday Jan 10, 2008), Mike Hales suggested we try an advanced version of the Exsquisite Corpse drawing game. I am calling this version the Story Corpse since it uses both words and pictures. But to find out more about how to play this creative game, lets let Mr. Hales explain.
Well, they’ve been called “greatest game in the world” by a one Shadow Zeneth, but it’s really just a mash up of several exquisite corpse games.
Here’s the order in which one would play this game:
– First half of sentence, pass
– second half of somebody else’s sentence (no looking), pass
– interpret full sentence with a drawing, pass
– (looking at just the picture) interpret drawing with words. A sentence or poem, or paragraph. Pass.
– (looking at just words) interpret words into a drawing)This is a great exercise for those who are uncomfortable drawing, or writing. Best with 4 or 5 people. Even better when highly caffeinated or slightly inebriated.
Cheers!
Now lets look at two of the final stories. (click for bigger images)
