Well the San Diego Comic-Con promises to be the biggest ever with Saturday and 4-day passes all ready SOLD-OUT! What Cartoon Conspirators will be heading to San Diego this week to join in the craziness?
If you are going to the Convention, why not comment and let us know. Make sure to put your booth number down so others know where to find you.
See you guys down there.
OK folks, time for all those cartoonist in the Bay Area to come on out and make comics! With easy access from public transportation, the jam at the Muddy Waters/Church St. Café is a great way to come together and create!
Just check out our awesome flyer designed by Mike Hales:
We’ll be finishing up the Bunnies vs. Robot story and starting a new comic tale. We’ll also be challenging ourself to ink Jack Kirby’s Thor as Doc Popular has done.
To get to the jam by way of public transportation:
From BART outside of SF:
Take BART into San Francisco getting off at one of the first four down town stations (Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, or Civic Center). You can get a MUNI $.25 discount coupon before exiting the station. Then you can take…
Underground MUNI OUTBOUND lines L,M,K,or T to Church St. Or you can also take the OUTBOUND J line and get off at Church and Market (by the big Safeway right after you emerge from the underground). Muddy Waters/Church St. Café are about a block away.
NOTE: The Church St. Station closes early at 9pm. Check with 511.org for exact details.
OR take the F line that runs along Market St. going away from the embarcadero plaza. Get off at the stop where Market and Church cross.
On Thursday May 31, 2007 San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell will be having our Comic Jam at the Church St. Café (formally called Muddy Waters Café). NOTE: The address on the calendar (on the sidebar) shows it at Cafe International, this is wrong.
The meetings are on the second and last Thursday of the month.e International, this is wrong. Folks start arriving around 6:30 to 7:00 pm and we usually hang around till 9-10 depending on how folks are feeling.
Work continues on the Epic battle between Robots and Bunnies. WHO WILL WIN?
The location can easily be reached from BART/MUNI.
For more information, comments, questions …. e-mail Doc Popular.
BE THERE OR WELL SHOW THEM THOSE EMBARRASSING PICTURES!!
On Thursday May 31, 2007 San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell will be having our Comic Jam at Muddy Waters Café. The meetings are on the second and last Thursday of the month. Folks start arriving around 6:30 to 7:00 pm and we usually hang around till 9-10 depending on how folks are feeling.
We are continuing to work on a exciting jam comic that combines a loose story outline with panel to panel collaboration. It features BOTH bunny and robots, so you know it’s going to be good. It’s coming along really nice, but we need some more help. So if you are an artist who wants to come out and Jam, we’ll be pleased to have you join us.
The location can easily be reached from BART/MUNI.
The new location is:
For more information, comments, questions …. e-mail Doc Popular.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
On Thursday May 10, 2007 San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell will be having our semi-weekly Muddy Waters Café. Folks start arriving around 6:30 to 7:00 pm and we usually hang around till 9-10 depending on how folks are feeling. We would love to have any Bay Area folks come on by and Jam with us.
The location can easily be reached from BART/MUNI.
The new location is:
For more information, comments, questions …. e-mail Doc Popular.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
On Thursday April 12, 2007 San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell will be having our next gathering at a new location, Muddy Waters Café. This will be the last JAM before APE so it’s a good time to get feedback on your in-progress books and mini-comics before you put them into production.
The new location can easily be reached from BART/MUNI. The café is funky and high-energy and they stay open past 9pm (till 11).
The new location is:
For more information, comments, questions …. e-mail Doc Popular.
Linda Medley, the artist and creator of the comic book Castle Waiting has posted an interesting review of the Ackerman Pens’ Pump Pen (One Fussy and Messy Little Pen! Is It Worth It?). Linda gives a detailed review that should be great reading for any artist interested in different drawing tools , especially those interested in classic dip/nib pens. She illustrates the review with examples she created with the pen for her current in progress comic book.
She also includes a section Make your on DIY Pump Pen.
You can read it HERE.
There is a Cartoon Jam in San Francisco tonight starting at6:30 pm. It will be at Cafe International on Height st, so bring your drawing materials and jam with us.
WE NEED YOUR JAM ART: if you have pages, corpses and other art created at the SF-Cell Jams please bring it tonight so that we can figure out what to use for our APE publication(s).
Meet:
Start at 6:30
address: 508 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117-3407View Map
4155527390
The Cartoon Art Museum will have a benefit and opening on the first day of Wondercon 2007, March 2. The show features 12 artist and the worlds they have created through their art. The cost for those who are attending Wondercon and have their badge with them (and museum members too) is only $5.00. Thats a savings of $1 on the regular admission and you also get to have some refreshments, meet some talented artist, and help a unique institution.
From the website:
February 24 – June 17, 2007
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 2 from 8:00 to 11:00pmA great comic builds a world for its readers. Whether it’s futuristic adventure or medieval fantasy, the farthest reaches of reality or a someplace tantalizingly close to home, comics offer an escape into an unforgettable world. The Cartoon Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Worlds of Wonder, explores twelve different comic-book and comic-strip illustrators and the worlds built from their imaginations. Their work runs the gamut of fantasy, science fiction, folk legend, magical realism, and stories almost too good to be the truth.
Featured artists include Charlie Adlard (Astronauts in Trouble: 1959), Tom Beland (True Story Swear To God), Mark Buckingham & Steve Leialoha (Fables), Gene Colan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Pia Guerra (Y The Last Man), Shepherd Hendrix (Stagger Lee), Kevin Huizenga (Ganges), Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Linda Medley (Castle Waiting), Lark Pien (Long Tail Kitty, Flight), and Gene Yang & Thien Pham (Three Angels).
Many of the featured artists will be appearing at San Francisco’s two major comic conventions, WonderCon and The Alternative Press Expo (APE). For more information on these events, please visit Comic-Con International’s official website, www.comic-con.org
The opening reception for Worlds of Wonder will be held on Friday, March 2, 2007, from 8:00 to 11:00pm. Admission to this ticketed event is $10 to the general public and $5 for members of the Cartoon Art Museum and any WonderCon attendee (with WonderCon badge). Many of the featured artists and special WonderCon guests will be in attendance. Please check back for special updates as the convention approaches.
The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco is having there next Creators Meeting on Tuesday Jan 23 (tomorrow).
CAM Creators’ Group Meeting: Tuesday, January 23, 7-9pm
The next Cartoon Art Museum Creators’ Group Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 23 from 7pm to 9pm. The subject of this month’s meeting is Anthologies. Confirmed guest speakers so far include:
Shaenon Garrity, editor of Moderntales.com, contributor to multiple Friends of Lulu anthologies
Justin Hall, contributor to Boy Trouble, True Porn and other anthologies
Shannon O’Leary, editor of Pet Noir
Nate Orman, editor of The MadHappys
(with one or two more to be added shortly)The Cartoon Art Museum hosts Creators’ Group meetings of local cartoonists four to six times a year, featuring guest speakers on a variety of topics ranging from self-publishing and self-promotion to tax advice and grant writing.
These meetings are open to comic creators of all skill levels, and represent an opportunity for artists in the Bay Area to meet and interact with others in the creative community. Past topics of discussion include preparation for conventions, webcomics, tax advice for cartoonists and animation. The suggested donation for these meetings is $3.
To receive more information about these meetings and other events for local cartoonists, please e-mail Cartoon Art Museum Gallery Manager Andrew Farago at gallery@cartoonart.org
These events are put together by Andrew Farago who also has a new on-line strip: The Chronicles of William Bazillion