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Sat. Open Studio, June 6, noon-4 p.m.

[Cartoonist moving]

Summertime. And the drawing surface is sticky. Hey, you don’t have to sweat over your artwork on Saturday. Join us for some air-conditioned drawing and socializing at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. (Sorry, but you do have to wear a shirt.)

Sat., June 6, noon to 4 p.m., MCBA Flexi-space (the low tables)

Join us at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and draw for a while. If you can’t find us in the MCBA building, ask the friendly person working in the MCBA bookstore. This is an open studio — all are welcome.

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

Future Sat. Open Studio schedule:
July 11 Bindery (high tables)
August 1 Flexi-Space (low tables)

CCCC Comic Book Show (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

Is anybody interested in showing at the 2009 CCCC show in Winnipeg, CA? I’ve signed up and if someone else was interested in ride-sharing, I would be happy to have him/her along to split gas and lodging. The Artist Tables are free of charge and they provide snacks to the artists. email “Maria” to get yourself setup; her email is: cencon@mts.net. You will need a passport to get into Canada. Damn Terrorists.

-Spanky Cermak
Data Red Comics (Space Sheriff)
www.spacesheriff.com
justin.datared@gmail.com

Mpls Conspiracy intrudes on ART-A-WHIRL

    See this coffee shop? Its called Diamonds(http://www.diamondscoffeeshoppe.com/) . Its where the MPLS cell holds it’s monthly meeting.  It’s also where this weekend we will be having a “gallery show”, promoting our group, drawing, and selling our various comics during Northeast Minneapolis’ annual ART-A-WHIRL (www.nemaa.org).

     We will be in the hallway BEHIND Diamonds doing the above mentioned drawing and selling.  We’ll be ther:

     Friday from 5-10pm, Saturday from 12-8pm, and Sunday from 12-5pm.

     Stop by and say “Hey” on your whirly tour of Minneapolis art.

     Diamonds Coffee Shoppe
     1618 Central Avenue Northeast
     Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mpls. Sat. Open Studio, May 9, noon to 4 p.m.

[Cartoonist moving]

Done with your Big Funny project? Come and celebrate at this month’s Saturday Open Studio. Or you could work on your Mother’s Day card. Don’t forget Mom! Or you could just stop by to draw and chat.

Sat., May 9, noon to 4 p.m., MCBA Flexi-space (the low tables)

Join us at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and draw for a while. If you can’t find us in the MCBA building, ask the friendly person working in the MCBA bookstore. This is an open studio — all are welcome.

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

Future Sat. Open Studio schedule:
June 6 Flexi-Space (low tables)
July 11 Bindery (high tables)
August 1 Flexi-Space (low tables)

SFCC – collaborations: arm wrestling, dancing and more!

CCSF San Francisco comic jams

Last Thursdays meeting of the Cartoonist Conspircy in San Francisco was a new challenge for us. Following the lead of member Miromi, we did some arm wrestling and dancing. Well our drawings did that is.

Miromi writes:

Here are arm wrestling experiments that mutated into singing and dancing adventures from the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco jams as well as the Rock Paper Scissors Zine Workshops. The activity of making comics is a loner’s world, and collaborations don’t occur so often. It’s a joy to be able to jam with other artists when the opportunity arises much the same way musicians jam…

Miromi provided us with Xeroxed simple backgrounds with lots of blank space that two to three people would add characters too. So one person would draw their character and then pass the drawing to someone else to add another character. Through back and forth working scenes and stories formed that were really fun. The process resembled classic 2D animation key-frames in many ways. To the inspiration from France: http://www.succursale.org/championnat/

You can see our work as a slideshow on Flickr with a zine hopfully coming soon. There is also a link to a jam at the Rock paper Sissors coop as well.

It’s best to watch these as a slideshow, although flickr has some fine thumbnailng on the set as well.

KEN AVIDOR vs. THE WORLD

Our Dear Avidor
Our Dear Avidor

Here’s an amusing little tale that features beloved Conspirator Ken Avidor ( http://www.roadkillbill.com ):
http://www.citypages.com/2009-04-29/news/dan-lacey-s-bizarre-pancake-paintings-land-him-fame-beyond-gawker/

It also features on page two the cover to this here Minneapolis Conspiracy jam from 2007:

Click to access mnjam050307.pdf

More Avidor fun:
www.dumpbachmann.com

Keep up the rage, Ken!

7000 BC at Denver ComicFest 2009

ComicFest 2009 | April 17-19 | , 6:00-10:00 pm; 10:00 am-6:00 pm; 10:00 am-6:00 pm | Hilton Garden Inn Denver Downtown | Denver, CO

7000 BC is happy to be a part of ComicFest 2009, the inaugural comics event in Denver. It’s a part of Starfest, a convention encompassing all aspects of popular media, film and television.

Jeff and Bram will be participating in the Local Creator Spotlight on Friday night at 7:00, talking with other regional self-publishers. And all weekend long, we’ll be featuring comics from group members at the 7000 BC table in the Dealer Room.

string #13

Now available for download — the latest issue of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC.

Download a PDF of string #13 and check out future issues every month. Among other things in this jam-tastic installment, Adan and Shirl make their first appearances and The Darkness From Warsaw concludes (now available in trade paperback).

Previous issues: string #1 | string #2 | string #3 | string #4 | string #5| string #6 | string #7 | string #8 | string #9 | string #10 | string#11 | string #12