This last weekend was the Maker Faire in San Mateo, and the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy was there running a jam comic.

Our table, which was located in the big expo room (close to Yahoo!’s booth), was filled with pencils, pens, and paper. Cartoonist Conspiracy members answered questions from some of the Faire’s 40,000 attendees and tried to encourage as many of them as possible to create a panel for the Maker Jam Comic. Jeff Plotkin and I started at 10 am on Saturday morning with 10 blank pages, and by 5pm on the following Sunday we had 9 and a half finished pages (not to mention the cover and autograph page).

I estimate that we had over 30 artists sit and draw with us, and I think the resulting jam is pretty good. In terms of promoting comics and our local Cartoonist Conspiracy cell [which has it’s next meeting on Thursday May 31st at Muddy Waters in the Castro], I’d say this is one of our most successful events yet.

You can find “Maker Jam Comic” in the gallery page or download the pdf here

The Goldberg-esque cover was worked on by several artists in pencil, inked by me, and colored by Brian Kolm (who also helped put together the pdf). To create the rest of the book, we numbered the blank pages (1 through 10) and started creating panels on the tops of random pages. After the first panel on a page had been drawn, a different artist would write and draw the consecutive panel before passing it off to another cartoonist. Once we got down to the last panel on a page, that artist would find the first panel on the following page and try to link their page to the next one in their panel.

Photos are from sbocaj’s Make Faire flickr set.

The May meeting will be at the Sheraton Imperial–Animazement Convention in Durham, NC on May, 26th at 2:00 PM. The meeting will take place in the hotel, not in the convention. We will meet in the lobby at 2:00 PM and then decide where to take it from there.

IMPORTANT: Parking will be difficult. If anyone asks, you are going to the convention. Also, due to other events in the area, the hotel recommends you avoid using Page Rd. to get to the convention/hotel.

Directions to the hotel.

Howdy ya’ll. Just a heads up that the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy will be at the Maker Faire this weekend.

We will be leading an ongoing Maker Faire Comic Jam at a table… somewhere in the Faire.. sorry I don’t know where yet.

Anyways, if you know my phone number and would like to reach me there, please do.

Otherwise, they should have maps and information on hand.

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!

can you find it in this MN Daily article about Free Comic Book Day???

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/05/02/71815

Also on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY:

Danno, Bob Lipski, Brian Bastian, and Taki Soma will be at
JIMMYJAMS COMICS in Rochester doing our part to help raise
money for the Rochester Public Library to buy more graphic novels.
We’ll be doing sketches and selling stuff.

Bud “MUSCLES AND FIGHTS” Burgy will be at THE SOURCE doing
his part to sell MUSCLES AND FIGHTS, which EVERYONE should buy….NOW!!!

Vanesa Littlecrow W. said…
Not only do I not donate to the G.O.P. or the Democrats, I vote 3rd party, use recycled when possible and give my extra donation funds to Second Harvest! 😀
Since I feel like kicking some UPS ass this month, I am going to hemorrhage a little money for y’all.
For the entire month of May Conspirators or any verified professional comic book artists all over the US will get a sweet deal. $0.39 DOUBLE-SIDED color copies on 28 lbs semi-gloss or matte letter size, $0.03-per-book folding AND scoring, with every order. I can’t match the $.03 B&W copies without cutting my own throat, BUT, I can offer two-sided 28 lbs semi-gloss or matte letter-size copies for a measly $0.08. Unlike the big boys, I actually care about your work looking good. I even don’t require cards and/or silly gadgets. I offer shipping to all 50 states and Puerto Rico (save on gas,) AND I will be including random free VAS Littlecrow/Catnose Comics stickers with every order.Pass it on, and spread the love because on May 31, this offer is gone FOREVER.*BTW* Cartoonist Conspiracy – Rice, MN Local happens here on Saturday May 12, if you feel like driving and meeting us. :)Cheers!

A review of last weekends MICROCON was done by Conspirator Sarah Morean at the Daily Cross Hatch.
http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2007/05/02/microcon-part-1/

Its got a nice write-up of we deviants here in the Conspiracy, as well as a shout-out to the Conspiracy-friendly book ‘MUSCLES AND FIGHTS”(which you should order today).

I dont know if its happening at ever UPS STORE(though I assume it is) but the UPS STORE at the QUARRY(in Minneapolis) is having a sale on copies thru the END OF MAY.
ALL BLACK AND WHITE COPIES are 3 CENTS each!!!
ALL COLOR COPIES are 39 CENTS each!!!
AND you can buy ‘COPY CARDS'(which look more like giant watch batteries) for $30 that will give you 1000 copies available 24 hours a day at any UPS STORE.
UPS STOREs don’t offer the warm comfort of a Kinkos, but they offer damn cheap copies for the next 40 days, so I say stock-up on those COPY-CARDS while you can.
Also, don’t forget about THE RICE PRINT SHOP run by conspirator VAS LITTLECROW. She’ll get you a great deal on copies too. AND she’ll even fold and staple things at a good price. AND, unlike UPS, Vas doesn’t donate to the G.O.P(I’m assuming).

The Alternative Press Expo is this coming weekend (April 21st and 22nd) in San Francisco.

As usual, the SF Cartoonist Conspiracy will be vending, but this year we will have two tables. Booths #254 and #255 will be conspirator run, check the floor plan here.

In preparation, some bay area cartoonists will be doing a 12 hour comic jam at Mission Creek Cafe on 21st and Valencia in San Francisco. Some of us will be starting at 9am, but anyone is welcome to join us for as long a period as they like. We’ll probably all be at the tables in the back of the cafe.

I’m aiming to pencil, ink, and letter at least 6 pages for my book. Here’s to hoping.

Come join us for the April meeting of the North Carolina WebComics Coffee Clatch. This month’s meeting will be held at the Morning Times in Raleigh, NC on April 22nd from 2 – 4 PM. That’s on a Sunday, so parking shouldn’t be too bad. I think there is also a parking deck either next door or at least near by. Here’s a Google MAP

We will also discuss plans for a “coffee-related first anniversary book of the NCWCCC“. The Clatch’s first anniversary will be in August.