Category Archives: St. Paul

24 HOUR COMICS DAY 2008, MINNEAPOLIS

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Mark your calendars for Minneapolis’ fifth annual “24 Hour Comics Day” event. The details are as follows:
24 HOUR COMICS DAY
Saturday October 18, 2008 – Sunday October 19, 2008
10am – 10am

Bring food to share, and art materials for yourself (but know that Wet Paint will have a booth set up so you can buy all your stuff there if you want!)

For all the latest info, check out 24-hourcomic.blogspot.com

To register, email your name, email address and phone number to us at mpls24hourcomicday at yahoo.com. You can also ask questions there, but we would prefer if you did it in the comments for this post, as it will hopefully answer other people with the same question!

We will be making another box set collecting comics from this year’s event. We hope all event participants will want to participate in this as well. Everyone contributing a mini-comic to the box will get a copy of the box. In previous years we have made 100 of these… this year there will be less… the number is tbd, based on the number of participants.

Help spread the word by posting/printing/emailing the fantastic poster by Kevin Cannon (who may hold the world record for most 24 hour comics drawn)! Choose from:

400 px wide (blog-friendly)
800 px wide
1600 px wide (cartoon is readable at this size)
hi-res black (good for printing)

Thanks much to our sponsors at Big Brain Comics, Big Time Attic, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Wet Paint!

Here is an icon you can use on your blog sidebar, social networking site, etc. to link to the 24 hour Mpls blog:

Here is a link to the official 24 Hour Comics Day website for the international event. Here is Scott McCloud’s dare which defines what a 24 hour comic is.

Rift Magazine Opportunity for Minnesota Cartoonists

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I just received an email about an opportunity to do some comics for Minnesota-based Rift Magazine. Below is the info.

I was just checking into the possibility of getting some comic strips for a local (minnesota) art and music paper. Maybe something in exchange for the artists promoting their comics and promoting the Cartoonist Conspiracy or The Lutefisk Sushi comic book. We want just local Minnesota artists.

I have available – 10.25″ Wide x 7.75″ high for a comics section. The only bad thing is I would need something by the end of next weekend.

Let me know if you think it is something you could get together, or if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Rich

Rich Horton
email: rich at riftmagazine.com
Rift Magazine
www.riftmagazine.com

St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jams – June and July 2008

Jam Comics, St. Paul

For those who are “Not in the Know” every third Thursday of the month, a group of cartoonists descend upon Cosmic’s Coffee Shoppe in St. Paul, Minnesota to concoct a jam comic*. The staff at Cosmic’s have been gracious hosts despite the “uneasy tension” between the cartoonists, gamers**, and LARPers***. This last Thursday we said farewell to Kevin McCarthy; one of the three “founders” of the St. Paul cell. He is moving to Milwaukee where he will motivate, perhaps through violence, the Cream City Cell**** to post their jams.

I’ve posted our last two jam comics below for all to enjoy!



Please Note:
* jam comic – a collaborative effort to create a comic in a defined, usually short, amount of time, with few formal regulations.
** gamers in this instance refers to those generally playing World of Warcraft while we sit at the coffee shop and draw.
*** LARPers – Live Action Role Players – a group of individuals that attempt the craft of socializing by enacting various scenes and, sometimes, dressing up as characters found within a role playing game; in this instance it refers to people who think they are vampires.
**** Cream City Cell – also known as the Milwaukee Cell – who belongs to this cell? Does it even exist, or is it a myth? I’ve never seen anything posted on this site other than a cute little community link in the right sidebar. Please correct me if I am wrong.

St. Paul Cell Meeting July 17th, 2008

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(You can find graffiti like this near the intersection of Snelling and Selby; near Cosmic’s)

Come and see Kevin McCarthy take part in his last St. Paul Conspiracy Meeting (that is unless he comes to visit)!

The St. Paul cell meets on the third Thursday of every month, from 6:30PM – 9:30PM. 

All are welcome to join us in the creating a “jam comic” and smack-talk each other at:

Cosmic’s Coffee
189 N. Snelling Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104

Afterwards, but not recently, we get our drink on across the street at:

O’Gara’s Bar & Grill
164 Snelling Avenue North
St. Paul, MN 55104

Lutefisk Sushi for Sale Online

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I’m happy to report that we now have Lutefisk Sushi Bento Boxes volumes B and C available for sale online here (or by clicking the below picture). The Lutefisk Sushi boxes feature an enormous quantity of mini-comics by Minnesota cartoonists… around 40 minis in Volume B and around 50 minis in Volume C. You can buy them online for thirty bucks each, which is one hell of a deal.

Both boxes were limited to 150 copies, and both are getting close to being sold out, so if you want one, order soon. They can never be reprinted, so when they are gone, they are gone for good. All profits from the Sushi boxes go to support Altered Esthetics, a wonderful non-profit Minneapolis gallery that we collaborate with.

Note that in addition to the Sushi boxes, you can buy our 2006 and 2007 collections of 24 Hour Comic mini-comics for $10 each.

More Comics In City Pages Comix Issue Online

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Above: A teeny view of Zander Cannon‘s contribution to the Comix Issue.

Due to some confusion at City Pages, a number of excellent entries to the previously mentioned City Pages Comix issue did not make it into the print and, initially, the online edition. Some have now been added to the online edition… go check them out!

“Five Blind Elephants” by Zander Cannon
“Republican Party Loyalists” by Andy Singer
“The Republicans are Coming… To Get you!” by Spanky Cermak
“When the Elephants Come to Town” by King Drowns

Second Annual City Pages Comix Issue Out TODAY: When the Elephants Come to Town

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Above: Tim Sievert‘s contribution to the Comix Issue.

The second annual City Pages Comix Issue that many Conspirators contributed to is out today! The theme was “When the Elephants Come to Town,” which is a reference to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this year. Many items that did not fit in the issue were included online. The print issue will be all over the Twin Cities for the next week.

Among many other things, Kevin Cannon has contributed another one of his enormous, chicken-fat-filled cartoons:

Click the images to go to the City Pages Comix Issue, and see the above cartoon much, much larger!

Note that you can leave comments on the feature on the City Pages website here.

UPDATE: The City Pages Comix Issue was just featured in the Comics Reporter here.

St. Paul cell meeting Thursday, June 19, 2008

Jam Comics, St. Paul

The St. Paul cell meets on the third Thursday of every month, from 6:30PM – 9:30PM. 

All are welcome to join us in the creation of the customary “jam comic” at:

Cosmic’s Coffee
189 N. Snelling Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104

Afterwards, more often than not, the self-flagellation continues across the street:

O’Gara’s Bar & Grill
164 Snelling Avenue North
St. Paul, MN 55104

Keep up with the monthly shenanigans of the little conspiracy cell that could, here.

The Lost St. Paul Conspiracy Jams

Jam Comics, St. Paul

Apologies to those that this may have affected. After transferring files from my old computer to my new computer, I noticed these PDFs lying around, which I forgot to post after their creation. Therefore, I present to you, the lost St. Paul Conspiracy Jams!

February 2008

March 2008

April 2008

Special thanks to the St. Paul Conspiracy members for working so diligently on these jams, Kevin McCarthy for getting on my @$$ to get these posted, and to David Steinlicht for showing me up last week by posting within days of receiving the jam pages.