Rain Taxi just announced some of the guests to be at the Twin Cities Book Festival, and Chris Ware is on there.
Note that it appears they still have some exhibitor space left.
Category Archives: event
Register ASAP for the 2012 Twin Cities Book Festival
If you plan to attend this year’s Twin Cities Book Festival (October 13) put on by our friends at Rain Taxi, you will want to register NOW. They are almost out of space. From what I have heard, if you don’t attend this event, you will regret it. Fortunately, this year there is no conflict with Fallcon (October 6)! Apologies for not getting the word out on this very cool opportunity sooner.
Greetings from Rain Taxi and the 2012 Twin Cities Book Festival! As you may know, registration is now open for this year’s Book Fest–forms are available on our website, here. What you don’t know yet is that this year, one of our prestigious guests happens to be a comics GIANT. We can’t tell you who it is just yet, but we do anticipate a substantial comics audience to attend, and we want to make sure that the Conspiracy has a chance to register for tables before they run out. We’ve set aside more space for this purpose in our new location, to boot!
Register soon to claim your space. No need to send payment now—we’ll invoice you. We encourage you simply to email us with the requested information on the attachment to reserve a table, but you’re welcome to fax or mail your registration form if you prefer.
Come Jam in Minneapolis Thursday August 2nd!
The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.
Generally, we draw collaborative “jam†comics, socialize and drink caffeinated beverages. Afterwords, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else.
The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).
Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe
1618 Central Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Please spend some money at Diamond’s while you’re there, even if it is just a cuppa coffee… they are excellent hosts, and we wanna stay welcome there.
Rain Taxi is launching a new Lit Art Magazine and wants YOU!
Okay so recently Rain Taxi decided to launch a literary journal and is including COMICS! The deal is that on Aug 25th at the Cedar the event will launch with art making and local bands, and all the content for the issue will be made between noon and midnight, which is old hat for you comic jammers. They asked me to be the comics editor and I thought of you guys immediately. Who better to do this than 24 hour comics day veterans?
The deal is though, that Rain Taxi is crowd funding the project in the style of Kickstarter. And the funding seems to be creeping so it is going to need all the help it can get to become a reality.
The main reason that I am campaigning so much for this project among many other equally worthy projects is that I think it is a VERY IMPORTANT step in Minneapolis art/print scene that Rain Taxi from the get go decided to give COMICS an equal billing along with the more familiar short stories, poetry and non fiction. I think if this project makes it it will be another step towards comics being seen as an integral part of such anthologies and not an afterthought or oddity.
So that all said, if this sounds like something you’d want to participate in or help support here is where you do it. (Also read more about the details)
Firecracker Art magazine Seeder Page
Also if your work is selected this is gonna be a really nice book on the resume 😉
Come Jam in Minneapolis Thursday July 5th!
The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.
Generally, we draw collaborative “jam†comics, socialize and drink caffeinated beverages. Afterwords, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else.
The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).
Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe
1618 Central Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Please spend some money at Diamond’s while you’re there, even if it is just a cuppa coffee… they are excellent hosts, and we wanna stay welcome there.
Suit Up at Altered Esthetics Tonight! (Wednesday, June 20th)
Did you know they have live drawing sessions every month at Altered Esthetics (third Wednesdays)? Well, they do. In costumes! Another of the many reasons to love AE. Info below.
Time to suit up! Join us every third Wednesday of the month for an evening of figure drawing …in costume! Volunteer models will suit up in a costume that best fits the theme of the month. This months suit up is titled “Cleanin’ out the Closets”. Our models this month will be suiting up in some of their old threads that most likely should have been donated to goodwill long ago. If you want, you can model too, the help would be greatly appreciated! No previous experience is needed, just a laid back attitude.
We will draw a variety of poses, for what is sure to be a pleasurable evening of figure drawing with a twist. Bring your sketchbook & drawing implement of choice. Suggested Donation 3$.
If you’re interested in modeling for this event or any another Suit Up event in the future please contact Cassie at workshops(at)alteredesthetics.org
Thanks and hope to see you there!
Minneapolis Jam and Double Barrel Party at Big Time Attic Tonight! (Thursday, June 7th)
Party at Big Time Attic tonight to celebrate the release of their fantastic Double Barrel anthology, currently taking the world by storm! Click the image below for more info.
Also:
This month’s Nordeast Comics Summit topic: The History of Comics with Jon Sloan
TIME: 6 – 6:30 pm (right before the Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam)
LOCATION: 1618 Central Ave NE, Ste. 216, Nordeast MPLS
And, of course:
Please join us to draw some jam comics, socialize and drink caffeinated beverages. Afterwards, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else.
The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.
The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed). Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe 1618 Central Avenue Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota
Please spend some money at Diamond’s while you’re there, even if it is just a cuppa coffee… they are excellent hosts, and we wanna stay welcome there.
Action Athena Wins the 2012 Stapler Award
Here’s that picture of Athena Currier winning the Stapler Award I wanted, courtesy of Kevin Cannon’s Twitter feed…
Thanks again to Big Brain Comics and the Northeast CDC for providing the cool prizes (a $25 gift certificate to Big Brain and a pass to the upcoming Northeast Ride happening June 2nd, respectively).
Mini-Comics Day 2012 in Minneapolis
Mini-Comics Day in Minneapolis was a whole lot of fun… of the numerous cartoonists who showed up, at least 15 comics were completed (pictured below… apologies if I didn’t get a photo of yours for some reason). Afterwards we went to Grumpy’s to drink, eat tater tots, and give out the 2012 Stapler Award for the Best Minnesota Mini-Comics Day Mini-Comic. Eric Lorberer (Editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books), Courtney Algeo (Editorial Director of Paper Darts and Marketing Coordinator at The Loft Literary Center) and Miles Johnson (of the Read My List blog and Altered Esthetics gallery) deliberated for quite a while to determine which mini was the best one by their subjective standards… and a winner was picked! The award went to Athena Currier for her very deserving entry “My Little Sister Phoebe Just Graduated from College,” which made me laugh out loud when I read it… I wish I had remembered to take a picture of her with the award. Additionally, last year’s winner of the Stapler, Dan Murphy, was given an honorable mention for his entry “The Spider Lady,” which was good, because if he had won we would have had to change the name of the award to the Dan Murphy award.
Here are some (bad) pictures from the event, and pictures of the completed minis.
The Stapler-Award-winning comic by Athena Currier
The runner up, by Dan Murphy
Dan’s comic with the cover opened:
A.Z. McGinty‘s untitled comic:
“The Bridge” by Carlos Merino:
“Darkly Swoops” by Chris Beck (unforutnately mangled by my bag):
“Danno and the Giant Apple” by Danno Klonowski
“The Fledgling” by Erika Finne
“Hazards” by Joe Combs
Untitled mini by Lars Kommienezuspadt
“Finger Football” by Matt Reints
“Stinky & Inky” by Michelle Silva
“The First-Ever Mini-Comic About Making a Mini-Comic” by Mike Toft
“Abra-Ka Deborah” by Thomas Boguszewski
“Shift” by Vivian Meger and her Dad
“Plotz #2” by Stwalley
#minicomicsday2012 is Today! (May 26th)
Pictured above: The 2012 Stapler Award for the Best Minnesota Mini-Comics Day Mini-Comic
You’re encouraged to use the hash tag #minicomicsday2012 for whatever you may want to use a hashtag for.
Cartoonists around the world will be drawing and printing a mini-comic in a day. Any cartoonist anywhere can participate.
There are event sites this year in:
Sacramento, CA
San Francisco, CA
Baltimore, MD
Minneapolis, MN
Keene, NH
Albuquerque, NM
Norfolk, VA
and McCleary, WA
(and we had a site in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK participate last month)
If you live near one of those locations, go here for the details of your local event.