Holy Cow! MIX, the Minneapolis Indy Expo, is next weekend (November 5-6)! There are going to be a zillion great cartoonists there, and the programming looks wonderful. Hard to believe an event like this could be free to the public, but it is, you lucky dog. Enormous kudos and gratitude to the brilliant and fashionable Sarah Morean on putting this amazing event together. If you miss it, I assure you that you will regret it until your dying day.
Holy Cow! MIX, the Minneapolis Indy Expo, is the weekend after this one (November 5-6)! There are going to be a zillion great cartoonists there, and the programming looks wonderful. Hard to believe an event like this could be free to the public, but it is, you lucky dog. Enormous kudos and gratitude to the brilliant and fashionable Sarah Morean on putting this amazing event together. If you miss it, I assure you that you will regret it until your dying day.
Too much fun in Minneapolis this weekend!
TONIGHT!
Summit No. 7: The Secret Language of People
Info on the Northeast Comics Jam here.
TIME: 6 – 6:30 pm (right before the Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam)
LOCATION: 1618 Central Ave NE, Ste. 216, Nordeast MPLS
Then the jam 6:30-?
The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 10:00 the first Thursday of every month at Diamond’s Coffee Shoppe in Northeast.
Afterwards, please join us to draw some 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.
24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!
Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.
I hope you’re already asleep in preparation!
Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.
Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.
Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!
Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
in the gallery, flexi space (after 12:30 on Saturday), and bindery (until 9am Sunday)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?
Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.
The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog
Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.
Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.
We’re having a special extra jam this Thursday at Wet Paint in St. Paul, as part of their Celebration of Sketching event. They will have new supplies for folks to try out and experiment with. The fun starts at 5:30, and goes until 7:30. Hope to see you all there!
24 Hour Comics Day is this weekend!
Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.
UPDATES:
Want to participate? Just show up. Table space is available on a first come, first served basis.
Please consider bringing some snacks to share and help fuel us into the night.
Late night pizza will be sponsored by our friends at the Midwest Comic Book Association and The Source!
Wet Paint will be there to help supply you with needed art supplies early in the event!
24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis
October 1-2 9AM-9AM
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book building
(Just down the street from Big Brain Comics)
in the gallery, flexi space (after 12:30 on Saturday), and bindery (until 9am Sunday)
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-215-2520
Questions about Mpls’s 24-hour Comic Day?
Write to: 24hourcomicday@gmail.com
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day Facebook page.
Mpls. 24-hour Comic Day tweets.
The 24-Hour Comic Day Minneapolis Blog
Here is a promotional chicklet you can use for your social networking site or blog or pong or whatever.
Not in Minneapolis? Not to worry… find a location on the international event site! Click the image below to go there.
CRAIG THOMPSON
Monday, September 26, 2011, 7:00 pm
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Auditorium
2501 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis
Click here for directionsAcclaimed graphic novelist Craig Thompson returns from a seven-year hiatus this fall with the publication of Habibi, an epic romance that investigates the history of religion and storytelling. Habibi is a hugely anticipated release that Thompson says looks at Islam the way his previous graphic novel, Blankets, looks at Christianity. Blankets was once banned from some libraries, and Habibi is expected to be no less controversial and no less enthusiastically received as a watershed moment in the art form of comics.
At this special Twin Cities appearance, Thompson will give a visual presentation and discussion of his work. Not to be missed!
. . . his brilliantly realized artwork transforms whatever potential for triteness lies in his message into profundity. . . . Goodbye, Chunky Rice is a heartfelt masterpiece.
—Rain Taxi Review of BooksBlankets magically recreates the high emotional stakes of adolescence. Thompson has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth.
—Time MagazineCraig Thompson’s previous graphic novels include Blankets (for which he received three Harvey Awards for Best Artist, Best Graphic Album of Original Work, and Best Cartoonist; and two Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist); Goodbye, Chunky Rice; and Carnet de Voyage. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Yesterday, I heard for the first time about a pretty amazing-sounding event happening in Iowa City, Iowa October 5th-8th that I suspect some of you may be interested in attending (note Minneapolis folks that Iowa City is a 5 hour drive). The University of Iowa is putting on a three day symposium on comics called Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Comics luminaries on the guest list include Gilbert Hernandez, Jamie Hernandez, Pheobe Glockner, Joe Sacco, Craig Yoe, John Porcellino, Jessica Abel, James Sturm, Gary Groth and Peggy Burns, as well as a number of comics scholars and historians.
You can see the schedule for the symposium here.
There are other comics-related events happening in Iowa city before and after the symposium.