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24 Hour Comics Day Minneapolis Starts at 9AM Tomorrow! (Saturday October 1st)

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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.

24 Hour Comics Day is This Weekend! Come to the Minneapolis Event!

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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.

Reminder: Rain Taxi Brings Craig Thompson to MCAD to Speak September 26th

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Info at Rain Taxi here.

CRAIG THOMPSON
Monday, September 26, 2011, 7:00 pm
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Auditorium
2501 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis
Click here for directions

Acclaimed 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 Books

Blankets magically recreates the high emotional stakes of adolescence. Thompson has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth.
—Time Magazine

Craig 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.

Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives at The University of Iowa October 5th-8th

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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.

Here in an article about the event.

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Do you hear that?



There is less than a month until 24 Hour Comics Day!

Thanks to Carlos Merino for drawing the above poster for the Minneapolis event.

We better get some sleep!

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)
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.

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.

Vote for the Lutefisk Sushi Volume E Featured Artist

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We will be doing another one of our Lutefisk Sushi box-full-of-handmade-Minnesota-mini-comics shows at Altered Esthetics next year, and the time has come to pick a featured artist. As usual, this being Minnesota, we have a wonderful selection of nominees… I’d be delighted to see any of them win. You can preview the artists’ work by clicking on the images below, which will take you to their websites.

We’ve dusted off the old message board for the voting… you’re encouraged to pimp for your candidates in the comments. Please only vote if you are a Minnesota artist who plans to participate in the show. Thanks!

GO HERE TO VOTE.

Poll ends sometime on September First.










Anders Nilsen’s Book Tour Comes to Minneapolis This Thursday, August 18th

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More info here.

On to the business of the day! Anders will be in Minneapolis Thursday August 18th to launch Big Questions at Magers & Quinn Booksellers. There’s a lovely write-up of the book in the Star Tribune, where reviewer Tom Horgen sez, “the parable [Big Questions] tells unfolds with remarkable ease and power,” and acknowledges Anders as “one of the comic-book world’s best storytellers.” Dear midwesterners: don’t miss this!

Thursday August 18th at 7:30 pm
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
3038 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis