Cowtown Comix Fest | Saturday, August 14 | 10:00-4:00 | Tattered Cover Bookstore | 1628 16th Street at Wynkoop | Denver, CO
Cowtown Comics Fest will again be presenting independent comics from the Rocky Mountain region. 7000 BC made the trip last year — it’s an amazing assortment of comics creators showcasing their publications.
Lutefisk Sushi Volume D opens this Friday! The show features a limited-edition (150), hand silkscreened, 3D bento box full of mini-comics by over 50 Minnesota cartoonists for only $25! See original art and other work by the cartoonists all over the walls of the gallery, including a bunch of work by featured artist Danno Klonowski (Manly Tales of Cowardice). Also, don’t miss little funny Series II, small boxes of micro-comics sold out of an old cigarette vending machine.
The show has been included in the A-List in this week’s City Pages.
Please tell your friends, blog readers, social networking website compadres, co-workers, parents, cousins, casual associates, and random people on the street of the opening this Friday, August 6th from 7 – 10 PM at Altered Esthetics!
Altered Esthetics • 1224 Quincy St NE, Mpls MN 55413   •  612.378.8888
Promotional materials below.
Postcard Resources!
Misc Show Sites
Saturday, August 14 | 1:30–4:30 | Santa Fe Library Main Branch | Santa Fe, NM
The August 7000 BC meeting will be held Saturday, August 14 in the Community Room at the Santa Fe Library Main Branch, 1:30–4:30. This will be a working meeting — bring comics to work on, take time to collaborate, or get input on your projects.
The library is in downtown Santa Fe. There’s limited, paid (but cheap) parking in the back, street and lot parking around, and possibly the lot across Washington Street at the First Interstate Building will be open. There’s a stop at the library for the Santa Fe Pick-Up and the meeting’s timed for those taking the train from Albuquerque.
New members and those interested in making comics are always welcome. Please send an email with any questions.
(Setup for the meeting actually starts at 1:00; if you’re available to help out, stop by.)
The participating artist potluck for Lutefisk Sushi (and little funny Series II) is this Saturday, July 31st from 1-3PM at Altered Esthetics. If you participated in either project, I hope to see you there.
Some things to note:
– You can pick up your contributor Lutefisk Sushi Volume D box at the potluck! Don’t forget to get your name checked off the list when you do.
– This is the deadline to drop off your framed art to hang for the show. Please bring some, if possible. More than one item is great… too much art to fit on the walls is a much better position to be in than not enough! Note that it is not a requirement that the art you display be from your comic in the Sushi box.
– This is the deadline for dropping off your issues of little funny. There is still time to make one! Email me if you need a number:
– Pick up promotional Lutefisk Sushi Volume D postcards to distribute.
– Don’t forget to remind your friends, blog readers, co-workers, parents, cousins, casual associates, and random people on the street that the Lutefisk Sushi opening is Friday, August 6th from 7 – 10 PM! Promotional materials below.
– Bring one item of food… it is a potluck!
Postcard Resources!
Misc Show Sites
While we have had a great amount of participation in the Lutefisk Sushi Volume D box, the amount of submissions for little funny Volume II has been pretty disappointing thus far. So… we are extending the deadline to July 31st.
It is extremely easy and fun to participate (it really only takes a few hours to make one, especially if you just make a sketchbook out of stuff that you have lying around gathering dust). Please help make this part of the show as cool as it should be!
More info on little funny and participating can be found here.
Got the below email from Zak Sally… pass it on.
hello all–
you know, when you’re putting on an event, it’s always good to send out any sort of announcement/ press release WAY in advance. MONTHS in advance, if you’re really on top of it.
therefore, i’m sending this out less than a week in advance.the LA MANO 2nd ANNUAL REPORT SATURDAY JULY 24 2010
so, last year we did a La Mano benefit show here in minneapolis, which ended up being just an astoundingly great time for everyone involved. so much so that we’re doing it AGAIN THIS YEAR!!!
hosted at the same place: minneapolis’s (actually it’s in St. Paul) favorite all ages record store/ venue ECLIPSE RECORDS, right on university ave (1922 to be exact).
same as last year, there will be zines and posters and art and weirdness set up all over the place for sale (i think more than last year), but there will also be MUSIC.starting at around 5 pm, these folks will entertain you:
CAMDEN (Cole from Daughters Of The Sun project)
PINK TEETH (me and Tooth making a racket)
NOSE QUEAN ANT (newly reconstituted)
TUNNELER (a couple guys from Moonstone doing “a hair metal project about drills”, whatever the hell that means…)
MARIJUANA DEATH SQUAD
ARCTIC UNIVERSE
and
GAY WITCH ABORTION(not in that order, though…). whole thing wrapped up by 11ish (at the latest).
$6 door (redeemable for that amount off of most La Mano products). i know it’s crazy.
it’s KIND of a benefit (because La Mano seems to be perpetually broke since the economy tanked…), but mostly it’s just an excuse to get a bunch of people together in a big room: good music, zines, art and whathaveyou.
i must again stress: last year, ridiculously fun. don’t believe me? then look at this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQls4CaEo5E
this year should be just as good.
plus the whole thing is being sponsored by the good people at RADIO K (and i’ll be talking about it on-air on the Off The Record show this friday, as well…)
if you miss this, i don’t know what to say to you. i’ll be there.as always, write/ blog if that’s your thing, spread the word, or just come down (also, if you feel like you have some zines/ art whatever– ok, not music, we don’t want to step on Eclipse’s feet– that you’d like to sell at this thing let me know asap at this email. or, again, just bring it on down, we’ll try to find room at a table for it.)
ok you all. yeh it’s a bulk email but hope it finds you well.
best, zak sally.
Well, the Comic Cookbook idea thoroughly throttled its competition in the voting for a subject for next year’s art show at Altered Esthetics. So, unless someone objects in the comments here in the next few days, let’s just go with that, huh? Also, if you think of any good names and other ideas for this show, I also encourage you to put them in the comments here. Bon Appétit.
REMINDER: The second Cam-Jam comic jam of 2010 will be this Sunday July 18, 2010 a the Cartoon Art Museum.
This is an event I am organizing, so of course I will be there and I hope you will be there too.
Find out more at:http://cartoonistconspiracysf.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/cam-jam2010-2-on-sunday-july-18th-2010/
The Lutefisk Sushi Volume D show is coming up this August… and we’re already thinking about what we want to for our collaboration with Altered Esthetics for NEXT year. Let’s get it figured out shall we?
Here are some of the many possible ideas we have discussed for next year’s comic art show, in no particular order:
PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOK — Wherein each artist illustrates a chapter from a public domain book.
ANTHOLOGY — An anthology of some sort. Â Specific topic and printing details TBD.
COMIC COOKBOOK — Spiral bound cookbook with recipes and art submitted by artists. Â Could cook some of the dishes during the opening. Â Categories can be split among the potential artists based on last name just like when dividing up a potluck (e.g. A-D salads, E-J meats, etc.).
LOOSE SHEETS — Each artist makes a multi-page comic and they are bound like loose leaf newspaper pages, or in a 3-ring binder.
SONG COMICS — Each artist picks a favorite song and creates a comic based on this song.  This allows for maximum flexibility as artists may create whatever type of comic art they want. Musicians could cover some of these songs during the opening.  We could produce a “mix tape” list to give out (people would have to purchase their own songs). Karoake?  — Comic – Oke.
SCRIPT SWAP — Artists could draw comics based on other people’s scripts. Â This would give comic writers a chance to collaborate with local artists. Â We could also create comics based on the scripts of young children, which could get pretty hilarious.
EDUCATIONAL COMICS –Each artist makes an educational strip on a subject of their choosing.
COMIC POSTER ART — Partner with poster artists who would print comics designed by cartoonists.
Suggest ideas you would like to participate in in the comments below, and we’ll discuss and vote on them very soon on the message board.
Lobo Anime & Comics Sidewalk Sale/July Meeting | Saturday, July 10 | 11:00-5:00 (sale); 5:00-7:00 (meeting) | Lobo Anime & Comics | 1016 Juan Tabo Blvd. NE | Albuquerque, NM
Update: the sale ends at 4:00, not 5:00; we’ll be moving on to dinner sometime after it wraps up.
All summer long, Lobo Anime & Comics hosts a sidewalk sale on the second Saturday of the month. 7000 BC will be a part of the July 10 event, with a table of comics from the group; after the sale, we’ll move on to a local restaurant for the month’s meeting.
New members and those interested in making comics are always welcome. Please send an email with any questions or for more details.
