Category Archives: Minneapolis

Come Jam With Us May 2nd

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The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 9:00 or so the first Thursday of every month at Insight Brewing in Northeast.

Generally, we draw collaborative jam comics, socialize and drink beverages.

Here is the jam we made last month… click the image to download the comic:

We created a cast of seven characters in this jam from April… Stan Sneed, Chainsaw Jenkins, L’il Mort, Undercover Rover, Fancy McMutt, Morty the Morose Mutant Manfrog and Chibiboy. One of these characters will be random-ishly picked to be the star of our May jam.

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are usually posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Insight Brewing
2821 E. Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis

Please spend some money at Insight Brewing while you’re there, as we want to stay welcome there.

Come Jam With Us April 4th!

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The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 9:00 or so the first Thursday of every month at Insight Brewing in Northeast.

Generally, we draw collaborative jam comics, socialize and drink beverages.

Here is the jam we made last month… click the image to download the comic:

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are usually posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Insight Brewing
2821 E. Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis

Please spend some money at Insight Brewing while you’re there, as we want to stay welcome there.

Come Jam With Us March 7th!

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The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 9:00 or so the first Thursday of every month at Insight Brewing in Northeast.

Generally, we draw collaborative jam comics, socialize and drink beverages.

Here is the jam we made last month… click the image to download the comic:

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are usually posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Insight Brewing
2821 E. Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis

Please spend some money at Insight Brewing while you’re there, as we want to stay welcome there.

Come jam with us Thursday, January 4th for the first annual PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY JAM!

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Public Domain Day 2024

The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy meets at 6:30 until 9:00 or so the first Thursday of every month at Insight Brewing in Northeast. This month we will be having our first annual Public Domain Day Jam, celebrating Mickey Mouse finally being given his freedom!

See some of what enters the public domain this year here:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

Read about the history of Disney’s theft of our public domain, and what you are and are not now legally allowed to do with Mickey Mouse here (Disney’s trademarks and later interpretations still prevent some uses):

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

Read about the history of The Air Pirates, Disney’s most glaring example of legally harassing cartoonists for using their characters in fair-use parody here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Pirates

Generally, we draw collaborative jam comics, socialize and drink beverages.

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are usually posted here sooner or later (and sometimes even printed).

Insight Brewing
2821 E. Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis

Please spend some money at Insight Brewing while you’re there, as we want to stay welcome there.

David Mruz Interview

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My friend David Mruz passed away this week. I first remember meeting David at the BIG FUNNY show, where we had a bunch of art hung up inspired by the newspaper comics of the turn of the previous century, as well as many examples of Sunday pages from that period. David introduced himself and gave me some 100+ year old Happy Hooligan sheet music, just because he thought I would appreciate it. This sort of amazing casual, generous kindness was something that has come up frequently in the remembrances of David I have been reading online.

In the years since then, I always sought David out when I would go to the local comic conventions to sit around and shoot the shit for a while, as it was always one of the big highlights of the shows for me. David was a delight to talk to… he had an incredible enthusiasm for comics, and for the history of cartooning in Minnesota specifically. I am really going to miss getting to talk to him.

You can read a wonderful remembrance of him by his good friend of 50 years Joel Thingvall here and learn about all the wonderful things David accomplished (such as running the first comic conventions in Minnesota back in the 70s, and as a founding member of the Minnesota Cartoonist League).

Back in 2011, Britt Aamodt and Barbara Schulz interviewed me for a project of theirs collecting oral histories of Minnesota cartoonists. I recommended they interview David, since he knew more about the history of cartooning in Minnesota than anyone else I ever met (and probably knew more on that subject than anyone else ever has). Britt and Barb have given me permission to post the interview here. It does a nice job capturing David’s character and enthusiasm, and it will teach you a hell of a lot of things you did not previously know about cartooning in Minnesota. Rest in peace, David.

Photo of David by Britt Aamodt. Click on the photo to read Britt Aamodt and Barbara Schulz’s interview with David.

Come Jam in Minneapolis Thursday, December 1st

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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

Bus info here.

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.

Come Jam in Minneapolis Thursday, November 3rd

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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

Bus info here.

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.

Come Jam in Minneapolis Thursday, October 6th

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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

Bus info here.

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.