Category Archives: Minneapolis

JAM TONIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS!!! (Thursday, October 2nd)

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It is a big week for the Conspiracy…

Thursday night we have a jam (see below).

Friday night is the Hot Ink: Comic Art in Minnesota opening at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, featuring work by many Conspirators.

Saturday and Sunday is FallCon, the biggest and best comics convention every year in Minnesota.

(On top of all this, we are a mere two weeks and change away from our 5th annual 24 Hour Comics Day event… hope you are getting some sleep while you can).

But right now, let’s focus on the jam, shall we?

Danno Says:

I know what you’re thinking…

You’re thinking tomorrow is Oct 1st…still another 6 weeks or so unitl you even have to THINK about X-Mas.
…right?…
WRONG!!!
Cause if we’d like this months Jam to be part of the upcoming December Altered Esthetics show,
at least one of the themes has to be–
HAPPY HOLIDAZE.
(and…in addition to Kevin doing an awesome job scanning each jam, he’s delivering them to AE for drisplay purposes…right?)
So think X-Mas.
Though no one said you had to think about it in a nice way…
See you all about 7:30 on Thurs.

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.

Big Time Attic

Big Time Attic hosts our monthly jam meetings at Diamond’s… they will be supplying us with a big old plate of pastries or something. Thanks fellas!

Guide to Pimping the Conspiracy at Fallcon

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Fallcon is almost here. It’s that magical time of year in the Twin Cities where you can meet all of your favorite local cartoonists and promote your comics. It’s also a good time to plug the Cartoonist Conspiracy and help it grow! Here are some good ways to promote the Conspiracy at Fallcon:

Ask people if they like to draw – This is a great conversation starter because it indicates that you are not trying to sell them something (at least at the moment). If the person likes to draw, let them know about our jam sessions in Minneapolis (First Thursday at 6:30) and Saint Paul (Third Thursday at 6:30). If they don’t like to draw, odds are they have an artist friend who might be interested. Hand out flyers, and don’t forget to mention the upcoming 24-hour comic day!

Tell them about past Conspiracy Projects – The Lutefisk Sushi boxes are great attention-getters. At Microcon people would stop and stare at them, saying, “Lutefisk Sushi? Really?” Exploit their captured attention by telling them what Lutefish Sushi is all about! If they’re still paying attention, you can also tell them about the Eric Lappegard tribute book Alley Cats and the 24 Hour Comic Day box sets.

Hand them a copy of “How to Make Minicomics” – This is a great little manual on what minicomics are all about! You can find a pdf of the comic here. I will be assembling a bunch of these for Fallcon, so stop by my table and pick up a few.

Show your Conspiracy love with style – Wear an official Cartoonist Conspiracy Fez! E-mail Steve Stwally for details at .  Also, feel free to wear any Lutefisk Sushi, Vegan Ninja, or other Conspiracy-related apparel you may have.

Volunteer at the Conspiracy Lounge – We need YOU! See this post for more details.

HOT INK: Comic Art in Minnesota

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Hot Ink: Comic Art in Minnesota is an exhibit opening October 3rd (and staying up until January) at The Minnesota Museum of American Art. Featured artists include a number of folks in the Conspiracy… here is the full list…

Big Time Attic
Kevin Cannon
Zander Cannon
Will Dinski
Tom Kaczynski
Reynold Kissling
Lars Martinson
King Mini
Tyler Page
Evan G. Palmer
Brittney Sabo
Zak Sally
Barbara Schulz
Tim Sievert
Andy Singer
Tom Spence
Steven Stwalley

The opening party is October 3rd. It costs $10 to get in to the opening ($5 if you are a member or student), but is free if you visit another time. For the opening there is a members preview from 7-8PM, and then it is open to the public from 8-10PM.

Minnesota Museum of American Art
mmaa.org
50 West Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55102

CALL AND ANSWER: Andy Singer’s Exhibition

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Conspirator Andy Singer has a show of his cartoons up in St. Paul at the Black Dog Cafe along with another excellent looking show of Minnesota poster artists, coinciding conveniently with the Republican National Convention. Here is what Andy has to say about it…

Dear Friends, Editors, Acquaintances, fellow humanoids,

I currently have a show of over 40 cartoons at the Black Dog Cafe and Wine Bar in downtown Saint Paul–
http://www.blackdogstpaul.com/events/news-73.shtml

I am sharing the space with the Minneapolis Poster Offensive who is exhibiting 30 of its posters in the other half of the space–
http://www.blackdogstpaul.com/events/news-13.shtml

The show(s) will be up through the RNC convention, probably until mid September.

There will be a reception for both of us on Friday evening, August 29th, from 5pm until we all fall down. I will be selling original cartoons, books, and maybe my soul. Come check it out!

For some photos of the show as I set it up, see–
http://www.andysinger.com/rants.html

Please forward or post this event anywhere that people might see it.

Thanks,

Andy Singer
www.andysinger.com

More info on the Poster Offensive show happening simultaneously here.

PUNY “30% More Commercial” Gallery Show this Saturday!

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Our good friends at Puny Entertainment have a gallery show called 30% More Commercial opening at First Amendment Gallery this Saturday… here is the info:

“Best known for their animation on Emmy Nominated TV Series “Yo Gabba Gabba” and high-end interactive development; PUNY’s twenty-two artists, designers, and programmers throw shit against a wall to see what sticks. For one night only their corporate overseers allowed non-billable hours to be put towards un-artdirected art, interactive pointlessness, and animated mash-ups. On display are secret passions, resume killers, and a clear bias against race, gender, and economic backgrounds..

Is it art or a capabilities pitch? We’re not sure they know the difference. Salary DOE.”

Live Music by

CAVERNS IN CAVERNS
and
Mark Fox is a DJ

See a preview of some art from the show here.

First Amendment Gallery
1101 Stinson Blvd
Basement rooms A & B
Minneapolis, MN
55413

24 HOUR COMICS DAY 2008, MINNEAPOLIS

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Mark your calendars for Minneapolis’ fifth annual “24 Hour Comics Day” event. The details are as follows:
24 HOUR COMICS DAY
Saturday October 18, 2008 – Sunday October 19, 2008
10am – 10am

Bring food to share, and art materials for yourself (but know that Wet Paint will have a booth set up so you can buy all your stuff there if you want!)

For all the latest info, check out 24-hourcomic.blogspot.com

To register, email your name, email address and phone number to us at mpls24hourcomicday at yahoo.com. You can also ask questions there, but we would prefer if you did it in the comments for this post, as it will hopefully answer other people with the same question!

We will be making another box set collecting comics from this year’s event. We hope all event participants will want to participate in this as well. Everyone contributing a mini-comic to the box will get a copy of the box. In previous years we have made 100 of these… this year there will be less… the number is tbd, based on the number of participants.

Help spread the word by posting/printing/emailing the fantastic poster by Kevin Cannon (who may hold the world record for most 24 hour comics drawn)! Choose from:

400 px wide (blog-friendly)
800 px wide
1600 px wide (cartoon is readable at this size)
hi-res black (good for printing)

Thanks much to our sponsors at Big Brain Comics, Big Time Attic, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Wet Paint!

Here is an icon you can use on your blog sidebar, social networking site, etc. to link to the 24 hour Mpls blog:

Here is a link to the official 24 Hour Comics Day website for the international event. Here is Scott McCloud’s dare which defines what a 24 hour comic is.

Rift Magazine Opportunity for Minnesota Cartoonists

Minneapolis, mn, Opportunities, St. Paul

I just received an email about an opportunity to do some comics for Minnesota-based Rift Magazine. Below is the info.

I was just checking into the possibility of getting some comic strips for a local (minnesota) art and music paper. Maybe something in exchange for the artists promoting their comics and promoting the Cartoonist Conspiracy or The Lutefisk Sushi comic book. We want just local Minnesota artists.

I have available – 10.25″ Wide x 7.75″ high for a comics section. The only bad thing is I would need something by the end of next weekend.

Let me know if you think it is something you could get together, or if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Rich

Rich Horton
email: rich at riftmagazine.com
Rift Magazine
www.riftmagazine.com

Reminder! Come Remember the Vegan Ninja this Saturday, August 9th!

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It is hard to believe almost a year has passed since the Vegan Ninja, Eric Lappegard, left the planet. Please come and raise a drink or three to his memory with us August 9th at Grumpy’s downtown (1111 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN), and do take some time to revisit his wonderful comics. Below is an open invite from Eric’s family.

Hello to everyone,

I can’t believe a year has gone by. We think about Eric everyday and have decided that we would like to have a get together with his friends to remember him. We would like to get together with as many of his friends that can make it on Saturday August 9th. We have reserved the party room at Grumpy’s downtown that evening starting at 7:30 pm. We hope that you can make it and if you know of anyone I may have missed please pass the word around. We want it to be a fun time remembering Eric and in the way that he would have enjoyed. Hope to see you there.

Cindy, Boyd & Jessica Lappegard

Steinlicht’s Elephants

Conspirators, Minneapolis, mn

Conspirator David Steinlicht has regular gig at the Pioneer Press, so he couldn’t submit to the recent City Pages Comix Issue. If he could have, his submission may have looked something like the strip you can find by clicking on the below elephant.

David has a new comic every Thursday in the Pioneer Press, which appears about a week later on his Corner Comic website here.

Note that reader letters about the City Pages Comix Issue can now be seen here.

Note also that Steinlicht, renaissance man that he is, is currently obsessively-compulsively busy on his latest crop art masterpiece, and is blogging about it. David also maintains the Crop Art website, where you can see his previous works in the medium, as well as works by other crop artisans.