Here’s the eighth big jam… this one is from June 2006. Click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf.
The themes are “Apocalypso,” and… ah… I dunno. “I am the Walrus,” maybe? Anyone know?
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Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On Part 7
Here’s the seventh big jam… this one is from May 4th 2006. Click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf.
The themes are “Babies Can’t Do Anything,” “The Rattlesnake Twins,” “Betrayal,” “IQ Tests,” “Couch Jumpers” and “A Mother’s Love.”
Below is a small jpg of the lovely instructional sign Big Time Attic made for this particular jam.
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On Part 6
Our posting of the missing jams is now resuming (three more big jams and many miscellaneous pages remain to post)… Here’s the sixth big jam… I believe this one is from April 2006 (although it may have been the June one… someone please confirm)… click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf.
The themes are “Tales from the Vatican Vault” and “Country Music.”
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin On Part 5
Here’s the fifth big jam… this one is from March 2006… click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf. Again around 2MB.
Only one topic this March… in solidarity with our Danish cartooning comrades I bring you “Fun With Fundamentalism.”
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On Part 4
Here’s the fourth big jam… this one is from February 2006… click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf. This one is just over 2MB.
The themes for this month were “Süperman Vs. Albert Einstein” and “People I’ll Never Sleep With.”)
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On Part 3
Here’s the third big jam… this one is from December 2005… click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf. This one is 1.965 MB.
The themes for this month were “Sneaky Pete Beats the Devil” and “The Dogs of War.”
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On Part 2
Here’s the second big jam… again, I’ll be posting these for the next week. I’m not sure which month this one was done in… lets call it August 2005… I’m pretty sure it is either that or October (if anyone knows definitively, please let me know). Click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf. This one is 2.177 MB.
The themes for this month were “Godzilla Vs. Osama Bin Laden” and “Fluffy and Nice: A Fluffy and Nice Story For Children” and “Pluto is No Longer a Planet.”
Whole Lotta Scanning Goin’ On
We’ve let the Minneapolis jam scanning get horribly behind over the last year… I’ve decided to see what I can do to remedy some of that this week… watch the blog for a whole lotta comics this week!
Instead of posting the individual jam pages at this point, I’ve decided to post the individual months as PDF files… these will ultimately be available in the gallery in both low-res versions (for viewing online) and hi-res versions (for anyone downloading to reconfigure and print anywhere they want under our creative commons license… note that if you participated in the jam, it can be for non-commercial or commercial purposes… otherwise, it’s just non-commercial).
All scans are greyscale, unedited as-is from the original pages… print versions will be 300 DPI.
Here’s the first one from July 2005… click the image to grab the low-res, reader’s pdf. This one is just over 2MB. The themes for that month were “Obscure Stories About Blues Musicians” and “16 Pages to Live.”
Also note that I just uploaded the first 6 months of jams from the Rice, MN cell… you can grab that here. That one weighs in at 7MB.
Cartoonist Conspiracy Mentioned in Pioneer Press
There’s a great comic strip by David Steinlicht and Julio Ojeda-Zapata in the St. Paul Pioneer Press today about Free Comic Book Day… you can see the whole thing here. Best of all, it shows a bunch of characters from local cartoonists, and makes a nice mention of the Cartoonist Conspiracy in the panel shown below.
Pictured in the panel, clockwise from left, would be the little girl in Zander Cannon’s “He Becomes Who Kills Him: A Horror Story” mini-comic from the Lutefisk Sushi Volume B box, one of Sean Tenhoff’s Bean Men, Bob Lipski’s Uptown Girl, my character Soapy the Chicken, and one of Ken Avidor’s demons.
The strip also mentions Twin Cities locals Sam Hiti, Ryan Kelly, Dan Jurgens, Patrick Gleason and, of course, Charles Schulz.
Thanks much to Conspirator Steinlicht and Mr. Ojeda-Zapata for the plug!
Don’t Miss MicroCon!
Today if you’re in the Twin Cities you won’t want to miss MicroCon, the second largest comics convention in the area (the first biggest being FallCon, which is put on by the same folks in the Fall).
Hosted by the Midwest (formerly Minnesota) Comic Book Association, the Twin Cities conventions are no ordinary comic conventions… for one thing they offer free table space to any cartoonist who requests one. This is a rare and generous thing for a convention to offer, indeed.
As a result, you have a huge number and variety of cartoonists doing all sorts of comics… much like the Conspiracy, participating cartoonists include everything from seasoned professionals to rank amateurs… drawing every sort of comic you can imagine… manga, superheroes, funny animals, smut, and even stuff that doesn’t neatly fall into a genre.
Beyond that, the conventions always have a good vibe (cartoonists not having to hustle to make enough bread to cover a table space definitely are a part of that, along with the free food for creators, and the general friendly respect given to all creators by the members of the MNCBA). Really, it’s gotta be one of the best conventions in the country to be a creator at.