Just a few weeks late posting this one. Much thanks goes out to Kevin Cannon for making me look like a lazy tool for not getting this up sooner. Anyhow, enjoy the St. Paul cell’s offering: Robocop vs. Bears vs. China vs. GM: The Battle for Detroit (Rock City!)
Click image for pdf — a modest 6.2 mb.
Yep, it’s a twofer this month. Can you stand it? I think you can stand it:
Irish Double Date Star Trek, or Lupi Gets Punched in the Face by a Republican
Click image for pdf — an insurmountable 3.9 mb!
AND…
Internet Sensations
Click image for pdf — a disreputable 2.5 mb!
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    In addition to a shorter jam this month, we will also be taking part in the http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/ project where an artist does a recreation of a comic cover. ANY comic cover, not just the “classics” like AMAZING FANTASY #15 or something.
      The guidelines are pretty simple to follow if you want to submit your cover to be posted on the Covered blog (http://www.robertgoodin.com/submission.html).
     Bring one(or more) of your favorite covers to redo, or to share with the group (yes, everyone gets their comics back). Other comics will be there to parooze as well if you forget to bring one. 11×17 paper will also be provided, but feel free to bring any kind of drawing surface you prefer.
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
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 hosts our monthly jam meetings at Diamond’s… they will be supplying us with a big old plate of pastries or something. Thanks fellas!
I failed to scan in last month’s St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam in a timely manner, so you will get double your pleasure this month! Beware that each jam is a PDF that weighs in at a respectable 4 MB. The theme for the April 2009 jam was “The Fury of Facebook and Lost in the Wilderness.” May’s jam is entitled “Wolverine On Ice and Off Broadway Batman: The Superheroes Take to the Stage.”
Enjoy!
This month we are not beholden to a particular theme since the Altered Esthetics theme of the month is RESIDENT ARTISTS.Â
So, basically we have to do the best work we can.Â
Or we can use the ultra-classy idea Kriske came up for when describing the cosplayers at the recent Microcon:  “UNDERGROUND F**K SOCIETY OF SUPER NERDS”
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
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 hosts our monthly jam meetings at Diamond’s… they will be supplying us with a big old plate of pastries or something. Thanks fellas!
Join the St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell and create a jam comic! It’s easy and fun! Just bring some drawing utensils, an idea for the jam, and a few bucks to get a tasty beverage — the baristas really do appreciate that.
The jam will start promptly at 6:30 and run until…whenever.
The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted here sooner rather than later.
To join us come to:
Cosmic’s Coffee Shoppe
189 Snelling Ave N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
(Northwest corner of Snelling and Selby)
More not than often we head on over to grab a brew at:
O’Gara’s Bar and Grill
164 Snelling Ave N
St. Paul, MN 55104
(Southeast corner of Snelling and Selby)
Any questions? Ideas for the jam? Please discuss on our message board.
We hope to see you!
A comic drawn on 3 x 3″x16″ strips of paper and then PS together. A lot of us felt that the limitations of the format helped us create some great work.
Now available for download — Storytime Theatre, the jam comic produced at the April 7000 BC meeting. Like all our jams, just when you think you know where it’s going ….
Plus, it’s only 1 MB. Keeping our file sizes manageable — that’s how we roll in The Land of Enchantment.
And here’s a photo from the meeting. Somebody’s surely working on the jam in this picture.
Another great turnout! This is the third month in a row that the St. Paul jam has occupied multiple booths at Cosmic’s! Thanks to all that participated!
And for those that showed up, you witnessed history. The LARPers that once shared the coffee shop with us cartoonists every third Thursday of the month were BANISHED from Cosmic’s! I’d like to say it was a game of chance, or some sort of contest, but it turns out there was some legal issues involved. However, no more vampires! No more makeup! And no more horrible Andrew Dice Clay impersonations! The Cartoonist Conspiracy St. Paul Cell wins!
For our documented rivalry with the Cosmic’s Coffee LARPers/vampires, click on the links below:
June and July 2008 Jams
August 2008 Jam
February 2009 Jam
Otherwise please enjoy our latest jam. It’s titled “Where Have All the Vampires Gone?” Yes, we are rather happy about this development. Be forewarned, the PDF is a whopping 5.7 MB!
If you’d like to participate in the next St. Paul jam, just show up on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 to Cosmic’s Coffee! Bring yourself and bring your friends, by force if you have to! Cartoonists have forced their friends to show up before! What’s stopping you?
Two 7000 BC jam comics for you, catching up on the past few months — Blacker Than Black from February and Gold Banjos from March. Download the PDFs and enjoy!