Category Archives: Jam Comics

Jam in Minneapolis This Thursday! (February 5th)

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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.

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!

CCSF San Francisco Jam on Thursday Jan 29th, 2009

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Hey artist,

The second Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco meeting of 2009 is on Thursday Jan 29th at the Church St. Café at 6:30pm.

Info: The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco (CCSF) meets twice a month at 6:30 pm on the second and last Thursday of the month at the CHURCH STREET CAFé in San Fransisco CA.

WHEN: Thursday Jan 29, 2009 6:30 pm to usually sometimes between 9 and 10 pm.
WHERE: Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114
MATERIALS: Bring your favorite drawing tools, paper, etc.

St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy’s January 2009 Jam!

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Good God has it been cold up here! We had been hovering around the minus 20 degree mark all this week and cartoonist STILL showed up to the jam! More than the signature page would have you believe as well! So, what’s keeping you from showing up to the next one?

Is it our long standing feud with the LARPers? Don’t worry. We have a truce. Is it because you have better things to do? Like what? I doubt there is anything better to do than to travel to St. Paul and create a jam comic. So, quit kidding yourself and show up to the next one!

If you’d like to participate in the next St. Paul jam, just show up on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 to Cosmic’s Coffee! Bring yourself and bring your friends, by force if you have to! Some cartoonists forced there friends to show up last time! What’s stopping you?

Want to see what we do while at the jams? Click on the image towards the bottom of this post to view our latest creation!

With President elect Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony this Tuesday, we decided to pay tribute to this historic event. Also, there is a guest appearance by your favorite neighborhood web slinger!

Check it out!

JAM THIS THURSDAY IN MINNEAPOLIS (January 8th)

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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.

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!

San Francisco Jam and Sketch Crawl info

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The first Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco meeting of 2009 is on Thursday Jan 8th at the Church St. Café at 6:30pm.

Info: The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco (CCSF) meets twice a month at 6:30 pm on the second and last Thursday of the month at the CHURCH STREET CAFé in San Fransisco CA.

WHEN: Thursday Jan 8, 2009 6:30 pm to usually sometimes between 9 and 10 pm.
WHERE: Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114
MATERIALS: Bring your favorite drawing tools, paper, etc.

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Sketch Crawl is January 10th, 2009. Information can be found on the official site http://sketchcrawl.com/ No starting location has been set yet.

Toni, Brian and Mike might be going as a group if anyone is interested.

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Anyone interested in helping scan and prep the comics drawn in 2007 so they can be posted on-line and/or printed?

St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy December 2008!

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We were all tired of the holidays. We were all tired of the cold? Also, we were all tired of the pressure to consume? Thus, a record number of participants descended upon Cosmics Coffee to create “The Return of Krampus 2008!” However, Steve Stwalley suggested that it had something to do with my bitching last month about nobody showing up to the jam. Perhaps that’s the case, who knows?

If you’d like to participate in the next St. Paul jam, just show up on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 to Cosmic’s Coffee! Bring yourself and bring your friends, by force if you have to!

Want to see what we do while at the jams? Click on the image towards the bottom of this post to view our latest creation!

As with every Christmas at the St. Paul cell, Krampus graced us with his presence. Want to see last year’s Krampus offering? Click here. Don’t know what Krampus is? Click here.

St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam Comic – November 2008

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I must say, turn out for this jam was a bit sparse. Some might say that can be expected due to the holidays. You know what I say? COME ON!!! PARTICIPATE! If Ryan Dow, Jon Sloan, and Mike Toft were all able to make it to Cosmic’s this last Thursday, then YOU certainly can make it to the next jam! What’s that? You don’t live near Twin Cities? Well, you can be excused. As for the rest of you, barring any previously accepted excuses, COME ON!!! PARTICIPATE!

In fact, this marks the first time that none of the original members of the St. Paul Cell didn’t make it! Shame on Bud Burgy and Daniel J. Olson! What the hell were the two of these guys doing that gave them the idea that they didn’t need to show up for the jam!? Think you’re special? Geez!

Still no word on the status of the Milwaukee Cartoonist Conspiracy/Cream City cell. Hey, McCarthy and Amado, I know it’s getting cold and all, but we’re still waiting as are the stray Milwaukee cartoonists!

For the sake of curiousity, I wonder what other groups regularly post on this blog other than Minneapolis, St. Paul, San Francisco, and 7000 BC (Albuquerque/Santa Fe). Anybody else out there? I vaguely remember seeing some news from Columbus, Ohio earlier this year. Doesn’t Chicago have a cell? The third largest city in America has a cell and we don’t hear anything out of them either? WTF? COME ON!!! PARTICIPATE!

I’ve posted our latest jam comic below. With Thanksgiving right around the corner and the country nursing a political hangover, this month’s title was “A Democratic Thanksgiving.” In order to view the jam, you can click on the image below, which will link you to the PDFs directly

Want to start up your own cell? It’s easy! Just follow this link: Start a Conspiracy in Your Community. Are you one of the many rival cells that we trash? Perhaps you are a LARPer and would like exact some “internet revenge.” If so, maybe you should do something about it and post something here.

Footnotes:

COME ON!!!! PARTICIPATE!

Minneapolis Jam: November 2008

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This week saw the death of two legends: a man who wrote about dinosaurs, and the vice presidential candidacy of a woman who didn’t believe in them. The Minneapolis Cartoonist Conspiracy believed that these stalwart figures should be honored in the best way we know how: a jam comic about performance art.

The Art of Performance: A Loving Tribute to Michael Crichton


Click image for pdf — a whopping 7 mb!