Category Archives: Jam Comics

24 Hour Comic Jam

This Thursday at 5pm, a group of 4 San Francisco Cartoonists will start a 24 hour comic jam. Similar to the super big mega official 24 Hour Comic Day that happens every year, except locally organized.

We have two people signed up for sure, and would like to host two more local cartoonists for the marathon, anyone interested can contact Doc@doctorpopular.com

This even will not supersede the October 7th 24 Hour Comic day event at Last Gasp Publishing, but is just something to tide some of us over until then.

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.

Jam War!

Jam War was a blast… much blood and ink was spilled, but many gorgeous pages crawled from the wreckage at the end of it. I wish I could post some, but can’t until after judging is completed.

We want to print a book of all the Minneapolis Jam War losers as a mini-comic, so email me if you want to participate in this mini. My team almost certainly will be included… we had a blast losing, though.

Thanks! to Danno for organizing!
Thanks! to Shad for handling everything computery!
Thanks! to Drivas for funding and involuntarily lending us all his lovely visage!
Thanks! to BTA for the paper!
Thanks! to Jeff Rathermel and Book Arts for giving us such a great space to work in!
Thanks! to Wet Paint for providing supplies and letting us stock up at a discount!
Thanks! to Reiner and Grumpy’s for the drinks and discounts!
Thanks! to Nat Gertler for conceiving and organizing the national event!