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Category Archives: Jam Comics
Page 4 and 5 of the September Jam
I’ll post some more of this since I missed a couple days…
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September Jam Page 3
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September Jam Page 2
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Conspiracy Jams Licensed Under the Creative Commons
I’ve licensed our jam comics under a license from the Creative Commons. This clarifies usage of the jam artwork by members and other people, basically allowing total freedom for non-commercial ventures using the work to anybody, and allowing members who participated in the jam to use it for whatever they want, commercially or non-commercially… read more about it below.
The jam comics of the Cartoonist Conspiracy are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Members of the Conspiracy who participated in the jams are welcome to use the images from the jams they participated in for commercial works as well.
Jam Comics on the Blog
In an effort to liven up this blog a bit, I’m going to start posting jam comics frequently one page at a time before they go into the gallery… that’s right, you get to read them here first. Even though we haven’t posted the last few months of jam comics, I’m going to start with this month’s jam, since the main character is so compelling and charismatic. Today, I’m going to post two images, since the first one is a cover… this month had a total of 17 pages on the theme… hm, I wasn’t there for the theme, but I think I know what it was… click on the thumbnails to view the pages.
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I’ll post a new page every day or so… if you’re jonesing for more, our old jams are archived in the gallery (as these jams will be after I post the entire month on the blog).
Cinco De Mayo Jam in Minneapolis
The next Minneapolis meeting of the Cartoonist Conspiracy is at the Spyhouse Thursday May 5th… Cinco De Mayo. The Minneapolis Cell of The International Cartoonist Conspiracy usually meets at 6:30pm on the first Thursday of each month at the Spyhouse, unless otherwise noted on the website. In addition, we meet the third Sunday of every month at Grumpy’s (May 15th this month).
Generally we meet, draw jam comics, drink caffeinated beverages, and socialize. Once we’re happy with the jam comics, we usually either go home or go get non-caffeinated beverages somewhere.
We’re going to do one 12 page extended jam on a random topic and whatever miscellaneous jams people want to work on this meeting. If you want to suggest a topic to possibly be drawn out of our bag of topics, you can post it here.
The last two months of jams have just been posted here and here. The Beatnik Brigade/Modern Day Voodoo/Comic Found on the Bus strip from March turned out really well, I think.
I’m planning on bringing at least one of the boxes of 24 hour comics we made for 24 Hour Comics Day to the meeting… if you want to buy one they are ten bucks. It is a limited edition of 100 boxes, each box contains 17 comics drawn in 24 hours on April 23-24 2005, and it will never be reprinted. Let me know if you want one in advance so I can bring it for you.
The meeting is at:
Spyhouse Coffee
2451 Nicollet Ave.
Minneapolis, MN
612.871.3177
MAP
BUS INFO
(Route 18 passes by The Spyhouse frequently)
Guide to the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection
Comics historian Bill Blackbeard donated much of his collection to Ohio State a while ago… they have some information about it online here.
A particularly interesting part of this guide is the image reference to old cartoons, MANY of them utterly forgotten… one panel only in most cases, unfortunately, but it can be quite a tease.
An example:
Circus Solly
George Frink
April 30, 1905
Just ran across a particularly interesting entry they provided some extra info on… the first jam comics?
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Crazy Quilt (various artists), 1914
Everett Lowry Quin Hall Lester J. Ambrose Charles Lederer Dean Cornell Frank King
Crazy Quilt was a full-page, sometimes interactive, Chicago Tribune feature that ran from April 12, 1914 to June 14, 1914. It consisted of untitled panel cartoons and the following series titles: And His Name Is Mr. Bones, Genial Gene, Simp Simpson, Old Doc Quack, Stone Age Stuff, Pinhead Pete, Hi Hopper, Freddy Frappe. Crazy Quilt was an unorthodox arrangement of strips and panels printed sideways, upside-down, criss-cross, etc. Notably, this feature used self-reflexivity; different artists working on individual strips interacted so that, for example: panel borders were breached by characters from one title entering a panel of another title, single panels that acted as the intersection between criss-crossing strips would include characters from both strips and would be incorporated into both storylines, etc.
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This topic is continued on the board here.