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Ted Anderson posted a nice review of David Steinlicht’s In This Corner compilation over at examiner.com. Thanks, Ted!
“Cornered!” is available at Big Brain, The Source, Frame Ups, Common Good Books and the bookstore at the Minnesota History Center — and online at cornercomic.com.
Local Hero Kevin Cannon has been featured in a couple of in depth interviews recently promoting his brilliant new graphic novel from Top Shelf, Far Arden. Here is the scoop from The Big Time Attic Blog:
I recently chatted with comics journalist and long-time Far Arden supporter Tom Spurgeon about life, love, and comics, as part of the CR Sunday Interview series. So if you want to learn about the time I lived in a theme park for three weeks, or get a behind-the-scenes look at a Far Arden easter egg, then this is the interview for you.
And I got so caught up with the MoCCA convention and the launch party that I failed to post about this interview with Alex Dueben at Comic Book Resources. Alex and I get down and dirty about the creation of T-Minus and Far Arden, and how I ended up at Top Shelf.
Drink with conspirator Ken Avidor this Thursday! Here is the info posted at The Cucking Stool…
Thursday will be an extra special Drinking Liberally featuring Ken Avidor and some of his cartoon/illustrator buddies. Ken promises to bring along his sketch book and pen.
As most of you know, Ken has done several graphics for the Cucking Stool over the past couple of years. He skewers Michele Bachmann with some regularity and writes for Dump Michele Bachmann. Recently, Ken’s work in sketching for Law and Politics at the Republican National Convention won him a Society of Professional Journalists award.
One of Ken’s recent projects was to do the cover of the first issue of False Witness, Bill Prendergast’s graphic retelling of the Michele Bachmann story:
False Witness was noted recently in Talking Points Memo. And the dialogue is genuine Michele Bachmann, too!
We’ll have some copies of the comic available for you to buy, boys and girls, and Ken will autograph the cover if you like. It would make a great gift, especially for the right winger in your life.
We meet six to nine or so at the 331 Club in Northeast Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Conspirator and publishing giant BUD BURGY has not only started a new blog (http://budburgy.wordpress.com), but he has begun work on the CONTINUITY GUY graphic novel (written by CONTINUITY GUY creator Danno Klonowski, and rendered with love by Bud) and promises to update a new page every week! The first page is up now (http://budburgy.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/continuity-guy/cgweb-2/)!
Great work, Bud!
Also, be sure to check out and BUY one of the MUSCLES AND FIGHTS anthologies Bud put out over the last couple years:
MUSCLES AND FIGHT: http://www.lulu.com/content/655494
MUSCLIER AND FIGHTIER:Â (Hey Bud, where’s MUSCLIER AND FIGHTIER go???)
MUSCLIEST AND FIGHTIEST: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/muscles-fights-3/2373634
MUSCLES AND FRIGHTS: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/muscles-and-frights/4166279
Speaking of local hero, Kevin Cannon… Kevin posted a hilarious account of his attempt at the 288-Hour comic that resulted in his soon-to-be-bestseller from Top Shelf Far Arden (shipping next month!). I have a guest-starring role in the strip… and if you were ever at a Minneapolis 24-Hour Comics Day event, you may be in there too… Go read it here!
Hey Minneapolis cartoonists…
A couple Saturdays ago I discovered a leak in my basement, so I turned to our old friend the Google search for a plumber. Somehow this lead me to www.eriknelsonplumbing.com .
Anyway, I called Erik and he agreed to waste a Saturday fixing my ancient plumbing…FOR MONEY!!!
AND HE’LL FIX YOUR PLUMBING FOR MONEY TOO! And he’ll do an AMAZING job at reasonable rates (and for anyone who has actually had to pay for a plumber, you’ll understand how important that is).
Why post about this on the Conspiracy website? Cause as it turned out not only was Erik a plumber, but he had attended his first Cartoonist Conspiracy (MPLS cell) meeting a few weeks earlier!
Crazy small world.
So remember…when you’re in need of COMICS, check out www.nelsonerik.com
And when you need a PLUMBER, check out www.eriknelsonplumbing.com
Erik happily provides both.
He’ll also provide to world soon a new comic WALKABOUT #1–check ou his website for more info.
Conspirator David Steinlicht has regular gig at the Pioneer Press, so he couldn’t submit to the recent City Pages Comix Issue. If he could have, his submission may have looked something like the strip you can find by clicking on the below elephant.
David has a new comic every Thursday in the Pioneer Press, which appears about a week later on his Corner Comic website here.
Note that reader letters about the City Pages Comix Issue can now be seen here.
Note also that Steinlicht, renaissance man that he is, is currently obsessively-compulsively busy on his latest crop art masterpiece, and is blogging about it. David also maintains the Crop Art website, where you can see his previous works in the medium, as well as works by other crop artisans.
Hey guys, this is Vanesa Littlecrow W. letting you know that the 2008 edition of Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide To Comics is now out at local comic book stores across the nation. I just wanted to let you the conspirators Lori Kozlowski did an absolutely outstanding interview of me. To balance out my enormous ego, there is a lot of awesome artwork and features that are sure to entertain. Yes, I did mention the Cartoonist Conspiracy. 😉
Also, the Rice Cartoonist Conspiracy is meeting tomorrow at 7:00 pm the VAS Littlecrow Studios/old Rice Print Shop at 310 Division St S, Rice, MN 56367. Need info? Call 320-492-0475
Finally, I have a silly contest of little consequence with silly prizes for anyone who is interested in dinner and a drawing. It ends on Friday because I’m traveling on Saturday.
Cheers!
Below: Danno getting interviewed at Diamond’s.
Blurry pics from the Lutefisk Sushi Volume C opening courtesy of Tom Kaczynski, who writes about the show here. You’ll also want to check out Tom’s website, as it is very cool.
