Monthly Archives: July 2007

Scott McCloud

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Good news Bay Area, on August 23rd, Scott McCloud will bring his 50 State book tour to the The Cartoon Art Museum. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like he will be doing any of his lecture material, but an informal question and answer session is better than nothing. Actually when I checked Scott’s site last month this stop wasn’t even listed. If you want to go, make your reservations asap.

I just noticed Scott is also appearing at Comic Relief on August 19th and August 22nd at Inforum. Any news anyone might have about these events would be appreciated. Damn I wish he was doing a public lecture in NorCal:

“The Making Comics 50 State Tour:
An Evening with Scott McCloud

Thursday, August 23, 2007
7:00 – 9:00pm

$5 General Admission, FREE for Cartoon Art Museum Members
Please call (415) CAR-TOON, ext. 314 for reservations

To celebrate the HarperCollins release of Making Comics, author and comics scholar Scott McCloud and his family are visiting all 50 states (plus a country or three) from September 2006 to September 2007. The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host the award-winning cartoonist for a special appearance on Thursday, August 23, 2007. McCloud will take part in an informal Question-and-Answer session beginning at 7:00pm with a booksigning to follow.

Admission to this event is $5 for the general public and free for members of the Cartoon Art Museum. Seating is limited. Please call (415) CAR-TOON, ext. 314 for reservations.”

Comics Art Show in Albert Lea THIS SUNDAY

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It’s a bit of a drive from Minneapolis, but definitely worth it. Zander and I, as well as Puny artists and Conspiracy members have art in the show.

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 5, 5-7pm

Here’s the press release from Maxeem:

“Panel, Line and Letter: Black and White Selections from Modern
Widwest Comics”
August 5th – 30th (08/05 – 08/30)

Albert Lea Art Center
242 South Broadway
Albert Lea, MN 56007
(507) 373-5665

Free to the public.

Maxeem curates for the first time to celebrate his Minnesota comic brethren. Through the month of August, original pages by over a dozen Minneapolis and greater-state cartoonists will be on display in the historic opera palace of Albert Lea. See the frontier of the artform through the culture-piercing eyes of Steve Stwalley, Will Dinski, Kevin Cannon, Tim Sievert, Dank!, and many more. Opening on Sunday the 5th from 5:00-7:00PM.

ERIC TRUBUTE–THURSDAY, FRAMES

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HEY ALL,

REMINDER:
Thursday’s meeting at Diamonds is a PERFECT opportunity to bring your submissions for the ERIC LAPPEGARD tribute book in for KEVIN at BIG TIME ATTIC to scan them.
I, DANNO, will then take them and prepare them for hanging at ALTERED ESTHETICS gallery next month, but you can help me out in one very EASY way:
Please, if possible, bring a FRAME along to display your art in when you drop off your originals at Big Time Attic.
If you can’t provide a frame, I’ll get one for you,but it’s VERY INEXPENSIVE to pick up a frame at a THRIFT STORE or a GOODWILL(thats where I get mine).
Also, I’ll be painting all the frames BLACK, so even if you find an old frame that fits your art at a thrift store that’s an awful color, I’ll be making it real pretty-like for public display.
Otherwise, the deadline is August 15th.
Thanks for being a part of this. Eric’s parentsgreatly appreciate everything we’re doing.
–Danno
staplegenius at yahoo.com

Eric Lappegard’s Final Transmission

comics, Eric Lappegard

The final week of my friend Eric Lappegard’s semi-autobiographical comic strip Schmapples, drawn the week before his ultimately fatal car accident, can now be seen on his website (as can the comic strip he had in the Comix issue of City Pages the week he died). I recommend reading Schmapples starting from the beginning if you haven’t already read them. You won’t want to miss them. Eric gave himself one hell of a conclusion. Life can be terrible, but sometimes art can be perfect.

Please note that we’ll have a complete Schmapples collection available at the benefit show for Eric’s family on September 8th at Altered Esthetics.

REMINDER–call to artists for LAPPEGARD tribute/benefit anthology

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Hey all,

This weekend would be a perfect opportunity to work on a piece fro Eric’s benefit/tribute book.
And, if you live in the Minneapolis area, be sure to bring you original to the CONSPIRACY meeting next THURSDAY at DIAMONDS coffee shop.

Fellow cartoonist, cyclist, and all around wonderful person Eric Lappegard passed away on July 23rd, 2007 from complications after a car accident that had left him paralyzed earlier this month. Eric was a charming fella, full of passion and enthusiasm, and talented as hell.
Please take the time to check out some of his wonderful comics and get a glimpse of what we’ve lost. www.ericlappegard.com
Eric’s several communities of friends here in Minneapolis are putting together a day-long benefit/celebration of the life of Eric on SEPTEMBER 8th, 2007 which will include an “Alley Cat” bike race, an art show at Altered Esthetics gallery(www.alteredesthetics.com), silent auction, music, and more. All money will go towards Eric’s parents to help pay for the remaining hospital bills, etc.
We here at the Cartoonists Conspiracy are doing our part by putting together an anthology and the art show- AND THAT’S WHERE YOU COME IN!
The anthology we are now accepting submissions for is to be called: “ALLEY CAT: CATS ON BIKES(with Ninjas) a tribute to Eric Lappegard” The anthology’s themes and your submissions are encouraged to be as wild and varied as Eric’s interests(cats, bikes, ninjas, veganism, beer, or ANY COMBINATION THEREOF!).
THE SPECIFICS:
1) Contributions of one or two pages of comics/pin-ups. The book will be BLACK AND WHITE. The DEADLINE is AUGUST 15th, 2007. PERIOD!
2) In addition to the book we will be auctioning off ALL the original art in the name of Eric. We must insist in order to contribute, you must be willing to have your original auctioned off.
3) The final size of the book will be the mini-comic “standard” of 8.5″x5.5″. Your image will fit a 8″x5″ area. Think proportionately!
4) Kevin and Zander Cannon of BIG TIME ATTIC have graciously offered to scan any art work not submitted via email or disk. (and in fact, unless you live outside the MPLS/ST PAUL area, I think they’d prefer to scan to keep a consistency.)
Their offices are located at: Big Time Attic 1618 Central Ave NE, Suite 216 Minneapolis, MN 55413 (ph) 612-521-7423 (fx) 612-605-9216
4.5) For outlanders– Scanned images must be at 300DPI greyscale or 800DPI B&W We encourage you to pre-size to 8″x5″.
They can be emailed to: Kevin at bigtimeattic.com
5) All orginal art must also be dropped-off/recieved via mail to BIG TIME ATTIC at the above address by the Friday, August 31st.
6) All contributors WILL receive a copy of the anthology, but we ask you consider either buying more anthologys/drinks/original art/prints at the tribute party since all money goes to Eric’s parents to pay for medical bills, etc.
Also we strongly encourage donations directly via:
Account of Eric Lappegard
Voyager Bank
500 Marschall Road
Shakopee, MN 55379
So there you have it!
Get that ink to paper and get it to us as soon as you can. Any questions can be address to any of the below emails. Also, PLEASE forward this to any and all cartoonist friends/associates you have. And thank you!
Steven Stwalley– Steven at stwalley.com
Kevin Cannon– Kevin at bigtimeattic.com
Danno Klonowski– staplegenius at yahoo.com

Please Help us Gather Photos of and Art by Eric

Eric Lappegard

We are collecting any artwork we can find of Eric’s for inclusion in the upcoming anthology, and to house on his website. If you have any of his artwork and can scan it or loan it to us to scan, it would be much appreciated. Please send it to steven at stwalley.com, or contact me there to arrange something else. Thanks much.

We are also collecting photos of Eric. Please read the below for that.

Hi,

I’m a (biking) friend of Eric’s, and you and I have never met. But we’re compiling photographs of Eric doing things that he loved as a gift for his parents…to give them something to look back on their son being with his friends, happy.

If you could, in any way, send out a call to his Cartoonist Conspiracy friends for photos of Eric, it would be greatly appreciated. I just don’t know anyone he drew with, or knew through his art.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I hope you are doing about as well as the rest of us.

Thanks,

Kelly
mplsminx at gmail.com

Eric Lappegard Funeral on July 28th

Eric Lappegard, Events

I just recieved this information from Eric’s friend Mary Rogers:

Eric’s funeral is this Saturday (July 28) at 10 am at Augustana Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, SD. A family visitation/memorial will be held at Miller’s funeral home Friday, July 27 from 5-7 pm. Eric will be buried at Hill’s of Rest Cemetery. Cindy Lappegard is offering the Lappegard home for out of town friends. Please nobody pay for a hotel room, their house otherwise will go unoccupied. Otherwise, there’s my parents home, and Erin Strait’s. Cindy would like a bicycle procession to ride in front of the hearse from the church to the cemetery. (It’s a haul, but we’re all in shape, right?) I think this is a great idea, we’ll wrangle up some bikes in SF if you can’t bring your own. Cindy says she will also post this same
information on the caringbridge site, so check that in case I get something wrong here. And I think we all should find time to have a drink at the Top Hat, Eric’s favorite Sioux Falls bar. Here’s Cindy’s email: clappegard2 at msn.com if you want to stay at the Lappegard house. Don’t be shy, she’s a very sweet woman who really wants his friends to be there. Sounds like we’re all on for the benefit.

-Mary
maryrogers37 at hotmail.com

Augustana Lutheran Church
MAP
235 N Prairie Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
(605) 338-1672

Muscles and Fights Volume 2 Looking For Submissions (Deadline September 1)

Opportunities

The MUSCLES AND FIGHTS 2: MUSCLIER & FIGHTIER anthology is currently looking for submissions. The first volume is great, and has been getting a lot of favorable press… here’s the info:

We would like to invite you to be part of what is sure to be the most memorable clashing of fists and steel since gladiators were led into the Coliseum to meet their end.

After a successful first volume of Muscles & Fights, we’re ready to do it all over again, with even greater anticipation of turn-out.

If you would like us to consider your submission, simply contact us through our website www.musclesandfights.com or send an Email to budburgy at mac.com or amadosaurus at hotmail.com.

The deadline for Muscles & Fights volume 2 is September 1, 2007.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Your submission should be 6.625” x 10.25”, black & white (grey scale is considered black & white) with quarter inch borders on all sides… No Bleeds.

You should have 10 pages of story + 1 biopage (in total 11 pages!) that includes an image (illustration or photo) that represents you. The bio page is meant to promote or tell about yourself, so include any info you would like that pertains to that (example: website, name, contact, etc.). Keep this loosely designed, because we will be coming up with a layout to make them all consistent.

Each persons story will begin on the left hand page as you look at the book. Keep this in mind if you need your pages to be opposite of each other for any reason.

We accept two types of digital submissions, via Email or a mailed CD. In either case, the submission MUST adhere to the following:

300 dpi. Flattened .pdf (or .tiff). File names should indicate the name of your story and page numbers, for example; sasquatchmeetsabominalbot_m&f2_page1.tif. Mail your CD to the address below or Email your files to:

budburgy at mac.com or amadosaurus at hotmail.com.

Mailing address: 1930 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, 55105

All submissions must contain muscles and/or fights. How you wish to communicate those elements is where the fun comes in.

Some blurbs about the first volume of Muscles and Fights:

“Good idea, excellently executed. Great stuff.”
– Mike Everleth, Bad Lit

“This meal of a book left me fully satisfied and I think Burgy & Rodriguez have stumbled onto not only a concept that is rich enough for another installment, but a great way to showcase some extremely talented artists and writers.”
-Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News

“Muscles & Fights is an action packed extravaganza, that is full of the bravado that true macho men crave!”
-Jose Cabrera aka Crying Macho Man

The deadline for Muscles & Fights volume 2 is September 1, 2007
The release date for Muscles & Fights volume 2 is: October 6th, 2007

CALL TO ARTISTS: a tribute/benefit anthology for Eric Lappegard

Eric Lappegard, Events, Opportunities

Fellow cartoonist, cyclist, and all around wonderful person Eric Lappegard passed away on July 23rd, 2007 from complications after a car accident that had left him paralyzed earlier this month. Eric was a charming fella, full of passion and enthusiasm, and talented as hell. Please take the time to check out some of his wonderful comics and get a glimpse of what we’ve lost.

www.ericlappegard.com

Eric’s several communities of friends here in Minneapolis are putting together a day-long benefit/celebration of the life of Eric on SEPTEMBER 8th, 2007 which will include an “Alley Cat” bike race, an art show at Altered Esthetics gallery(www.alteredesthetics.com), silent auction, music, and more. All money will go towards Eric’s parents to help pay for the remaining hospital bills, etc.

We here at the Cartoonists Conspiracy are doing our part by putting together an anthology and the art show- AND THAT’S WHERE YOU COME IN!

The anthology we are now accepting submissions for is to be called: “ALLEY CAT: CATS ON BIKES(with Ninjas) a tribute to Eric Lappegard”

The anthology’s themes and your submissions are encouraged to be as wild and varied as Eric’s interests(cats, bikes, ninjas, veganism, beer, or ANY COMBINATION THEREOF!).

THE SPECIFICS:

1) Contributions of one or two pages of comics/pin-ups. The book will be BLACK AND WHITE.
The DEADLINE is AUGUST 15th, 2007. PERIOD!

2) In addition to the book we will be auctioning off ALL the original art in the name of Eric. We must insist in order to contribute, you must be willing to have your original auctioned off.

3) The final size of the book will be the mini-comic “standard” of 8.5″x5.5″.
Your image will fit a 8″x5″ area. Think proportionately!

4) Kevin and Zander Cannon of BIG TIME ATTIC have graciously offered to scan any art work not submitted via email or disk. (and in fact, unless you live outside the MPLS/ST PAUL area, I think they’d prefer to scan to keep a consistency.)

Their offices are located at: Big Time Attic 1618 Central Ave NE, Suite 216 Minneapolis, MN 55413 (ph) 612-521-7423 (fx) 612-605-9216

4.5) For outlanders– Scanned images must be at 300DPI greyscale or 800DPI B&W We encourage you to pre-size to 8″x5″. They can be emailed to: Kevin at bigtimeattic.com

5) All orginal art must also be dropped-off/recieved via mail to BIG TIME ATTIC at the above address by the Friday, August 31st.

6) All contributors WILL receive a copy of the anthology, but we ask you consider either buying more anthologys/drinks/original art/prints at the tribute party since all money goes to Eric’s parents to pay for medical bills, etc.

Also we strongly encourage donations directly via:
Account of Eric Lappegard Voyager Bank 500 Marschall Road Shakopee, MN 55379

So there you have it! Get that ink to paper and get it to us as soon as you can. Any questions can be address to any of the below emails. Also, PLEASE forward this to any and all cartoonist friends/associates you have. And thank you!

Steven Stwalley– Steven at stwalley.com
Kevin Cannon– Kevin at bigtimeattic.com
Danno Klonowski– staplegenius at yahoo.com

Sad news

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A posting today (July 23) from the Eric Blog from his hospital:

“I want to let everyone know who was thinking and praying for Eric, that he passed away this morning about 3 AM. We are very grateful for all the thoughts and prayers Eric received during this time.”

Eric shall be dearly missed.

We will keep you updated on the status of the benefit/celebration of Eric.