Monthly Archives: July 2007

Scott McCloud in Albuquerque

7000 BC, Events, Lessons

Wednesday, July 18 | 7:00 pm | The Art Center Design College | 5000 Marble St NE | Albuquerque, NM

Comics are changing fast, both in the kinds of stories they tell, and how their creators tell them. Thanks to the graphic novel movement, the manga invasion and the growth of webcomics, the story of comics in America is more exciting and unpredictable than ever.

As a part of the 50-state tour for Making Comics, author and comics artist Scott McCloud will be stopping in Albuquerque to put all these trends into perspective in a fast-moving visual presentation at The Art Center Design College (map).

Presented by 7000 BC, North Fourth Art Center, and The Art Center Design College.

Tickets are $10 ($8 for students), available at the door.

Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition

Opportunities

Daniel Olson asked me to pass this on to y’all, so here it is… thanks Daniel!

Steve –

I know this is a bit late, but I was wondering if you’d be able to pass the
word along via the Cartoonist Conspiracy website about the Minnesota State
Fair Fine Arts Competition.

For anyone interested, the deadline for registering in the Minnesota State
Fair Fine Arts Competition is Monday, July 9th, 2007 11:59 PM. It is open to
ALL Minnesota artists regardless of age. Fortunately, you don’t need to know
what the dimensions of your art is going to be. Instead, you just need to
inform the committee what type of medium you’ll be using. The complete set of
rules are listed on the website, please read them carefully before
submitting an application. Also, if you register, you don’t necessarily have
to enter anything into the competition, although it would probably look bad
if you didn’t. However, you can’t enter anything without registering, so
please register by Monday, July 9th if you want to enter any artwork.
For more info please visit href=”http://www.mnstatefair.org/pages/fine_arts.html”>Minnesota State Fair
Fine Arts Competition.

– Daniel J. Olson

Jam in Minneapolis Tonight, July 5th

Events

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. Afterwards, we often have uncaffeinated beverages somewhere else. This month, people will also be working on submissions for the City Pages “True Tales of the Twin Cities” feature and dropping off submissions they have created over the last week or so. You can read more about that on the blog at these links:

http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/blog/2007/06/twin-cities-cartoonists-city-pages.php
http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/blog/2007/06/more-on-city-pages-comics.php
http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/blog/2007/06/couple-more-things-on-city-pages.php
http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/blog/2007/06/please-please-check-your-specs-for-city.php

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 is now officially hosting our monthly jam meetings at Diamond’s… they will be supplying us with a big old plate of pastries or something each month. Thanks fellas!