Just a reminder about my show this weekend.
The doors will be open at 3:00 PM on Saturday April 2nd.
We can guarantee a fine wine and great company.
Details are here:
http://www.vitkovskyfineart.com/announcements/April11.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151275738266973
http://www.cartoonblues.com
Thanks.
Andrey Feldshteyn
Mini-Comics Day / April 7000 BC Meeting | Saturday, April 9 | 1:00–5:30 | Lomas Tramway Library | 908 Eastridge NE | Albuquerque, NM
Grab your pencils and pens. Make a comic. In one afternoon.
7000 BC will present New Mexico’s only Mini-Comics Day event on Saturday, April 9 from 1:00–5:30 at the Lomas Tramway Library in Albuquerque.
No rules, no formats, no required subject matter — only fellow creators and resources to help and inspire you. Show off New Mexico’s creativity and create a comic that you can print and distribute.
Some supplies will be available and there are photocopiers at the library. You can prepare yourself by reading about Mini-Comics Day at the official site and checking out the resources. If you plan on participating, please send an email.
This will also serve as 7000 BC’s monthly meeting.
That’s right. Now that we’ve reached our zenith at 100 jams, it’s time to travel back in time and upload some jams that I may have failed to scan on time. For our first feature, let’s get in our time machine and zap ourselves all the way back to February of 2011. Minneapolis was a cold, desolate wasteland, Grimalkin publisher Jordan Shiveley had just moved into town, still a little wet behind the ears, and nations in the Middle East were peacefully overthrowing their despotic rulers. It was a simpler time.
The theme this month is:
Savage Love in Egypt
Click image for pdf — a coffee-stained 3.6 mb!
Please enjoy.
Want to participate in Mini-Comics Day, but have no idea how to make a mini-comic? Well, Mini-Comics Day sponsor Wet Paint will be hosting a q&a session with some Conspirators (Zander Cannon, Athena Currier, Danno Klonowski and myself) this Thursday to talk about making mini-comics. We’ll be bringing along examples and we’ll have copies of our How To Make Mini-Comics mini-comic textbook for folks to read and assemble. Hope to see you there!
Wet Paint
Thursday, March 24th 5:30-7:30PM
1684 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105
651.698.6431
email: info(at)wetpaintart.com
There’s a little over three weeks to Mini-Comics Day (April 9th)!
We currently have twelve sites listed around the world planning events for Mini-Comics Day. If you are interested in hosting an event, let me know… email me at webmaster(at)cartoonistconspiracy.com.
There are some new resources available on the Mini-Comics Day website that event planners and participants may find useful, including customizable promotional posters and flyers.
We also have templates available on that page that you can print or provide to people as an easy guide to lay out their mini-comics with (for 8-page and 16-page minis). Inexperienced mini-comics creators may want to print out the How to Make Mini-Comics mini-comic.
If you use facebook, you may want to check out the Mini-Comics Day facebook page.
For the Minneapolis event we plan to have an after-party event where we will give out a prize for the local “Best Mini-Comic of the Day,” judged by three local non-cartoonists; author of Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Britt Aamodt, Big Brain Comics proprietor Michael Drivas, and Altered Esthetics founder Jamie Schumacher. The prize will include a copy of the book Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, courtesy of Big Brain Comics.
We also hope to also include the comics submitted for judging in an upcoming gallery show at Altered Esthetics… more information about that soon.
Please do spread the word.
Submit! Shlubmit! Blubmit!
Germ Warfare submissions have started rolling in, and so far this is shaping up to be a fabulously entertaining book. If you have ideas but haven’t gotten them on paper yet, fear not–you still have some time, but the April 26th deadline will be here before we know it.
If anyone still needs the specs, here is the link again: http://lupiloops.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/germ-warfare-call-for-submissions/. Please take a couple minutes to read through the submission info, as this is different from most anthologies.
As discussed on The Geek Report’s St. Paddy’s Day Show, Altered Esthetics’ is turning 7 this spring, and is requesting art donations for the silent auction. (specs listed here)
As you know, AE and the Cartoonist Conspiracy go together like peanut butter and honey. Show your support by donating a mini-comic, or a book, or a small print or painting! Your work will be exhibited during the celebration and auctioned off, and auctioned off so that the gallery can raise money for another year of group exhibits, workshops, the solo exhibitions program, and other exciting stuff.
Tune into The Geek Report each week for more upcoming events and opportunities.
Altered Esthetics is a nonprofit 501(c)3 community gallery run by artists, for artists. Bringing together dimensional art, music, poetry, performance art, and film, we are one of the most creatively diverse galleries in the Twin Cities. Altered Esthetics holds group-shows so that multiple artists of all backgrounds can display their perspectives on a given theme, and works to sustain the historical role of artists as a true voice of society through exhibits, events, services, workshops, and programs.
If you would like more information about this event or Altered Esthetics, please visit http://www.alteredesthetics.org
Gentlemen,
If you or your friends happen to be in San Francisco this April, I will be happy to see you at my personal show in downtown.
The doors will be open at 3:00 PM on Saturday April 2nd.
We can guarantee a fine wine and great company.
Details are here:
http://www.vitkovskyfineart.com/announcements/April11.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151275738266973
http://www.cartoonblues.com
Thanks!
Andrey Feldshteyn
Saturday, March 19 | 1:30–3:30 | Santa Fe Library Main Branch | Santa Fe, NM
The March 7000 BC meeting will be held Saturday, March 19 in the Community Room at the Santa Fe Library Main Branch, 1:30–3:30.
Show us comics you’ve made or are making, bring projects to work on, take time to collaborate, visit with your fellow comics creators. We’ll head over to Flying Star at the Railyard after for food and socializing.
The library is in downtown Santa Fe. There’s limited, paid (but cheap) parking in the back, street and lot parking around, and possibly the lot across Washington Street at the First Interstate Building will be open. There’s a stop at the library for the Santa Fe Pick-Up and the meeting’s timed for those taking the train from Albuquerque.
New members and those interested in making comics are always welcome. Please send an email with any questions.
I just ran across a thoughtful review of Britt Aamodt’s recent book Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists here.