Rice Cartoonist Conspiracy – Schedule Change

Hey there,

This month’s meeting will take place TODAY from 5-7:00 pm at the Rice Print Shop and will be followed by the Burning Twig Festival bonfire at Vas’s place. None of the regulars will be able to make it on Saturday, so we apologize for the inconvenience with this sudden change of schedule.

Other News: December’s meeting will be canceled due to Vas being in Puerto Rico, Loki being insanely busy at the farm with equipment maintenance. Gypsy being in Minneapolis, Misty being car-free and Naomi being busy.

As of January 2008, The Rice Cartoonist Conspiracy meeting will change to a new time, and stay put at the same place, kind of. Meetings will take place from 6:30 pm to whenever the last person leaves, on the second Thursday of the month. Same fresh Pizza from Twin Pines and Jerry’s. Meetings will remain at the Rice Print Shop/VAS Littlecrow Studio building at 310 Division Street South in Rice, MN, but the meetings will return to the original and far more spacious 2nd Floor Space.

Thank you for understanding!

Questions? Call 320-492-0475

Leap of Faith at Susan Hensel Gallery

Two press releases for this weekend’s Leap of Faith gallery show Minneapolis Conspirator Andrey Feldshteyn is featured in:

Eden Prairie cartoonist Andrey Feldshteyn has been
invited to be a featured artist in LEAP OF FAITH 3:
casting shadows at the Susan Hensel Gallery, 3441
Cedar Ave S. in Minneapolis. His work will be shown in
depth.

Andrey Feldshteyn, born in Leningrad, Russia,worked
for years as a computer programmer until he entered
the Studio of Poster and Cartoon In 1974 and later
joined the Leningrad Cartoon Club. In the late 70’s
the Cartoon Club became in a sense a center of
underground humorous art. At that time in Russia it
was a unique art phenomenon. The artists looked for
the new way to express themselves, they developed a
specific graphic language.

In 80’s Andrey was a regular cartoon contributor to
the local press. His works started to appear around
the country, and later abroad (Germany, Israel,
Bulgaria etc).

In 1989 Andrey accepted a position of Art Editor in
the House of Humor and Satire. From 1991 till the
departure to the USA in 1993 he was the art director
in the children newspaper “Five Corners”. At the same
time he edited the humor column in “Neva Time”.

In 2003 Andrey was awarded a Grand Prize at the
International Cartoon Contest in the USA. His works
are also kept in the Cartoon Art Museum in San
Francisco.

His work couldn’t match the mission of the gallery
more. The Susan Hensel Gallery is devoted to art,
story and activism, seeking work that elicits a
response from the viewers, asks the viewer work a bit
to make the experience personal. It is a place where
discussion happens and where stories are told.

www.cartoonblues.com

He joins thirty-eight local and national artists
casting light and shadow on faith using paint,
photography, digital media, sculpture, assemblage and
letterpress print.

and

Mark Your Calendars

for the opening parties

Friday, November 9, 5-9pm

 

Thirty-eight local and national artists cast light and shadow on faith. This annual show has grown,become increasingly competitive and has outgrown this space. This year it opens at both the Susan Hensel Gallery and ArtSpace.

in Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church at 1620 East 46th St, Minneapolis.

You will see sculpture, photography, assemblage, ceramics, painting, calligraphy and more. Go to both openings, meet the artists and see the range of their works. Several artists are being shown in some depth: James Michael Lawrence, Mary Simon-Casati, and Andrey Feldshteyn. Their work will certainly be in both locations. Come meet them and all the other artists who are within driving distance. It’s “Artists,Artists, everywhere!”

For more information about Leap of Faith, please call Susan Hensel Gallery at 612-722-2324 or the church at 612-721-4463

Return to Susan Hensel Gallery Saturday, November 17, 2pm, for a poetry reading by PENCHANT, formerly Northfield Women Poets. They will be reading from their newly published anthology. You will remember them as the group that read during Riki Købl Nelson’s show, ROOSTERWOMAN, earlier this year.


Jam in Minneapolis this Thursday, November First

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.

The meetings are open to anyone who wants to draw with us, and the results are posted on our website 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!

St. Paul Conspiracy Cell Jam-O-Rama Report

The inaugural St. Paul Cartoonist Conspiracy Jam happened Thursday, October 18th and we have the images to prove it!


The founders of the cell – Bud Burgy (taking the picture), Kevin McCarthy (on the left), and Daniel Olson (on the right) – were the only ones to attend, but we will grow in numbers!

By clicking on the above image you will see our four page, potentially ongoing, creation: Tussles and Tights!

Scardy Cat – a spooky Jam Comic from the San Francisco Cell

Happy Halloween to everyone from the Cartoonist in the San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy. This year we have a treat for you (no tricks) with a brand new Jam Comic to read on-line.

The above E-Book includes a 9 page comic as well as concept art that was created to keep the characters looking close from page to page. Scaredy Cat was the SF-Cell’s first attempt at working from a script written specifically for a comic book.

The script is by Joe Borrelli with Art by these talented folks:

Cindy Chau, Mike Hales, Brian Kolm
Steve Leialoha, Lola, Jeff Plotkin, Doc Popular
Kraig Rasmussen, Rio Rath-Barreiro, and Daniel Salcido

WE LOVE FEEDBACK, so don’t be shy about letting us know what you think about the work. It’s easy to leave a comment and anyone can do it. Just click on the comment link below.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

November 7000 BC Meeting

Sunday, November 4 | 2:00 | Winning Coffee Company and Brickyard Pizza | Albuquerque, NM

November’s 7000 BC meeting will be back at Winning Coffee Company at 111 Harvard Dr SE around 2:00 in the afternoon. We’ll be working on a jam, talking about 24 Hour Comics Day, and planning for upcoming events. Around 5:00, the meeting will move around the corner to Brickyard Pizza at 2216 Central.

Send an email with any questions.

24 HOUR MINI-COMIC BOXES

We will be putting together our boxes of 24 HOUR MINI-COMICS at the December 6th meeting of the Cartoonist Conspiracy.
You DO NOT need to have finished all 24 pages in order to participate.
All you’ll need to bring is 100 copies of your stuff in mini-comic form
(booklets no bigger than 8.5″x5.5″).
REPEAT: You DO NOT need to have finished all 24 pages in order to participate. All you’ll need to bring is 100 copies of your stuff in mini-comic form (booklets no bigger than 8.5″x5.5″).

Anyone who participated in 24 HOUR COMICS DAY in Minneapolis, whether they did it at BookArts or Mcad or home–is full encouraged to print up their books and put it in the box.

If you cannot attend the Dec 6th meeting, you are encouraged to drop it off with Kevin and Zander at Big Time Attic in advance. (I–danno–will then take on the task of getting you a box after the December 6th meeting)

Kevin and Zander ask for the follwing info if you ‘drop-off’ your stuff with them:

1) Label your box:
– Name
– Title of mini-comic
– email address
2) Drop off at BTA during normal business hours.
Address: 1618 Central Ave NE, #216, MPLS
3) Good idea to call before you drop, in case we’reout of the office.
Phone: 612-521-7423

Also, if anyone knows how to get ahold of particpant Megan Larkins, please email me(danno) at: staplegenius at yahoo.com

Joe Sacco in Minneapolis November 13th

From the Drawn and Quarterly blog:

Rain Taxi sponsors a reading series as a further demonstration of its commitment to literary culture. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

JOE SACCO
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 7:00 pm
$10 ($8 for Walker Members and Rain Taxi subscribers)

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis

Celebrated cartoonist JOE SACCO visits Minneapolis for a special presentation co-hosted by Rain Taxi Review of Books and the Walker Art Center. Appearing in conjunction with the Walker exhibition Brave New Worlds, Sacco will offer a visual tour of his acclaimed approach to comics journalism, in which he combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of graphic storytelling to explore complex, emotionally weighted situations in some of the most conflicted and war-torn regions of the globe.