{"id":2265,"date":"2010-05-12T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2010-05-12T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:56:49","slug":"why-this-is-looking-to-be-the-best-year-ever-to-be-a-minnesota-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Why This is Looking to be the Best Year Ever to Be a Minnesota Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of evidence piling up that this will be the best year ever to be a Minnesota cartoonist! Open your calendar now and write yourself down some dates&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be doing more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2218\">Cankeratures<\/a> this Friday (May 14), starting around 6:00, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alteredesthetics.com\/\">Altered Esthetics<\/a> for Art-A-Whirl. If you want to show up and draw people, please do!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\">Springcon<\/a> is this weekend! (May 15-16) (please note that we are still looking for more volunteers to help out at our table)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2259\">The Graphic Novel &#038; Comic Book Writing and Illustrating Conference<\/a> June 19th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/sushi\">The Lutefisk Sushi D show August 6th<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alteredesthetics.com\/\">Altered Esthetics<\/a> (participation deadline June 15th)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mplsindiexpo.com\/\">The Minneapolis Indy Expo (MIX) August 21st<\/a> (tables still available!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mplsindiexpo.com\/city-pages-comix-issue\">The City Pages 4th Annual Comics issue<\/a> (participation deadline August 9th)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnartists.org\/work.do?action=list&#038;rid=103814\">Britt Aamodt<\/a>&#8216;s book from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, <em>Superheroes, Strip Artists, &#038; Talking Animals: Minnesota&#8217;s Contemporary Cartoonists<\/em>  coming out this fall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/24-hourcomic.blogspot.com\/\">24 Hour Comic Day<\/a> October 2nd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\/\">Fallcon<\/a> October 16th<\/li>\n<li>As always, The Cartoonist Conspiracy will also be hosting jams twice every month in the Twin Cities&#8230; first Thursdays at <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondscoffeeshoppe.com\/\">Diamond&#8217;s Coffee Shoppe<\/a> 1618 Central Avenue NE Minneapolis, and third Thursdays at 6:30 at Cahoots Coffee 1562 Selby Ave St. Paul. We also have an open studio a different Saturday every month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnbookarts.org\/\">The Minnesota Center For Book Arts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard rumor of some other things as well. Get ready to be busy and have a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/images\/springcon_chicklet.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of evidence piling up that this will be the best year ever to be a Minnesota cartoonist! Open your calendar now and write yourself down some dates&#8230; We will be doing more Cankeratures this Friday (May 14), starting around 6:00, at Altered Esthetics for Art-A-Whirl. If you want to show up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why This is Looking to be the Best Year Ever to Be a Minnesota Cartoonist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,5,8,33,26,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-events","category-minneapolis","category-mn","category-opportunities","category-st-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}