{"id":39,"date":"2005-06-08T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-06-08T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T01:30:00","slug":"spot-on-festival-this-weekend-june-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"SPOT ON FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND JUNE 11-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spot On Fair is this weekend and it should be fun&#8230; It is part of the Spot On: The Art of Zines and Graphic Novels gallery show that has been there since April 9th (and has recieved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/alist\/detail.asp?EID=113955%20\" target=\"_blank\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pulsetc.com\/article.php?sid=1765%20\" target=\"_blank\">favorable<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakemag.com\/stories\/section_detail.aspx?itemID=6001&#038;catID=150&#038;SelectCatID=150\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a>) Many conspirators are participating. There will be a conspiracy table (as well as tables for many other cartoonists and zine makers) where any conspirator can bring comics to sell, and we&#8217;ll attempt to manage it (Please put prices on the cover of anything you want to sell, and give us a sheet with the price of the books and the number of copies you&#8217;re leaving with us&#8230; we absolutely will not deal with your books if you do not do this, unless you talk us into it). We accept no responsibility for lost or stolen books. <\/p>\n<p>This is also intended to be a trading festival, so regardless of whether you have something to sell, bring comics and zines to trade to people for their comics and zines.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule:<br \/><strong><\/p>\n<p>SPOT ON FAIR SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><br \/><strong>Saturday June 11 (10-5) <\/strong><br \/><strong><\/p>\n<p>10-12 Family Day &#8211; Zines <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Construct your own zine with Alec Mueller &#8211; comic artist and By Design graduate. <br \/><strong><\/p>\n<p>1-2:30 Craft of Cartooning: Tips and tricks from Cartoonists <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Featuring:<br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirktoons.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kirk Anderson<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avidorstudios.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Avidor<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonblues.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Feldysteyn<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtimeattic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shad Petosky<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andysinger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Singer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3-4:30 Cartoonists and their influences <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avidorstudios.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Avidor<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonblues.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Feldysteyn<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Stwalley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday June 12 (12-5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1-2:30 Tom Cassidy<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><br \/><strong>3-4:30 Mini-Comics: the Art of Making Comic Books by Hand <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uptowngirlcomic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Lipski<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visi.com\/%7Eakm\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Doug McNamara<\/a><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordwarriorspress.com\/phpBB2\/viewforum.php?f=19\" target=\"_blank\">Danno Oschendorf<\/a><br \/>  Quillan Roe <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtimeattic.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>Shad Petosky<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chibitoaster.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rana Raeuchle<\/a> will also be participating in some of the panels&#8230; I imagine some other folks may join in as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks much to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbraincomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Big Brain Comics<\/a> for donating the table for the Conspiracy&#8230; Big Brain, if you didn&#8217;t already know, is just a half a block away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnbookarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Center for Book Arts<\/a>, who is hosting the fair, and houses one of the most amazing masses of comic literature you&#8217;ll ever see in one place. Thanks also to Book Arts and Jeff Rathermel for concieving and organizing this event.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Center For Book Arts (MCBA)<br \/>(at the Open Book)<br \/>1011 Washington Ave. South<br \/>Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbookmn.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.openbookmn.org<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnbookarts.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.mnbookarts.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spot On Fair is this weekend and it should be fun&#8230; It is part of the Spot On: The Art of Zines and Graphic Novels gallery show that has been there since April 9th (and has recieved some favorable reviews) Many conspirators are participating. There will be a conspiracy table (as well as tables &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPOT ON FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND JUNE 11-12<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[5,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-minneapolis","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}