{"id":4143,"date":"2012-04-13T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:26:11","slug":"minneapolis-jam-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Jam: April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtimeattic.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/2011\/nordeast_comics_summit_logo_small.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>NORDEAST COMICS SUMMIT<\/b><br \/>\nSummary: Our good friend <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.purenoumena.org\/blog\/\">Jamie Schumacher<\/a> paid us a visit and gave us some pointers on how to organize successful groups. For me the key takeaway was being comfortable with branding yourself and your projects &#8212; it seems like a creepy corporate-y thing to do, but at the end of the day good branding helps the people around you get a sense of what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish. Thanks, Jamie!<\/p>\n<p>Coming up next!:<br \/>\n<b>MAY 3: Gordon McAlpin<\/b>, &#8220;Illustrator Boot Camp&#8221; &#8211; Making digital comics &amp; using digital lettering.<br \/>\n<b>JUNE 7: Jon Sloan<\/b>, &#8220;A Brief History of Comics&#8221; &#8211; An historical look at the medium we all love so well.<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s a topic you&#8217;d like to see or even lead yourself, contact me at nordeastcomics [at] gmail.com. UPDATE: Currently all future slots are closed as we transition into a new format in Summer 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter!  handle: <a target=\"_up\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NordeastComics\">NORDEASTCOMICS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>INTERNATIONAL CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY<\/b><br \/>\nJoel from Twin Cities Public Television filmed this month&#8217;s Jam for an upcoming MN Originals web series. So keep an eye out for that! In the meantime please lower your caps as we remember a comics legend: <\/p>\n<p><strong>MOBEIUS [sic] IS DEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtimeattic.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/2012\/conspiracy_mpls_2012_04.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtimeattic.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/2012\/conspiracy_mpls_2012_04_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Hello, Friend.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click image for pdf &#8212; an everlasting 3.6 mb!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORDEAST COMICS SUMMIT Summary: Our good friend Jamie Schumacher paid us a visit and gave us some pointers on how to organize successful groups. For me the key takeaway was being comfortable with branding yourself and your projects &#8212; it seems like a creepy corporate-y thing to do, but at the end of the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minneapolis Jam: April 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-14P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}