I finally got to go and check out Hot Ink at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. It was pretty great. The huge banner is awesome.
Here’s a photo I took right before I was informed that I’m not allowed to take photos in the museum.
Here’s a couple photos from this last weekend’s Madison Zinefest.
It was held in the Majestic Theatre in Madison.
For some reason the state capital building was green. Maybe they just really like St. Patrick’s Day.
Well, I’m back from SPX, and as promised, here are some photos:
Sarah and I spent a great deal of time waiting around in airports over the course of last week. That mostly mean lots of overpriced martinis and arcade games. It was actually pretty fun.
Wild horses couldn’t have kept us from being that close to the Lincoln Memorial without paying our respect.
Big Brother and his wonderful wife, Susan, put us up for the week. On a good day I can walk and chew gum at the same time; my brother manages to fight terrorism for the government AND make a really good Manhattan.
And then SPX! It was a great show. I would definitely go again. My favorite book from the show was The Man Who Loved Breasts by Robert Goodin. Just laugh out-loud funny.
Saturday night we had dinner with the One Percent Press clan.
Then I went back to the hotel, drank a barrel of whiskey and stayed up until 2 a.m. talking comics. I’ll spare you the photos in leu of this image of a herd of alpacas.
Yes, that’s right. Earlier in the week we went to an alpaca farm.
Vacations kick ass.
From the MMAA website:
The Minnesota Museum of American Art is proud to announce the opening of its fall exhibition, Hot Ink: Comic Art in Minnesota on September 28, 2008
The MMAA will host an opening party on October 3, 2008. The party will open up for MMAA members only at 7pm and open for the general public at 8pm. DJ Justin Olson will spin a live set and complimentary refreshments will be provided. Admission for this event will be $10 for the general public and $5 for students and MMAA members.
I’ll be at SPX next week, so I’ll miss the opening. But if you’re in town, try and swing by. These are the cartoonists who will be represented:
Kevin Cannon
Zander Cannon
Will Dinski
Tom Kaczynski
Reynold Kissling
Lars Martinson
King Mini
Tyler Page
Evan G. Palmer
Brittney Sabo
Zak Sally
Barbara Schulz
Tim Sievert
Andy Singer
Tom Spence
Steven Stwalley
My new short story Errand Service is up at the Top Shelf Comix 2.0 website. Click here to read it.
I also put the mini-comic I made for the book up in the shop.
Rob Clough has a new review up at sequart.org. He takes a look at Shift, Errand Service and Beautiful Cool & Irreplaceable.
Every October we have a comic convention here in Minnesota called FallCon. Well this year will be the 20th anniversary of this convention. To celebrate, the organizers sent out 5 blank cards for people to draw on which will be auctioned off at the show. I’m pretty sure they went out to anyone who has ever had a table at FallCon.
Sarah and I both received a set of the trading card sized blank canvases. And since neither her or I are going to be able to attend (FallCon is the same weekend as SPX this year) we wanted to do something fun.
Basically we collaborated on one big drawing and screen printed it across all the cards at once.
They remind me of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards I collected as a kid. There would always be a string of cards that would be just a part of a bigger image, and you had to collect them all to see the full picture.
Oh, and did I mention that the bright violet ink that Synthetic Sunshine chose to print the cards glows under a black light?
Collect them all this October 4th and 5th!
Thanks to everyone who came out and made Zinefest such a great time this year. Here’s some photos from the event and we hope to see you again at Zinefest in 2009.
Thanks to Sarah Jordet for taking these great photos.
Also, check out some more images taken by Tom Kaczynski.
Well, Zinefest is fast approaching. It’s shaping up to be a pretty fun event thanks to the hard work of the lovely Sarah Morean.
Here are some photos of the show that will be up during the event. It’s a retrospective of sorts of the Minneapolis Zine scene. All of these zines came from the collection of Mr. Mike. We have some old zines from Zac Sally, Mr. Mike and the Newsletter of Artistic Influence. I used to read the Newsletter back when I was in college and it’s fun to see so many of them lined up on the wall. It serves as a kind of timeline for my freshman – sophomore year.
So anyway, stop by the Stevens Square Center for the Arts this upcoming weekend. The event is on July 12 and 13.
zinefest.org
Here’s a couple of photos from the printing of the Zinefest poster. Go here to learn about this year’s event.
Get one free with every order from the shop.
I’ve the new paperback (i.e less expensive) version of Beautiful, Cool and Irreplaceable available in the shop.
56 pages for only $6.00.