Zinefest!
Prepare yourself. It’s coming. You can’t stop it.
Here’s some photos of the new poster by Tom Kaczynski (Illustration), myself (design) and Pat Callahan (printing). These bad boys will be going up around town over the course of this month. If you’re interested in having one, or know of a great place to put one up, just let me know.
Twin Cities Zinefest
July 11 + 12
zinefest.org
I’ll be here on Saturday.
Last night I found the time to stand around and watch some friends of mine print up a poster for the Intoxicologist Dinner that’s going to be at the Bulldog in North East.
What you see here is a true collaboration between Pat Callahan (concept/bulldog drawing), Jonathan Schuster (design/screen printing) and myself (background pattern/cigar smoking).
Pictured above is the poster and below is the menu. Kudos to Ray Roberts for pulling the thing together.
The dinner, an evening of 6 drink and food pairings, is June 16th.
Here’s some artwork I created for Sarah’s Make Better Books podcast.
I drew a TMNT cover for the COVERED Blog. Boy, I had a lot of fun drawing this.
Some trivia:
While reading the publishing info on the inside of the original comic, it says that the Tokka character (the evil mutant turtle on the far left) was “inspired by the drawings of Stephen R. Bissette.”
Cool.
Next Saturday, I’ll have a couple pieces for sale at the Bird x Bird show at the Northrup King Building. The website has all the info about the event.
Above is a print that will be for sale at the show. It’s one color on 140# French paper in an edition of 25. You can get one for yourself for $7.
Here’s a little sketch-book comic I did:
Also, we sure to check out the MCBA Book Arts Festival this weekend.
Saturday November 15, 10AM – 5PM
Sunday November 16, 12PM – 4PM
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
