News archive October, 2007
Posted by Winter on October 31, 2007
St. Louis cartoonist/teacher DB Dowd has a blog post about Washington University’s new Modern Graphic History Library. The library is being launched through a series of events November 16th and 17th.
The library’s mission statement:
The Modern Graphic History Library acquires and preserves distinguished works of modern illustration and pictorial graphic culture to promote sustained academic consideration of those materials. The collection includes artists’ working materials, sketches and finished artworks—from book, magazine, and advertising illustration to graphic novels, comics, poster design, pictorial information design, and animation.
Posted in: History
Posted by Winter on October 31, 2007
The Missourian has a story about the artistic side of a MU football player that likes comic books.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 27, 2007
The Maneater student newspaper has a review of Adrian Tomine’s new graphic novel Shortcomings.
Update (by Josh):
If you like Adrian Tomine, you should also check out his most excellent interview at The Believer.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 26, 2007
Here are some links to the comics that were done at the 24 hour comics day event held at Quinlan Keep in Columbia, Missouri. We’ll try to add more links as people get their things scanned online.
Posted in: 24 Hour Comics Day
Posted by Scott on October 22, 2007
Once again 24 hour comics day was a success, not only in terms of participation and experience but also in gaining attention from the local media. The Columbia Missourian came by after the event to interview the last creators standing, including Kelly, Keith and Kirsten. You can read the story at the Missourian’s Web site.
We also had television coverage from KOMU for the first time. It was a short segment but it managed to get really good clips of almost everyone who was present at the event. Watch the clip with KOMU on Demand.
I am extra happy with the coverage we received this year as it will hopefully garner more interest in the comic book community that we have here in Columbia. Again, I’d like to thank Boen and Steve at Quinlan Keep for hosting the 24 Hour Comic Event. I was extremely happy with the attendance and level of enthusiasm everyone had. It’s always a pleasure to be in the same room with such talented people, and it always inspires me afterwards to get my butt in gear and get some more work done. I really hope it has done the same for all of you. It seems like we may have some new Midmococo regulars after this event, and that, in my opinion, makes this year’s 24 Hour Comics day the biggest success of all.
Thanks again to everyone who showed up, and I hope to see you all at one of our meetings really soon!
Posted in: 24 Hour Comics Day, Publicity
Posted by Josh on October 21, 2007
Thanks to everyone who made 24 Hour Comics Day a success. Thanks goes out to Quinlan Keep for hosing the event. We appreciate it! We had a great time and a lot of awesome work was created. We’ll link to some of the comics once they have been scanned. Until then, you can check out some photos of the event in the slide show below.
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Posted in: 24 Hour Comics Day, Photos, Publicity
Posted by Winter on October 19, 2007
Hey everyone, one of the Minnesota guys sent me a link to their 24 hour blog that they’ll be rocking tomorrow, and it has some cool tips on it already from Kevin Cannon.
In particular I like these 4:
- Wait until you get home to erase.
- Try doing a page every fifty minutes. That gives you 240 minutes to rest and recoup and eat.
- Do as little penciling as possible. Nobody’s going to win an Eisner with these books, so why not jump into the inks right away?
- Put padding on your drawing tool. I bought some colorful elementary school foam pencil holders at OfficeMax. (After last year, my fingers went numb too, so I’m definitely trying this!)
Posted in: 24 Hour Comics Day
Posted by Josh on October 18, 2007
According to my inside source, that zine (and mini comic) display Winter found at the University Bookstore has been doing really well and selling a lot of books. The display has been moved to the front of the store, so it has some great exposure.
They are hungry for local talent, as you can see in the flyer I picked up, so if you make a zine or mini comic, contact Chris Willow-Schomaker and they’ll get your book on the display.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Scott on October 18, 2007
I stopped by Quinlan Keep and Boen’s dad had a couple of names of people also interested in participating in the event this year, so it sounds like we’re going to have the same turnout as last year, if not better! I’m really excited about that. I did want to give you all a heads up to make sure everyone gets there at about 11:00-11:30 to make sure we can get the seating set-up all situated before the event begins.
Also, Kristin finished the flyer for the event and it looks great. I will be going around downtown during my lunchbreak to put them up wherever I can. I will mainly concentrate on getting them up around downtown and then later putting them up around Mizzou. If anyone can think of anywhere else to post them or would like to help out please let me know as I have the master copy with me and can make extra copies.
Looks like this is going to be another solid event for us! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Posted in: 24 Hour Comics Day, Events
Posted by Winter on October 11, 2007
The Phillip Slein Gallery in St. Louis is having an exhibit with 17 artists from the pages of BLAB! October 12, 2007 through November 10, 2007.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 10, 2007
The Missourian has a story about local comic shop Quinlan Keep closing at the end of October. This is sad news, but don’t worry, we’re still doing the 24 hour comic day event there on October 20th.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 10, 2007
If you’re not aware of local cartoonist David Friesen’s editorial cartoons for the Missourian, you might give them a look over.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Josh on October 7, 2007
I present you the comic jam from this month’s Midmococo meeting. We had some fresh faces this time churning out some new art. Broken robots and ketchup were never this killer before.
Posted in: Comic jams
Posted by Josh on October 6, 2007
Jim Gibbons, from the Missourian, attended the last Midmococo meeting for a story he was working on about local comic creators. He ended up interviewing Zac, Scott and me and we all contributed a self-portrait as an illustration. He did a great job explaining what we do at Midmococo meetings and why we get together. Go give it a read!
Posted in: Publicity
Posted by Winter on October 2, 2007
This is just a reminder that you have until October 19th to see the Daniel Fitzpatrick: Artist/Cartoonist exhibit at the State Historical Society of Missouri on the MU campus.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 2, 2007
Sam McPheeters and Neil Burke print show at the Star Clipper gallery – Oct. 5 to Nov. 5, 2007.
A panel discussion about comics with panelists A.J. Trujillo, Dan Zettwoch and Ted May will be held at the Big Read - 4:15-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6th.
John Porcellino, Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch signing at Star Clipper – Wednesday, October 17, 5 to 8 PM.
Gary Friedrich (creator of Ghost Rider) signing at Star Clipper – Saturday October 27, 1 to 5 PM.
Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO frontman) art show at the Star Clipper gallery from November 16, 2007 to January 1, 2008.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Posted by Winter on October 2, 2007
Here’s a feature story on artist/cartoonist Frank Stack, who recently had one of his paintings picked for the commemorative poster of the 2007 Columbia Festival of the Arts.
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