{"id":2577,"date":"2010-05-14T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T06:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2010-05-14T22:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T06:08:28","slug":"2577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/2577\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This is Looking to be the Best Year Ever to Be a Minnesota Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springcon is this weekend, and that got me thinking about all of the exciting stuff happening in the Twin Cities for cartoonists this year. Below is what I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2265\">here on the Cartoonist Conspiracy site.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a lot of evidence piling up that this will be the best year ever to be a Minnesota cartoonist! Open your calendar now and write yourself down some dates&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be doing more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2218\">Cankeratures<\/a> this Friday (May 14), starting around 6:00, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alteredesthetics.com\/\">Altered Esthetics<\/a> for Art-A-Whirl. If you want to show up and draw people, please do!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\">Springcon<\/a> is this weekend! (May 15-16) (please note that we are still looking for more volunteers to help out at our table)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2259\">The Graphic Novel &#038; Comic Book Writing and Illustrating Conference<\/a> June 19th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/sushi\">The Lutefisk Sushi D show August 6th<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alteredesthetics.com\/\">Altered Esthetics<\/a> (participation deadline June 15th)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mplsindiexpo.com\/\">The Minneapolis Indy Expo (MIX) August 21st<\/a> (tables still available!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mplsindiexpo.com\/city-pages-comix-issue\">The City Pages 4th Annual Comics issue<\/a> (participation deadline August 9th)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnartists.org\/work.do?action=list&#038;rid=103814\">Britt Aamodt<\/a>&#8216;s book from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, <em>Superheroes, Strip Artists, &#038; Talking Animals: Minnesota&#8217;s Contemporary Cartoonists<\/em>  coming out this fall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/24-hourcomic.blogspot.com\/\">24 Hour Comic Day<\/a> October 2nd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\/\">Fallcon<\/a> October 16th<\/li>\n<li>As always, The Cartoonist Conspiracy will also be hosting jams twice every month in the Twin Cities&#8230; first Thursdays at <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondscoffeeshoppe.com\/\">Diamond&#8217;s Coffee Shoppe<\/a> 1618 Central Avenue NE Minneapolis, and third Thursdays at 6:30 at Cahoots Coffee 1562 Selby Ave St. Paul. We also have an open studio a different Saturday every month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnbookarts.org\/\">The Minnesota Center For Book Arts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard rumor of some other things as well. Get ready to be busy and have a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestcomicbook.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/images\/springcon_chicklet.gif\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springcon is this weekend, and that got me thinking about all of the exciting stuff happening in the Twin Cities for cartoonists this year. Below is what I posted here on the Cartoonist Conspiracy site. There is a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/2577\/\">Continue reading <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_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":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZfX-2577","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}