Just Married and More Mad Props for Good Minnesotan!

Yesterday Meghan and I went downtown with a few members of our families and signed some papers in front of a judge. Turns out we are now married! We plan on having an art show/party in summer '09 to celebrate. For folks with interest and in town, stay tuned to this blog and we will announce the date in the coming months.

Good Minnesotan # 3 is now available to purchase at the Poopsheet Shop. If you have any interest in purchasing or even just peaking at an awesome array of mini comix and alternative/underground comix, I urge you to check the Poopsheet Shop out. Rick Bradford has an online mini-comix/underground comix Museum that you actively participate in and purchase amazing ART from. For more of the historical angle, check out Poopsheet Foundation.

Back in September Dank! AKA Danno Klonowski (GMN#3 contributor) was interviewed on Cream City Comics and gave us a little mention. It's a cool interview and worth checking out! You can read it here.

On Rob Clough's High-Low Best of 2008 we were given an Honorable Mention. It's a very cool list.

Lastly, I made a bit of a boo-boo in my last post. To clarify, Struktur and GMN#4 are two separate projects. Sorry for the confusion!
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NEW Review at Midnight Fiction!

Yay another wonderful review of GMN#3 up on the intraweb by the fine folks of Midnight Fiction!

Richard's write-up calls Noah Harmon's comic "a humorous musing that attempts to clear the waters when a cephalopod is suddenly struck by inspiration."

He precedes down the list of GMN #3 creator's where he closes his review with Danno Klonowski's "The Shriner" which he call "a fitting finale to GMN #3".

You can read the review in full here.
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SIZE MATTERS review + GMN Contributor News

Shawn Hoke has just posted a review of GOOD MINNESOTAN episodes # 1 & 2 on SIZE MATTERS: The Mini Comics Blog. He says, "Good Minnesotan is an impressive collection of art and comics[.]" Check back at SIZE MATTERS throughout the week for an upcoming review of GM #3!

GOOD MINNESOTAN has been picked up by another retailer. Atomic Books in Baltimore, MD will be selling GM beginning in January. This place has so many awesome underground comics & books that John Waters picks up his fan mail there.

Meanwhile, GMN contributors have been busy:

Nic Breutzman (GMN#2 & 3 contributor) has comics in two anthologies. The first Critical Citidal has received praise from David Mazzucchelli, Gary Panter, Matt Madden, and Dan Nadel which is a strong indicator of the quality of this book. The second, Porn Hounds #2, will be released in the Summer 2009.

Reynold Kissling's (GMN#3 contributor) original comic art is on display in the MN Museum of American Art's Hot Ink: Comic Art in Minnesota from Oct 3, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009. He is shown alongside the original comics of Zak Sally, Tom Kaczynski, King Mini, Will Dinski, Big Time Attic, and Tim Sievert who are all wonderful people and amazing comic artists.



Danno (GMN#3 contributor) and our studio neighbors Big Time Attic (Zander & Kevin Cannon) will be on KFAI radio at 6pm Sunday, Dec 14 to talk about comics for the Wave Project.
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DAnK ART trade!

Danno Klonowski AKA Dank, swung by our studio last week or so for an art trade and to drop off his GMN #3 submission, which fills my humour bone with blood. and uh... sperm. sorry.

As we get closer to our launch and I have a bit more spare time I will post a preview of his book. It is, pants-off-fun & funny. Thus the humour erection, that I only hinted at.

Give him a visit at staplegenius.com, or tommychicago.com or cartoonistconspiracy.com.

I think the first link may be down, so apologies about that. Check back later perhaps?

Also, you may have noticed, that there is a tent behind me. Currently, I live in that tent because I am a very slow cartoonist and getting this comic done on time is destroying me and making me fat. Thanks Justin.

I shouldn't be so harsh, Justin Skarhus, the writer, has been very gentle with me.

Lastly, scroll down and click on the Yearbooks blog link to visit Nic yet again, he has a peak at the cover of volume 3. As per usual with Mr. Gelato, friggin' beautiful drawings!
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Panel, Line and Letter PRESS RELEASE

This August comic art from 2D CLOUD's first effort, Light Painful Light, will hang alongside some of the greatest original comic art in our region.

Panel, Line and Letter: Black and White Selections from Modern Midwest Comics Aug 5 -30, 2007 | Opening on August 5th from 5-7pm | Albert Lea Art Center | 242 South Broadway Albert Lea, MN 56007

Maxeem curates for the first time to celebrate his Minnesota comic brethren. Through the month of August, original pages by over a dozen Minneapolis and greater-state cartoonists will be on display in the historic opera palace of Albert Lea. See the frontier of the artform through the culture-piercing eyes of Steve Stwalley, Will Dinski, Kevin Cannon, Tim Sievert, Dank!, and many more. This event is free and open to the public.
--press release by Maxeem Konrady, comic art by Raighne Hogan
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