Comix Issue 2011

The City Pages comix issue is out now. My comic is in the online edition. Check it out here: http://www.citypages.com/microsites/comics-mcginty-2011/ I did an “archaeologists of the future” single panel cartoon.

And be sure to read everyone else’s comix too. A lot of my friends contributed work! (Congrats to those who made it into the print edition!) The theme this year is life in the future. Look for awesome stuff about President Bachmann, genetic freaks, robot uprisings, and angry birds!

 

City Pages Comix Issue #4

This year’s comix issue hits the stands today. The theme is “Declaration of Independents.”

There are a few dozen submissions online at City Pages website. A lot of them are really great…the editors must have had a tough time deciding which ones to put in the print issue.

Here’s mine. It’s about student loans.
The idea is this: if you’re 23 or younger and you fill out a FAFSA, you have to provide your parents’ tax info. The more money your parents make, the less financial aid you qualify for, regardless of whether your parents are actually able or willing to help with tuition. Pretty presumptuous, no?
If you qualify as in independent adult, you don’t have to factor in your parents’ tax bracket…but the criteria by which they determine independent status are designed to exclude most typical college students.

 

It’s COMIX month here in Minnesota

The City Pages comix issue is out this week, and I have some work in it, and so do my friends. (I worked on the Michele Bachmann one–Bill Prendergast wrote it, and I did the inks.) Grab a copy and tell everyone you know how awesome it is. The theme this year is “Minnesota nice.”

The second issue of False Witness will be out soon. More on that later.

The Big Funny exhibit is still up at Altered Esthetics for another week. Go see it! Besides originals of the strips featured in the paper, you can see actual comic strips from the old days, when newspaper comics were cool. Some of the strips on display at the gallery are over a century old!

If you can’t make it to the gallery, you can still buy a copy of Big Funny online. It’s been getting good reviews so far. It seems many people share the nostalgia we cartoonists feel for older comics, and that has been really gratifying.

I used to read the comics in the newspaper every day when I was little, and the Sunday funnies were the real prize. It was a ritual, digging through my parents’ newspaper and finding the funnies before anyone else could make off with them. Somewhere around age 10 or 11 I started reading them only every other week. Then I’d miss 2 weeks, and feel bad about it. But eventually there came a time when–and this memory stands out for me–I realized I no longer cared if I forgot to read them or not, because they were boring and repetitive. I didn’t know how long they had been that way, or if they’d always been that way and I just never noticed, but it made me sad.

 

Look ma, I’m on the internet.

Well, there’s been some nice buzz online since It’s All a Conspiracy!! came out in City Pages on Wednesday. People across the country are loving and/or hating us, and getting fired up for False Witness! Along with images from the City Pages story, the art inked by Danno Klonowski featured on biasedliberalmedia.com AND Ken Avidor’s cover art for the first issue have been showing up on dozens of blogs.

There’s an awesomely titled write-up on Wonkette:
Bachmann Comix Will Feature Sexy Flying Imams, Other Things

Write-up by Eric Kleefeld on Talking Points Memo:
Coming Soon: Michele Bachmann — The Comic Book!

And The Wall Street Journal picked it up from TPM:
Bachmann Comic Debuts!

We’re on Heidi MacDonald’s The Beat:
Female Farce: Michele Bachmann comic

A nice post by Kevin Cannon at Big Time Attic:
Hey Michele, What’s So Funny?

A nice post by Kevin Melrose at Robot 6:
False Witness! is no Female Force, that’s for sure

The Minnesota Independent:
New comic book takes aim at Bachmann, Minnesota media

Delaware Liberal? Someone in Delaware thinks we’re clever:
Michele Bachmann Gets A Comic Book

I love the image on Mock, Paper, Scissors:
Bachmann-the-Nut is in the comics…

Comics Alliance apparently went the extra mile to crop a panel I inked that hasn’t been reposted a dozen times:
“False Witness”: The Michele Bachmann Comic

This list could go on and on…

 

Michele Bachmann Comic Misadventure in City Pages

It’s finally here–the preview of False Witness is in this week’s City Pages!

The City Pages story is called “It’s All a Conspiracy.” It was written and drawn by Bill Prendergast, a contributor to Dump Bachmann, and inked by me. If you’re in the Twin Cities, be sure to grab a copy…it’ll be easy to spot Jason Gorski’s slick cover art on the newsstands. And keep an eye out for the first issue of False Witness this summer!

 

Michele Bachmann

If you’re wondering why I haven’t been updating very often, here’s why: I’m working on something awesome. A comic called False Witness about Michele Bachmann’s career. You’ve probably seen her in the news. She’s the crazy congresswoman from Minnesota who thinks the media should do “an exposé” on Congresspersons with “Anti-American” views.

Lots of talented Minnesotans are uniting against her. Bill Prendergast, a journalist and contributor to Dump Bachmann, is writing and drawing the comics; Dan Olson, Danno Klownowski and myself are inking them; and Ken Avidor did the cover art for the first issue. And if that’s not cool enough, there will be a preview in City Pages in a week! Inked by me; cover art by Jason Gorski. This is comics journalism at it’s best, so be sure to check it out!