Soapy the Chicken http://www.soapythechicken.com The Ongoing Misadventures and Travails of the Chicken Known as Soapy Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.soapythechicken.comhttp://soapythechicken.com/images/banner_144x60.gifSoapy the ChickenSoapyTheChickenhttp://feedburner.google.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Fallcon is this weekend! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoapyTheChicken/~3/oAn8EMe4pgk/ http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=400#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:06:50 +0000 admin http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=400

Fallcon, The Twin Cities biggest and best comic convention is this weekend! Come and join me in the “Cartoonist Conspiracy Lounge” to doodle and shoot the breeze.

FALLCON
October 10 & 11, 2009 – 10AM to 5PM Both Days
Minnesota State Fairgrounds
IN THE GRANDSTAND

Guest List

Hope to see you all there!

]]> http://www.soapythechicken.com/?feed=rss2&p=400 0 http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=400 COMICOPOLIS Opens in Minneapolis This Friday (August 28th) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoapyTheChicken/~3/HxZ3Hh_Umyg/ http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=397#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:11:55 +0000 admin http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=397

Comicopolis, a gallery show featuring the work of a number of Minneapolis cartoonists (including me) opens this Friday… hope you can make it!

Please join us Friday, August 28th for food, drinks and music!

Comicopolis:
Low life, high art

Opening reception:
Friday, August 28th from 6-9pm

Location:
FrameUps Minneapolis
4325 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55409
(612) 870-1292

Featuring comic art by:
Kirk Anderson
Ken Avidor
Shannon Brady
Kevin Cannon
Will Dinski
Roger Lootine
Brittney Sabo
Andy Singer
David Steinlicht
Steven Stwalley

Wanna help promote the event? Have a chicklet!

COMICOPOLIS Facebook Page

]]> http://www.soapythechicken.com/?feed=rss2&p=397 0 http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=397 BIG FUNNY SHOW OPENS THIS FRIDAY (August 7th, 2009) IN MINNEAPOLIS! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoapyTheChicken/~3/yRnAIDwsCWM/ http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=393#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:57:12 +0000 admin http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=393

If you enjoy this site and you live near the Twin Cities, you won’t want to miss the BIG FUNNY show my friends and I have been putting together over the last number of months. It opens this weekend, and it is going to be spectacular.

The show premieres BIG FUNNY, an oversized 48-page newspaper of comics by 45 different artists, inspired by the funnies sections of yesteryear. The gallery show features original art from the publication, numerous antique comic strips (some over 100 years old), a retrospective of unknown cartoonist William Ede, and an old cigarette vending machine rigged up to sell small boxes of little funny mini-comics. Hope to see you there!

THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY IS COUGHING blood and gasping on its deathbed. Newspapers lost their relevance a long time ago, and with internet media blossoming they can no longer compete. Readers and advertisers have moved on.

Unfortunately, newspapers are taking their beautiful bastard child, the newspaper comic strip, with them.

Today’s newspaper comics are much-maligned… and deservedly so. Today’s small strips, with mostly predictable, safe themes and bland characters are a pale shadow of what newspaper comics were in their wild and colorful youth.

110-or-so years from their birth, it’s been a good run. Let us not mourn the death of the

newspaper comics… rather, let us have a wake to celebrate what they once were, and to build something new.

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic, and Altered Esthetics gallery are collaborating to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.

It will be called BIG FUNNY, and it will be both.

The paper will premiere at a show at Altered Esthetics in August, featuring some of the original art from the paper, along with historical comics pages from the dawn of the last century.

BIG FUNNY Website.

City Pages A-List Review

Optical Sloth review

Poopsheet Foundation review

Newsarama review

Drawn Review

Amy Crehore’s Little Hokum Rag review

Photo gallery of the little funny sideshow


Can’t make the gallery show? You can buy copies of BIG FUNNY here.

Opening Reception
August 7, 2009 7pm-11pm
ALTERED ESTHETICS
1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

SHOW RUNS AUGUST 7-29, 2009

GALLERY HOURS:
TUESDAY & THURSDAY 1pm-7pm, SATURDAY 1pm-5pm

]]> http://www.soapythechicken.com/?feed=rss2&p=393 0 http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=393 Please go vote for my BEECORN t-shirt design on Threadless! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoapyTheChicken/~3/YOlMIGebzxY/ http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=391#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:12:33 +0000 admin http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=391 A t-shirt design I made just was accepted to get voted on to possibly become a Threadless t-shirt. Please go vote on it! Click the link below to go look at it and see a little animation I made for it. Thanks much to those of you who take the time to vote!

Beecorn - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

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Zander Cannon, Kevin Cannon, Danno Klonowski and myself were interviewed by Britt Aamodt this evening (December 14th) on KFAI’s Wave Project about cartooning. I do elaborate a bit on Soapy the Chicken, among other things. The show will be online for the next two weeks. You can hear the interview here.

Note: The broadcast mp3 begins with the Somali Oromo radio show that preceded it… it starts at 1:38 in the file.

]]> http://www.soapythechicken.com/?feed=rss2&p=384 0 http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=384 Museum Features Soapy, Leaving Their Future in Doubt… See the Pictures http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoapyTheChicken/~3/gVmBKMN3cfs/ http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=380#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:22:06 +0000 admin http://www.soapythechicken.com/?p=380 Here is a big gallery I just posted of images from the previously mentioned Hot Ink: Comic Art show at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, currently showing until January 4th… at which point the Museum’s lease runs out, leaving them with an uncertain future. One can only speculate that this directly had to do with their decision to deface their walls with Soapy the Chicken comic strips. You can read reviews of the show here and here. Click the image to go to the gallery.

The show features the work of:
Big Time Attic
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

You can visit the gallery here:

Minnesota Museum of American Art
mmaa.org
50 West Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55102

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Click the above image to embiggen.

If you like this stuff and want to read the previous strips without going back post by post through the blog, they are easily browsed in THE ARCHIVE here.

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