Princeton Comic Makers Weekly Roundup #36
Our usual email mailer, Suyang, is currently abroad, so this is Masha taking over for her!
Summary of the Last Meeting (10/30/2024)
We had our Halloween meeting this week, and it was a lot of fun! Many snacks were had, many costumes were worn. Some drawing was done!
The Halloween Trick-Or-Read Pop-up event at Final Boss Comics and Games was on Saturday the 26th, and several of our members sold their work there! Despite the extremely strong winds, the event was a lot of fun!
NEXT WEEK, Wednesday, November 6, we will be meeting at the Artworks Trenton building (19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ 08611-1737) instead of the Princeton Arts Council. Our meeting will still be at its usual time, 7:00 pm. Once again, we will not be at the Arts Council, we will be at Artworks Trenton! There is ample parking on-site.
One more date to remember: Friday, November 8, from 5:00-7:00, is the opening celebration for the Princeton Sketchbook Club. You can see your sketchbooks, those by other artists, and the PCM group one as well!
Anthology?
We’re thinking about making a group comics anthology starting next year. If you have any ideas for a theme, specs you would like the final book to have (color vs. black and white, risograph printing, a certain size or dimensions you really want to make a comic in, etc), now’s a good time to start thinking about them! We’ll be discussing this project in more detail in the coming weeks, we just want you to keep it in the back of your mind now.
Applications
If any of you are interested in flea markets generally, check out this website! It has listings for upcoming shows and fairs across New Jersey. Just double check that the theme of the show matches what you want to buy or sell.
Upcoming Shows
The Artworks Trenton “Sequential” exhibition, October 22 - November 23, is themed around comics and narrative-based art. Luke and Masha both have works featured in this show! The opening celebration is Friday, November 1 from 6:00-8:00. On the event page, you’ll see there are a number of comics-themed tie-in events such as a comics collage class and a book club.
Faraway Reminders
JetLAG Festival (Downsville, NY) is in about half a year, and includes music and camping, as well the opportunity to do installations! If you are looking for something fun to do in several seasons, consider checking this out!
Tomato reminder
We also still have tomato enamel pins, which are $10 for members. The proceeds from these pins go directly to our rent. If you want to help with rent but don’t necessarily want a pin, you can also just give Chris the same amount of money. No pressure, of course, and thank you to everyone who already contributed!
The usual links
For the new folks and anyone who was not receiving emails until recently, please click here to access the backlog of all our email blasts.
And as always, here is the Discord invite link. At first, you'll only see the "about-rules" channel; just enter the command written at the bottom of the guidelines to access to the rest of the server. If the link doesn't work, let us know and we'll send you another.