CCCG Holiday Hoopla! Dec 19th, 3:00 pm

Next CCCG Meeting: Saturday, September 19th @ 2:00pm

The next meeting of the Camel City Cartoonists' Guild will be on Saturday, September 19th at 2:00 pm at Krankies Coffee.

I know September is a busy month for some of us comics folk--what with the Bookmarks Book festival on the 12th and SPX cranking up on the 25th--but I hope folks are still able to make it to the meeting.

I really liked just about everything about meeting at Krankies (Wi-Fi, coffee, lots of table space, OK lighting, booze) except the lack of A.C. I'm hoping that by mid-September the weather will be tolerable, but if for some reason it's suddenly going to be 95 degrees on the 19th, I may send around a last-minute "change of venue" maybe back over to Brew Nerds.

Directions: Krankies is downtown in the warehouse district, on the corner of 3rd and N. Chestnut. Here's a link to a Google Map.

As usual, bring your drawing supplies, any good comics you've been reading that you think folks might be interested in checking out, and any books you've borrowed that you need to return.

Madden's "Random Marks" Exercise

The CCCG's July meeting at Krankies Coffee went well. Although a bit warm (there's no A.C.) Krankies is a great place to draw. There's plenty of table space, OK lighting and plenty of coffee, beer and baked goods to consume.

At this gathering, we attempted an improvised jam comics exercise recently posted to Matt Madden's blog here. Being at a coffee shop, we didn't want to break out the bottles of India ink, so we made our random lines with regular old Microns instead. We did the exercise jam style, where each of us would grid off a page and make the random marks and then the pages were mixed up and distributed at random. The results are posted below. Note that we weren't able to document the original pages with the random marks, but we were able in most cases to indicate the random marks with either red or orange pencil--so that's what those colored marks are.

by Rick

by Mandy

by Craig

by Cassie

by Ben

by Alton

CCCG July Meeting: Saturday the 18th

The next meeting of the Camel City Cartoonists' Guild will be on Saturday, July 18th at 2:00 pm at Krankies Coffee.

I've been poking around trying to find us a place to meet that's more conducive to drawing but I haven't turned up anything definite yet, but I figured just for fun we could try a new place: Krankies Coffee downtown. If nothing else, they've definitely got a lot more table space than Brew Nerds so--as long as there's not a ton of other people there--we can hopefully spread out a bit and get some drawing done. I bookmarked this exercise on Matt Madden's site a while back and thought that maybe we could give it a try next meeting--maybe somehow adapted to be collaborative?

Directions: Krankies is downtown in the warehouse district, on the corner of 3rd and N. Chestnut. Here's a link to a Google Map.

As usual, bring your drawing supplies, any good comics you've been reading that you think folks might be interested in checking out, and any books you've borrowed that you need to return.

CCCG Meeting: May 9th

The next meeting of the Camel City Cartoonists' Guild will be on Saturday, May 9th at 2:00 pm.

Location-wise, I really enjoyed our last meeting at Brew Nerds downtown, so unless anyone has any other suggestions, let's plan on meeting there again. I can clear it with the Brew Nerds folks via Adam, but unless you hear otherwise, assume that's the location.

As usual, bring your drawing supplies, any good comics you've been reading that you think folks might be interested in checking out, and any books you've borrowed that you need to return.

-Ben

CCCG February Meeting

It was tough to settle on a date for this one. It was impossible to find a date that "pleased all of the people all of the time," as they say, so of the two dates that got the most positive responses, I picked the closest one: February 28th, at the usual 2:00 pm.

The only problem with this date, however, is that there's not an available room at the library. I propose, therefore, that we meet instead at the Brew Nerds coffee shop in downtown Winston. It's on Fourth Street, where Sin Coffee used to be. We'll probably have to curtail any large-scale drawing projects, but given that it's been a while since we last got together, I'm sure we'll have plenty to talk about--and plenty of books to pass around.

As usual, bring your drawing supplies, any good comics you've been reading that you think folks might be interested in checking out, and any books you've borrowed that you need to return.

Hope to see you there!

-B.

October CCCG Meeting

The October meeting of the Camel City Cartoonists' Guild and Social Club will be held Saturday, October 25th, at 2:00 at the central library in Winston-Salem. We'll be in room 204.

The library is located downtown at 660 West Fifth Street and you can get directions here... but it's pretty close to the Sawtooth, where we've been meeting previously, and you probably know where it is if you're familiar with downtown at all.

Room 204 is on the very top floor of the building. Take a left at the top of the stairs and it's on your left.

This'll be our first meeting since August and first after both SPX and 24 Hour Comics day, so there'll be plenty to jaw about. Hope you can make it!

As usual, bring your drawing supplies, any good comics you've been reading that you think folks might be interested in checking out, and any books you've borrowed that you need to return.