Maker Faire, Making and that.

We're going to the Maker Faire!
We'll be making mini comics and giant comics and probably some monsters too because monsters are fun.

This is a grand excuse for another anthology, working title: Making and that.

If you've been to one of our meetings then you should draw a comic for it. The theme is making things. This can be instructional, fictional, daft, about your making a thing, how to make a thing, about your failure to make a thing, etc... as wide an interpretation as our usual anthologies.

One rule: no "How to make the comics" - or else everyone would do that. Your comic can be about your own personal trials and journey while making comics, it can be about how to draw something specific, it can be about making muffins using comics making principles. A comic entirely about making comics will get a bit repetitive.

Two rule: let's make this anthology all ages.

The comic will be printed A5 size. Up to two pages per a person, if you collaborate you get to combine page numbers for mighty comics.

Our anthologies are primarily for our members, to be a member come to our meetings.

Deadline is 1st April. Comics can be sent to paperjamcc@gmail.com or handed over to Britt on paper.

We'll be talking about this at our next Paper Jam meeting which is the 10th March, or for a more informal chat you can find folks at the Mile Castle on the 25th Feb.

The Paperjammening

Oh what's this then?

Yes! It is a free micro comic con happening on 21st November, downstairs at Travelling Man, featuring the fine works of the Paper Jam Comics Collective!

And it will see the release of the twelfth PJCC 'And That' anthology - Happy ...And That, a lo-fi A6 papery lump of joy about things that Paperjammers like.

Twenty four pages for just £1 - what a bargain!


UPDATE!

Awesome people selling stuff confirmed so far...

Applied Comics Etc.

Britt Coxon

Cuttlefish

Emily Rose Lambert

Oscillating Brow

Paul Thompson

Snapsaplenty & Al Summerscales

Terry Wiley

Lydia Wysocki

As well as their stalls, there'll be a bunch of collaborative doodling games running - no artistic skill required, just turn up and get stuck in! Plus comic-themed 'just a minute' blathering and who knows what else.

Food ...And That

<trumpet!> The eleventh (ELEVENTH!) Paper Jam Comics Collective anthology, Food ...And That, has landed!

Oh yeah! Thirty-two pages of food-themed comics goodness. Featuring work by...

 



Anton ‘Biltong’ Brand
 ‘#’ Brown
refried Britt Coxon
Cuttlefish ‘Calamari’ Cuttlefish
Lucy 'Deep Dish Doughball' Dorothy
mouldy Michael Duckett
cruelty-free Jack Falafels
frost-free Michael Gonson
Emily ‘Porridge Oats’ Lambert
‘Piri Piri’ Maughn
Ian Mayor (boned and rolled)
lightly pickled Oscillating Brow
sprouted Sigmund Reimann
Paella X. Thompson
Dunkin ‘Gluten-Free’ Biscuits
family-sized Terry ‘Jolly Rancher’ Wiley
juicy James Wilkinson
Lydia ‘Allergic To Pumpkin’ Wysocki

It'll be launched at this fine event, happening on Saturday:

Where PJCC will be in full effect, along with all that other super exciting comics/zines/talks/film screening/bands/vegan cake action!

Subsequently, Food ...And That will be available from Travelling Man Newcastle's small press section.

Less But More Paper Jamming: PJCC is going monthly from April 2015

Paper Jam's spiritual home, the basement of Travelling Man Newcastle, is now a fab multi-purpose art/music venue known as Nerd Hutch. Also: a couple of weeks isn't a lot of time to get much comic-making done. Result: PJCC's 2nd and 4th Thursday meeting were getting difficult to timetable amongst gigs and were hard for jammers to commit to attending consistently.

SOLUTION:
Starting in April, the Paper Jam Comics Collective will meet monthly on the 2nd Thursday of each month - still at 6.30pm and still at the Nerd Hutch at Travelling Man.

The March meetings are just a bit of shuffling around until we get to that point:

March 12th: there's a gig in Nerd Hutch, so as a one-off Paper Jam will meet across the road at Geek Retreat (then maybe even go to the gig).

March 26th: meeting as normal (except this is the last 'official' fourth Thursday of a month).

THEN, for the rest of 2015:

9th April / 14th May / 11th June / 9th July / 13th August /
10th September / 8th October / 12th November / 10th December

all 6.30pm, at Travelling Man

And yeah, occasionally there may be other events or fourth Thursday drink-n-draws, or whatever, but those are the core dates, those are dates when maybe stuff will get done, you can get a good chat, do a 24-minute comic, show off your latest publication, talk about upcoming events, etcetera. That's the plan, anyway.