Black Hat Collective's 24 Hour Comic Day Make-up!

Every year on Oct. 1, cartoonists around the world work feverishly to complete a 24 page comic in 24 hours. Well, Oct. 1 wasn't good for us. We had things that day. Things we wanted to do. So join us on Oct. 22 and make a comic of your own, or collaborate on our group comic. Making a full comic in 24 hours is hard, but potluck meals and moral support make it easier! Members of the Black Hat Collective will be there working, and the event is open to the public, the private, and the just shy. Join us at the Geek Partnership Society from Oct. 22 10 am to Oct. 23 10am, and show the world how tough you really are.

GPS is located at the Waterbury Building, 1121 Jackson St. NE Suite 106, Minneapolis, MN 55413. See their website for more info: http://www.geekpartnership.org/

For more information about 24 Hour Comic Day, visit http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/

New Opera Season!

Attention all Black Hatters & Friends!

Due to stupidity on my part an evening of Comic Artists Night at the Opera has snuck up on me! I misread the schedule and failed to put an opening night NEXT THURSDAY down in my planner. Which means I have not had time yet to properly get the word out! Which means you all get first, and possibly only, dibbs. We have 14 slots to fill by next Tuesday evening.

What you need:
       An email to me by Tuesday afternoon detailing ALL of the following:
              * your name
              * your currently updating website
              * your desire to attend a FREE opera full dress rehearsal Thursday September 22nd, 2011.

By emailing me this information you are agreeing to the following:
              *you will be on-time to the opera
              *you will sketch during the opera (email me if you can't get your hands on a booklight, we may be able to provide one.
              * you will email a scan of at least one of your pieces, along with 1-5 sentences about your experience to an email I will forward you as part of your confirmation within ONE WEEK of the event itself
              * you will post at least 1 sketch and some sort of write-up to your own webpage/webcomic/blog within 1 week of the event.
              *you will allow MN opera to use this sketch for promotional purposes without further compensation (you will retain the copyright, however, as well as the use of the rest of the sketches)

And that's about it! Please get the word out and tell as many online local comicers as you can. Since this is so last minute participation in this event will NOT effect your eligibility for other shows this season.

Now the important parts:
             *information about the show http://www.mnopera.org/season/2011-2012-season?module=performances&showid=1950
             * By participating you are also eligible to come to their blogger preview meet n greet, which can be a fun, low-stress networking opportunity. This is held for about an hour before the show, just like last year, at a nearby restaurant
             *transportation assistance may be available by request

Questions/Comments welcome!

Meeting time!

Helloooooo comic-ers!
Hiya! It's Meeting time again! Woo!

Meeting time is 1-5 on Feb. 12th. It is a Saturday. We'll be in 106A. Which just means that you'll go to 106, enter and then go into the room that is in the room. Less complicated then it sounds, I assure you. I'm working on getting the space 2nd Sat of every month, but we have to talk about alternate dates on a couple of months.

The Geek Partnership Society is our meeting space. You can find them at 1121 Jackson St NE, Suite 106 Minneapolis, MN 55413. Park in the big lot in the back, follow the signs for Xelias, and come in door C. Yes, we're in the big red building across from the metalworking shed-what-looks-about-ready- to-fall-down. If you need more info, shoot me an email at blackhatcollective@gmail.com.

We should have our large format scanner by then! Our resident Gerbil, Jonathan, has donated a computer to hook up to said scanner! The world is coming up roses, and fun scanning times. Hopefully our Foreign Correspondent can Skype in and jam with us--Maria, you still wanna try that?

If you have a buddy that wants to come along--bring'em! We're an open club of GPS and the only thing we ask is that you love makin' comics in some way.

See Ya There!
Lisa Blauersouth
El Presidente

SCAVENGER HUUUUNT

Gerbil here again, with an insider's tip: To any of y'all attending the CONvergence festivities this coming July 2nd-5th, there'll be an extra-special fetch quest you can go on, courtesy of the Grey Bouquet gang!

Like all the best stuff in life, it's not only simple; it's free. Just check out the Free Stuff tables for fliers with the main four GBQ characters on 'em. If you can't pick them out at first sight, no worries-- there'll be a link to "greybouquet.com" right there on the flier.

If you find all four, you can match the back sides to build a super-sized, never-before-seen Grey Bouquet picture! (Or, in nerdspeak: you can form Voltron.)

What's the final product, you ask?

Pff. Cheaters. Fine, have yourselves some teaser pics...




Take our word for it: It's Hiroshima-licious.

Because being a consumer whore is downright sexy sometimes.

Hey, all! 'Tis the Gerbil! How're y'all doin'?

...
Kinda hope nobody just replied to their screen. If you did, I couldn't hear it. [Frowny face emoticon.]

ANYhow, I'm here hijacking the journal long enough to pass out an update for you fans of happy-go-lucky apocalypses out there.

http://www.greybouquet.com/
GBQ Online's up, running, and complete with (gasp, choke) content for all subsites! Yup, even the store's fully stocked.

Check it out, if you like! Run around. Get some sun in your bones, for cryin' out loud. You kids, with your working ozone layers. Pffft.

Microcon Happened

Microcon report:

I'm still cold, probably going to be sick. Gerbil sold some stuff and Maria did a pretty good days worth of drawing commision sketches. Teri also did one. We gave out massive amounts of Godseeker business cards, so hopefully we'll have lots of new readers! We didn't sell any books :(

I'm thinking of ordering some BHC business cards for my own use--I'm doing lots of networking. Fortunately, I can probably order up some free ones for the time being, since I don't care if VistaPrint puts thier webpage on the back, and I don't need them for a while.

I'm thinking of more ways to have some BHC stuff in particular that we can sell to raise some cash for the group instead of just individual members. I still wanna button maker for the group!

Any ideas?

Newsletter Post

Greetings!

This is the Black Hat Collective Newsletter. It will be a monthly newsletter, and will feature information and news and meeting times and places. If you want to get the e-newsletter, please send an email to blackhatcollective@gmail.com.

So, hello to the folks we met at Anime Detour! If you haven't, check out our blog (http://blackhatcollective.blogspot.com/). We hope to see some of you at our meetings! Studio Whipping Boy--I know there are five of you--if you'd like the newsletter to get sent to each of you individually, please let me know.

Remember: we'll be at MicroCon on April 26th. This does not mean we won't have a meeting this month--the 17th of April, at the Hamline-Midway Library (Location). We'll probably be in the basement.

We may have an opportunity to do a small gallery-type show at Sample Night Live. Who is all in? I'm thinking about doing it Sept/Oct of this year if possible. Sample Night is a lot of fun: here's their website.

For MISFITS News:
Upcoming Events:

Writing Contest deadline: May 1st.

Geek Prom, May 16th.
Since Teri and I are running it, we'd sure like y'all to get tickets. they are $10 now, or 15 at the door--though if you bring a canned food item, the door price is also 10. Theme this year is 8-Bit Boogie, and it should be a good time for all.

End of early reg for CONvergence: May 15th. For those of you who don't know--CONvergence is awesome. It's an all around geek con, and it is the highlight of my year.

I think that's it for this news bulletin, see you in a week or so!