Mini-Comics Day in Minneapolis was a whole lot of fun… of the numerous cartoonists who showed up, at least 15 comics were completed (pictured below… apologies if I didn’t get a photo of yours for some reason). Afterwards we went to Grumpy’s to drink, eat tater tots, and give out the 2012 Stapler Award for the Best Minnesota Mini-Comics Day Mini-Comic. Eric Lorberer (Editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books), Courtney Algeo (Editorial Director of Paper Darts and Marketing Coordinator at The Loft Literary Center) and Miles Johnson (of the Read My List blog and Altered Esthetics gallery) deliberated for quite a while to determine which mini was the best one by their subjective standards… and a winner was picked! The award went to Athena Currier for her very deserving entry “My Little Sister Phoebe Just Graduated from College,” which made me laugh out loud when I read it… I wish I had remembered to take a picture of her with the award. Additionally, last year’s winner of the Stapler, Dan Murphy, was given an honorable mention for his entry “The Spider Lady,” which was good, because if he had won we would have had to change the name of the award to the Dan Murphy award.
Here are some (bad) pictures from the event, and pictures of the completed minis.
The Stapler-Award-winning comic by Athena Currier
The runner up, by Dan Murphy
Dan’s comic with the cover opened:
A.Z. McGinty‘s untitled comic:
“The Bridge” by Carlos Merino:
“Darkly Swoops” by Chris Beck (unforutnately mangled by my bag):
“Danno and the Giant Apple” by Danno Klonowski
“The Fledgling” by Erika Finne
“Hazards” by Joe Combs
Untitled mini by Lars Kommienezuspadt
“Finger Football” by Matt Reints
“Stinky & Inky” by Michelle Silva
“The First-Ever Mini-Comic About Making a Mini-Comic” by Mike Toft
“Abra-Ka Deborah” by Thomas Boguszewski
“Shift” by Vivian Meger and her Dad
“Plotz #2” by Stwalley
