Location
Artist & Craftsman Supplies
4350 8th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206.545.0091
CARTOONISTS NORTHWEST meetings are held on the third Saturday of every month:
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Micah McCarty is a very active Makah carver and painter, who has been building not just a local audience, but worldwide.
Micah McCarty is a member of the Makah Nation, currently residing in Neah Bay, Washington. McCarty was raised in a Makah speaking household where he learned to the “old way” of singing and making costumes for performances.McCarty is also a drum maker and a woodcarver of traditional tribal imagery. Within the last several years, McCarty has been involved with reviving the ancient songs of the Makah people, as well as the imagery of his family. His work has been part of the Royal British Columbia Museum’s “Out of the Mist Treasures of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs”.
As a recipient of a 2000 Apprenticeship grant, McCarty taught traditional drum making and carving to David Della-Strong. David is a fellow Makah carver looking to expand his technique and knowledge through McCarty’s teachings.
Michael Jantze!
While doing other fun jobs like newspaper graphics editor, animation director, visual effects art director, Michael’s newspaper comic strip “The Norm” was syndicated to more than 100 papers and earned a Harvey Award nomination before being retired to GoComics in 2022 at gocomics.com/thenorm.
Studio Jantze is the next step in Michael’s creative journey at gocomics.com/studio-jantze. New characters include Mr. Lux, a magical human who can be anyone and everyone, Holly the wonder girl, silly homages to great cartoonists, and some of the old “The Norm” gang.
Behind the scenes commentary and pre-press privileges, are at patreon.com/jantze. Michael is currently working with an agent for new book projects.
Mimi Pond
Our speaker for January is cartoonist, graphic novelist, writer, and illustrator, Mimi Pond.
Saturday the 15th at 5:30 PM, Pacific Time
She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen Magazine, NationalLampoon, and many other publications too numerous to mention, along with five humor books and the graphic memoirs “The Customer is Always Wrong” and “Over Easy”. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full length episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roastingon an Open Fire” in 1989, and episodes for the television shows “Designing Women” and “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”.
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November Meeting With Mary Fleener
Saturday, November 20, 2021
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Our speaker this month is an alternative comics artist, writer, and musician Mary Fleener. Mary’s 1996 collection of her autobiographical comics, Life of the Party, is a cult favorite, loved for its humor, authenticity, confidence, and distinct artistic style. As part of the autobiographical comix movement, Mary pushed the boundaries of what comics could be about. She continues to work as a fine artist, illustrator and has written the cartoon series, The Less You Know, The Better You Feel.
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Melody Peña
Hometown Heroes – Steve Ditko Exhibit and Ditko 2021 Mini-Con at the Bottle Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.Our Speaker this Month is Melody Peña.
“I’m Melody Pena (my last name is pronounced “Pen-yah”, my keyboard doesn’t have the true “enye” letter). My path as a graphic novel creator/cartoonist is a little different, I’m a sculptor! I’ve been creating fantasy art professionally for over forty years. From 1984 until now I’ve been sculpting dragons and creatures for Windstone Editions, a figurine company started by my husband, John Alberti, and I.
I started drawing and publishing my comic “Reptangle” to add backstory to many of the characters in the Windstone sculpture line. I draw gag comics also, but other than a short time having them published in a local paper, I just do them for fun.
I am currently hard at work on the second book of the Reptangle story, a sketchbook I plan to publish, a jewelry line (ZBrush is a bitch to learn), and several new sculptures. I am also working on another edition of 120 individually painted pieces, shown below. Producing sculpture is my day job, cartooning is my night job.
I will talk about how we started our own art business, and how a comic can be used as an added facet of an existing business.