{"id":393,"date":"2009-08-05T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2009-08-05T23:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T06:04:58","slug":"big-funny-show-opens-this-friday-august-7th-2009-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soapythechicken.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"BIG FUNNY SHOW OPENS THIS FRIDAY (August 7th, 2009) IN MINNEAPOLIS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you enjoy this site and you live near the Twin Cities, you won’t want to miss the BIG FUNNY<\/a> show my friends and I have been putting together over the last number of months. It opens this weekend, and it is going to be spectacular. <\/p>\n

The show premieres BIG FUNNY, an oversized 48-page newspaper of comics by 45 different artists, inspired by the funnies sections of yesteryear. The gallery show features original art from the publication, numerous antique comic strips (some over 100 years old), a retrospective of unknown cartoonist William Ede, and an old cigarette vending machine rigged up to sell small boxes of little funny<\/em> mini-comics. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

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THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY IS COUGHING blood and gasping on its deathbed. Newspapers lost their relevance a long time ago, and with internet media blossoming they can no longer compete. Readers and advertisers have moved on.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, newspapers are taking their beautiful bastard child, the newspaper comic strip, with them.<\/p>\n

Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newspaper comics are much-maligned\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and deservedly so. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s small strips, with mostly predictable, safe themes and bland characters are a pale shadow of what newspaper comics were in their wild and colorful youth.<\/p>\n

110-or-so years from their birth, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good run. Let us not mourn the death of the<\/p>\n

newspaper comics\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 rather, let us have a wake to celebrate what they once were, and to build something new.<\/p>\n

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic, and Altered Esthetics gallery are collaborating to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.<\/p>\n

It will be called BIG FUNNY, and it will be both.<\/p>\n

The paper will premiere at a show at Altered Esthetics in August, featuring some of the original art from the paper, along with historical comics pages from the dawn of the last century. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BIG FUNNY Website.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Pages A-List Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Optical Sloth review<\/a><\/p>\n

Poopsheet Foundation review<\/a><\/p>\n

Newsarama review<\/a><\/p>\n

Drawn Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Amy Crehore’s Little Hokum Rag review<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo gallery of the little funny<\/em> sideshow<\/a><\/p>\n


\nCan’t make the gallery show? You can buy copies of BIG FUNNY here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening Reception
\nAugust 7, 2009 7pm-11pm
\nALTERED ESTHETICS<\/a>
\n1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413<\/p>\n

SHOW RUNS AUGUST 7-29, 2009<\/p>\n

GALLERY HOURS:
\nTUESDAY & THURSDAY 1pm-7pm, SATURDAY 1pm-5pm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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