The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians is leaving 2011 behind in a busy cloud of dust as we work our way through several year-end projects!  In October CLAW was represented at the “Beyond Crayons & Finger Painting 2.0 Youth Art Project” event hosted by the B2 Fine Art Gallery in conjunction with the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Glass.

The CLAW continues to expand as it welcomed Member #18, Michael Daley to its ranks during the Open Swim event in October!   The theme of the artwork created at the event was Halloweenies.  The results were as enjoyable as they were disturbing!

In November, our final Member’s Only meeting for the year took place at the usual Comic Book Ink venue.  Plans were discussed for the upcoming Great Yearly Ceremony! Winterfest on Sunday, Decemeber 4th at the Tacoma Art Museum will feature CLAW members doing sketches and selling their wares.  Watch the CLAW and TAM websites for further information.  (more…)

We do have tables available for the upcoming show on November 13th. Due to confusion with us switching from a mailed table packet to a web-site posted version, we are extending the deadline for the table price increase until November 1st. We also have a few Small Press-Artist Alley tables available at $60. each. We’ve condensed our Table Packet to one page of information + 2 pages of Exhibitor Application. These can be found on our greatly improved web-site: www.portlandcomicbookshow.com. If you have all ready reserved a table, we will be posting table locations this weekend. Set-up instructions will follow the 1st week of November. If you need more of our show brochures, please let us know via email: portlandcomicbookshow@comcast.net .We appreciate your support of the Portland Comic Book Show! Now going into our 33rd year!

The CLAW has been busy. On October 3rd members of the CLAW participated in the 24 Hour Comic Challenge at Comic Book Ink, in Tacoma. Kudos to John Munn, owner of CBI, to welcoming not only the CLAW but also other cartoonists to this unique yearly challenge.  The 24HCC is the the prime fundraiser for the CLAW Student Scholarship Fund, with money being dropped into the jar for being added into the comic, and out of the kindness of hearts. For donations of $5 folks received a blind bag holding a cartoon. With quality varying from amateur to the highly gifted you didnÕt know what you got until you opened the bag. These bags were originally created for the 100 Monkeys but the cancellation of their October meeting gave the CLAW to use them for the fundraiser.  Also there was a time-lapse camera providing a feed to the website where folks could go online and make additional contributions. (more…)