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Mini Comics Day: Des Moines IA

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DCDC’s CBC (Comic Book Club) Presents: Celebrate Mini Comics Day in Des Moines!

When? Saturday, March 14th, 2pm to 4pm

Where? DMPL’s Central Branch, 2nd Floor Study Room (1000 Grand Ave. Des Moines IA, 50309)

Why? Because you want to challenge yourself to make a mini-comic in 2 hours (or so). Or maybe you want to learn about mini comics and best practices on making and copying them. Perhaps you want to meet new friends in the process?

Either way, you should come. It’s FREE and tools are provided (feel free to bring your own, though).

All ages and skill levels are welcome!

Mini-Comics Day 2025 Columbus! 3.15.25

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by rebecca richardson @alphabetgooop

Dates/TimesMarch 15, 2025
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

LocationWill Eisner Seminar Room, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Musuem
Room 205, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street
Columbus OH 43210

Mini-Comics Day is back!!

On Mini-Comics Day participating cartoonists from around the world write, draw, and print copies of a mini-comic—completing the entire process from start to finish in a day or less. Anyone in the world can participate.

This FREE event is open to ages 7 through adult. (children must be accompanied by an adult)
Click HERE to REGISTER for this event.

Join us at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on Saturday, March 15, from 2:00–4:00 PM for Mini-Comics Day—a celebration of DIY cartooning! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, you’re welcome to create with us! Copy paper, pencils, and colored pencils will be supplied. Please feel free to bring along your favorite art supplies. Museum educator, Rebecca Richardson, will be here throughout the afternoon to walk you through the basics and help you navigate the creative process. Already working on a comics project (and not wanting to start something new)? Bring it along and just hang out and draw with us.

Mini-comics have been democratizing the art of making comic books since the 1970s or earlier—with the popularization of photocopiers, it became apparent that anyone with an inclination and some spare change could print a little comic book. Wildly varying in both form and content, mini-comics are a wonderful synthesis of cartooning and hand-made art objects.

Mini-Comics Day a Success in Phoenix

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Not even a bad copy machine would stop us from creating our books. (Although it did cause us to make way fewer copies than we would have.)

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Bryan ‘BG’ Graham created Bryan’s Angels, a preview for an up coming series that he is working on. He was working fully digital for the first time and felt like he hit some hiccups, but I thought his work looked rad.

photo 1Eric Mengel created another 8 pages for his Ocho series. As the day began Eric asked his friends to suggest items to include in his Ocho story, he had a huge list and I believe he crammed them all in there.

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Damon Begay created the Dictator of Love. A short little piece about someone who tells you which relationship is right and which is wrong. A mix of many of his influences can me found in this book.

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Wil ‘Reset Survivor’ Hines created Earwig & Maggot. About an earwig and maggot that bring a dead body to life and take him out for a couple of drinks.

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Denny ‘dennmann’ Riccelli created another Get That Chicken short. This book features a little girl, a rainbow and a chicken.

Xtra thanx to Jesse James Comics for host the event. Thanx to kind people at Office Max for staying open an extra 20 minutes so that we could finish copying books on their photocopier (even if it was jacked up a little). Special thanx to Birdie for bringing us some cookies on his way to work. Finally thanx to all the others who showed up and hung out with us throughout the day (and even those who followed our adventures on social media), your support is the reason we make comics.

Hope to do it all over again next year!