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San Francisco Zine Fest

Fritz Bogott — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:24:18 +0000

In a further stroke of madness, I’ll be exhibiting my Untold Tales at San Francisco Zine Fest this coming Saturday and Sunday 9/4-9/5. Stop by and say hello!

San Francisco Zine Fest

Saturday, September 4 from 11:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, September 5 from 11:00am – 6:00pm

SF County Fair Building
(formerly the Hall of Flowers)
9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. (in Golden Gate Park)

http://sfzinefest.com

Little Funny

Fritz Bogott — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:42:56 +0000

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic, and Altered Esthetics Gallery in Minneapolis are staging Big Funny, a month-long wake celebrating the endangered medium known as “newspaper comics.” They have produced a full-size, full-color Sunday Funnies and loads of collateral art.

There will also be a vintage cigarette machine stocked with mini-comics. I will be contributing the three *highly-collectible* Uncles minis whose covers appear above. (Your spare change will help to buy meagre portions of Artist Chow for unnamed starving cartoonists and gallery owners who aren’t me. I get paid in mini-comics, which pretty much rules!)

The opening reception is Friday, August 7 from 7:00-11:00 at Altered Esthetics, 1224 Quincy Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, 612.378.8888. Please bring your checkbook and a pocket full of quarters!

Maker Faire / Nice Humans

Fritz Bogott — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:00:10 +0000

We ended up getting 140 groups to do readings of Boggle and Sneak, for a total of close to 300 people. I’ve been saying that the story of this Maker Faire for me will be that 300 people walked up and knowingly did me a personal favor (and this was on top of the giant-sized favor that my crew of Ed, Andrew, Will and Susan all pulled out.) My main reaction is basically stunned and bewildered gratitude. People can be pretty great!

First Day of Maker Faire

Fritz Bogott — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:08:13 +0000

Ed, Will, Andrew and I spent the day at Maker Faire asking fairegoers to read pages out of Boggle and Sneak in our time machine. Each person or group read a single page, and we’ll be editing all the the pages into chapter-length videos. The readers were great! We had individuals, couples, parents and kids, moms and babies, groups of friends, and a man with the devil on his back. We’re still hoping to get R2D2, but we haven’t been able to get his attention yet.

Boggle and Sneak at Maker Faire

Fritz Bogott — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:40:56 +0000

The Time Machine and I will be attending Make Magazine‘s Maker Faire in San Mateo May 3-4, to film the Boggle and Sneak videobook! Read all about it!

In the Loop

Fritz Bogott — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:45:27 +0000

My old friend Joe Weismann fronts the band The Smarts, which is the house band for the Minnesota Public Radio show In the Loop.

“In the Loop” did one of their occasional open-mic Story Slam tapings last night, and Joe encouraged me to show up and perform. Theme of the show was “Disguise,” so I told a story (perhaps not mine to tell) my high-school guitar teacher once told me, about the time she attended a costume party dressed as God.

She bound her breasts, wore baggy clothes, pulled a paper bag over her head, and refused to speak. This was met by universal hostility, as each guest demanded to know, “Are you a man or a woman under there?” and “Who are YOU supposed to be?” Eventually one of the guests became so upset by the ambiguity that he squared off and tried to fight her.

I’m ambivalent about appropriating her story, and I’m not sure I rendered it particularly well. The best I can say is that I fought down stage fright and spoke slowly and clearly. Beginner’s mind, beginner’s mind…

Lit6 Story Stage

Fritz Bogott — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:32:21 +0000

Ed Vogel (author of the awesome Cigar Box Guitar article in Make among other accomplishments (and whom I met in a longboarding context not writing or strumming or making, but that’s another story)) invited me to attend last Sunday’s Lit6 Story Stage at the 331 Club in Northeast Minneapolis. I’m still lit up from the exposure to so many talented writers.

Lessons (re)learned:

Reading out loud is a critical discipline that I ignore at my peril.
Being too old for stage fright does not prevent stage fright.
I do not know how to speak properly into a microphone.