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CLAW April 2016 Status Report

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Greetings to all the C.L.A.W.’s watchers, followers, friends and disturbed on-lookers!  It’s April and that means showers and taxes and Fools!  But it also means that the C.L.A.W. will be participating in the annual Wayzgoose Letterpress and Book Arts Festival hosted by King’s Books on St. Helens in lovely downtown Tacoma!  It’s a wonderful celebration of printing and Tacoma artists and creators, and of course, people playing with a steamroller!  The C.L.A.W. is scheduled for a Sunday (actually the 1st of May) steamroller time, so come out and watch us smash out our tribute to Tacoma’s own futurist, Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune saga as well as many other classic tomes from the heyday of science fiction!  The event is 2 days, April 30th and May 1st, so come on down and enjoy the merry-making and print-making!
A few days before that, on Wednesday the 27th will be the monthly C.L.A.W. Open Swim meeting!  This event will also be taking place at the traditional site of King’s Books!  Yes, we hang out at King’s Books a lot!  The meeting is, as the name suggests, open to the public!  Come down at 7:30 that evening to hang out with cartoonists, draw absurd things and meet local celebrities…like R.R. Anderson and Mark Monlux and James Stowe–all founders of the Cartoonist’s League of Absurd Washingtonians!  If you have no earthly idea who they might be, now’s the time to drop by and find out!!
Oh, just thought I should mention, as an afterthought…there’s a little comicbook orientated convention happening in Seattle this month as well.  Just an intimate affair, hardly worth noticing, but just in case you might be interested, a few C.L.A.W. members will be there to give it some heft (well, the ones that could get tables anyway.)  The name of this little gathering escapes me at the moment, but it takes place at the Seattle Convention Center from Thursday the 7th until Sunday the 10th.  Emerald…something something ComiCon.  Anyway, check it out if you haven’t got anything important to do.  ^0^
Until next month my friends!  Keep noodling and doodling!

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April 28, 2016 · Filed under events, King's Books, meetings, News

INDOOR FROST PARK PUBLIC CHALK CHALLENGE at KINGS BOOKS!

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CLAW OPEN SWIM FEB 2016

WHAT: Greetings True Believers! Long rainy nights have you longing for sunshine and sidewalk chalk? Fret not! Members of the Cartoonist League of Absurd Washingtonians are mustering for the first ever indoor competitive sidewalk chalk challenge!  FREE CHALK will be provided via the Frost Park Community Chalk Box Mobile Stockpile.

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Slabs of conceptual concrete will be distributed to each contestant via generous donation of black chalk drawing boards (Which you get to keep! While supplies last) via Tinkertopia–Tacoma’s most beloved Alt. Art Supply & Creative Reuse Center!  Each chalk entry shall be voted upon and prizes won!  Theme for the Chalk challenge shall be: “FOR THE LOVE OF MYTHOS: FANTASTIC MOMENTS IN ALT. HISTORY”

WHEN: 7:30 pm, February 24th 2016 A.D.

WHERE: Kings Books–Tacoma’s Most Beloved Reuse Book Center!
218 St Helens Ave, Tacoma, Washington 98402

WHO: You, and your Friendly Neighborhood Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians.

WHY: Because it is there.

RSVP on FB event page!

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February 1, 2016 · Filed under cartoonists, King's Books, meetings, member challenge, Open Swim, tacoma

While Elephant Gift Exchange 2015

White Elephant by Mark Monlux

White Elephant by Mark Monlux

The Cartoonists’ League of Absurd Washingtonians is holding its annual While Elephant Gift Exchange

Wednesday, December 2nd 7:30pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402
 
This even is open to the public – all ages – and everyone is invited to attend and participate. If you bring children they might end up with a very odd gift more suitable for adults. I’m happy to say that this will be our fifth year of astonishing each other with truly absurd Christmas gifts. Now is your chance to re-gift that present your aunt gave you last year. Or maybe you bought something at a garage sale and your common sense kicked in when you go home, so it’s been living in the garage. Or maybe you found something that has the perfect “IT” factor for this event.
Rules of the White Elephant Gift Exchange:
1. The gift must be “absurd”.
2. If you buy the gift, you must not spend more than $20.
3. You’re gift must be wrapped, or at the very least fully concealed in a festive bag.
4. Those who bring get to participate.
5. Numbers will be drawn from a fez to determine order.
6. You can select a gift from a table or steal a gift from a person who already chose a gift.
7. A gift can only be stolen twice times, at which time it becomes locked-in.
8. The person who went first gets a chance at the end of the round to steal a gift.
9. The trading, purchasing, bartering or auctioning of gifts after the exchange is allowed.
10. No books on Nazis.
In the event that there are extra gifts, they will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. We take credit cards.
Free Street Parking – You’ll need to bring a gift if you want to be part of the exchange – viewing the fun is FREE.
 

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December 1, 2015 · Filed under cartoonists, events, King's Books, meetings, Open Swim, tacoma

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