Happy New Year! Two new “Drawing Funny” podcast episodes are now available, and they are the first episodes of 2025! Episode 71 – “MSCA 2024 Review Pt. 1” is the first part of my 2024 year end wrap-up review conversation with Mid-South Cartoonists Association/MSCA president Kevin L. Williams. Kev and I grabbed some dinner after work, and then discussed the very busy year our local cartooning association experienced in 2024. We had a full two and a half pages of notes to go over, so I broke it into two episodes and am releasing them back to back. You can find the second half of our 2hr toon talk on Episode 72 – “MSCA 2024 Review Pt. 2”.
We give our thoughts and recollections of 2024 art shows, festivals, conventions, gatherings, and other events in and around Memphis and the mid-south area- plus the new MSCA “The Good, The Bad, And The Sketchy” zine issues and “Drawing Funny” podcast episodes created in 2024.
This was probably the busiest the MSCA has been in years, and 2025 doesn’t look like it’s gonna slow down any! (Click here for Kevin’s “END OF THE YEAR STATE OF THE ONION ADDRESS” from November 30th.)
This year’s first MSCA Monthly Dinner Gathering will be this Tuesday, January 7th from 6-8pm at Garibaldi’s Pizza off Walker Avenue near the U Of M.
We’ve also got our first Sat-Art-Day of 2025 back out at 901 Comics East on Macon Road later this month on January 25th from 10m-2pm.
The Mid-South Cartoonists Association’s art show, The Funny Pages, is still hanging in the lobby at Germantown Community Theatre at 3037 Forest Hill Irene, Germantown, TN for another week or two. You can visit it during normal biusiness hours. Original art, prints, and zines are available for sale.
Hope to see you at events around the M-town and the mid-south this year. Be sure to follow the MSCA’s socials and website for where else the cartoonists association and I will be in 2025. Thankfully all my con tables were near a restroom this year year, and there was even a defibrillator behind me at one event. Glad that all my health issue bases were covered in 2024!
You can listen to EP. 71 on Spotify HERE.
Click HERE to listen to EP. 72 on Spotify.
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