Nov 8th: Ideas Sharing Meeting and shopSCAD
For our last meeting of the fall quarter, we’ll be meeting at the Student Center, Sunday, Nov 8th, at 5 PM. Bring any scripts, sketches, or even just story ideas to bring to the club and share with your fellow members! This serves as an informal due date for the “idea” part of your Comic Phonebook submission. It’s highly recommended that you get the story done before winter break, so that you’ll have all of December to draw it out.
And next up, to announce a monumental event for the club, for the first time ever Phonebook will be for sale at shopSCAD!
That’s right, volume 6 is now honored amongst the wares of shopSCAD and on sale for just ten dollars each! So skedaddle on over there if you’re looking to own a copy!
It’s thanks to our awesome members last year who contributed superb comics and illustrations that Comic Phonebook was able to be accepted into shopSCAD. Let’s work hard to make an even better book this year and impress them even more 
Nov 3rd: Comics 101 Workshop
Our next and second to last meeting will be this Tuesday, November 3rd at the Student Center at 9 PM for our first ever Comics 101 Workshop hosted by Professor Phillips! It’d be a workshop all about comic basics, from panel layouts to speech bubbles! Great for comic beginners, or if you just want a refresher.
You should all definitely go!!!
And then for our last meeting of the quarter, it’d be on Sunday, November 8th, at the Student Center at 5 PM. This will be our idea sharing meeting, where you get to show any sketches or scripts to your fellow members for comments, critique, or praise! It also serves as an informal check point to make sure you’ve got an idea for your comic before the winter break starts
See you there!
T-Shirts and Script Workshop Recap
Ta-da! Presenting the winning design of our T-shirt contest, thanks to Chieh-yu Lee!
You can preorder the shirts now at our next two Phonebook meetings They’re just five dollars each! And available in white, pink, and light blue.
And many thanks to the awesome Professor Paluzzi! Her scriptwriting workshop covered all sorts of good, juicy tips for writing comic scripts, and we’ll be adding all her recommended links to the Resources page soon. Stay tuned for more info on our workshop next week, featuring Professor Phillips!
Oct 20th: Script Writing Workshop & T-Shirt Contest!!!
Hey everyone! For our next meeting on October 20th, we’ll be meeting at the Student Center at 9 PM for two occasions!
First off, it’s our annual scriptwriting workshop hosted by Professor Paluzzi from the Sequential Art Department. Learn how to capture those fluttering ideas and stories into words to help you out before you start the drawing process on your comics!
And next, it’s the deadline for our first ever T-Shirt Design Contest! Come and bring your designs and we’ll have a group vote to see who’s the winner
Toodles,
Billie
September Recap
Whew, hello again guys! We’ve finally restored access to our blog so we can give you updates on it again :D (Unfortunately, our official SCAD email is still down) Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
Anyhoo, here’s what’s happened since the beginning of Fall. First off, we had great attendance at our Fall Fest booth and at our interest meeting, it was awesome to see so many new faces :D Looks like it’s going to be a fun year!
And for those of you returning, we’ve basically made three main rule changes to be eligible for submissions this year:
- You must attend 4 club meetings before the submissions deadline (Feb 9th)
- Community service and leadership opportunities are no longer required to submit to the book*
- Comic entries must somehow feature a penguin, a puffin, or both!
* Subject to change, but we’ll let you know way in advance and it’d be quite minimal.
And just this last Tuesday, was our first fundraiser of the year, the Lolita Tea Party! It was an amazing success, with lots of Lolita and tea to go around :D We were experimenting with bringing back the idea of Tea House fundraisers that used to be hosted by the club back in the day. Since the turn out was so great, I’ll say you can definitely count on us hosting more Tea Parties in the future! (And you can check out more pictures on our Facebook!)
Thanks for coming guys! And many thanks to our volunteers as well :D For now, stay tuned to hear more about our October 20th meeting, which will feature our T-shirt Contest at the Student Center, 9 PM!
An Olde to Fall
Hello guys!
Billie here, your Shoujo Phonebook president and excited for Shoujo Phonebook’s seventh year! We’ve already got lots of fun stuff planned for fall, including another Artist Alley and a Lolita Tea Party. And, we may have our first ever t-shirt design contest, yay!
But first, to announce some changes for the upcoming year. For our new officer lineup, we’ve got Joy Hua as secretary, Sarah Menzel as treasurer, and Professor Benjamin Phillips as club faculty adviser. Hurah!
And next, we’ve reworked some of the club membership rules to match ICC’s new policies. From now on, you will not be required to participated in two community service projects, but! That has been replaced by the Leadership Opportunity events instead. Now, you’ll just have to attend two of those. They’re way easier and actually on campus! Check out our rules page for more details.
That’s it for now, hope you all had a good summer! Be sure to visit us at Fall Fest (Sept 19th, 4-8pm, Dyson Field) or at our Interest Meeting (Tuesday, Sept 22th, 9pm, Student Center). See you there!
May 12th: Book Signing
Hello everyone!
Tomorrow night’s your first opportunity to get your hands on a copy of this year’s Shoujo Phonebook for just five dollars. We’ll be meeting at our regular time and place, Crites Rm 412, 9 PM.
See you there! And there shall be cake
May 16th: Artist Alley
Always wanted to run a con table, but just didn’t have the means to get one? Announcing Artist Alley, the annual event hosted by Shoujo Phonebook where SCAD students can purchase booths and get a chance to sell their wares to their fellow students. And you don’t have to make the type of merch you’d usually find at an anime con, any sort of style is welcome to be sold here! Prints, comics, t-shirts, plushies, magnets, buttons, original sketches, you can sell whatever you make!
The 2009 issue of Shoujo Phonebook will also be available for sale at the Artist Alley, come and snag a copy on its debut!
Artist Alley be on Saturday May 16th, 11 to 4 pm, on the second floor of the Student Center. Grab a table to promote your work, or come to see what your peers are up to!
Tables cost five dollars (in cash) and sign-ups will be available at one Shoujo Phonebook meeting and one Kamikaze Sushi meeting on the following dates:
- Tuesday, April 28, 9 PM, Crites Rm 412
- Saturday, May 2, 8 PM, Student Center
- Sign ups will ONLY be taken at these meetings!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
Email shoujo@scad.edu for any of the above.
Check out our Facebook event!
Attention Artist Alley Artists!!!: Set up starts at 10:30 and then the event will open to the public at 11. If you do not show up to set your table by 11:30, your spot will be forfeited without refund.
April 28th and May 2nd: Artist Alley Sign-Ups!!!
I know we’ve been pounding it into your heads for about a month now ^^; But anyway…
Artist Alley sign ups are tomorrow and this Saturday! One at a Shoujo Phonebook meeting and one at a Kamikaze Sushi meeting, you can check out the details above!
Bring five dollars in cash for the table fee, all profits go into the printing of next year’s book and are nonrefundable. If there’s anyone in particular who’d you’d like to share a table with, email us the request at shoujo@scad.edu after you’ve signed up. Tables are half tables, like it’s usually done at conventions.
Looking forward to it guys! There’s also going to be a book signing party the Tuesday before Artist Alley, May 12 at our usual meeting place and time.
Shoujo Phonebook ‘09 is here!
That’s right! Shoujo Phonebook’s glorious 2009 issue is available on our lulu page! For just $8.50, this comic collection of eleven different artists can be yours! It is also available as a download for $3.75, for those of you into saving paper.
They will also be at our Artist Alley event, so if you’re on the SCAD campus, wait until then to purchase one and not only will you save on shipping, but several of our artists will be avaliable for signings! Stay tuned for information about a potential book signing party!