Crafty Bastards this weekend

The annual Crafty Bastards show is this weekend at Union Market and it will have a couple of comics folks as well as fan-favorite local graphic artists. Baltimore comics creators include Ben Claassen III (Dirtfarm) and Michael Bracco of Spaghetti Kiss (Novo; The Creators; Adam Wreck). Printer Anthony Diehl of Fire Studio (Diehl did the cover of the the free D.C. comics newspaper Magic Bullet #5) and Jeffrey Everett of El Hefe Design (Everett designed the Magic Bullet logo gracing the covers of #6 and #7). TinaSeamonster will be there, too (Tina created the time-traveling squid character in Magic Bullet #7). 

Screenprinted poster show opening July 26

Civilian Art Projects is holding an opening on July 26 from 7-9 pm for Permanent Summer, an exhibition of screenprinted poster art. It features local artists, such as Anthony Dihle of Fire Studio and Jeffrey Everett of El Hefe Design, as well as folks well-known in comics circles, such as Brian Chippendale. (Dihle has told us his exhibited work will include the silkscreen cover to Magic Bullet #5, a free D.C.-area comics newspaper published by the D.C. Conspiracy.)