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		<title>Feb 1st was Hourly Comic Day</title>
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      The Challenge behind Hourly Comic Day is simple. The artist is to draw an autobiographical comic on the hour representing each the artist is awake. This can be challenging as many artists like to linger over their work and an hour can go quickly. I find the key is to keep the comic as simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/feb-1st-was-hourly-comic-day/</link>
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		<title>January &#8220;What If?  Wile E. Coyote Edition&#8221; Open Swim</title>
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      When:  January 25th @ 7:30 PM Where:  Dorky&#8217;s Arcade 754 Pacific Ave. Tacoma, WA 98402 &#160; Come down to Dorky&#8217;s and get your Wile E. on.  What If?  Wile E. Coyote Edition is simply what if Wile E. was on a different show, movie, band, etc.  Come and share in some fun and laughter as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/january-what-if-wile-e-coyote-edition-open-swim/</link>
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		<title>CLAW Workday!</title>
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      When: Saturday, January 28th 10:00 AM &#8211; 9:30 PM Where: Comic Book Ink 2510 S. 84th, Suites 15A-B Lakewood, WA 98499 Join us at Comic Book Ink for a day devoted to hammering away at something or another! We liked how productive 24-Hour Comic Day was for the participants, though the workday will only go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/claw-workday/</link>
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		<title>The GREAT YEARLY CEREMONY!</title>
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      Monday, January 2nd, 2012!  6:30pm at the Knights of Pythias Temple in Tacoma, Washington! Join us as we celebrate 2011 and usher in 2012, CLAW&#8217;s &#8220;Year of the Flying Monkey&#8221;! Fun will be had!  Slides will be shown!  Fezzes will be worn!  Cake will be eaten!!! Be there!  (Or the Flying Monkeys will get you!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/the-great-yearly-ceremony/</link>
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		<title>2011&#8242;s White Elephant Gift Exchange</title>
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      Last year you laughed so hard you nearly peed. You remember the terror of 2009. And you&#8217;ve been waiting all year for this magical, yet horrifying event. Yes! Once again it&#8217;s time for The CLAW&#8217;s Annual White Elephant Gift Exchange. Anybody is welcome. What do you need to bring? You don&#8217;t need to bring a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/2011s-white-elephant-gift-exchange/</link>
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		<title>CLAW Member Makes the OUT100!</title>
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      &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; CLAW Four-Eyes Council Member, Mark Brill, along with his writing partner and publisher of Northwest Press, Charles &#8220;Zan&#8221; Christensen, are being featured in this month&#8217;s special issue of OUT Magazine. They are part of the prestigious OUT100 list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/claw-member-makes-the-out100/</link>
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		<title>CLAW Report Nov/Dec 2011</title>
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      (written by Mark Brill) The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians is leaving 2011 behind in a busy cloud of dust as we work our way through several year-end projects! In October CLAW was represented at the &#8220;Beyond Crayons &#38; Finger Painting 2.0 Youth Art Project&#8221; event hosted by the B2 Fine Art Gallery in conjunction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/claw-report-novdec-2011/</link>
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		<title>First Night Dragon CLAW Project</title>
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      In preparation of Tacoma’s First Night Celebration, the many talons of the CLAW will be drawing dragons. Keep an eye out for them here, on FeedTacoma, our member’s blogs, and other locations between now and First Night. Further details of Dragon CLAWs at First Night will arrive as the date draws near.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/first-night-dragon-claw-project/</link>
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		<title>October &#8220;Halloweenie&#8221; Sketch Book Open Swim</title>
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      October 20th, THIRD THURSDAY at AMOCAT CAFE 7:30 pm Come prepared to DRAW DRAW DRAW your favorite HALLOWEENIE !  Whatever you think that means.  By popular vote the winners will get their pick of LEXX cult classic Canadian science fiction DVD&#8217;s.  Maybe even witness a few CLAW new member swearing in ceremonial rituals!  We will post all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/october-halloweenie-sketch-book-open-swim/</link>
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		<title>Post 24hcd Secret Meeting Notes</title>
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      24 Hour Comic Day Report &#8211; Status AWESOME! Of the Competing CLAW talons ALL members met the challenge to complete 24 pages in 24 hours! Larry (aka Thorax O&#8217;Tool) &#8211; [pages not live?] RR Anderson &#8211; WYATT JAMES, BOY DETECTIVE Stowe + Kevin &#8211; Wango the Wallaby: Trouble in Console Town  Mark Monlux &#8211; Stickman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/post-24hcd-secret-meeting-notes/</link>
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		<title>24 Hour Comics Day 2011 &#8211; Marathon Endurance Drawing</title>
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      Saturday October 1st, 2011 A.D. 2510 S. 84th, Suites 15A-B, Lakewood, WA 98466 (253) 761-4651 YOU WILL HAVE 24 HOURS To MAKE a COMPLETE 24 Page COMIC BOOK Can YOU Do it? CAN YOU Create a COMPLETE COMIC BOOK in Only 24 Hours?! That is the Question that Tacoma, Washington&#8217;s COMIC BOOK INK is Challenging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/24-hour-comic-book2011/</link>
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		<title>This Thursday&#8217;s Open Swim Theme is Trading Cards for Monsters and Costumes</title>
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      This Month’s CLAW Open Swim Theme is Trading Cards for Monsters and Costumes. Bring your drawing implements of destruction. In addition to the round table voting at the end of the evening each artist will receive an extra point for each trading card they complete. First place prize is $20 of cold hard cash. Second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/this-thursdays-open-swim-theme-is-trading-cards-for-monsters-and-costumes/</link>
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		<title>Mark Monlux &amp; Joe Manfredini Review Reign of Fire</title>
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      Once again ,Mark Monlux, Grand PooBah and illustrator extraordinaire, co-founder of the CLAW, and general nice guy, visits with his friend Joe Manfredini to talk about movies. This time they are discussing Reign of Fire. Film and editing of the video was done by Friend of the CLAW Adam the Alien. The music was created [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/mark-monlux-joe-manfredini-review-reign-of-fire/</link>
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		<title>Next Open Swim &#8211; Win Lose or CLAW</title>
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      The CLAW invites you to join them Thursday, August 18th at the Amocat Cafe to participate in Win-Lose-or-CLAW. Two teams will be formed from those who attend. The object of the game is to guess what the other team is drawing as quickly as possible. Drawing topics are pulled from a hat filled with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/next-open-swim-win-lose-or-claw/</link>
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		<title>CLAW Report August</title>
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      Submitted to CNW Penstuff newsletter by Mark Monlux: Submitted 08/07/11 The Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians formed in October of 2008. That previous summer Frost Park (named after slain police officer Frost) was saved from having a fence placed around it when RR Anderson issued a challenge to one and all that an hour contest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/claw-report-august2011/</link>
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		<title>Can You Chalk Your Talk?</title>
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      Saturday, August 6, 2010 1:30 pm Tollefson Plaza Join Tacoma Art Museum and CLAW artists and compete in a chalk art competition. We challenge you to chalk your “Identity.” The chalk art will be photographed and put online to be voted on. Not feeling competitive? That&#8217;s fine, Tacoma Art Museum is free all day and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/can-you-chalk-your-talk/</link>
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		<title>Another Robot Tale</title>
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		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/another-robot-tale/</link>
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		<title>July Open Swim: Derby Dames Drawing Jam!</title>
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      Join us for an evening with figure drawing contests, snacks, great coffee, and a gallery reception under one roof! July&#8217;s Open Swim will be a live-model drawing jam featuring some special guests from Tacoma&#8217;s Derby Dames! Mia Smackabitch, Rusty O&#8217;Tulle, Gita Kraken and Red Bull Dozer have volunteered to pose in full gear, with prizes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/july-open-swim-derby-dames-drawing-jam/</link>
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		<title>Anique Zimmer&#8217;s Art at Amocat Cafe</title>
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      Stop by for a gander at the drawings and illustrations of CLAW member Anique Zimmer, on the walls of the Amocat Cafe on 625 St. Helens Ave in Tacoma. The show will be up all through July with a reception during Artwalk on Thursday the 21st, 7:30 PM &#8211; 9:00 PM. Everything on the wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/anique-zimmers-art-at-amocat-cafe/</link>
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		<title>The CLAW Report &#8211; for July 2011</title>
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      &#160; Comic Book Ink and the C.L.A.W. held the “Be A Hero!” Fundraiser. (read Mark Brill&#8217;s excellent first-person account)  The CLAW’s goal was to raise $1,000 to purchase a share of Comic Book Ink, with the eventual profit from the share going into the CLAW Student Scholarship Fund. Cartoonists and Comic artists descended on Comic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/the-claw-report-for-july-2011/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Be A Hero!&#8221; is Today at Comic Book Ink</title>
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      UPDATE: A slew of members form the CLAW will be at Comic Book Ink today; James Stowe, Mark Brill, Adam Botsford, Nick Butler, Mark Monlux and special guest Jesse Munoz. All of them will be doing drawings for you when you make a donation to the fund. Raffles! There will be an hourly raffles for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/be-a-hero-is-today-at-comic-book-ink/</link>
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		<title>NEW OPEN SWIM NIGHT!!!  THIRD THURSDAYS!</title>
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      &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Tomorrow! TOMORROW! TOMOOOOOORROW!!!!! Join us on our new THIRD THURSDAY time for the CLAW Open Swim Meeting at the Amocat Cafe on St. Helens in beautiful downtown TACOMA!  It&#8217;s still at 8:00pm (7:30 for council and any other interested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/new-open-swim-night-third-thursdays/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Be A Hero&#8221; for Comic Book Ink and The CLAW</title>
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      Comic Book Ink and the C.L.A.W. (Cartoonist’s league of Absurd Washingtonians) are inviting you to “Be A Hero!” The CLAW, in response for all the previous support given by Comic Book Ink, is looking to return the favor. The CLAW’s goal is to raise $1,000 to purchase a share of Comic Book Ink, with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/be-a-hero-for-comic-book-ink-and-the-claw/</link>
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		<title>May CLAW Meeting Digest</title>
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      Will the Keeper of the Box call the secret meeting to order! [Gong - Gong - Gong] Q: What Are Robots? A: [redacted] Q: Zombies Must Die! A: [redacted] Q: [clapping] A: [redacted] Please be seated! ITEMS OF DISCUSSION: MEMBER ONLY + SPECIAL GUEST C.L.A.W. BBQ will be held at STOWE&#8216;s house. Event will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/may-claw-meeting-digest/</link>
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		<title>CLAW Sketchbook Open Swim Survey 2011</title>
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      We&#8217;re thinking about moving our public artist-game hang out nights. Fill out the survey to help us pick the best time! Loading&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/claw-sketchbook-open-swim-survey-2011/</link>
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