Come to our Spring volunteer meeting to discuss and plan the second half of 2019 including Super Kickballers Ultimate Tournament. If you're new to volunteering with Chicago Loot Drop, this will be a great chance to meet everyone and ask any questions you have about the organization and plans for 2019.
The Details:
Date: Sunday, Jun 8th, 2019
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Ballast Point Brewing (212 N Green St)
Drawing Dreams 2019 at C2E2 was a great time! We got to meet a lot of Loot Droppers, make new friends, and raffle off awesome art. For those who missed it or want to relive it, here's the full roster of artwork from Drawing Dreams 2019!
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Aren't they amazing?! Come see the full drawings at booth 1872. If you don't have your ticket yet, there's still time to get them here: https://www.c2e2.com/
For those of you that didn't win in our C2E2 ticket giveaway, there's still plenty of time to get your tickets.
Thanks to Reed Pop, we'll be back at C2E2 this year, in booth 1872. For the 7th year in a row, Chicago Loot Drop will be running Drawing Dreams!
Once again, we’re partnering with local comic artists who will also be at C2E2 to bring to life the creative visions of 10 very special patients from University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital.
How does it work? We’ve asked these children to describe themselves as a superhero: What sort of power(s) would you have? What would you do with those powers? What would your superhero name be? What would your costume look like?
We took their responses to the following artists, who are creating original artwork depicting the children’s ideas. We'll be taking a sneak peek at the art next week!
GABO – Artist Alley Table P-5
(gabo.brofu.com, Twitter, Insta)
GABO (also known as Gabriel Bautista) is a Milwaukee-based artist for Dead of Winter and The Life After. He’s also an avid Twitch streamer.
Other works: Love is Love, Elephantmen, Albert The Alien, The Spirit, All-Star Western, Comic Book Tattoo
Tony Moy – Artist Alley Table M-16
(tonymoy.art, Twitter, Insta)
Tony is a Mixed Media artist (pencils, inks, digital, watercolors, etc.) based in Chicago. He has been published in comics such as X-Files, Dungeons and Dragons, Transfusion and Memory Collectors, among others.
Andrea Bell – Artist Alley Table I-8
(andreabelldraws.com, Twitter, Insta)
Andrea is an illustrator and comic artist based in Chicago throughout its best and worst seasons. Her work reflects adventure, honesty, and strong relatable characters combined with a soothing color palette.
Nicole Goux – Artist Alley Table I-9
(nicolegoux.com, Twitter, Insta)
Nicole Goux is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist living and working in Southern California. She earned her BFA in Illustration at Cal State University Long Beach. She has been published by such companies as IDW, Black Crown, Image, and Lion Forge. The only thing she likes as much as drawing is traveling the world, seeing new places, and meeting new people. She likes to incorporate color, pattern, and the human form in her work.
JB Roe – Artist Alley Table D-12
JB Roe is a Chicago-based artist and writer. He has been published by Hidden Fortress Press, Really Easy Press, Black Mask Studios, American Nature Comics, Image, and Comicker. He also co-owns a clothing & apparel label, Hardway.
Tim Seeley – Artist Alley Table G-1
(timseeleycreative.com, Twitter, Insta)
Tim is a writer and artist based in Chicago who has drawn for G.I. Joe, Halloween, Wildcats and Exsanguine. His writing work includes NY Times bestselling Hack/Slash, Nightwing, Batman Eternal and the critically acclaimed Revival. He has also done consultation work for Cacao Barry, artist Hebru Brantley and Dreamworks Animation.
Ali Cantarella – Artist Alley Table W-9
(cantarella.ink, Twitter, Insta)
Ali is a Bucktown, Chicago-based artist who creates high-end watercolor portraits, with a whimsical twist and generous interplay of abstract color and detailed line. She uses coffee, tea, and ink to artistically emphasize the subject of these portraits, both human and animal.
Kevin Budnik
(kevinbudnik.com, Twitter, Insta)
Kevin Budnik is a cartoonist and illustrator from Chicago. His comics have appeared in several anthologies including LINEWORK, What’s Your Sign Girl?, The Adventure Zine, and Sweaty Palms Volume One. Published works include Our Ever Improving Living Room (Yeti Press), Dust Motes 1 and 2 (Yeti Press), Flower Grow, Old Gum Wrappers and Grocery Lists, Handbook, and Epilogue (One Percent Press). Past illustration clients include My Brother My Brother and Me, Cards Against Humanity, and The Chicago Reader.
These two artists are joining us for the first time this year. Make sure to hunt down their tables and welcome them to the community!
Craig Cermak – Artist Alley Table M-4
Craig Cermak II is a comics illustrator in Chicago. Past work includes Nursery, Elvira, Red Team, and Voltron Year One.
Darick Maasen
(darickmaasen.com, Twitter, Insta)
Darick is a creative director and designer for a marketing agency by day and illustrator by night. Darick’s art tends to concern video games, ugly things, circus freaks, and odes to childhood themes and monsters. Darick also co-founded the weekly figure drawing club Grotesque Burlesque, and recently started dabbling in tiki mug design and production.
Come see the full drawings at booth 1872. If you don't have your ticket yet, there's still time to get them!
We have a pair of 3-day passes to C2E2 2019 we're giving away, but time is running out! You have until 12:00pm on March 8th (that's Friday!) to enter for your chance to win. All you have to do is correctly answer the trivia questions on this form. The winner will be announced later that day.
Don't worry if you don't win, however! Tickets are still available here.
Come to our Winter volunteer meeting! We'll be going over our C2E2 fundraiser, Drawing Dreams. If you're new to volunteering with Chicago Loot Drop, this will be a great chance to meet everyone and ask any questions you have about the organization and plans for 2019.
The Details:
Date: Sunday, Feb 24th, 2019
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Ballast Point Brewing (212 N Green St)
The Details:
Date: Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Revolution Tap Room (3340 N Kedzie Ave)
Comfort Kit Day For Comer Kids is back for its 4th year. We’re raising money for and assembling nerdy boxes of goodies for kids at University Of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. Join us as we return to the Revolution Tap Room (3340 N Kedzie) on Sunday, February 10th at 2pm to help support these kids while drinking great local brews. Based on how much you raise, you’ll build or help create comfort kits filled with games, comic books, puzzles, coloring books, LEGO, and more.
Our goal: comfort kits for at least 120 different young patients at Comer Children’s. The materials for each kit cost roughly $20, so that’s the amount you need to raise for each kit you want to assemble.
Here’s how it works:
Register yourself or a team. We ask each individual or team to raise at least $100: enough for 5 comfort kits. Whomever raises the most kits will win a pair of 3-day passes to C2E2!
Share your fundraising page with family, friends, and arch nemeses asking them to contribute to your heroic, selfless efforts.
Join us at the Revolution Tap Room (3340 N Kedzie) in Avondale on Sunday, February 10th at 2pm to assemble the kits you raised money for! If you can’t attend comfort kit assembly in person, the rest of us there will put together the kits you raised money for on your behalf.
Chicago Loot Drop will provide all of the supplies, and our friends at Revolution will provide your first beer for everyone who registers and attends. When all comfort kits are assembled, everyone interested is invited to play party games!
Check out our participant guide for ways to share.
Come to our Summer volunteer meeting to discuss and plan Super Kickballers Ultimate: Tournament Edition!
The Details:
Date: Monday, Aug 27th, 2018
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Haymarket Pub & Brwery (2515 S Wabash)
