Monday, April 23, 2007
Alternative Press Expo Part II
Back from a long weekend at APE. I had a good time this year, meeting new cartoonists and trading comics. Hell, I even made a profit (and so did some of the other cartoonists in our group too). But the main reason we table together at APE is to promote our chapter of the Cartoonist Conspiracy, garnering new members and promoting our cell. So even though I didn't loose money tabling, I really won't find out how successful this year was until our next Cartoonist Conspiracy meeting (this thursday).
Sunday was a very slow day, so I took the chance to walk around a bit and look for my favorite artists... unfortunately so did they. First stop, Jason Shiga's table to see what he's got up his sleeve this year. He wasn't around, but I checked out his books (bought a copy of Knock Knock and a tiny mini comic) and picked up a copy of the Shiga challenge. The Shiga Challenge is a simple one page set of drawings of 7 polaroids. The game is to figure out what day of the week the pictures are taken on. I walked a bit more then came back to my booth and sold some comics and hats while I tried to figure out the puzzle.
An hour later I tried to catch Shiga again, but missed him, I did bump into other friends of mine though and chatted with the cats at 7000 BC (a Cartoonist Conspiracy cell out of New Mexico) about setting up a C.C. distro from cell to cell. Then I stopped by the Global Hobo camp and asked if the guy who made this awesome mini comic about a boy with a worm in his head had any new books. Then I came back to my booth and solved the Shiga puzzle.
Finally on my third walk around I caught up with Shiga and got a copy of his CD for figuring out the damn puzzle. Shiga is in my mind a cartooning super-hero, and one of the few cats in the entire expo that I actually get dumbfounded around. Everything he does is so inventive and original. His newest book, Bookhunter, takes place in the Bay Area in the 70's. It follows a "Dirty Harry" type library police character that chases overdue book offenders around in these epic scenes. Shiga's most known though for his crazy ass choose your own type books that really fuck with the comics medium. He's capable of taking a concept book (like the choose your own) and actually weave together a story that is so good that it doesn't come across kitschy. In fact, Meanwhile..., the first choose your own of his that I bought, actually involves a time machine which greatly adds to the choose your own adventure. In Meanwhile..., the reader doesn't choose the "correct" ending, but instead just travels down a different path each time. All of the endings have happened and in order for you to do something one time, you have to off previously done something else in another time for it work. Fucking brilliant.
Anyway, I'm a total fanboy and got a pic and autograph of Jason.
Some people comment on how APE gets supposedly less and less comics oriented every year. The reason for that is simple, APE is not at all cheap and if you are an independent publisher with only a few different issues out of your zine/mini comic/whatever, you have to sell a hundred copies of each book just to break even (assuming you are probably selling books that cost you $.75 and you are charging $2). Now alternately, consider someone bringing in plush dolls at $30 each. All they have to do is sell maybe 8 dolls to break even at APE.
From selling at expos like this I know that the hardest part is just getting people to stop at your booth. They added 200 new tables this year, but your average shopper is probably still spending the same amount time at the expo this year as they did the last. Meaning they are dashing around trying not to get distracted until they have found whatever specific vendors they are looking for.
So I started a little experiment... Okay, that's bullshit, I came up with a neat trick to get folks to check out my book. I once worked for a man in Nashville that was the greatest salesman ever. He owned a yo-yo shop called Yo Momma's, whenever he would see a kid around that was sheepishly checking out the shop, he would toss a yo-yo at them. Obviously the kid would catch it, and then finally come over and hang out. What I did was playing with the same basic human nature. If there were lots of people walking, but nobody stopping, I would knock a comic off and wait for someone to kindly pick it up and place it back on the table... Then I had them! "Hey that's a great comic you have there. It's about pancakes and the human spirit." or "Oh cool, you saw my book. It's about overcoming great adversity at a Denny's... With syrup!"
It worked great. People would laugh, then I could get them talking and tell them about our group and when we get together and all that. I got quite a few sales off of the technique, but really it was just something fun to do and way better than just standing around. Most of the time people caught that it was an act right away, which was cool cause we could just laugh about it and I'd say stupid stuff like "Ya, they are flying off the shelf today.".
I had a new book this year, it's just an excerpt from a bigger book that's in the works, but I put a lot of time on it and was pleased with the results. It was "free with purchase" which really just meant "free to anyone who looks like they will actually read it". So I gave away maybe 80 copies of that, and sold about 15 of each of my other books. The best part about doing these things for so many years is that I am slowly building up my inventory. At the first comic convention I went to, people would come up to my table and love what I had. So they'd buy it. Great... that's a buck.. Considering how hard it is to get folks to check out your comic, that's a lot of work for one comic. But the next year, if a new customer came by and liked my comic they would usually buy a copy of whatever I had (which was my first book and my new book). Cool that's 2 bucks. Now I have 3 or 4 comics, yo-yos, hats, and crafts... So if someone stopped at my table, they could possibly spend $63 on my art. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen, and can make the difference between losing money at the expo and breaking even with money to spend on convention food.
Blah blah blah. I don't mean to make it sound like the whole con is money oriented goal, but obviously it's on my mind. In my mind the goals go like this 1. don't lose much money 2. meet new artists and find new books 3. network
The third goal was a new one. I have a new book on the way, and a planned anthology due later this year. The book is bigger than anything I've attempted, and I believe it is also better. Both artistically and entertainment wise. I keep thinking about how good it would be to have a distributor for the final product, or lord knows even a publisher. Someone who can help me make the product better and maybe even pay for a colorist etc. Despite how sharp my sales skills are, networking is not my strongest point. So the networking goal was not a success.
But I got to hang with my friends Merideth, Kraig, and Jeff-Jeff all day and read our new comics.
Oh and if you thought my sales technique was deplorable, at least I wasn't as mean to crowd goers as Merideth, who would literally rest her nuts on her patrons faces.
There are tons of other APE blog dumps out there, here is a good one..
Sunday was a very slow day, so I took the chance to walk around a bit and look for my favorite artists... unfortunately so did they. First stop, Jason Shiga's table to see what he's got up his sleeve this year. He wasn't around, but I checked out his books (bought a copy of Knock Knock and a tiny mini comic) and picked up a copy of the Shiga challenge. The Shiga Challenge is a simple one page set of drawings of 7 polaroids. The game is to figure out what day of the week the pictures are taken on. I walked a bit more then came back to my booth and sold some comics and hats while I tried to figure out the puzzle.
An hour later I tried to catch Shiga again, but missed him, I did bump into other friends of mine though and chatted with the cats at 7000 BC (a Cartoonist Conspiracy cell out of New Mexico) about setting up a C.C. distro from cell to cell. Then I stopped by the Global Hobo camp and asked if the guy who made this awesome mini comic about a boy with a worm in his head had any new books. Then I came back to my booth and solved the Shiga puzzle.
Finally on my third walk around I caught up with Shiga and got a copy of his CD for figuring out the damn puzzle. Shiga is in my mind a cartooning super-hero, and one of the few cats in the entire expo that I actually get dumbfounded around. Everything he does is so inventive and original. His newest book, Bookhunter, takes place in the Bay Area in the 70's. It follows a "Dirty Harry" type library police character that chases overdue book offenders around in these epic scenes. Shiga's most known though for his crazy ass choose your own type books that really fuck with the comics medium. He's capable of taking a concept book (like the choose your own) and actually weave together a story that is so good that it doesn't come across kitschy. In fact, Meanwhile..., the first choose your own of his that I bought, actually involves a time machine which greatly adds to the choose your own adventure. In Meanwhile..., the reader doesn't choose the "correct" ending, but instead just travels down a different path each time. All of the endings have happened and in order for you to do something one time, you have to off previously done something else in another time for it work. Fucking brilliant.
Anyway, I'm a total fanboy and got a pic and autograph of Jason.
Some people comment on how APE gets supposedly less and less comics oriented every year. The reason for that is simple, APE is not at all cheap and if you are an independent publisher with only a few different issues out of your zine/mini comic/whatever, you have to sell a hundred copies of each book just to break even (assuming you are probably selling books that cost you $.75 and you are charging $2). Now alternately, consider someone bringing in plush dolls at $30 each. All they have to do is sell maybe 8 dolls to break even at APE.
From selling at expos like this I know that the hardest part is just getting people to stop at your booth. They added 200 new tables this year, but your average shopper is probably still spending the same amount time at the expo this year as they did the last. Meaning they are dashing around trying not to get distracted until they have found whatever specific vendors they are looking for.
So I started a little experiment... Okay, that's bullshit, I came up with a neat trick to get folks to check out my book. I once worked for a man in Nashville that was the greatest salesman ever. He owned a yo-yo shop called Yo Momma's, whenever he would see a kid around that was sheepishly checking out the shop, he would toss a yo-yo at them. Obviously the kid would catch it, and then finally come over and hang out. What I did was playing with the same basic human nature. If there were lots of people walking, but nobody stopping, I would knock a comic off and wait for someone to kindly pick it up and place it back on the table... Then I had them! "Hey that's a great comic you have there. It's about pancakes and the human spirit." or "Oh cool, you saw my book. It's about overcoming great adversity at a Denny's... With syrup!"
It worked great. People would laugh, then I could get them talking and tell them about our group and when we get together and all that. I got quite a few sales off of the technique, but really it was just something fun to do and way better than just standing around. Most of the time people caught that it was an act right away, which was cool cause we could just laugh about it and I'd say stupid stuff like "Ya, they are flying off the shelf today.".
I had a new book this year, it's just an excerpt from a bigger book that's in the works, but I put a lot of time on it and was pleased with the results. It was "free with purchase" which really just meant "free to anyone who looks like they will actually read it". So I gave away maybe 80 copies of that, and sold about 15 of each of my other books. The best part about doing these things for so many years is that I am slowly building up my inventory. At the first comic convention I went to, people would come up to my table and love what I had. So they'd buy it. Great... that's a buck.. Considering how hard it is to get folks to check out your comic, that's a lot of work for one comic. But the next year, if a new customer came by and liked my comic they would usually buy a copy of whatever I had (which was my first book and my new book). Cool that's 2 bucks. Now I have 3 or 4 comics, yo-yos, hats, and crafts... So if someone stopped at my table, they could possibly spend $63 on my art. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen, and can make the difference between losing money at the expo and breaking even with money to spend on convention food.
Blah blah blah. I don't mean to make it sound like the whole con is money oriented goal, but obviously it's on my mind. In my mind the goals go like this 1. don't lose much money 2. meet new artists and find new books 3. network
The third goal was a new one. I have a new book on the way, and a planned anthology due later this year. The book is bigger than anything I've attempted, and I believe it is also better. Both artistically and entertainment wise. I keep thinking about how good it would be to have a distributor for the final product, or lord knows even a publisher. Someone who can help me make the product better and maybe even pay for a colorist etc. Despite how sharp my sales skills are, networking is not my strongest point. So the networking goal was not a success.
But I got to hang with my friends Merideth, Kraig, and Jeff-Jeff all day and read our new comics.
Oh and if you thought my sales technique was deplorable, at least I wasn't as mean to crowd goers as Merideth, who would literally rest her nuts on her patrons faces.
There are tons of other APE blog dumps out there, here is a good one..
Labels: alternative press expo cartoonist conspiracy san francisco ape, comics, crafts
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Alternative Press Expo part I
Today was the first day of APE. The San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy had a couple tables again this year with new and old comics from Meredith, Kraig, Jeff-Jeff, and myself.
In preparation for the event, several cartoonists partook in a 12 hour comic jam last sunday at Mission Creek Cafe. Some folks took the chance to create new comics... That was my plan too, but I spent the entire time shading and lettering pages that I had previously worked on.
Then I spent most of Thursday and Friday at Fast Image Printing in Oakland printing and assembling my newest mini comic "The Flatjack Incident". Meredith brought a gocco with her on Friday for me to use and I love it. Gocco is a easy to use home silkscreening kit that was produced in Japan for a while but is now discontinued. I NEED ONE! I didn't want to waist all the ink that Mere-Bear poured onto the screen so after I silkscreened all the inserts for my book, I started screening anything else I could find.
The convention is going well, I'm selling shit, so are Meredith and Kraig. Kraig's new comic book is an excerpt from the upcoming Robot Friend anthology that I'm hoping to have published in the fall. Met tons of new folks and hopefully will be seeing many of them at our next Cartoonist Conspiracy meeting.
Check out part II of APE HERE.
In preparation for the event, several cartoonists partook in a 12 hour comic jam last sunday at Mission Creek Cafe. Some folks took the chance to create new comics... That was my plan too, but I spent the entire time shading and lettering pages that I had previously worked on.
Then I spent most of Thursday and Friday at Fast Image Printing in Oakland printing and assembling my newest mini comic "The Flatjack Incident". Meredith brought a gocco with her on Friday for me to use and I love it. Gocco is a easy to use home silkscreening kit that was produced in Japan for a while but is now discontinued. I NEED ONE! I didn't want to waist all the ink that Mere-Bear poured onto the screen so after I silkscreened all the inserts for my book, I started screening anything else I could find.
The convention is going well, I'm selling shit, so are Meredith and Kraig. Kraig's new comic book is an excerpt from the upcoming Robot Friend anthology that I'm hoping to have published in the fall. Met tons of new folks and hopefully will be seeing many of them at our next Cartoonist Conspiracy meeting.
Check out part II of APE HERE.
Labels: alternative press expo cartoonist conspiracy san francisco, comics
Saturday, April 14, 2007
12 hour comic book jam
The Alternative Press Expo is this coming weekend (April 21st and 22nd) in San Francisco.
As usual, the SF Cartoonist Conspiracy will be vending, but this year we will have two tables. Booths #254 and #255 will be conspirator run, check the floor plan here.
In preparation, some bay area cartoonists will be doing a 12 hour comic jam at Mission Creek Cafe on 21st and Valencia in San Francisco. Some of us will be starting at 9am, but anyone is welcome to join us for as long a period as they like. We'll probably all be at the tables in the back of the cafe.
I'm aiming to pencil, ink, and letter at least 6 pages for my book. Here's to hoping.
As usual, the SF Cartoonist Conspiracy will be vending, but this year we will have two tables. Booths #254 and #255 will be conspirator run, check the floor plan here.
In preparation, some bay area cartoonists will be doing a 12 hour comic jam at Mission Creek Cafe on 21st and Valencia in San Francisco. Some of us will be starting at 9am, but anyone is welcome to join us for as long a period as they like. We'll probably all be at the tables in the back of the cafe.
I'm aiming to pencil, ink, and letter at least 6 pages for my book. Here's to hoping.
Labels: comics
Friday, April 06, 2007
the flatjack incident, roughs
I've been working on a new comic that might or might not be finished in time for the Alternative Press Expo later this month.
A while ago I posted about a 24 hour comic I had started (you can read about it here). I didn't finish the book that day, in fact I only finished 13 pages (half of my goal), but they were some of the best pages I felt I had ever done, so I decided to continue the story and take as much time as I needed.The book is filled with several true ministories, each done in a very different style. Right before the tour started, I wrote a three page story called "The Flatjack Incident" about a time I ordered food from a Denny's in Seattle. I wanted to share my pencils with you guys because I feel they are really lush. So if I fuck them up when I ink them, we can all look back and say that at one point they didn't suck.
I'm trying to come up with a name for the book btw.
Labels: comics
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Hirschfeld at 99
Tom Richmond has posted a video of the well known caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The video, apparently captured from a documentary about Al titled The Line King, shows a 99 year old Al Hirschfeld doing a caricature of Paul Newman. Some of you may know that Al continued cartooning up until of the day he passed away.
When I think of Hirschfeld's work two things come to mind; a) long, bold, and confident lines b) the name "Nina".
Hirscheld's style largely seemed to be built upon large loopy lines. The most interesting thing to me about the above video is watching how Al creates those elegant lines from some short scratchy movements. In fact, watching the video I can only see a few circumstances of a long stroke. Even when he signs his name, he does so as if he's etching away at a piece of linoleum with a knife.
In 1945, Hirschfeld had a daughter named Nina. In celebration of the fact, he began hiding Nina's name within his work, often times sneaking it into a characters hair or in the crosshatching of a characters clothes. I remember at the age of 13, going into a Tower records and scouring the Classical section for Hirshfeld covers, just so I could see how many Nina's I could find. BTW, the youtube video was shot by Nina's daughter.
Thanks to Stwaskull for the original link and bpib.com for info and pics.
When I think of Hirschfeld's work two things come to mind; a) long, bold, and confident lines b) the name "Nina".
Hirscheld's style largely seemed to be built upon large loopy lines. The most interesting thing to me about the above video is watching how Al creates those elegant lines from some short scratchy movements. In fact, watching the video I can only see a few circumstances of a long stroke. Even when he signs his name, he does so as if he's etching away at a piece of linoleum with a knife. In 1945, Hirschfeld had a daughter named Nina. In celebration of the fact, he began hiding Nina's name within his work, often times sneaking it into a characters hair or in the crosshatching of a characters clothes. I remember at the age of 13, going into a Tower records and scouring the Classical section for Hirshfeld covers, just so I could see how many Nina's I could find. BTW, the youtube video was shot by Nina's daughter.
Thanks to Stwaskull for the original link and bpib.com for info and pics.Labels: al hirschfeld, comics
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
New SFCC comic online now.
The newly created San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy comic "LMNtal" is online now on the CartoonistConspiracy.com. You can read it here (feel free to print it up if you got the paper.) You'll probably recall that this is the same cover page I posted earlier this week with the black and white cover for contrast.
The SFCC gets together twice a month at Cafe Internationale in the Lower Haight. It's open for any artists to stop in and draw comics with us. Sometimes the comics are improvised panel by panel, but in this comic each artist was able to create their entire page. But at the end of their comic, they have to find the artist who is working on the following page and make their last panel link up to it.
For this challenge we created three simple rules, some artists followed them to a T, others... drew wtf ever they wanted.
1. No words
2. Natural disaster themed
3. Consistent paneling (all pages have two vertical and two horizontal 1/4 panels
The result I think is very simple and pure artistically. Adding these rules brings each artist's page to just it's basic elements, which was the inspiration for the title "LMNTal".
Our current book is a fight/action story, and after that we will begin work on a book with a guest writer. I can't wait to see how that turns out.
The SFCC gets together twice a month at Cafe Internationale in the Lower Haight. It's open for any artists to stop in and draw comics with us. Sometimes the comics are improvised panel by panel, but in this comic each artist was able to create their entire page. But at the end of their comic, they have to find the artist who is working on the following page and make their last panel link up to it.
For this challenge we created three simple rules, some artists followed them to a T, others... drew wtf ever they wanted.
1. No words
2. Natural disaster themed
3. Consistent paneling (all pages have two vertical and two horizontal 1/4 panels
The result I think is very simple and pure artistically. Adding these rules brings each artist's page to just it's basic elements, which was the inspiration for the title "LMNTal".
Our current book is a fight/action story, and after that we will begin work on a book with a guest writer. I can't wait to see how that turns out.
Labels: comics
Monday, October 16, 2006
Inks and Colors
Above is the cover to our newest Cartoonist Conspiracy book "LMNtal". It was a highly collaborative piece that was created in a different way than most of our comics. Brian Kolmes pencilled most of the images, then Jeff Plotkin added some penciled work, before I inked the whole piece.
I've been having a lot of fun inking lately. I'm not shifting focus or anything, but I've always penciled and inked my own pieces and now it's great practice to learn to ink other peoples stuff. It's an excercise that helps you learn what is unique about your pencil and inking style.
Afterwards Brian colorized the project, I think it's interesting to see the difference. I liked my black and white, but I really like the colored version.
BTW, Jeff Plotkin posted his 24 Hour comic! You can see it here. Click on the link after each description to move on to the next page. I couldn't make it to this years event, so it makes me feel really happy that I could still be part of it through Jeff's comic.
Labels: comics
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
SF Zine Fest
This is long overdue, but I'm posting pictures up from the recent Zine Festival at Cell Space in San Francisco. Here is a picture of Ryan Shiga, the author of Fleep. Meeting Ryan was probably the coolest part of the whole fest for me.
I spent the friday before the event printing up two new comics that were pretty much intended as giveaways or trade for any other cartoonists. The one on the left is sort of an introductory book on what we do at the SFCC and the one on the right is an 8 page linear story called Unicorns Unvenge.
Here is a crowd shot from the main area of the event. Table s around the outer walls, and an island in the middle. Apparently this was the most successful Zine Fest at Cellspace yet, both for the vendors and the promoters (who sold out of tables about two months before the event).
Another crowd shot, you can see fellow conspirator Brian from Atomic Bear Press in the teal shirt.
Speaking of Big Bear, here is Brian's table featuring his Great Chimney comics and Other Worlds (his newest book).
Another conspirator, Jeff Plotkin, tabling his Happy Freak Show comics. I've tabled with Plotkin at APE before and let me say that this man is very popular. He's been plugging away at the comics scene for a long time and has been a fixture of the Conspiracy since the early days. People love his comics and he gets respect for being an extremely consistent creator.
Mary Van Note; comedian, crafster, comics writer, and perv.
A pic from the entrance to the event, you can see part of a silkscreen workshop in progress.
I spent the friday before the event printing up two new comics that were pretty much intended as giveaways or trade for any other cartoonists. The one on the left is sort of an introductory book on what we do at the SFCC and the one on the right is an 8 page linear story called Unicorns Unvenge.
Here is a crowd shot from the main area of the event. Table s around the outer walls, and an island in the middle. Apparently this was the most successful Zine Fest at Cellspace yet, both for the vendors and the promoters (who sold out of tables about two months before the event).
Another crowd shot, you can see fellow conspirator Brian from Atomic Bear Press in the teal shirt.
Speaking of Big Bear, here is Brian's table featuring his Great Chimney comics and Other Worlds (his newest book).
Another conspirator, Jeff Plotkin, tabling his Happy Freak Show comics. I've tabled with Plotkin at APE before and let me say that this man is very popular. He's been plugging away at the comics scene for a long time and has been a fixture of the Conspiracy since the early days. People love his comics and he gets respect for being an extremely consistent creator.
Mary Van Note; comedian, crafster, comics writer, and perv.
A pic from the entrance to the event, you can see part of a silkscreen workshop in progress.
Labels: comics
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Moebius Strip Tease (old panel)
Many years ago I had the idea of doing a comic strip based around the lives of loser super heroes. The concept eventually evolved into my SupterTop Comics (comic), but I still wanted to share one of them with ya'll. To be honest, the rest of the ones I did totally sucked, but I wouldn't mind trying to do these again for a weekly newspaper.
Labels: comics
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
One year and 24 hours later
One year and 24 hours later
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
A year ago I was sitting with a bunch of other cartoonists and conspirators working on my second 24 Hour comic book.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
A year ago I was sitting with a bunch of other cartoonists and conspirators working on my second 24 Hour comic book.
The goal of the 24 Hour book is the complete creation of a 24 page book in one consecutive 24 hour period. Any book less than 24 pages is still considered a success I guess, because you took part in the challenge, but the year before I only finished 23 pages. So my goal for this most recent 24 Hour book was to spend less time perfecting the pages and get as much done as I could.
There where a few obstacles, including a raging cold and a yo-yo performance in San Francisco that took 6 of my 24 hours, but I completed my book with minutes to spare and I was very proud of it.
I never published my first 24 hour book, about a day in the life of the first caveman celebrity artist, for two reasons: 1. The combination of drinks, lack of sleep, and the choice to not use any text made the ending of my caveman story hard to follow (whose idea was it to have the last 12 hours of drawing in a bar anyways?). 2. I decided to use an extra color. My comic was a great looking black, white, and green book that still has some of my favorite illustrations I've ever done, however printing a 2 color comic is about the same price as printing a full color comic. I mean it costs like a billion dollars or something to print.
So, upon completion of my most recent 24 Hour book, "Ideas", I decided nothing on this planet would stop me from printing this mini masterpiece within a year.
It turns out that I accidentally used some cursed size and format, making printing "Ideas" a bit of a nightmare. Add to the fact that kinkos in this city pretty much only takes digital scans now and not hard copies (unreal, right?). So when I saw that year deadline fast approaching I pulled out all the stops and found a printer to do this for me no matter the cost. Luckily I bumped into Stephen Gretsch at APE a few weeks ago. Stephen was one of the organizers of last years 24 hour event, and is now a manager of Fast Imaging in Oakland... Score!
So I spent an entire day (10 hours at least) scanning and printing this book and the most recent Cartoonist Conspiracy comic "The Hamster That Wasn't There". More work needed to be done on "Ideas", but we got most of it done that day. About a week later (this Saturday evening), the books were dropped off at a wordless exchange in the lobby of a BART station at midnight. Thus, meeting my one year goal and making for quite a weird site for the BART police.
So now, thanks to Fast Imaging and Stephen, I have 500 copies of my 24 hour book, and 150 copies of the Hamster story. I dropped some off at some stores yesterday and they seemed quite happy to have them. Ideas retails for $2.50 and The Hamster That Wasn't There sells for $3. I have plans to nicely print up other cartoonist conspiracy books, I mean we've made some nice comics, but have never properly printed any of them up before (at least not since You're Name Here). It would be my goal to have an actual library of Conspiracy books, so we could have a little section in some of the local stores. I mean we do plenty of work, it just needs the proper follow through.
So anyways, I'm always looking to trade comics. I might try to put my 24 Hour Book on my website sometime in the next week or so too. I'll have plenty at BAC.
Oh, and another thing... My good friend Josh is driving ALL of my stuff pre 2004 to my new home in San Francisco. It's been almost two years since I've seen some of that stuff and I'm just dying to get it. This shipment should include the art for my first 24 Hour Book "Trog!" and the almost entirely complete "Super Top #2"!!!
Super Top #2!!! After 3 years of only having Super Top #1 to show, I will finally be moving up to issue #2.
So that stuff should be here in about a week, Josh be willing. Maybe at some point I'll actually have a catalog of my own comics, as in more than two. That'd be dreamy!
Labels: comics
