Cartoonist/painter/sculptor Souther Salazar <a href=”http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=8067484″>has opened a store on Etsy and there you can buy all manner of adorable, lovely things, including mini-comics. Prices are from $3 up. So. Cute.
A hit at TCAF, now you can own your own copy of this comic by Francois Ayroles.
We are very remiss in not reporting yesterday that Jonas Madden-Connor’s OCHRE ELLIPSE #2 has won the prestigious Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics, presented each year during the APE festivities. You can purchase it at Family Style. Here’s a review at Daily Cross Hatch.
James Sime, owner of Isotope, the comic book lounge, tells us that there are only seven days left to submit mini-comics for the 2008 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics.
“You have just one week left to draw, fold, and hand-staple your way to mini-comic glory!” Sime said.
While the minis continue to pour in there is still time to enter your own into the competition. “We’ve got a big stack of mini-comics genius already,” Sime said, “But I know there’s still some last-minute types out there sitting on some hand-crafted gold. It’s time to let your work get the attention it deserves. Get your submissions in and follow in the footsteps of past winners Danica Novgorodoff, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Joshua Cotter, Max Riffner, and Rob Osborne!”
To enter this competition, send five copies of your mini-comic to Isotope’s address (326 Fell St. San Francisco, CA 94102) before the October 24th deadline. As always, the Isotope will be taking submissions up until midnight on the deadline. From 11am until 7pm the Isotope will be open and available for anyone making those last-minute drop-offs, and from there the staff will continue taking submissions until midnight at The Orbit Room on Market and Laguna Streets in San Francisco.
It’s here! SPX debuts! Make sure you click the links for ALL THE GOODNESS.
Secret Acres will be debuting Capacity by Theo Ellsworth. It features new material as well as content from Ellsworth’s Capacity mini-comics. Theo will be in attendance at SPX, signing books and posters.
Intricate, even exquisite - but never immaculate, Theo Ellsworth’s Capacity is a mind turned inside out. Ellsworth’s careful line gives shape to profound and profoundly silly thoughts alike, bringing a visionary, startling new life to the doubts and hopes that are so familiar to everyone.
You Ain’t No Dancer Vol. 3 makes it’s official debut at SPX this year.
New format! The third volume of You Ain’t No Dancer anthology goes themeless. Featuring a wrap-around cover by Kazimir Strzepek, You Ain’t No Dancer Vol. 3 contains 30 new stories from indy-comic favourites and up-and-comers.
Vol. 3 Contributors:
Kazimir Strzepek, Becky Dreistadt & Frank Gibson, Blaise Larmee, Catia Chien, Coleman Engle, Colleen MacIsaac, Dalton Sharp, Dalton Webb, Dorothy Gambrell, Graham Kahler, Grant Reynolds, Ira Marcks, Jason Turner, Jeff Bent, Jeremy Sorese, Jon Sukarangsan, Jordyn Bochon, KC Green, Kate Beaton, Ken Dahl, Kim Hoang, Lars Brown, Lucy Knisley, Mike Laughead, Mitch Clem & Jason Oberbichler, Patrick Murphy, Phil Barrett, Phil McAndrew and Steve Rolston & Sabina.
Exhibit A
We will be debuting The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law (by Batton Lash of course) at the Exhibit A table.
Boston Comics Roundtable
Inbound #2 – A Boston Comics Anthology Premieres at SPX 2008
The Boston Comics Roundtable has returned with their second anthology, featuring a wide variety of comics from Boston-based creators. From would-be supermen to foibles in space to real-life stories from the streets of Iraq, Inbound #2 is the best of Boston. This 64-page book retails for $7.95 and is available at www.bostoncomicsroundtable.com.
Contributors include:
Might - Matt Reidsma (High Maintenance Machine)
Watcher Wanted - Shelli Paroline (Harvest is When I Need You the Most) & Jason Salzarulo
Bad Topology - Charles Schneeflock Snow (Sordid City Blues) & Erik Haines
The Walk - Kevin Kilgore (Center for Cartoon Studies)
Little Cody Visits the Underworld - Rachel Maguire
Too Many Robots! - Ron LeBrasseur
Endlessly She Said - Jay Kennedy
unWendy - Cathy Leamy (Geraniums and Bacon)
Cover - Braden Lamb
Our newest book, LA MUSE by Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus, will not ship until shortly after Thanksgiving, but it is listed in the current Diamond PREVIEWS we are previewing and promoting it at SPX.
LA MUSE is the story of two sisters who are secretly the daughters of powerful beings from another dimension. Buttoned-down Libby, who seems normal in every way, works for an LA talent agency. Wild-child Susan has the near-omnipotence of her parents and wants to save the world, whether the world wants saving or not. When Susan gains fame and implements her grand plans, she meets opposition from both the world’s elites and a completely unexpected quarter.
Alan Moore says of LA MUSE: “… the purveyors of today’s sprawling super-hero culture would do well to read Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus’ LA MUSE and learn how to do these things properly.”
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Low Key Comics will be premiering Snug Comics #1 at their rock show/party party Saturday at heroes Con: Details below but more info here.
Low Key Comics presents: Snug Comics
featuring Calabi Yau, Young Tom Fury, Battle Beasts, and the Lights, Fluorescent
Saturday, June 21st 9PM
Snug Harbor
1228 Gordon St.
Charlotte, NC 28205
www.snugrock.com
18+ $7 – 21+ $5; free minicomic with admission!
Calabi Yau: http://www.myspace.com/calabiyau
Young Tom Fury: http://www.myspace.com/youngtomfury
Battle Beasts: http://www.myspace.com/battlebeaste
The Lights, Fluorescent: http://www.myspace.com/thelightsfluorescent
They’ll also be premiering two comics at the show:
Everyman #2: Justin Crouse’s satiric look at superheroes continues when James Johnson, our garbageman-turned-superhero, tries to turn his luck around by using his newfound powers for fun and profit…but first, he’ll have to tangle with the town’s protector, Titan. Check out the book that PLAYBACK:stl’s Byron Kerman says is “not just LOL-funny…it’s gloriously subversive.”
Journal Sanders: Kentucky Fried Sketchbook vol. 1: Juan Ruvalcaba left behind his hometown of Chicago for a career in Hollywood, and this daily sketch-diary is the result. This first 100-page collection is a look at a Spring packed with the pangs of Hollywood corporate politics and general boredom in the big city. Think American Elf for the sarcasm generation.
Dan Barlow sends word of a spring tour for this New England cartoon collective–frankly we didn’t know there were two conventions in New Hampshire alone!
The Trees & Hills comics group will celebrate the end of a long winter this year by hitting the road for a spring tour.
The 2008 SPRING THAW TOUR features the debut of several new comics by members of Trees & Hills - a social cartooning group for creators in Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts - and a chance to meet with local comic fans and other creators.
Trees & Hills members will appear at two conventions in New Hampshire in May before trekking out to New York City for the MoCCA festival in June.
First up is the Granite State Comicon in Manchester, N.H. on May 18. Trees & Hills co-founders Dan Barlow and Colin Tedford will be on hand for the event while Mimi’s Doughnuts creator Marek Bennett leads the crowd in a massive comics jam
Via the email:
The Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration rewards a self-publisher of small-press, hand-made comics (sometimes called “mini-comics”), on the basis of merit and financial need. The 2008 Kukoc will be awarded at Guapo Comics and Coffee on April 24th, 2008, to coincide with the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR, and includes a cash prize of $400. Voting for the Kukoc Awards begins today (April 7th) and ends April 24th. This year’s nominees are:
* Rina Ayuyang Doodle Daze
* Liz Baillie My Brain Hurts #7, Layover
* Jon Chadurjian LEO GEO Acquires Ancient Knowledge, Shortstack: The Journal Comic Card Game
* Sarah Glidden How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
* Alex Holden Magic Hour Sketchbook
* David King Danny Dutch and The King of the Aliens
To vote, email Jesse Reklaw at reklaw@slowwave.com if they read mini-comics and want to be sent a ballot.
The Comics Reporter reports that Andy Hartzell won the Maisie Kukoc Award for mini-comics at this weekend Stumptown Comics Fest.
Dick Hyacinth asks in interesting question on how to buy small press comics:
I was looking over the Ignatz nominees, and was struck by how many were books which I’d wanted to read but haven’t been able to find. Does anyone know of a good site for ordering stuff from a bunch of different small press publishers (by which I mean non-Fantagraphics, D&Q, or NBM–I can get that stuff at my LCS), or am I just going to have to break down and order direct? I’m looking for stuff by the smaller publishers listed–I checked out khepri.com, but that seems to be mostly on the Brian Wood-Warren Ellis axis, which is really not what I’m looking for (that stuff is also available at my LCS).
We thought of Global Hobo and Bodega Distribution to start. There’s also USS Catastrophe but they are on hiatus. Anyone we’re missing?
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