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Showing posts with label sock-monster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sock-monster. Show all posts
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Sunday, November 28, 2010
2011
Well, look who crawled out of his hole to post a blog. I've had some fun since APE, including attending the Milwaukee Zine Fest, and meeting my nephew, Ed. I've been meeting weekly with two different groups to organize the Chicago Zine Fest, which will take place on March 25 & 26th, and the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (aka CAKE) which will hopefully be in August or October of 2011. I've been cleaning & weatherizing my apartment, and practicing & writing new songs with my best friend, Josh. Any way you cut it, 2011 is going to be a big year for me creatively, and I wanted to share some info with you as the countdown to the end of 2010 begins (only 34 days)!
COMICS!
I wont be putting out a whole lot of new sellable comics, not like Spitting Pennies or Write Now!, this year. Instead I'm going to focus my efforts on two projects:
1. Sock-Monster! As we speak, I have a genius of a web designer redesigning my website, making Sock-Monster the focus of my web presence. So I'll be updating Sock-Monster on a regular schedule (no seriously) as soon as I can.
2. Minicomic of the Month Club! I'm taking the year to experiment with form by biting off Liz Baillie's idea from 2009, a subscription-based service of a monthly minicomic delivered to your mailbox. I'll be focusing on expanding my knowledge of book binding, art media, and story telling. If you want to sign up for the service you can click right here on these exact words. I'm hoping this will be a challenging and fun exercise for me, and I hope you'll enjoy watching me stretch my muscles a bit.
That seems like not a whole lot for an entire year, but it's along with the other projects listed below, it's going to suck up all my free time (sorry, ladies). Because of my low imput of sellable comics, I'll be attending fewer shows, this year, only exhibiting at 4 comics shows, and maybe as many zine fests, and I probably wont have anything new on my table comics-wise.
ZINES!
I really want to start making zines. I consider minicomics a type of zine, but I've never made a text-heavy zine. My sister Kate made her first zine a little while ago (and it's amazing), and it got me really wanting to try to express myself in a non-sequential format. I don't have a name for the zine yet, so if anyone has any good ideas (D.Billy, I'm looking at you), gimme. The first issue will hopefully be about and published by the Chicago Mayoral elections, the second by Chicago Zine Fest (???!!!), that's a pretty tight schedule.
FEST PLANNING!
As I mentioned before I'm helping organize both the Chicago Zine Fest and CAKE. Both events will be flat out, straight up amazing, and if you're interested in either zines or alternative/independent comics, they will be not-to-be-missed events. CZF is coming up fast (3 Months and 28 Days), and planning is furious and fast. I'm lucky to be organizing CZF with a handful of great folks, Matt, Leslie, Ramsey (who were the other organizers last year), Johnny, Carrie and Jen (who have joined us for year two and are amazing). CAKE's organizational structure is looser than the zine fest, so to list all the organizers would be a bit silly (not everyone makes every meeting, but they've contributed a great deal, I'm sure I'd forget to include someone).
CIPRC & REVENGE OF PRINT
The store I work for, Quimby's has joined forces with Atomic Books, Zine World and Xerography Debt to declare 2011 as the Revenge of Print, because like a lot of my friends and I, they are sick and tired of the question "Is Print Dead?" We're encouraging everyone and their mother to self-publish something, it'll be great.
That declaration inspired me to act on an idea friends of mine and I have been kicking around for years, the creation of an independent publishing resource center in Chicago. Portland has a great model for supporting independent publishers that I hope we can learn from. Chicago has a healthy publishing and printing community, and a lot of spaces that encourage and teach methods of print making and writing, but nothing for the basic zine. Copy shops in this town are either staffed by unfriendly or intimidating people, or are expensive or both. The most basic vision for the center would be an office with a copier and supplies for cheap use. From there we can build up tools and skill sharing to encourage anyone who has something to say to say it.
What else, any other resolutions for 2011? All that wasn't enough?! Keep my room clean, maybe? I'll probably fail at that.
OH! One last thing, I'm growing a mustache to raise money for public school classroom projects. I know, it makes absolutely no sense, don't ask too many questions, it'll just make your head hurt. Instead, visit my grower's page on donor's choose (one of Oprah's favorite things) and donate money to some of these awesome projects. You can also check out my mustache's progress on flickr. I have to admit, I've been a little slow getting my money ask out. The campaign is called Mustaches for Kids or M4K, and it's pretty cool.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
capitol man #200
It may be the 611th Sock-Monster comic, but it's the 200th comic featuring Capitol Man. The only other supporting character in the comic who has appeared more than Capitol Man is Skig, who has 18 appearances over everyone's favorite villain.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
sock-monster #608
This comic has absolutely nothing to do with the copious amount of Tegan and Sara interviews I may or may not have been watching on youtube.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
sock-monster #602
Oh man, sorry this one is late. I was really busy these past couple of days and drawing a new comic completely slipped my mind. I realized it was an odd day in July on my way to work this morning. The good news is there'll be a new comic tomorrow night too!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
sock-monster #600!
This is the 600th Sock-Monster comic to be uploaded to Sock-Monster.com!
This would have been more exciting if this post had been made on schedule in May of 2008. No point to dwell on poorly updated webcomics. If every webcomic artist made a blog post lamenting unexpected hiatuses (I was really hoping the plural would have been hiati), the internet would crash.
That being said I am really excited and energized for this run of Sock-Monster comics. The latest series of comics started just two weeks ago, but making new Sock-Monsters has fit easily into my schedule, and I'm enjoying drawing them, and I hope you're enjoying reading them. I should hit #700 in February if I stay consistent with my output. If anyone wants to keep my feet to the flames, feel free to do so.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
sock-monster #595
Upcoming events:
The theme is the Apocalypse. If you show up I'll give you a copy of the new minicomic I'm reading there.
Harry and the Potters (from Massachusetts)
Saint Seneca (from Ohio)
JAMES P.B. DUFFY! (Chicago)
All real numbers (Chicago)
July 10, 7pm
The Moving Castle
Saint Seneca (from Ohio)
JAMES P.B. DUFFY! (Chicago)
All real numbers (Chicago)
July 10, 7pm
The Moving Castle
2769 W Henry Ct
There's probably a suggested donation of some amount of money for the traveling bands.
Maybe next time I'll post when I'm not terribly tired.
Monday, July 5, 2010
what a day what a day
I'm going to try to write this blog post, the explosions in my neighborhood at 1:30 am will help keep me up.
I woke up at 6 this morning and jumped on my bicycle, I proceeded to ride it 26 miles, moving my brand new dining room table (thanks EK) from ravenswood to Logan Square. First I had to fetch my friend Dan's bike trailer in uptown, so there was a lot of back and forth.
Then I went to work.
Then I got home and I...FINISHED MY MINICOMIC!
I woke up at 6 this morning and jumped on my bicycle, I proceeded to ride it 26 miles, moving my brand new dining room table (thanks EK) from ravenswood to Logan Square. First I had to fetch my friend Dan's bike trailer in uptown, so there was a lot of back and forth.
Then I went to work.
Then I got home and I...FINISHED MY MINICOMIC!
I'm really excited about it. But unless you subscribe to Uncle Envelope by the end of July, you'll have to wait until mid September before it's available through me (it will debut at SPX, and be available on etsy the following week).
Then I uploaded a new Sock-Monster comic
THEN! I uploaded my new fromthewell.info website!
WHAT?! That's it, I'm going to bed.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
sock-monster #593
I'm really hoping this'll be the start of extended regular updates for everyone's favorite favorite shapeless monster. I'm definitely in a strong current of productivity, I'm finishing up a new minicomic today, and probably uploading a new website design for from the well (so look at its ugly predecessor while you can), and have already started drawing my next minicomic (which will probably only be available at shows and maybe Quimby's), and planning another. Kevin will be back in Chicago soon, possibly with a final script for Alpha City Comics #3.
If plans go according to themselves, I should also be exhibiting at three shows in as many months starting in August.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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