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.

two sock-monsters!

http://www.sock-monster.com

comics reading at the fun house

I'm orgainzing a comics reading at my house, the Fun House!

Comics Reading

at the Fun House

Saturday, July 24

8pm

1743 N Mozart

Free!

No drugs or Alcohol please!

 

Readers:

Sara Drake (Arty Party)

Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix)

Rickey Gonzales (Victims at the End of the World)

Aaron Renier (Spiral-Bound)

Sam Sharpe (These Yams Are Delicious)

It'll be great!

sock-monster #596

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sock-monster #595

http://www.sock-monster.com

Upcoming events:

Thursday, July 8, 8 or 9pm Zine Reading at Matilda's.

The theme is the Apocalypse. If you show up I'll give you a copy of the new minicomic I'm reading there.

Saturday, July 10, 7 or 8pm, James P.B. Duffy opens for Harry and The Potters.

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

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.

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'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.

sock-monster #593

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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.