BROOKLYN RECAP

GUYSSSSS. The Brooklyn Comics & Graphics fest was SO MUCH FUN.

Originally, I was going to be at the Sparkplug table but Robin of Inkstuds fame needed some help at the Conundrum Press table, so I ended up there. Kudos to Robin for being a great table-mate.

It was so insanely busy, I didn't get much in the way of pictures. Here's one of Sam Gaskin, Brian Chippendale, Vanessa Davis, and my fat head, taken by mr. Inkstuds himself.

Matt Groening was walking around with Gary Panter, the beautiful nerds were out in full force, and I basically sold out of all the SG12s I brought!  A good time. Honestly I'm still kind of exhausted from last weekend. (that's why you get this short entry)

A big thanks to Gabe Fowler, Dan Nadel, and Bill Kartalopoulos for organizing what might be the best con I've ever attended! 

PS- If you live in the NYC area, you can pick up SG12 at Bergen St. Comics, Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers and The Strand!

(cross-posted from the main blog)

SG12 EAST COAST DEBUT AT THE BROOKLYN COMICS AND GRAPHICS FEST THIS WEEKEND!

Just a quick note to say that that I'll be debuting Studygroup12 on the East Coast at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this weekend.  The exhibitor list and programming slate is, quite frankly, AMAZING. go to the site and check it out. I'm pleased as punch to be sitting at  the table of our retail distributor for SG12, Sparkplug Comics. The one day fest is FREE to the public and has such an amazing lineup and energy that anyone in the New York/Eastern Seaboard area should strongly consider attending. And if you do attend, please consider purchasing a Studygroup. It's a pretty book! You'll like it and they make great gifts for X-mas/Kwaanza/etc! OK OK OK. yeah, hope to see you there.

STUDYGROUP12, AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!

Art by Farel Dalrymple

RIGHT HERE!!!!!!

Really excited to finally get this bad boy up on line for sale, and the moment of truth has arrived!

 Check it out, a whoooole lot of work went into making this book be the best possible comics & art anthology it could be. Jason (from Floating World Comics, my co-publisher) and I are really proud of how it turned out. Please feel free to buy multiple copies as x-mas presents, it's really a great gift!

Art by T Edward Bak

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STUDYGROUP12, THE PRESS RELEASE!

In the six years since issue three, editor Zack Soto focused on his own comics, including THE SECRET VOICE for Adhouse Books, moved to Portland, OR, and helped run local comics/art hub PONY CLUB GALLERY. During his tenure with the gallery, Soto curated several monthly group shows and met dozens of artists working in the Portland comics and art scene. Shortly after leaving the gallery to pursue comics full-time, that old anthology itch came back. Thus, we have STUDYGROUP12 #4, a mixture of some of the best Pacific Northwest artists and other great cartoonists from around North America. 

Zack has teamed up with Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics to publish this incarnation of SG12, with interiors printed by Eberhardt Press.  The series has evolved from issue to issue, changing format each time in a natural evolution of craft and intention. They have come saddle-stitched, perfect-bound by hand, and coil-bound with chipboard covers -- but always with silkscreened covers and photocopied interiors. This issue is another step forward -- the interiors will be offset-printed in a blue Pantone ink on cream paper along with a two-color section and perfect-bound into hand-pulled silkscreened covers, in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Contributing to this issue:

TREVOR ALIXOPULOS - http://www.hautejunk.blogspot.com/ 

T EDWARD BAK - http://antizerogravity.blogspot.com/

CHRIS CILLA - http://ccillaswamp.blogspot.com/ 

MAX CLOTFELTER - http://maxclotfelter.blogspot.com/

FAREL DALRYMPLE - http://www.fareldalrymple.com/

ELEANOR DAVIS - http://www.doing-fine.com/

VANESSA DAVIS - http://www.spanielrage.com/

MICHAEL DEFORGE - http://kingtrash.com/

THEO ELLSWORTH - http://thoughtcloudfactory.com/

JASON FISHER - http://www.studiojfish.com/

NICK GAZIN - http://skeleteen.livejournal.com/

RICHARD HAHN - http://www.lumakick.com/

LEVON JIHANIAN - http://www.levonjihanian.com/

AIDAN KOCH - http://www.aidankoch.com/

AMY KUTTAB - http://www.amykuttab.blogspot.com/

BLAISE LARMEE - http://blaiselarmee.tumblr.com/

COREY LEWIS - http://www.reyyy.com/

KIYOSHI NAKAZAWA - http://www.luckynakazawa.com/

TOM NEELY - http://www.iwilldestroyyou.com/

JENNIFER PARKS - http://jenniferparks.blogspot.com/

KARN PIANA - http://www.karnpiana.com/ 

JIM RUGG - http://jimrugg.blogspot.com/

TIM ROOT - crappycomics@yahoo.com 

ZACK SOTO - http://www.zacksoto.com/ 

IAN SUNDAHL - http://turbooverdrive.angelfire.com/ 

JON VERMILYEA - http://www.jonvermilyea.com/ 

ANGIE WANG - http://www.wangie.com/ 

STEVE WEISSMAN - http://sweetchubby.blogspot.com/

DAN ZETTWOCH - http://zettwoch.blogspot.com/

Soto and STUDYGROUP12 #4 will be at Booth #420 at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, October 16 & 17.

Following the show, it will be available for purchase online at http://www.etsy.com/listing/62219427/studygroup12-comics-anthology and will be distributed by Sparkplug Comic Books http://www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com/