This comic was originally published in the ceremony program for Glade and I’s wedding.
May 6th, 2011
May 3rd, 2011
Rocky Mountain Chomp Cover
I hope y’all enjoyed “Assault on Yurg.” I’ll add it to my comics page eventually so y’all can read it all in one go. So, if y’all remember, a while back I said that I would post the comic that I drew for Glade and I’s wedding program. Well, I’ve finally got it colored so I’m going to be posting it over the next four weeks, every Tuesday and Friday.
Here’s the cover:
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March 8th, 2011
STAPLE! Recap
Hey yawl, the Gold County Paper Mill and Glademade had a blast at STAPLE! last weekend, thanks to everyone who hung out and bought stuff!
Zoom out shot of the table (I was able to get everything in the image except for the second Glademade card rack). Glade’s face is like “why are you d00dz hiding?”
We met a ton of kewl people and got to hang out with kewl people we’ve met at past STAPLE!s (that plural spelling of STAPLE! is straight from the style guide, I swear).
Now everyone is showing their faces. From left to right: Michael Miles, David Fullen, Glade Hensel.
Some highlights:
- The people across the aisle from us, writer Adam Smith and artist Matt Fox of Wet Black Ghost press, had driven all the way from Little Rock, Arkansas, where they say there’s not much of a scene. I dug their short sci-fi comic and I’m looking forward to the fantasy webcomic that’s on the way.
- Speaking of driving cross country, I met several people who said they had just moved to Austin from Portland, like the cartoonists Aaron Whitaker and Melinda Boyce. Coincidence or growing trend? Let’s hope more cartoonists defect here.
- Jake Ewing, proprietor of Awesome Comics in Dallas, shared a table with the Arkansas boys. He makes pretty kewl little folded full-color comics.
- I’m really glad that Sparkplug Comics had a table at STAPLE!, I wish their were more out of town indy publishers there. Chris C. Cilla was in attendance, so I’m glad I’d been waiting to buy his new book The Heavy Hand from Domy so I could get a signed book straight from the author. I started reading it on the bus ride home from work yesterday and I’m really digging it.
- It was good to talk to Paul Maybury and his also talented assistant Ricky Valenzuela. If I’d had more dough I would’ve bought some of Maybury’s sick looking original pages. At least we got to talk about coloring for a bit.
- Man, I love how Toby Craig is still putting out watercolored comics in Houston. His earlier series Monster Engine was the first DIY comic I ever bought back at Bedrock City Comics on 1960.
- I dug Partydog‘s VHS-style comic The Body is a System. Also he handed me a hilarious xerox mini of stick figure collaborations with his bf on this site. Loved it.
- I was hoping that Zach Taylor would have Bear Quest 2 ready but his jam comic with Chris Sweet, 16-bit Breakfast, will tide me over for a bit.
- I always enjoy chatting with Jen and MC of Buttersword. Their comics are like an angrier Porcellino with some sf elements thrown in every once in a while. Basically, they’re super real, honest, and independent. Also I applaud them for monetizing MC’s toy collecting.
- Palfloat is a true Austin original.
Click that link – you’ll thank me.
I hope to see you all again (and more people!) at STAPLE! 2012. Also, if you’re wondering, I’ll start posting the eight-page Glade and Mark comic on Friday. Click here for additional photos and GCPM-centric commentary
March 4th, 2011
The GCPM and Glademade at STAPLE! 2011
Hey y’all, David Fullen, Michael Miles and myself of the Gold County Paper Mill will be tabling at STAPLE! this weekend alongside Glade Hensel’s Glademade for the third year in a row.
This year, for the first time ever, STAPLE! will be two days, March 5th and 6th! The event is at Marchesa Hall and Theater from 11am to 6pm on Saturday and noon to 6pm on Sunday. It costs ten dollars for one day and $15 for both days.
The GCPM and Glademade will be sharing Table 76, which is in the Annex. If you’re standing with your back to the entrance, the Annex is the room to the back and the left. We’ll be selling a lot of stuff, both old and new. Here’s what we’ll have in alphabetical order:
- Screenprints and digital prints of my ATTACKS one-page comics
- Candy or Medicine Volume 12, a minicomics anthology edited and published by Josh Blair (I drew the cover of this volume)
- The second issue of Catch Up, a comics and poetry magazine edited and published by Jak Cardini and Robert Bozwell of the GCPM, featuring two different covers by Josh Burggraf, comics by Noel Freibert, poetry by Adam Day, and a short story by David Fullen
- Comet a print by Glade Hensel
- Froghead Hangover, a twelve-page xeroxed zine by me
- Glademade greeting cards
- Hypermorph, a digital print in original colors and the inverse
- Lords ov thee Black Sun, a xerox zine by Michael Miles
- Masks, a twelve-page xeroxed zine by me
- One read-only copy of Math Fiction, a sixteen-page 11×17″ blue/red anaglyph 3D comic featuring Pat Aulisio, Ian Harker, Josh Burggraf, and myself
- A two-color Miizzzard screenprint in purple/green or purple/orange
- Original art by myself and Michael Miles
- Shaman Thunder, a twelve-page xerox comic that Josh Burggraf and I made together
- Slime Studies, a zine by Michael Miles
- TRANZ, a twelve-page zine by me
A process shot from Michael Miles. He’s working to get Slime Studies finished in time for STAPLE!
Also, there are pre- and post-parties for STAPLE! The pre-party is 7-11pm tonight at Austin Books and Comics. There are an after-parties Saturday and Sunday at Club Deville from 8pm to whenever. We might be at some of these – if you see us feel free to say wuzzup.
March 1st, 2011
Quick Wedding Post
Hey y’all I know I said that I’d start posting a comic today, but I decided to postpone that until next week because there are some things I want to talk about this week, namely my wedding and STAPLE!
Our wedding/reception was a lot of fun. There are a couple of details that I was involved in so I thought I’d post those here.
We had a unity volcano instead of a unity candle. Glade and I made it and then I painted it, here’s an action shot:
Picture by my uncle. Sorry it’s a bit blurry. Notice the froghead on my best man.
The eruption wasn’t quite as high as we were hoping but oh well. The officiant (my good buddy Will Sellari, pictured holding microphone) included some lines from King Crimson in the ceremony. Also, one of my friends told me that they felt a strong gust right before the procession and knew that the wind wizards were giving their blessing. So, all in all, it was a pretty proggy wedding.
It was also pretty froggy. All of the dudes in the wedding party and the dads had these frogheads that Glade made. Here they are all lined up in a row (without their hats):
Also, I drew the ceremony program:
The front and back covers for the ceremony program.
I made the comic that I’m starting to post next week for the ceremony program. Yes, we had the idea before we heard about Adrian Tomine’s latest book.
STAPLE! is this upcoming weekend here in Austin. For the third year in a row, the Gold County Paper Mill will have a table. I’ll post about what we’re bringing in detail on Friday.
April 18th, 2009
STAPLE! 2009
Belated post of some picx from STAPLE! 2009…
Here’s me and my lady, she sold her wonderful glademade products alongside those of the GCPM.
Here’s summa the stuffz we had for sale.
Here’s me and the boyz (left to right: Dr. Chuch, XyphaP, &myself).
STAPLE! was a real good time, we moved plenty of product and wayyy more ppl showed up than last year, so thanks Austin and Uncle Staple for making it such a success! Look for the GCP and glademade at Zine Fest Houston, coming up May 16th!
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