{"id":2212,"date":"2011-03-08T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2011-03-08T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:09","slug":"staple-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/staple-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"STAPLE! Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey yawl, the Gold County Paper Mill and <a href=\"http:\/\/glademade.net\/\">Glademade<\/a> had a blast at STAPLE! last weekend, thanks to everyone who hung out and bought stuff!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Glademade and GCPM at STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nZoom out shot of the table (I was able to get everything in the image except for the second Glademade card rack). Glade&#8217;s face is like &#8220;why are you d00dz hiding?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We met a ton of kewl people and got to hang out with kewl people we&#8217;ve met at past STAPLE!s (that plural spelling of STAPLE! is straight from the style guide, I swear).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image2.jpg\" alt=\"Glademade and GCPM at STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nNow everyone is showing their faces. From left to right: <a href=\"http:\/\/lordsovtheeblacksun.tumblr.com\/\">Michael Miles<\/a>, David Fullen, Glade Hensel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The people across the aisle from us, writer Adam Smith and artist Matt Fox of <em>Wet Black Ghost<\/em> press, had driven all the way from Little Rock, Arkansas, where they say there&#8217;s not much of a scene. I dug their short sci-fi comic and I&#8217;m looking forward to the fantasy webcomic that&#8217;s on the way.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of driving cross country, I met several people who said they had just moved to Austin from Portland, like the cartoonists <a href=\"https:\/\/cactusclubpaper.com\/\">Aaron Whitaker and Melinda Boyce<\/a>. Coincidence or growing trend? Let&#8217;s hope more cartoonists defect here.<\/li>\n<li>Jake Ewing, proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/awesomecomicsonline.com\/\">Awesome Comics<\/a> in Dallas, shared a table with the Arkansas boys. He makes pretty kewl little folded full-color comics.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m really glad that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com\/\">Sparkplug Comics<\/a> had a table at STAPLE!, I wish their were more out of town indy publishers there. <a href=\"http:\/\/ccillaswamp.blogspot.com\/\">Chris C. Cilla<\/a> was in attendance, so I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;d been waiting to buy his new book <em>The Heavy Hand<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/domystore.com\/austin\/index.html\">Domy<\/a> 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&#8217;m really digging it.<\/li>\n<li>It was good to talk to <a href=\"http:\/\/paulmaybury.com\/\">Paul Maybury<\/a> and his also talented assistant Ricky Valenzuela. If I&#8217;d had more dough I would&#8217;ve bought some of Maybury&#8217;s sick looking original pages. At least we got to talk about coloring for a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Man, I love how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithinkican.com\/\">Toby Craig<\/a> is still putting out watercolored comics in Houston. His earlier series <em>Monster Engine<\/em> was the first DIY comic I ever bought back at Bedrock City Comics on 1960.<\/li>\n<li>I dug <a href=\"http:\/\/lamezone.net\/\">Partydog<\/a>&#8216;s VHS-style comic <em>The Body is a System<\/em>. Also he handed me a hilarious xerox mini of stick figure collaborations with his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/zebzorb\">bf<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchyanarchyanarchy.net\/\">this site<\/a>. Loved it.<\/li>\n<li>I was hoping that <a href=\"http:\/\/largoinfinite.com\/\">Zach Taylor<\/a> would have <em>Bear Quest 2<\/em> ready but his jam comic with Chris Sweet, <em>16-bit Breakfast<\/em>, will tide me over for a bit.<\/li>\n<li>I always enjoy chatting with Jen and MC of <em>Buttersword<\/em>. Their comics are like an angrier Porcellino with some sf elements thrown in every once in a while. Basically, they&#8217;re super real, honest, and independent. Also I applaud them for monetizing MC&#8217;s toy collecting.<\/li>\n<li>Palfloat is a true Austin original. <del datetime=\"2020-09-24T04:12:32+00:00\">Click that link &ndash; you&#8217;ll thank me.<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope to see you all again (and more people!) at STAPLE! 2012. Also, if you&#8217;re wondering, I&#8217;ll start posting the eight-page Glade and Mark comic on Friday.<!--more Click here for additional photos and GCPM-centric commentary--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Glademade and GCPM at STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nMichael Miles close up shot. Why&#8217;re you so glum d00d? You&#8217;re sitting behind your drawing of a space poodle and a bucket of froghead pillows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image4.jpg\" alt=\"Glademade and GCPM at STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nI only have one copy of <em>Math Fiction<\/em> (published by <a href=\"https:\/\/yeahdude.storenvy.com\/\">Yeah Dude Comics<\/a>, containing some GCPM members) left so I just brought it so people could look at it. Definitely the most popular item on our table. I&#8217;m going to try to have some sort of 3D something to sell next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image5.jpg\" alt=\"Glademade and GCPM at STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nDavid Fullen and Glade Hensel. You can see Glade&#8217;s artwork for the last Monster Show in the lower right. People kept asking about it but it was never bought. Not many people seem to bring the cash for original art to STAPLE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image6.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Miles makes it rain after STAPLE!\"><br \/>\nMichael Miles making it rain with the tens of dollars we got from selling zines at STAPLE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-03-08_image7.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Miles Slime Studies zine\"><br \/>\nFreshly spraypainted bags containing Michael Miles&#8217; zine <em>Slime Studies<\/em> that he finished Friday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s face is like &#8220;why are you d00dz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[169,271,273,441,615,722],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recaps","tag-david-fullen","tag-glade-hensel","tag-glademade","tag-michael-miles","tag-staple","tag-william-cardini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}