{"id":3341,"date":"2012-03-02T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2012-03-02T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:26:35","slug":"staple-2012-preview-and-recommendations-megapost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/staple-2012-preview-and-recommendations-megapost\/","title":{"rendered":"STAPLE! 2012 Preview and Recommendations Megapost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all! <a href=\"http:\/\/staple-austin.org\/\">STAPLE!<\/a> is this weekend and I&#8217;m super stoked!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have a bunch of great stuff at a table with fellow Gold County Paper Mill members <a href=\"http:\/\/lordsovtheeblacksun.tumblr.com\/\">Michael Miles<\/a>, Chuch, David Fullen, and the proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/glademade.net\/\">Glademade<\/a>, my wife Glade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-03-02_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Miles drawing\"><br \/>A sick skull draw by Mike Miles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have stacks of <em>VORTEX<\/em> #1; my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2624\"><em>Rainbow Hypercastle<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2604\"><em>Hensel Hypercastle<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2673\"><em>3D Hypercastle<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2586\"><em>One-Color Hypercastle<\/em><\/a> prints; <a href=\"http:\/\/joshburggraf.com\/\">Josh Burggraf<\/a>&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=2757\"><em>Kid Space Heater<\/em><\/a>; and the new issue of the GCPM-published poetry and comics magazine <em>Catch Up<\/em>. Michael Miles will have the zine he debuted last year, <em>Lords ov thee Black Sun<\/em>, and a new zine. And my wife Glade will be selling her Glademade greeting cards, leather bangles, and Poketo wallets. We&#8217;ll be at Table 34 in the Hall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-03-02_image2.jpg\" alt=\"STAPLE! Gold County Paper Mill location\"><br \/>I&#8217;ve marked our table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To our left is Ao Meng&#8217;s Cavalry Press (Meng is also editor of <em>Novi Magazine<\/em>). He&#8217;s gonna have a bunch of great stuff. On the other side of the room from us are cool area cartoonists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skweegieisland.com\/\">M. Austin Bedell of Skweegie Island<\/a>, Jason Poland of <em>Robbie and Bobby<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/effingdecaf.blogspot.com\/\">Chris Sweet of Effing Decaf<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/largoinfinite.com\/\">Zach Taylor of Bear Quest<\/a>. And on the back table at the back of the room are the big guns, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/\">Chris Staros of Top Shelf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevineastmanstudios.com\/\">Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and publisher of <em>Heavy Metal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-03-02_image3.jpg\" alt=\"Zach Taylor Bear Quest pixel art poster\"><br \/>An 11&#215;17&#8243; pixel art poster by Zach Taylor, on sale at STAPLE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the other room, the Annex, are <a href=\"https:\/\/cactusclubpaper.com\/\">cartoonist power couple Aaron Whitaker and Melinda Tracy Boyce<\/a>. Aaron will be debuting his first graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1202515667\/the-city-troll-a-graphic-novel?ref=card\"><em>The City Troll<\/em>, which successfully met its Kickstarter goal recently<\/a>. Also in the Annex will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwilldestroyyou.com\/\">Tom Neely<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/milkyboots.blogspot.com\/\">Virginia Paine<\/a>, representing <a href=\"http:\/\/sparkplugcomicbooks.com\/\">Sparkplug Books<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s really cool that they&#8217;ll be there. I&#8217;m really looking forward to checking out Neely&#8217;s book <em>The Wolf<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-03-02_image4.jpg\" alt=\"Melinda Tracy Boyce comic\"><br \/>An autobio comic by Melinda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/staple-austin.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/2012-table-assignments.html\">this blog post on the STAPLE! blog for a full list of participating cartoonists and their locations<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a preparty tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/austinbooks.com\/\">Austin Books and Comics<\/a> starting at around 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all! 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