oh, blushes

Shortpants Press got a fantastic new writeup on the internet magazine Lost at Sea today! There's a review of Suckerpunch, and of both Shuteye books. Go check it out!

go ape!

shortpants spent the weekend in sunny san francisco (it actually rained most of the time we were there) selling our wares and buying more comics at the alternative press expo. for more photos and links and things, see the forum!

A needed, shameless dose of cultish propaganda.

While reading a recent post by the consignment rep at Star Clipper, I was once again struck by the fact that it's not just the artists who produce self pub/small press comics problem to get their stuff out there. It's equally hard for retailers to find these comics, especially the good stuff. Because we generally work in a vacuum with the self-defeating belief that there's no real money in comics nowadays, we seem to run into the wall of doubt that anyone outside of this world is interested. I believe it's not that people aren't interested, but more unaware that it exists.

"You can't pinpoint it exactly, but there was a moment when people more or less stopped reading poetry and turned instead to novels, which just a few generations earlier had been considered entertainment suitable only for idle ladies of uncertain morals. The change had surely taken hold by the heyday of Dickens and Tennyson, which was the last time a poet and a novelist went head to head on the best-seller list. Someday the novel, too, will go into decline -- if it hasn't already -- and will become, like poetry, a genre treasured and created by just a relative few. This won't happen in our lifetime, but it's not too soon to wonder what the next new thing, the new literary form, might be. It might be comic books."
Lifted from Charles McGrath's Not Funnies

Anyone know if there is a group of small press pubs out there who would be interested in working as a collective to promote stuff? It seems to me everyone would benefit from it. Without a central distributor to go to, it would only make sense that we work as a group to garner recognition.

Any ideas?

Guess I'll start making a list and seeing if I can track down other small presses. I'll do pretty much anything to keep from lining Steve Geppi's pockets.

Double posted. Please post replies in the forum under "SELL YOUR WARES!"

we're coming on a town near you. watch your eyes...

So Sarah just got back from APE and she'll be posting picks soon. Probably tomorrow, but in the meantime, mainly because I'm ornery and bored, I figured I'd delight you all with a little picture I did to let Sarah know where my book should be place on the table during future events. I'm a star baby, and you're all gonna have to deal with it.

finally, IT'S HERE!

Sucker Punch #1
32pgs all cuddled in a full color, wrap-around cover. $3.00

Now available in
our shop (click the
link already, asshole).
OR
if, like me, you're
afraid of the internet
and the US Postal Service, you can pick
it up from Sarah at APE. It is destined to appear soon in Starclipper (STL), Quimby's (CHI) and
Chicago Comics (obvious), among others.