Glad to be a part of Pete’s Mini Zine Fest once again! I’m outside this year and looks like it’ll be sunny! I always love this little show because it focuses on just the mini comics & zines, which is why I am a cartoonist in the first place! This year I’ll also have my new AER HEAD prints for sale.
Also this week is surf week! Lots of fun surfing competitions and hangouts going on in Long Beach! I may or may not be able to make some of these events, but if I do, I’ll let you know!
Happy summer!
If you're into indie 'zines, are an artsy person, or are just curious, stop by Pete's Mini Zine Fest this Saturday 7/14! It's at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: 709 Lorimer St. 2P - 7P & it's FREE! Here's the Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/1790188944616901/
It's half indoors/half outdoors in their backyard, and it looks like it'll be a nice day so far! I also have a BRAND NEW MINI COMIC for a very special project I've been working on. You'll get a sneak peek if you come to the zine fest. I'll also have copies of "OTHER REALMS" if you didn't get a chance to get one.
This could be YOU!
There's still time to sign up for the next Business Basics for Freelancers class - this Sunday 7/15 at Anyone Comics in Crown Heights! I know it's summer and you may want to do other things besides learning about business stuff, but there's no time like the present to improve your freelance skills! I've been flyering around and the more I talk with people about this, the more I realize just how MUCH a class like this is needed for the freelance community. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/business-basics-for-freelancers-tickets-47556957139
Hope to see you at one of these events this weekend! So much going on, but that's a good thing!
Tomorrow I'm exhibiting in Pete's Mini Zine Fest! A celebration of little works of joy: zines! Though zines (short for magazines, of the indie kind) traditionally consist of written works, cartoonists are gradually taking over zine fests :)
Saturday 7/30 from 2-7pm at Pete's Candy Store (the "store" is actually a bar... there is no candy, but it used to be a candy store) 709 Lorimer Sr, Brooklyn NY 11211. Take the L to Lorimer or G to Metropolitan Ave. Here's the facebook invite. See you there!
Last week I got to experience and exhibit at Comic-Con International in San Diego!! (more on that in the next blog) and I realized I need to prepare for Boston Comic Con in 2 weeks. Do I even still live in New York?
EXCITING NEWS! A reporter from the Brooklyn Paper contacted me earlier this week about Brooklyn artists that are in Pete's Mini Zine Fest this weekend! The article came out online yesterday, and is in print today in various locations around Brooklyn! You can find it wherever there's a bunch of free paper stands in a row on the street, or sometimes in the entrance to businesses (I used to read it working at the Pratt Store). Here's the article link: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/38/30/24-petes-zine-sidebar-2015-07-24-bk.html
I'm honored that my cover image is the first one shown! Also something I noticed is that all the artists mentioned are women :) BROOKLYN WOMEN REPRESENT!!! I was surprised to see there's a complimentary article to this one, featuring Alison Wilgus, who's also drawn a comic about apartment hunting! It's an experience that plagues cartoonists. We are definitely swapping war stories.
COME TO PETE'S MINI ZINE FEST!
Saturday, July 25th
2pm-7pm
@ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn,
L to Lorimer, or G to Metropolitan
I've witnessed this.
Wow it's been awhile since I last posted, but I've had a lot going on. Moved back to Brooklyn (WOOT WOOT!) and am finally almost settled in. And a bunch of other commotion has passed. Now, onto Pete's Mini Zine Fest! I'm tabling there again with 25 other zinesters. In Williamsburg at Pete's Candy Store (it's a bar, not an actual candy store. Although it probably used to be). Saturday July 25th from 2-7p! Free admission! Booze! (the booze is not free though - it's a bar). 708 Lorimer St in Brooklyn. Take the L or G to Lorimer.
This year, PMZF is part of NYC Zine Weekend, which is part of International Zine Month! Other zine goings on:
Friday July 24, 8pm
Summer Zinester Potluck at ABC No Rio.
Free, but bring food to share and zines to trade. 156 Rivington St., Lower East Side zine@abcnorio.org
Sunday July 26, 2-5pm
Zinester discussion & skillshare at Bluestockings. Free, donation solicited
172 Allen St., Lower East Side NYCzinegroup@gmail.com
This was the aforementioned "other commotion." It's not right that artists keep encountering situations of working their asses off for something that has only a slight chance of happening. Sometimes, as in this case, the company will build you up and make you feel like you pretty much already have the job. It's like a big juicy steak (or tofu burger if you're vegetarian) is being dangled in front of you, and then it's SNATCHED away.
Hey y'all! I just took Bolt Bus into Boston and am exhibiting in the Boston Comic Con this weekend! Actually it starts Friday - it's 3 days long this year! Friday, Saturday, Sunday August 8 - 10, 2014 | Seaport World Trade Center | 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA http://www.bostoncomiccon.com You can get tickets here. Just checked out the site (yes I'm IN the freakin' convention and only now just looked at the site) and Sean Astin from LOTR is going to be there! There's also a cool panel on web comics that I'd like to see if I can get away from drawing.
Oh yeah and last weekend Pete's Mini Zine Fest was awesome! A cute venue and cool people. My friend Rachel published her first poetry zine and sold some! It was nice to focus on the mini comics because I usually have so much stuff at my table... sometimes they get overlooked.
Yes this happened today. Luckily it only got on the cover and not inside THANK GOD.
Also yeah... biweekly misfortune...? Been so busy apartment hunting and stuff that it does get away from me :/
I love little surprises like this! The awesome people at Bookshelf Podcast interviewed me at Special Edition NYC, and now it's online! Gabriel Lemaine asked me about conventions I've exhibited at, my work on Power Rangers, custom comics, and Pete's Mini Zine Fest - just in time for this weekend!
Don't forget to come to the kickoff reading tonight 7/25 at Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Brooklyn, from 7-9pm! It should be pretty chill I imagine, so grab a drink, relax, and enjoy great reading performances!
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Flyer designed by Mindy Indy :)
So much has been going on! Last time I blogged it was before the Comics and Medicine Conference, which went really well! I didn't mess up on my presentation! Since then I've been finishing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers coloring, which I thankfully got done in time for the deadline. Oh and my friends had a wedding that displayed 2 custom comics I made for them! Pics to come. In the meantime:
I'm in Pete's Mini Zine Fest this Saturday July 26th! In my 'hood of Williamsburg at Pete's Candy Store (it's a bar that used to be a candy store) 709 Lorimer St. in Brooklyn, from 2-7pm. There's also a kickoff reading event the night before that should be fun too. If you liked the Brooklyn Zine Fest, you'll find Pete's Zine Fest to be similar, but cozier and with booze :P
Oh, Daily Misfortune, I have missed ye! Freelancing has been hard. It's great when I have a huge project like the Rangers, but even though I paced myself (literally coloring on the plane... on the bus...) crunch time meant staying up til dawn for a week and doing nothing else but Photoshop. But hey, it worked! So now comes the search for the next project... there's always a celebration upon completing a project, but then it's like "now what?" After the Zine Fest though I have Boston Comic Con lined up for early August. On top of that, I have to move because my place is getting too expensive.