STAPLE! Community Blog

string #6

noreply@blogger.com (Bram) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:03:00 +0000

Now available for download — the latest issue of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC.

Download a PDF of string #6 and check out future issues every month.

Previous issues: string #1 | string #2 | string #3 | string #4 (recommended for mature readers) | string #5

Issues of string will be available at the 7000 BC table at Bubonicon 40.

Two parties, Live Art, Scooter Raffle!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Uncle Staple) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:00 +0000

Hey everybody! Here's some info about TWO EVENTS this weekend you REALLY should attend:

FRIDAY, July 25 - Party at Austin Books!

Sans Diego CC Par-tay
This is the first year in the last five that AB owner Brad Bankston will not be attending the San Diego Comic Convention. And he feels a little left out. So, how about a party?

This Friday, from 7pm-11pm, join us in the friendly confines of Austin Books for a SDCC-style throw-down. We'll have free beer, free food and loud, geeky conversations. (Trust me, this is just like SDCC... except there you have to pay for the booze and grub.) No expensive hotel reservations or plane ticket required.

We'll even have artists and writers in the crowd. Stop by and meet Rob Osborne, Ryan Yount, Paul Maybury and many more. (Uncle Staple will most def be there!)

SUNDAY July 27 - LIVE ART SHOW & Scooter Raffle!!!

On Sunday, July 27, from 4:00pm–10:00pm, 91.7 FM-KOOP Radio will be holding a party to raffle a Scooter Revolution scooter at the United States Art Authority located at 2908 Fruth St, behind Spider House Café. The scooter to be raffled gets 85+ miles to the gallon, is inexpensive to insure, and incurs low maintenance costs. Proceeds from the sale of raffle tickets and the party will benefit KOOP Radio in its efforts to rebuild after the arson in January.

KOOP Radio's Raffle Party will be an afternoon of great entertainment, including performances by Austin bands The Bellfuries, La Snacks, Peel, and Foot Foot, and LIVE ART sponsored by STAPLE!, featuring Sam Hurt, Paul Maybury, Kennon James, Kevin Peake, Thomas P. Reidy and Kristin Hogan.

The event includes raffle drawings for 1) a a 150cc Scooter from Scooter Revolution, 2) one year of free rentals at I Luv Video, 3) a complimentary comedy class at the award-winning ColdTowne Theater, and 4) a gift certificate to Spider House Café. The event is free for those that have already purchased raffle tickets (available online at koop.org, and $5 at the door for those that haven’t.

MINE ALL MINE ONLINE

noreply@blogger.com (David) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:08:00 +0000

MINE ALL MINE is available for sale online at Zeus Comics. The print run of this minicomic was rather limited. Copies were given to the creators, sold at CAPE, and sent to a few select stores (including Austin Books). You want it? Here's your chance.

If anyone else has seen it online somewhere, let me know.

string #5

noreply@blogger.com (Bram) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Now available for download — the latest issue of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC.

Download a PDF of string #5 and check out future issues every month.

string #3 and #4

noreply@blogger.com (Bram) — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:13:00 +0000

Now available for download — the latest issues of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC members.

Download a PDF of string #3 and string #4, and check out future issues every month. Note that #4 is recommended for mature readers.

Help me Adopt!

noreply@blogger.com (Christine) — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Hey Everyone!

I'm raising money for an adoption fee so I can adopt a little baby of my own.

Anything coming in from sales of books, posters, etc. from my site, as well as donations, go to make that goal a reality.

I've got a press release up and a dedicate page on my site.

Check it out. Help in any way you feel called to. No pressure either way -we're still friends. ;-)

http://www.christinepointeau.com/

Just follow the Project Adoption banners.

Thanks!

7000 BC Presents string

noreply@blogger.com (Bram) — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:25:00 +0000

7000 BC is pleased to announce a new ongoing project: string. Every month, we'll present a collection of comics from group members — selections from ongoing series, comics created just for the publication, the monthly jam, whatever we can get — giving an overview of the work being produced in northern New Mexico.

To kick it off, we're presenting the first two issues for download. We'll have copies of them available at the Free Comic Book Day events at True Believers, Comic Warehouse, and Planet X Toys & Comics.

Download a PDF of string #1 and string #2, and check out future issues every month.

Out Of The Gutter magazine: 3 States and a Funeral: an OOTG Book Tour of Ohio, Maryland, and PA.

noreply@blogger.com (Justin C Gordon) — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Out Of The Gutter magazine: 3 States and a Funeral: an OOTG Book Tour of Ohio, Maryland, and PA.

This blog chronicles Justin taking Out of the Gutter Magazine to bookstores in Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania during his grandfather's funeral. Morbid and absurd, check it out

Help Toby Craig!

noreply@blogger.com (Uncle Staple) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:04:00 +0000

My good buddy comics creator Toby Craig, who some of you know, this weekend completed the MS150, a 150 mile two-day bike ride from Houston to Austin, to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis. He is trying to reach a donation goal of $1200 and you can help sponsor him by clicking here to donate. Read his livejournal post about the ride here.

EDIT: You may remember Toby's excellent article on bookbinding here.

New short story available for free

noreply@blogger.com (Nate Southard) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:41:00 +0000

My latest short story, the evil clown tale "Captain Jinkies," is available for free in this month's Dark Recesses Press online edition. Go check it out!

STAPLE! gets WASTED!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Frank A. Rincon, co-host of Half Hour Wasted (a weekly 30 minute podcast about comic books, movies, TV and more), made the trek down from Dallas to interview various and sundry exhibitors at the show, as well as yours truly, Uncle Staple. Check out episodes 59 and 61 to hear it all.

The Fiction Circus Interviews Uncle Staple? CUNNING SLIME!

noreply@blogger.com (kaboom!) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:21:00 +0000

Relax, everyone. HE DOES NOT NAME NAMES.

A permanent link!

He does, however, offer a very important challenge at the end that I think everyone needs to think about, and one important person needs to answer.

(maybe YOU)

-- Miracle Jones
www.fictioncircus.com

More pics, even!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Colleen AF Venable, creator of the wonderful Fluff in Brooklyn captured these images over STAPLE! weekend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abletoven/sets/72157604097011749

Rob Perez rolled up from San Antonio, where he puts together ARTSLAM!, an awesome ongoing live art event. He made a slideshow, password is dbhguest.

Rob picked up the totally bitchin' Eric Powell piece at the afterparty:

I'm totally jealous, but am glad it went to a good home. The slideshow shows different points in the "making of" process. Very cool.

Staple write up at Ain't It Cool News

noreply@blogger.com (Dead Squirrel Girl) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:47:00 +0000

Lookey! We got a lengthy write up here! Staple on Ain't It Cool News

STAPLE! '08 Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Nate) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:56:00 +0000

Whew! What a weekend. I had a real blast down in Austin and I want to thank all the people that came by and picked up some of my books. I will certainly be back next year. I was really busy with my table, but I did get a chance to take some pics. Here's a few from my Flickr gallery:

You can see my full STAPLE! '08 Flickr gallery here.

See you all next year!

Uncle Staple's Wrap Up

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:06:00 +0000

Hey everbody! Sorry to take so long to post but I'm still recup'ing from the weekend.

Wow! STAPLE! 2008! What an awesome show it was. Thanks to our guests, exhibitors, volunteers, attendees, good folks at the Monarch and everyone else who helped to make it so.

The final attendance figure this year was close to 700 people, nearly a 50% increase from last year! My buddy David Martindale (aka D3) of www.EmptyAllegory.com photography got a great crowd shot from the old projection booth.

Packed! He took a lot more pics too, which tended to be mostly of cute girls. As always there are more good looking people at STAPLE! than any other comics related event in the country. I will stand by this statement!

Lot of press and write-ups about the show cropping up:

The TV was there! The TV!!!

All of our awesome webcomics panelists have posted reports:

http://www.pvponline.com/
http://wondermark.com/
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html
http://www.starslip.com/2008/03/05/staple-2008-wrap-up/

And Texas Geek TV got video of the panel!

A couple more flikr sets here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/freddieavalos/sets/72157604034002377/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heavyweather/tags/staple/

And what I think is my fave wrap-up of all so far, by exhibitor Santanu Rahman of Austin Kung Fu Acadamey:

I challenge anyone else to try and top that!

I got some pics myself but they are all on this old-timey disposable camera I picked up at ye olde antique shoppe (aka Walgreen's) and I need to send off to the museum to get them developerated. Should have them back by next year - hope that I will see you then!

Love,
Uncle Staple

STAPLE! Flickr Sets

noreply@blogger.com (marianne) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:56:00 +0000

It was wonderful seeing everyone this past weekend! I thought I'd share my Flickr sets from this year and years past in case anyone enjoys memories.

STAPLE! 2008
STAPLE! 2007
STAPLE! 2006

high-five,
~Marianne

And a few more photos…

noreply@blogger.com (Bram) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:00 +0000

We wound up a bit too busy to take a lot of photos, but we've got a few at our Flickr stream. Had a great time representing 7000 BC at STAPLE! — got to meet a bunch of terrific folks, and we're looking forward to next year. Thanks to Uncle Staple and all the organizers for putting together such a wonderful event.

STAPLE! Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Vinh-Luan Luu) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:54:00 +0000

Posted my photos as well. It was a great time in a great and beautiful city. We really hope to be able to make it back next year. Thanks to everyone who dropped by the table over the weekend. And thanks to Tom for getting us on the artist list for the live art show, it was a blast.

More FLICKR from Staple!

noreply@blogger.com (Toby Craig) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:24:00 +0000

Hop in the way-back machine for some more pictures from our favorite show in times past!

2008 at the Monarch Convention Center

2007 at the Red Oak Ballroom

2006 at the Red Oak Ballroom

2005 at the Elks Lodge

If you've got any photos on Flickr or other photo-logs, Manton recommends you tag your photos from the show with useful things like "staple" and "austin" so we can find 'em.

STAPLE 2008! Flickr set

noreply@blogger.com (David) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:14:00 +0000

I've posted my photos. Check them out. Another great year! Thanks to Uncle Staple, all the comic book creators, and volunteers who made it possible.

See you next time.

Blood, Love, and Evil from The Fiction Circus

noreply@blogger.com (kaboom!) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:59:00 +0000

The Fiction Circus wraps up Staple! here, at www.fictioncircus.com, and manages to thank NOBODY.

Remember us? Perhaps you threw away one of our complementary wish-tampons later that evening?

But we had a good time, and you MUST know what we thought. Our thoughts are not cheap, but our stories are freeeeeeeee.

Speaking of, we have now also opened submissions, if you are a dedicated writer who is good and not bad. We are the best fiction magazine there ever was, and you would be honored to let us publish you. People we have already turned down so far: Joseph Heller, James Frey, Robert Jordan, Uncle Staple (ha, just kidding about that last one, but WE WILL GET TO IT).

Check out our submissions page on the site for guidelines. We hate to repeat ourselves.

New content every day! And all free, financed by porn you will enjoy.

Out of the Gutter pre-party & expo photos

noreply@blogger.com (Justin C Gordon) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Austin Books and Comics, thank you to your store and staff for such a fun party!

Staple! Thank you for such a professional expo and wonderful environment to stalk people.

Here are picts, go find yourself in them:

http://flickr.com/photos/24350999@N07/

See you next year,

Justin C Gordon

Out of the Gutter Magazine

Mangled STAPLE!

noreply@blogger.com (MightyMangler) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:28:00 +0000

STAPLE was an absolute BLAST! I'm never let down by the experience. Here's a link to my flickr chronicle of the day's events.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23191788@N04/2306105831/in/set-72157604034087225/

I had a BLAST at Staple this year!

noreply@blogger.com (Dead Squirrel Girl) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:47:00 +0000

Rob Osborne, myself (Kristin Hogan), and Jason Chalker.

I had a great time at Staple this year. THANKS CHRIS!! YOU RULE!!

I forgot to take my camera to the afterparty, so please, share your photos!