Applications are open for the sixth annual Zine Dream. Zine Dream is a small press art fair that will take place on Sunday, August 4th with additional programming happening on Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd at the TRANZAC in Toronto. Each year features over 50 vendors of self published books, comics, music, zines, hand made crafts, prints & much more! Get your table now!
Artwork done by our friend DM Cook.
awesome to see this amazing artist, whom i’ve had the pleasure of meeting and exhibiting with, on one of my favorite blahgs.
This would have been a great group of work to show.
todf:
Codex Seraphinianus, 1976-1978
‘The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini, from 1976 to 1978. The book appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an alphabetic writing intended to be meaningless.’
A couple friends of mine have copies of this (I was just looking at the copy at Strand), but it’s always been too pricy for my blood. If you get a chance to see one in person, do it.
I’d forgotten about this. I once gave a copy to a couple of bibliophile friends when they married. One of the most rewarding gifts I ever gave. I’ll always treasure being told that it had instantly become “one” of the weirdest books in their collection. They have, it must be said, a very weird collection.
I am obsessed with this book.
(via spx)
HAPPINESS 3 will be making its way to ZINE FEAST,TCAF, & CAKE in the following weeks. If you can’t make any of these events, please consider purchasing a copy online (or any of the other publications on my store) to help fund my trip(s) to Toronto and Chicago! :D
All orders from the last week will be shipped on Monday, and yes, they still come with stickers.
Above are just a few excerpt from #3, which is over 200 pages total, with tons of b&w comics, a few written articles, and a 36 page full-color section that spotlights contemporary abstract painting (*front covers by Clay Schiff). $12 + shipping! (FYI this is totally a bargain)
Click here for more info on #3, and here for the official Happiness website :-)
Reblog to boost, I need travel $$$
If/when you get it, feedback is appreciated! Just tag your post #happiness comix so I can find it
Are you going to TCAF this year? Please join me at the Comics vs Games 2 opening night-o at ben-to mi-so!
❒ Prints of this piece will be available for purchase-o. This drawing is 17”x22” and it is about Minecraft. ❒
thanks AD Matt Hawkins!
Our next exhibit : Jason Urban, May 2013
The Design Blog has reached 10000 Facebook likes and decided to celebrate that awesome number with a new giveaway!
This time TDB partnered up with the amazing Ten Dollar Fonts and now gives you a chance to win a 25$ font-voucher!
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Giveaway ends this Sunday - April 24. The winner will be announced on Monday - April 29, and chosen with the help of Random.org!
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3 Fashionable Comics Artists Who Are Making Geek Chic
The three young cartoonists featured here, Jonny Negron, Julien Ceccaldi, and Walter Scott, all draw fashion better than Anna Wintour can edit it. They are part of a next generation of cartoonists—kids born around 1986, “The Year That Changed Comics” (when Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns launched, and the first collected edition of Spiegelman’s Maus was released), who came of age while the comics aren’t just... discussions were already growing tired. These young artists haven’t had to contend with the same bullshit their cartoonist predecessors did. They’ve gotten to work from a wiped-clean slate, to make whatever they like. They are drawing inspiration from all sorts of sources, including the glossy world of high fashion. It looks good (they wear it well).
Fiona Duncan has awesome taste in comics.
some awesome montreal content in here.
(via spx)
TCAF Presents: Wowwee Zonk Small Press Room 2013
Local artists and TCAF collaborators Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma have once again pulled together an exciting group of artists from across North America for The Wowee Zonk Small Press Room 2013. The Toronto Reference Library’s Browsery will be transformed and filled to the brim with comics, zines, prints and much, much more!
This year’s Wowee Zonk Small Press Room guestlist includes:
- Chris Kuzma
- Ginette Lapalme
- Patrick Kyle
- Adam Buttrick
- Eunice Luk
- Shannon Gerard
- Closed Caption Comics
- Collective Stench
- Alabaster
- Marc Bell
- Ines Estrada
- Lala Albert
- Ryan Dodgson
- Phil Woollam
- Keith Jones
- Michael Comeau
- Nate Doyle
- Andy Burkholder
- Lale Westvind
- Zach Worton
- Jim Mezei
- Adrian Forrow
- Kellen Hatanaka
- Jason Bradshaw
- Mark Laliberte
- Davis Weir
- Derek Ballard
- Alicia Nauta
- Peter Kalyniuk
- Paul Windle
- Rand Renfrow
- Selena Wong
- Seo Kim
- Sam Hiti
- Jess Worby
- Roman Muradov
- Sophia Foster-Dimino
- Morgan Criger
- Sab Meynert
Be sure not to miss this always fresh, always exciting space at TCAF!
cool, a bunch of my friends, all coming to TCAF
AND ENEMIES
I think the collective stench website is under construction so please visit the tumblr instead …. http://collectivestench.tumblr.com :)
Third time’s the charm, right? Or is it three’s company? Or is it three of a kind saves nine? Wait, what were we talking about again?
400th post and whatta post!
Announcing TOUGH LOVE group show opening Friday, May 10, 7-late at Double Punch, SF
with work by:
- Alabaster
- Bunnie Reiss
- Chelsea Brown
- Hannah K Lee
- Heather Benjamin
- Katie Patch
- Leah Wishnia
- Lisa Hanawalt
- Morgan Blair
- Rachel Kantor
- Sam Ballardini
- Shannon May
- Sophia Foster-Dimino
- Wesley Allsbrook
- Zejian Shen
This is my first show at Double Punch and it’s gonna be GREAT thanks to these lovely ladies. HANG ON TO YOUR FOGHORNS, BAY AREA!
(Source: alisondubois)
