We're alive

Sorry for the lack of posts. Things have just been crazy at the FDP headquarters, which is our apartment. We have been trying to move for a couple weeks and it failed! Who knew that could happen. Anyways, I will try to post more here later. We just don’t have much to announce right now.

Have you been keeping up on Angela’s autobio comic at spazhandscomic.blogspot.com? People seem to be enjoying it.

Brief notes on Geek Girl Con. I loved it. I had a lot of fun talking with everyone and there were some great costumes. I look forward to going back next year. I didn’t go to any panels or anything, but I did wander down to the Connections room just in time to see the end of the comic editors group! Which even the last 5 minutes of was encouraging. I thought I had a picture of my booth (our first time with a half table since I split it with my mom, Anita Boyle of Egress Studio), but I couldn’t find it. Instead, here are some things I drew.

Shh, says Batman

The Doctor is shocked

Don’t Blink

The Doctor is happy

The Doctor and Tardis in love

I got a magnet made of one of my images!! I love Cardassians.

The Joker thinks it’s funny.

PZS follow up

So, everything went great at PZS! I had a blast and it was really fun doing the InDesign class. As promised, here are the notes I wrote that I based the presentation on. If you have any questions please feel free to email me abe at flyingdodopublications.com

August 11 2012 Con Info

Just a quick reminder for everyone that Angela will be at GeekGirlCon on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend at booth 314. Also, Abe will be at the Portland Zine Symposium on Saturday. Abe is also teaching a one hour class titled Using Adobe InDesign to Create Layouts for Print. It starts at 11 am in room 2. So, drop in and take part!

News!

So in a month, you will be able to see Abe at the Portland Zine Symposium (Aug 11) and me at Geek Girl Con (Aug 11-12) with my mom. My brother, Isaac, will be watching the booth with Abe so he can, you know, eat and go to the bathroom. I will also have a new setup at my booth because I will only have half a table! But it will probably carry over into our over full table at other cons. As part of this consolidation, we will have the 2011 collection of Flying Dodo Comics (and the one 2010 comic) for sale at $20, which is a 33% discount! It includes a little wrapper to hold it all together. I will have some blank-ish ones with me at Geek Girl Con so I can draw something of your choosing.

Flying Dodo Publications 2011 collection

In addition to comics, we will both have prints and I will have necklaces. There will be a few new prints, including “Alces caeruleus.” We will also be offering a special deal at conventions where you can buy “The Saddest Sasquatch” poster (20×30 inches) for free shipping. That’s a savings of $8. The necklaces are $20 for a single panel one and $30 for a 3 panel one. I hope you like them.  All of these will eventually be for sale online.

I also started a new web comic of my own auto-bio stuff, Spaz Hands. It is going to update on Tuesdays and Thursdays for now, but I have a lot so if it so if I can keep up, I might up it to Monday, Wednesday, Friday, eventually. Actually, I think this web comic will include three different styles for different types of comics. And who knows. Maybe I’ll have a sampler to give out at Geek Girl Con.

Abe and Angela skipping (from Spaz Hands)

Abe has also started a new Etsy shop for his photography. I think they’re great, so check them out. His shop is Calamitous Platypus. The photos are mostly flowers, but lots of strange plants, really. Eventually, we might do something together with his photos similar to the photos at the end of Bubbles and other tales.

Outer space plant, Photo by Abe Olson

Necklaces

Angela made some necklaces over the weekend. She had a great time making them, so expect more. They will be available on Etsy sometime (we will announce when they are up) and Angela will have them at Geek Girl Con in Seattle on Aug. 11. So without further ado, here they are! The first one is the test and Angela is keeping it.

3D Comic Necklace!

Kissy face

Dance Party

Daw! Face.

Alces caeruleus print

We have a number of things to announce. First up, we have a print for sale up on our Etsy site! This is a print of a painting by Angela, Alces caeruleus. The original is watercolor and sumi ink. The print is 5×7 inches, the same as the original painting. You can buy it for your very own for $10.

Alces caeruleus in the wild

We also have news on The Jerks front. It was our two-year anniversary of the strip on June 8th, so we went to color. Angela still does all the inking, but now Abe lays in color. To accomodate the new color strip so it looks nice, we updated the colors of the site, too, and the banner will be updated to something appropriate soon. 

Before changing to color, we have a contest on The Jerks Facebook page to guess the lip color we would use on Georgie. We only had five people guess, so everyone is a winner! They get a poster of Arthur. Cedar guessed correctly, so she also wins a set of bookmarks. We will get pictures of the lucky winners as we can and post them here.

Screen-printed two-tone poster of Arthur from The Jerks

That’s it for now, but expect more soon. Abe’s out of school, our dashing new graduate, so he will get to spend a lot of time working on Flying Dodo Publications. We have some great ideas brewing up!

Olympia Comic Fest Recap and a Contest

We had a blast at the Olympia Comics Festival and definitely intend to go back next year. But before I get into that, let me mention that we are having a contest over on The Jerks for its 2-year anniversary. Go to The Jerks Comic Facebook page to vote which colors you think we will use for Georgie when we switch to a color format next Tuesday and you could win a poster of Arthur.

Bender thinks you should vote in the contest! (We saw him at Oly Fest)

Back to Olympia Comics Festival. Some of the highlights include a lady who got a feeling/action commission for a friend, a little girl who loves squids, and the spectacular artist to our left (right from the point of view of the walkers), Mita Mahato. Mita started doing paper cut comics in January and people were really interested. Granted, she did have a really cool three-ring binder of her original paper-cut comics. Great stuff there.

Right side of our table

Bubbles and other tales debuted at the festival so it got the center

The Jerks were confined to the left side of the table by Abe

Our view across the aisle

The show was pretty packed and had lots of great exhibitors. I even got to go around and get some stuff and we did some trades. Here are the great books we got at the convention:

• Mita Mahato: At Least Stay Close, Life Lines (very sweet), Unidentified Feeling Object (gorgeous)
• Leda Zawacki: Nuddles of Cute (I adore the first comic in this collection, in particular), Nuddles of Cute, special editiion
• P. Calavara: Those Infernal Machines, 9 Ways to Sock a Fish, The Trenchant Puppy (I laughed out loud at both of these. He’s a clever guy.)
• Sera Stanton: A Miniature Bestiary
• Bandit Rabbit Ink: Milk and Carrots 2
• Fischer and Khmara: Une Petite Romance (loved it – beautiful colors)

Angela drawing away on commissions or something

We also got to go to Danger Room Comics, pretty much my favorite comic store I have ever been to. First we popped in before they were open so all you people in Olympia can get our comics through their store. All of them! Pretty cool. Then we popped in later to buy stuff. And that is another reason this store is great. They had almost no marvel/dc stuff. The whole store pretty much was devoted to indie/alternative. I almost got BPRD Vol2 hard back, but instead I got Kiki De Montparnasse by Catel and Bocquet. And Blue by Pat Grant. And I Kill Giants by Kelly and Niimura (which we just read from the library and had to buy because it is so awesome). And Evolution by Jay Hosler. And Adventure Time #1. Whoops. Great stuff. I am really excited to read them all.

-Angela