Delicate Souffle

We have a new comic nice and ready. And there are two more coming!

First up we have Delicate Souffle. A woman with a delicate heart makes delicate chocolate souffles. Will she remain so delicate when her heart is broken?

You can buy it on our Etsy shop or at Comic Stop in the U District in Seattle.

We will also have it at Olympia Comic Festival this Saturday, June 8! And if you want to read it first, you can of course read the whole thing here.

Anyways, here are some gratuitous phone shots of the printing process.

Finished book!

Home from the printers, still in the plastic wrap.

2-up print job waiting to be cut.

Proofs on plain paper.

Caricature

On Saturday, Angela took a class on caricature from John McColloch at Egress Studio in Bellingham. Here are some of her caricatures and a drawing she did on John's Cintiq.

Puppy

So here's the comic we have been handing out in our Flying Dodo Publications sampler. Angela handed them out at ECCC and Stumptown. Perhaps I will post about that awesome Stumptown tomorrow.

This story might continue. We'll see.

Caricature Workshop with John McColloch

Announcement! Because this is awesome and I will be there and our wonderful partner in crime (really in publishing and other art endeavours), Egress Studio, is hosting this.

Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Time: 1:00 – 4:00
Where: Egress Studio, Bellingham, WA
To register, please send $50 to "Egress Studio," 5581 Noon Road, Bellingham WA 98226.

Learn from John McColloch how to create caricatures and be the life of any party! Caricatures are a grand old tradition of satirical portrait that simplify and exaggerate the subject’s features. Caricatures can be an insult or a compliment to serve a political purpose or solely for entertainment. John will demonstratem how to draw interesting caricatures outside the bounds of the modern street-style of big head/little body. 

In the workshop, John will teach you how to draw caricatures. You will learn what types of tools to use. Caricatures are often done out and about so you will often need tools that travel well. He will also show you how to engage the person you are drawing and get them involved. Engaging the person will help you to draw a more personal caricature. One very important lesson is how to draw someone without getting punched in the face afterwards. Finally, it is always important to know what to do when something inevitably goes wrong. 

John is an illustrator with over 30 years experience in both traditional and digital media. He staffed a caricaturist booth for several years with a comic-book group in Denver, Co. They created what they referred to as "comic-a-tures”: caricatures in the form of a comic strip. John is a published cartoonist and comic book artist. Over the years, he has been a production artist for a major metro newspaper, The Rock Mountain News; a graphics Illustrator for the U.S. Air Force; an interactive media developer for online education; a multimedia artist at Talking Dog Media, where it was encouraged to bring your dog to work; and an artist for a gaming company that specialized in localizing games for foreign and local markets. He currently runs his own business, Johnny Mac Studios, where his clients include Starbucks, Microsoft, Getty Images, and Precor. 

A little update.

Hi everyone. I posted the first The Jerks comic on it's new home here on blogger. You can read it at http://thejerkscomic.blogspot.com/ for now. In the near future we're going to make it so the domain the-jerks.com points to the blogger site.

We'll be working on beautifying the new blogger hosted sites here for a little while so please be tolerant of any odd things you bump into here. It just means we are trying something out!

--Abe

Website troubles

So we are having troubles with our WordPress Sites. Because of that, we are switching to blogger. Let's so how it goes. I will add all the old blogs when we find them...

ECCC 2013

It’s a little late to post about, but Angela had a great time walking around Emerald City ComiCon. She says she wussed out only being able to last 6 instead of the whole 9 hours. She handed out a comic that we will post here soon.

Here are some highlights. This is our way of telling you all the cool things you should check out. But first, some warnings. This is what happens when not only are all the pictures taken by Angela on her phone, but then she cleans them up to post. Abe is usually in charge of that crap.

Also, this was the only cosplay Angela captured on camera because it was too weird not to.

Anyways, on to the cool stuff. Tinplate studios has great jewelry with eyeballs! Even better,Travesty in a Tea Cup! Seriously, creepy stuff. Check it out. They all look great.

Wool Buddy has adorable felted creatures. And a huge felted T-Rex! Like 2.5 feet tall. Angela should have taken a picture.

Angela got this adorable piece of art that reminds her once again to always grab a business card and keep it with the art. Come on artists! Always put your contact info on everything for us poor idiotic slobs who buy your lovely art and want more! But through a little research, I think it is Phil McAndrews.

Angela dorked out over Yuko and only just now realized she didn’t even get to see Emily Caroll. What an idiot! Angela loves Emily Caroll’s work. Anways, she blubbered over Yuko, showing her that the bag she brought to ECCC was the tote from their Kickstarter and drooling over the dream curry recipe. Yuko must have pitied her and gave her a sweet Johnny Wander metallic sticker.

Angela also told Dylan Meconis how awesome her books from Kickstarter (like Bite Me!) were and Dylan sweetly gave her a chicken sticker. She gave them to all Kickstarter donators who stopped by.

Let me make this short. Angela told Mike Holmes how much she enjoyed his blog. She toldNoelle Stevenson how much she loves Nimona, which just won Best Web Comic of the Year. Noelle seemed super excited to hear that since she was at the KaBoom booth for working on their books. Angela told Jason Brubaker how beautiful reMIND is. She told Erika Moen all sorts of stuff about how awesome she is, like being in Strip Search, the Penny Arcade reality show for web cartoonists. And she told Jonathan Case how Dear Creature saved her from hating comics after reading DC’s 52 story arc.

Angela also got some great stuff.

Books:

• Burn by Camilla d’Errico
• Elfworld volume 1, an anthology by Family Style
• Wasted Talent, Vol. 1 by Angela Melick – She signed it for her and was totally awesome.
• Mice Templar, Vol 2.1, which Bryan Glass (twitter), the writer, signed
• Runner Runner, a free sample from Tug Boat Press (twitter)
• City of Cards, Issue 1, by CJ Joughin
• Tag Sampler by a bunch of guys, but the two selling it were awesome and signed and doodled in the book. Love it.
• The Goon #40 by Eric Powell (twitter), a free copy from Dark Horse that Eric Powell signed for me.
• The three Flaccid Badger minis by Cat Farris which are worth every penny at $1 each. So cute. Angela was hard pressed to pick a favorite, but she eventually picked Ninja Assassin.

Art!

• Poe by Ben Templesmith, who is just lovely. He was very nice. Angela got to watch him paint for a bit, which was awesome.
• Poetry broadside by Jonathan Case for his Dear Creature
• Captain Picard and his love of Earl Gray by Cat Farris
• Two robots in love by Katie Cook
• Tiny art by Janet Lee (twitter+), the artist of Return of the Dappermen

Other Goodies!

• Dr. Who shirt
• Mouse Guard shirt
• Sock Dreams socks
• Batman earrings
• Batgirl PJs
• Batman bag

Highlight of the show:

Ernie and Nisa portrait by Katie Cook!

After the show, Angela waited for Abe to pick her up and drank hot chocolate. She left when she did because she couldn’t carry any more stuff and her dogs were barking.