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Hey! I’m gonna have a spot at my local wacky people convention, the Alabama Phoenix Festival, the weekend of May 25-27, here in my hometown of Birmingham. I’ll do caricatures and such, but I figured it sure would be nice if I had a real-live, printed-on-paper comic book to hock. So I’m gonna do a small run of print-on-demand comics, collecting all of Jakey the Jerk‘s adventures so far. And if you’re gonna make a comic book, you have to put something on the cover. So here’s what I drew. It’s based on the harrowing adventure that was had in Kablooey!!! – part 6.
(I expect this little self-publishing venture to be fun, but I’d also like to eventually get some of my stuff published by OTHER people! If you’ve got a connection to any of the weirder publishers out there, send them my way, will ya?)
I haven’t priced Jakey the Jerk #1 yet, but I’ll try to keep it reasonable. If anybody wants one, email me — cgarrison [at] bham.rr.com — and I’ll put you on a list of people to notify when they’re ready.
Next week, back to Ghost of a Chance, starring Onion Puss!
Give OR take you say?
Ballpark.
I think one of the upper corners needs a big circle with Jakey’s face in it – like the comics. It’s super effective! The text logo is bland and not very appealing, I’m afraid.
That Jakey that I used in the roster at the top — I think it’s going on the back.
Beautiful cover! I think this is the first time I’ve seen you use color, and man, you use it well.
Thanks, Dan!
Good luck with the publisher hunt. I’ve been doing it for a while and finally just gave up, ran some numbers, and did a Kickstarter for my weird-ass sci-fi book once I had enough to collect in a nice slab. It’s still in progress – just started it this weekend – but it looks like I’m gonna move enough books to get a MUCH better deal than if I was printing a couple dozen via POD.
Cool! I’m always interested to see what people are doing with kickstarter and comics. Maybe I’ll try something like that at some point. Here’s Egypt’s: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52397119/decrypting-rita-volume-1?ref=live
The comics section of Kickstarter is just going crazy. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one break a million in the next few months, some of the ones going on right now will probably top a hundred thousand. It’s insane.