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War of the Worlds - starring Tom Cruise as “Ray”
A comic about Climate Change.
https://twitter.com/mike_daws
Here’s a sneak peak at my new series,
A NEW TERROR
Titan #4 by François Vigneault
In the aftermath of Bloody Thursday, João da Silva is desperate to contain the chaos that reigns on Homestead Station. Meanwhile, Phoebe is shaken by recent events, and her loyalties are torn between her Terran lover and her fallen Titan comrades. Back cover by Brandon Graham (Prophet).
TODAY! Come visit Study Group/Press Gang at both CAB and Short Run Seattle! We’ll have hot fresh copies of TITAN #4, and François will be there to sign them at CAB.
Dear friends,
I need your help making positive pepe the frog memes to battle against evil trolls:
Please make a kid-friendly pepe in your style and send it to me at:
I’m creating a positive pepe artist database, so include your name.
also, please share nice pepe’s with the hashtag:
#savepepe
thanks! -matt
We’ve been neglecting our tumblr like whoa. Haven’t even posted about the new podcast! Yes, that’s right!
Study Group Comics has a podcast! Join hosts Zack Soto (Secret Voice, Power Button) & Mike Dawson (Rules For Dating My Daughter, Troop 142) as they discuss their own creative processes, comic art, family life, and a ton of other stuff. Each episode finds a new guest from the world of comics joining Mike & Zack for an in depth conversation, and occasional guest segments from their pals around the world.
Episodes So Far:
Episode 01 – Vanessa Davis – Your hosts break the ice, cartoonist Shanna Matuszak talks this week’s comics, and guest Vanessa Davis talks about two Formative Works: 100 Demons by Lynda Barry & Charlotte: Life or Theater by Charlotte Salomon.
Episode 02 – Elijah Brubaker – Mike tells us all about his experiences cosplaying at the New York Comic Con. Zack chats with Shanna Matuszak about this week’s new releases. Then Elijah Brubaker (Reich, Jezebel) joins us on the party floor to talk about his process and also, Nth Man!
Episode 03 – Derf – Derf joins us to talk about his career from the heyday of the alternative weekly newspaper, to finding a new creative lease on life as a graphic novelist. Shanna Matuzak talks this week’s comics, and Mike & Zack discuss cartoonists and literary agents: threat or menace?
Hitting stores 6/8/2016! All 3 issues to date of The Secret Voice!
BRAND NEW: Secret Voice #3 by Zack Soto. 48 full color pages in the patented oversized SG Golden Age Floppy format.
Includes: Secret Voice Chapter 4 (currently being serialized online), an SV backup story drawn by the amazing Jason Fischer and part two of Maps of the Unknown World. It will take you longer than 5 minutes to read.
Additionally, this week sees the reprint of issue #1 with a snazzy new cover and an amazing Simon Roy pin up on the back cover. Issue 2 is also shipping again with the other two so all 3 issues will be in better stores. If you can’t find them in a local shop, they’ll be up in the SG Shop soon! (note: seems like some stores will be getting their copies on 6/15, so make sure to ask if you don’t see them)
(via Secret Voice 1, 2 & 3 out in stores now! | Study Group Comic Books)
It’s #LineworkNW weekend and we have 5 debut books coming out!
- Levon Jihanian’s DANGER COUNTRY: The Role Playing Game Quick Start Guide. It’s real! It works! It’s awesome!
- Zack Soto’s SECRET VOICE #3 (all brand new!!!!! Still serializing on the web but in print NOW) and a reprint of SECRET VOICE #1 with a new cover and a SIMON ROY pin up back cover.
- Tyler Landry’s VILE #1 - a brand new one man anthology title focusing on horror and suspense! This double sized debut issue has its West Coast debut after dropping at TCAF last week.
Francois Vigneault’s TITAN #3. This is the SEXIEST comic about labor relations in space that you’ve ever seen! West Coast debut.
Come see us on Sunday at the Norse Hall in Portland, at the Press Gang table #6! It’s Free!
**Study Group Comics at ECCC!**
As usual, we’ll be tabling as part of PRESS GANG with Floating World & StudioJFISH, at the same spot we’ve had for 3 years running:
Tables M-16 & m-15! (easy to remember that, no?)
NEW OR RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE TABLE:
RECENT RELEASE: POWER BUTTON #0 by Zack Soto
SHOW DEBUT - The first release from PRESS GANG as a proper publisher: SUN BAKERY #1 by Corey Lewis
SHOW DEBUT - Brand new LIMITED EDITION IWAH SLIPCASE containing all 3 issues of Farel Dalrymple’s (also at ECC, table N-1 to be exact!) amazing IT WILL ALL HURT with a signed print and bonus sticker! Limited to 100 numbered pieces. If you already have all 3 issues and just want the slipcase (sans print & sticker), we have a limited amount of those for sale as well. We’re taking most of these to the show but a small number have been set aside for the web. If you want it and yr not going to ECCC, head over to the shop and snatch one up.
“It’s Alive!”
One more huge announcement for this week: Our friends at Frankenstein’s Comic Book Swap are teaming up with Linework NW! Wow!
Yes, that means that in addition to the two completely unique lineups of creators in our main hall, we’re going to have tons of great dealers selling vintage comic books, prints, paperbacks, and more in the basement of the Norse Hall! One weekend, one building, three huge lineups!
Frankenstein’s is now accepting vendor applications, so if you have a collection of classic comix or other vintage printed matter make sure you apply!
Top 5 Reasons it’s Totally Awesome to Volunteer for Linework NW
(Art by Kinoko Evans, Poster Design by François Vigneault)
Hi! My name is Matthew Tweedie, but you can just call me Tweedie if you like. Most of my friends do, and I certainly hope we can be friends! I’m the volunteer coordinator for Linework NW this year and I want you to get involved! Everybody loves top 5 lists, so I thought I’d throw one together to explain, in my very humble opinion, why you should consider volunteering!
1) It’s Different From the Big Cons & It Makes a Difference When You Volunteer
If you’re anything like me, you’ve done your fair share of the big comic conventions and maybe you’re kinda burnt out on those. They’re big and loud and you feel constantly pressured to be spending money. Oftentimes they feel like excuses for DC and Marvel to show off their new tv shows or movie teasers. And don’t get me wrong, I like superheroes just as much as the next guy whose played every Final Fantasy game ever made, but sometimes these conventions feel rather limited in focus.
Linework NW is different. It’s not a convention, for one thing! It’s a festival. It’s a party that we throw just because we love comics so much! It’s completely free, so no one will ever be turned away ‘cause they don’t get paid ‘til next Friday. It’s a much more intimate affair, and you get the opportunity to meet awesome artists that you might not be exposed to otherwise. Both days are completely different in terms of who’s tabling and which special guests are gonna be there. There’s a focus on comics as a medium that I find so very important.
So for all of those reasons, I think LWNW is an important show, and it offers a very different experience from any other comics show in Portland. It’s truly a labor of love and we want everyone to have an amazing time. To make sure that happens, we need as many hands on deck as we can possibly get.
Linework NW 2015 (Photo by David Scroggy)
2) You’re Going to Want to Check it Out Anyway
Look at that line-up. I mean, seriously. Get a load of it! Really take it in. There are so many totally radical people up there! Don’t you wanna come tell them how cool they are?
So, while you’re at the Norse Hall, you can stick around for a couple of hours and work the merch table! Or walk the floor and make sure everything is going smoothly. Or sit down and greet people at the door. You do not have to make a huge time commitment (although, of course, you are more than welcome to). Any of which would qualify you to get into exclusive LWNW events where you get to party with your organizers, exhibitors and your fellow volunteers. These parties are FUN and you don’t want to miss them.
Jim Woodring’s 6 Foot Pen & Me, LWNW 2014 (Photo by François Vigneault)
3) You’ll Meet Awesome People & Make Cool New Friends
I’m really proud to be one of the organizers for LWNW this year. More than that, though, I’m extremely happy to be part of a team with so many awesome people on it. I look forward to every single meeting. Zack Soto, François Vigneault, Tristan Tarwater, Kinoko Evans, Jason Fischer & Sam Marx are all truly wonderful people, and I feel lucky to count them among my friends. I met every single one of them, without exception, through volunteering at Linework NW.
And that’s just my fellow organizers. I’ve met more cool artists, vendors, photographers & just straight up comic fans at LWNW than I have time or space to name. And I did it while helping to put on an awesome show! How cool is that!? Very cool, if you ask me.
Also, you get to meet me. And I’m great!
Linework NW Co-Founders Zack Soto & François Vigneault (Photo by ???)
4) I Will Love You Forever
Potential Volunteers, you are basically like Obi-Wan Kenobi to me. You’re my only hope. Additionally, you are not unlike Balto. I’d be lost without you.
All volunteers are subject to my eternal gratitude and friendship, as many high fives as they want, and I’ll even let you meet my dog. She is universally adored on account of her good looks and sassy attitude.
My Cute Dog, Who You Can Totally Pet (Photos by Josh Harvey, Me)
5) It’s Just A Lot of Fun
Really, I think this is probably the best reason. It’s a blast. I had excellent experiences volunteering in both 2014 and 2015, and now Linework is one of those things that I eagerly anticipate every year. It’s basically to my twenty-nine year old self what Christmas Morning was to me when I was twelve. And I want as many people as possible to be able to share that feeling with me. You should volunteer for yourself, because it’s an amazing thing to be a part of.
Crayonwork NW (Photo & Coloring Inside the Lines by Me)
So those are just a few reasons why you should volunteer for Linework NW this year! This list is by no means exhaustive or comprehensive, but I think it’s a pretty good one all the same. Drop me an e-mail at [email protected] and please signal boost! I look forward to seeing everyone in May!
- Tweedie
Special Guest: Rodney Alan Greenblat
Linework NW is very pleased to announce that Rodney Alan Greenblat will be joining us as a Special Guest at LWNW 2016!
Photo by Yuko Sasaoka
Rodney Alan Greenblat’s whimsical artwork has been brightening the world for over 30 years. Starting out as a star in the NYC East Village Art scene of the 1980s, his painted constructions were included in the 1985 Whitney Biennial. He then became a pioneer of interactive computer art, working as character and world designer for the hit Sony Playstation games “Parappa the Rapper” and “Um Jammer Lammy.”
His extensive illustration and design work in Japan includes clients such as convenience store chain Family Mart, Toyota and Japan Railroad among others. Rodney now lives in Catskill, New York, and has just completed a new book of words and images called Dharma Delight, a visionary post-pop comic guide to Buddhism and Zen. His website is whimsyload.com
Special Guest: Ping Zhu
Linework NW is very pleased to announce that Ping Zhu will be joining us as a Special Guest at LWNW 2016!
Photo by Daniel Cochran.
Ping Zhu is a prolific illustrator who’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, and GOOD Magazine. Her illustrated version of Swan Lake was published by Nobrow.
Her artwork has been exhibited by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Somerset House, and she was a member of the Art Director’s Club Young Guns 11.
Ping Zhu lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Linework NW is tremendously excited to be bringing her to Portland for our festival!
Special Guest: Rilla Alexander
Linework NW is excited to announce that Rilla Alexander will be a Special Guest at this year’s festival!
Rilla Alexander is an illustrator, author, and graphic designer whose work has appeared on everything from toys and tea cups to busses and buildings.
Her books include The Best Book in the World and Her Idea, both starring her alter-ego Sozi and published by Flying Eye Books, and Neighbourhood which features the collaborative efforts of over 30 artists reworking and remaking hand-made toys.
She has spoken at design conferences and led workshops all over the world and her work has been showcased at Paris’ cultural mecca Colette and at the Museé de la Publicité/Louvre.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is working on her next book. Linework NW is honored to welcome her as a Special Guest at this year’s festival!
UK PEOPLES! WEST COAST FREAKERS! Power Button by Zack Soto #0 is out in stores tomorrow! check it out! Quoth Jog Mack at tcj.com: ". It’s the 32-page start of a new all-ages series, with space battles and creatures and such. Your Genuine Alternative Comic Book of the week, published by Study Group and distributed by Alternative Comics."
(via Preview: Power Button #0 | Study Group Comic Books)
Commissions open! $60/5"x5", other formats negotiable. Email me or message me here. Many thanks!
Here’s a preview of Paul Pope’s variant cover for Sun Bakery #1. This super-rare cover is limited to only 250 copies. In stores 4/20, but we’ll also have a few copies for sale at ECCC, Press Gang booth E1-E2!