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Sundays 2 will be back at SPX this weekend at table G1. Come visit!
The Sundays Table at Heroes Con, earlier this summer
It’s been an exciting time for many of our esteemed Sundays editors and contributors and while they would never toot their own horns, I’m more than happy to be the tootiest horn in the land on their behalf. So here’s a peak at what Sundays folks will have at the Sundays table and other places throughout the show this weekend:
A page from Snake Oil #2, Git it, Pretty Kitty!
First up, it’s a big weekend for editor Chuck Forsman, he was nominated for three Ignatz Awards for his hilarious, dark comic series Snake Oil – Chuck will be at the table signing copies of Snake Oil and negotiating a bailout for Bank of America. Come on by to check out Snake Oil issues 1 and 2 and his story in Sundays 2, if you haven’t already.
Wall City, You'll Get Caught Up In It!
Next, it’s also a big weekend for editor/screen-printer extraordinaire Alex Kim. Alex will have his freshly printed, Xeric-funded graphic novel Wall City available. He’ll also have a hilarious, beautiful new Eagle Fight Squad story – it’s a full-color comic that folds out to deluxe poster size. Also, check out the first Eagle Fight Squad stories in Sundays 2.
The endpapers of Best American Comics '08, by Joe Lambert
Editor and cover artist/designer of Sundays 2, Joe Lambert, is planning to have a top secret new mini along with his ever-growing collection of amazing minis (if you haven’t seen the cavemen one yet, you lose, dear reader); and if you’re on the ball, you can pick up a copy of Best American Comics 2008 beforehand (I don’t think Houghton Mifflin will be at SPX). If you’re nice, you can get Joe to sign his beautiful endpapers for the book or his mini Turtle Keep It Steady that was chosen for inclusion in the collection.
A stunning painting by Mr. Lok of his Sundays 2 characters, Sam and Dan
Editor Jeff Lok will have the first part of his graphic novel in progress, Pockmarked Apocalypse, a staggering sad and funny epic. Not to mention his Sam and Dan strip in Sundays 2.
Onion Head, by Bryan Stone
Sundays editor Bryan Stone will not be at the show, but his work will be there in the form of Bash! Magazine. Bryan has done an Onion Head story in each of the first three issues of the magazine, alongside the likes of Theo Ellsworth and Eamon Espey. And you can check out the very first Onion Head story in Sundays 2.
Pizza Wizard 2, by Sam Gas Can
Sundays 2 contributor Sam Gaskin will have a new issue of Pizza Wizard at the show, as well as his first collection Fatal Faux Pas – those books will be over at the Secret Acres table, H5. He’s also performing some live music at the crazy Atomic Books Anniversary party Friday night, October 3rd. I think they’re calling it SPXplosion. You can, of course, also read his amazing strip in Sundays 2.
Monsters 3! Ken Dahl!
Sundays 2 contributor Ken Dahl will have a new issue of his highly regarded Monsters series, the third issue, which features a truly bitching AND disturbing cover. He also has his new book Welcome to the Dahl House out this year from Microcosm, which if you haven’t tracked down yet, this weekend is the perfect opportunity. Ken will also be on a book tour of the East Coast the next week or so, including stops at the Atomic Books SPXplosion party and SPX itself. And if you missed his hilarious contribution to Sundays 2, omg, you can get it this weekend!
Panel from the new issue of Monsters & Girls
Sundays contributor Denis St. John will have a new issue of Monsters & Girls, continuing the funny-horror-mystery of Amelia.
The Last Invisible Boy, illustrated by JP Coovert
Sundays contributor JP Coovert will have a new book he’s illustrated called The Last Invisible Boy, not to mention a ton of new stuff at his One Percent Press table. One Percent Press will be right next door to the Sundays table, check out their awesome music and comics offerings here for now.
Screen print postah!
As for little old me, I’ll have my three issues of Only Skin and a brand new screen printed Only Skin poster that you can hang on your wall, just to let people know what you’re all about.
I know, I know, you’re asking – what if I could get one book that had awesome work from all these awesome cartoonists and more? Well, dear reader… YOU CAN! Sundays 2! This weekend, table G1 at SPX, right by the entrance. And of course, you STILL get a snappy screen-printed bag to carry home all your goodies in.
Wow. That’s a lot, thanks for reading! We hope to see you at the show. It should be a good one.
MoCCA was a blast! The first print run of the Sundays Anthology sold out, but Editorial is planning to go back to press immediately and make copies available on I Know Joe Kimpel by the end of the week. We just want as many people who want to to be able to see this book.
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported and visited us at MoCCA. It was an unbelievable weekend on several levels and I’m sure the other editors will chime in with their reports soon.
Keep checking out this blog for more Sundays news. We’ll let you know here when the book is available online and we’ll keep posting info about the talented contributors roster.
A special thanks to Heidi MacDonald, who mentioned Sundays several times on The Beat and helped spread the word. I got to meet Heidi for the first time this weekend and she’s great. Thanks to all who helped spread the word.
Favorite book from MoCCA so far: Jamie Tanner’s The Aviary, but I’ve barely scratched the surface of a huge stack of books.
Stay tuned, there’s more Sundays info to come. Thanks again.
The books are bound, the car has been started and the good ship Sundays is about to set sail for MoCCA. Wow, that sounded bad. But we’ll be there Saturday morning, bright and early. See you at MoCCA, folks… just look for this banner, hanging from Table A45 in the main ballroom on the first floor…
or look for this cover…
or look for these people, hopefully more well rested…
or look for Alex playing with Joe’s corpse…
or follow the trail of happy customers who look like this!
Thanks for reading and enjoy. There’ll be more updates on Sundays news here in the coming days and weeks… did someone say sequel? Animated series? Action figures? No. No one said any of those things. YET.
Also, if for some reason you can’t make it to MoCCA, Sundays will be available at I Know Joe Kimpel directly after MoCCA. So, if you don’t have IKJK bookmarked – do it now.
So, we’ve, uh, been asking a lot of Alex screen print-wise lately. To the tune of, like, well over 1000 screen prints on the front, back and inside covers of the Sundays Anthology. I also had him screen print some puppy drawings on socks. We thought he could handle it.
Unfortunately, it seems that late last night, Alex snapped and killed the talented young cartoonist Joe Lambert. On the bright side, anyone who owns Joe Lambert originals now stands to make a pretty penny. The below photos will probably have some sort of legal ramification for Alex. Sorry, Dee Oh Double Gee, implement cruise control.
On the bright side, the cover for the Sundays anthology is all done!
Alex, hard at work.
Lambert makes one too many wise remarks…
…but it was all worth it.
Read an interview with screen printer extraordinaire/cold-blooded killer Alex Kim here.
“Denis St. John! The one and only! You just don’t know it yet. That’s how Denis, and Denis’ comics carry themselves. The covers to Denis’ comics proclaim, “A Denis St. John Production.” I’ve developed a theory about why. Okay. Here goes. One reason to make comics is so you don’t have to make a movie. Movies are hard. First, find financial backing (virtually impossible for a neophyte filmmaker with nothing but a shooting script and a unique vision with unique life experiences to draw upon), get a crew together, spend weeks casting actors and actressess — most of whom you’re not going to like — and upwards of months in some horrible place, where EVERY surrounding thing has to be approved to be in the movie, or changed, or painted this shade of red instead of that one, and at the end of it all, you have to actually make the fucker inside some sweaty editing room. Why? Why not make a comic? Because comics are harder, that’s why. And Denis St. John would like to be making animated movies in a 1960’s studio, or a John K studio. He can’t anymore. So he’s making comics. Denis might draw more than anyone I know. He’s intent on making comics that are personal visions. It’s like pop culture used him, and now he’s using it. Check it out.” – Jeff Lok
Buy Denis’ comics here!
“Ken Dahl’s comics should be in the hands of children. They’re infantile? Hardly. Sure, they have genitalia, farts, and a feature called, “Say Something Funny” wherein people inevitably can’t, at which point their heads explode. But it’s what you do with that. Ken Dahl’s comics should be in the hands of children because he knows the names of the things that this country did wrong. His insight into society is based on what our culture has done wrong to him, personally, and his family members, and that’s where he gets his fury. It’s a funny fury, fortunately. We do Jam comics a lot. Often at Denny’s. Gabby’s the go-to. If there’s never been a Jam comic that did not turn filthy, then there’s never been a panel of a Jam comic filther than his. They have a quality that makes people recall them, recoiling and laughing, to others when he’s not around. He does autobio, but he doesn’t write about his mornings, or how cute his significant other is when she’s at the sink, doing the same things everyone does. He writes about going to jail. About how he got herpes and lost the love of his life because of it. Buy his comics at www.iknowjoekimpel.com. He’s already the #1 seller there. Catch him before he rises into the dawn.” – Jeff Lok
Below are some panels from Dahl’s Sundays strip.
Read his killer 5 part interview with Steve Bissette here.
Watch his favorite sport here.
“The staff at Sundays HQ has entered heavy duty production mode. All the art is in and we are clocking in at 54 pages. Our editorial staff has been up all night, some of us multiple nights screenprinting, drawing covers, lettering, laying out the pages, as well as working on our individual books for the MoCCA art festival. We have passed the critical phase of feeling more in control than out. Steve Bissette delivered his page to us about 12 hours ago and it is beautiful! Thanks Steve! JP Coovert from One Percent Press dropped in and lent a hand. We bought JP a box of Swiss Cake Rolls to show our gratification for his help. Best $1.29 we ever spent, I say. We took a few photos so you folks at home can play along.Thanks for reading!” – Chuck Forsman
Alex Kim, hard at work, running screen print 174 out of 800.
Steve Bissette’s Tyrant page. YOWZA.
Chuck documenting the inside covers of Sundays. JP Coovert looks on, taking a break from drawing Sundays contributor portraits.
Sean, doing something, we think.
The bags. Buy a Sundays Anthology, get a snappy screenprinted bag with an Alex Kim original to carry all your loot from MoCCA around in.
We’ll have more on this later, but it’s on the net, so we might as well spread the word. As mentioned earlier, Steve Bissette has contributed a page to the Sundays Anthology. Let’s let him spill the news:
“I’ve just returned home from CCS, where I delivered my self-standing one-page story for the Sundays anthology (which Sam Gaskin referred to this week in his interview; you’ll be reading more about in this weekend’s interview with CCS senior Alex Joon Kim). Alex, Joe Lambert and Chuck Forsman were there to receive it, and all seemed very pleased with it —
— my first new Tyrant page for publication in over ten years!
That’s all I’ll say for now.”
Tyrant is a registered trademark of Stephen R. Bissette.
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