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There we are! I have returned unscathed from tabling for the RCC at this weekend’s Portland Zine Symposium. Yes, that’s the best picture of us so far. We got a chance to educate a lot of new folks on the ways of the Robopocalypse, and sell a bunch of comics in the process. Here’s a list of my personal highlights of the last two days:

• Realizing that after only a few weeks, I have sold more copies of The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume 1 than any other book I’ve ever put out, combined
• About a dozen people telling me that they recognized my name and work from my illustrations in The Portland Mercury
• Two days full of cute zinesters as far as the eye could see
• Being (happily) forced to buy Brian Oaster’s At Home on the Earth. I have been meaning to buy this book for way too long. I kept picking it up and reading little bits of it whenever I’d see it at a shop, but for some reason never actually bought it. Throughout the two-day symposium, they held raffle drawings for various prizes. I won early on Sunday, but I knew I still had two more tickets in that bowl. Towards the end of Sunday, this book came up for raffle, so I started blabbing to my tablemates about how I really want to win it, I’ve been meaning to buy it for so long, etc. A guy checking out some of our comics turns to me and says, “That’s my book.” Wouldn’t you know it, Brian Oaster is standing right in front of us as I’m talking about his book! So I made him a deal that if I didn’t win the raffle (I didn’t) that I would buy one from him immediately. He was even nice enough to go back to his table and deliver my copy right into my hands! It’s a neat book and is only one of many great things I picked up this weekend. Here are some more:
• Hey, 4-Eyes #2: Jam-packed with optometric goodness!
• Eric Haven’s Tales To Demolish. I picked up all three issues. So much hatching! There’s a much better review of all three here, by Sarah Morean.
• The absolutely stunning (and WAY too cheap), Me No Like by Josh Journey-Heinz. It means so much to me to pick up a self-published book where it’s obvious that the creator has spent a lot of his/her time and energy in not only filling the interior pages with great work, but also realizes that a book is the ENTIRE package, inside and out.
• My favorite find of the two days has got to be Jacob T. Stoltz’s Should You Encounter A Cougar. 18 pages of solid cougar-encountering info. It’s cheap, buy one.

There is also an RCC jam-comic rundown of the two day event over at our LiveJournal community.

I couldn’t help myself, I had one more day before the Portland Zine Symposium, and nothing better to do, so I did a bunch more printing. I made these giveaway postcards to advertise this site. The cover of “Business Casual” (posting again early next week) will be on chipboard, so I had a lot of scrap pieces lying around the house.

I also printed yesterday’s paper bag image onto some paper that we can use for price signs or what-have-you.

A while ago, my roommate saw someone at his work wearing an “I Am Hip Hop” t-shirt, so on his request, I made him this.

I’ve been a bit lacking on the comics and art lately as I’ve been pulling the final little bits together for The RCC to table at this weekend’s Portland Zine Symposium. I printed up these paper bags for people to haul all of their purchases around in (artwork courtesy of RCC member Andrew Keller), and I made myself a one-off t-shirt. I love screenprinting!

This last Saturday, I joined many other artists for Oregon Literacy’s
Chalk It Up For Literacy event. We all got together out on the bricks of Pioneer Square (aka Portland’s Livingroom), were given chalk and a 3′ by 2′ piece of matte board, and had six hours to create a piece of literacy-themed artwork. All pieces were donated to Oregon Literacy and sales of the originals and prints will go to them. So, given free reign over subject matter, I decided to do some robots, to help make up for the lack of them in my life lately; I’ll be honest, I felt a bit rusty in both chalk and robots. Here’s what I came up with…

I was sunburned and sore after six hours, but it was for a good cause. And I got a free massage afterward that was totally unlike -and so much better- than any massage I’ve ever received. My massager was a specialist in Tui na. (from Wikipedia: Tui na’s massage-like techniques range from light stroking to deep-tissue work which would be considered too vigorous or too painful for a recreational or relaxing massage.) This dude broke me in like a horse for about 10 minutes, and I swear he even re-aligned each of my ribs separately, if that’s even possible. I didn’t know I had so many joints that could pop.

My “Right Leg Roll” painting from January’s Spoke Up! show just got featured on Mixed Plate, a blog profiling some great finds in art, handmade goods, accessories, etc. As the blog says, “A little bit of everything.” Go take a look, please.

Lastly, just in case you missed it last week.

This ran alongside an article about Portland’s recent street renamings.

No time to read? Buy it now!

I hereby release unto the world, The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume 1! Volume 1 comprises the first 25 days of Otto Zeplin’s life, and 1/10th of the eventual series. Each book is lovingly folded inside a two-color screen-printed cover of classic black and stunning gold. So stunning, in fact, that it does not scan very well at all. IT DEFIES TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE!

It, along with many other fine comics, are now for sale in the RCC Store. $3 (plus shipping) for U.S. buyers or $5.50 for those outside of the U.S. (or kind souls within the U.S. who wish to give me more money). For those of you in Portland, they are also available (sans-shipping) at Reading Frenzy, Powell’s, and Floating World Comics, or from me directly.

I’m really happy at the response Baby Otto has received so far, it is a story that means a lot more to me than I have ever written about here and I cannot wait to be able to continue it. Thank you.