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The RCC usually does a somewhat auto-bio jam comic during every show we attend. I felt weird about participating in our Portland Zine Symposium jam because, well it’s a lot about me and my new sketchbook zine, Whoa, Dang!. I realize I haven’t fully explained Whoa, Dang! to you quite yet, but I will by early next week, I just got a new computer so I’ve been busy switching files over and whatnot. Anyways, check out the sweet drawing of me in panel 4 and Baby Otto fan art in panel 5. I love it.

ARTISTS:
Matt Grigsby
Matthew Seely
Brybox
Kevin M. Arnold
Terry Blas

Also, the Sea Bastard is back! Leave it to Tender Loving Empire to actually take a decent photo of the Bastard. The “Pin-Ups” show will be over soon, but they are putting some of the unsold pins up in their Etsy store. If you like the Bastard, maybe you should buy the Bastard… The Sea Bastard for sale in TLE’s Etsy Shop

I spent hours and hours at the Portland Central Library on Tuesday, poring over 108-year-old newspapers on microfilm, researching for The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume 3. I will be finalizing the writing of it this week; there was such a good response to Otto at the recent Portland Zine Symposium that it is hard not to be inspired to work on the third volume quickly. Anyways, while scrolling and scrolling through countless pages, I came upon this impressive caricature of William Jennings Bryan, 1900 Democratic Presidential nominee, who also appears in the pages of Baby Otto 2. I was instantly struck by the style of this illustrators work, it is really quite different from the other illustrators published in the pages of the Oregonian newspaper at the time.

And as I searched more and more days, I found more and more comics and illustration from this mysterious C.E. Toles.

Miss Nora Marks (in the grandstand) — Ball players are such rowdies!
Otto Teller — Why do you think so?
Miss Nora Marks — The gentleman behind us just said that they had hit the pitcher nine times.

This is probably my favorite illustration of his that I’ve found so far. I cannot wait to go back the library to research Baby Otto 4 to perhaps also discover more work by Toles. I found a bunch of other neat stuff while researching, which I’ll probably post in the coming days; comics and cool old ads and an article about the rise in bearded women!

A few people at the Zine Symposium asked me when I was going to announce the winner of the Baby Otto Theme Contest I’ve gone through all the entries (nearly 100) and have pretty much decided on a winner. A few of the leading entries were date-sensitive, so I had to see what dates fell during what volumes and figure out where the other themes I’ve already decided on would fit before I could pick a winner. I will announce it in a special post next week, OK?

Hey, wait, that’s not me! See more of my photos from PZS 2008 on Flickr

This last weekend was the eighth annual Portland Zine Symposium and it was as fun as it always is; two days of self-publishing love. The RCC had a table, of course, but I also got my own half table this year, which is what you see in the picture above, with table-neighbor, John, filling in as BT for the photo. I also took part in two extra events at this year’s PZS: On Saturday afternoon, a few of the RCCers and I held a panel discussion about being involved in a self-publishing collective. I was astonished at the high quality of questions we received throughout the talk, it really made the hour fly right by. And then on Sunday, I personally ran a workshop on jam comics. It took a while for people to filter into the workshop room, but we ended up with seven, four-panel comics when all was said and done.

Of course I got quite the haul of traded and purchased zines and comics over the course of the two days, but I haven’t really had the time to go through them all yet. I want to personally thank everyone involved in keeping the PZS going year after year, and making the PZS one of the most enjoyable shows to table at.

In other RCC news, we’ve updated our website a bit. Matthew Seely worked up this kick-ass new header graphic for us (which is being slightly redesigned for t-shirts and other merch), and we’ve also added a blog. We’ll use it to post group news, new comics we’ve released, sketches of what we’re currently working on, etc. With a nine member group, there should be fairly frequent updates, so please check out the site and then keep coming back to see more from the RCC!

Alright, now I think I’m prepared to have a table, I just finished this sweet-ass fabric banner mere minutes ago. Look for it this weekend if you’re coming to the Portland Zine Symposium! Also featured in this photo, my moon landing paper, a giant cardboard/duct tape axe, and two of my four Jeremy Tinder paintings.

Here’s a sneak peek of some shirts I’m making up for the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend, and beyond. More on these, in a different color and a variant, tomorrow, but I’m waiting for the ink to dry so I can pull another run so I thought I’d show off.

If you don’t get it, here’s a hint…

If you still don’t get it, you’re probably not a self-publisher, and you’re not my intended market, so don’t worry about it.

Oh, wow, who’s excited for the Portland Zine Symposium this coming weekend?! I know I am! The RCC will have a table again, but as a change of pace, I will be having my own half table right next to them. I got the extra half table because I will be heading up two panel/workshops during the event: a panel discussion about starting and being in a self-publishing collective on Saturday afternoon, and a collaborative jam comics workshop on Sunday afternoon. If you’re going to come to the Zine Symposium, please come to my talks if you can, and introduce yourself if I don’t know who you are.

Here’s what I have left on my project table to prepare for before this weekend. I printed second runs of Mustaches: For Fun and Profit (no more felt moustaches, sorry) and Business Casual so I’ve still got a lot of folding to do, also need to press a few new buttons. Notice my super sweet fabric banner I’m making for my personal table! I’ll probably have to drop the exclamation point for now as it makes it longer than three feet (my allotted table length) otherwise. Not pictured: Whoa, Dang! and a t-shirt design geared towards self-publishers, both of which I will make posts about later this week.

I’m pumped, I absolutely adore everything about the Zine Symposium: from the other tablers, to the attendees, and of course the wonderful folks who put the whole thing together.

Just something fun for a thing.

That’s a good question, you, and the answer is A LOT; here’s just a taste. These guys above are a one color print (white ink on black paper) for a secret thing that will get far less secret in the coming week.

OK, here’s another peek, the covers for my secret thing, it’s called Whoa, Dang! but that’s all I can say right now.

So I ended up selling out my entire (92) first run of Mustaches: For Fun And Profit in just over three months, so I sort of figured I should print up a second run. Unlike the first, which actually had a hand-cut felt moustache glued on the front of each cover, these will just be two-color screenprint, and will be back up for sale soon.

I’ve also printed a second run of Business Casual, a four-color cover for an upcoming RCC anthology, and I’m about to print on some baseball cards for Whoa, Dang! too. That’s right, baseball cards.

Hey everyone, now that Baby Otto 2 is finished, I can start posting a few things that got backlogged over the last few weeks. This awesome dude is the Sea Bastard, my piece for “Pin-Ups” a customized bowling pin show, which if you happen to be in Portland, is showing right now at Tender Loving Empire. The show includes about 16-20 bowling pins as well as some other mixed media art pieces. The opening was on Thursday but it’ll be up the rest of the month.

The head to toe.

That’s it for The Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume 2, folks! Today’s the last day of the Baby Otto Combo Deal, so if you’ve been putting it off, now is your last chance.

Baby Otto Volume 2: ($4+shipping)

Volume 1 and 2: US Buyers ($7 - until August 8th):

Volume 1 and 2: Non-US Buyers ($9 - until August 8th):