If you still don’t know by now, this coming weekend is the 5th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest here in Portland. I have attended all but the first year, as I was not living here at the time, and have had a table since the third year. This will be my second Stumptown under the banner of the RCC. I have spent most of the last few weeks screenprinting, photocopying, stapling, folding, and cutting my way through a pile of comics and other goodies. This photo only includes things I’ve worked on for myself, I’ve done even more if you also include my work for the RCC.

That is, of course, Baby Otto: Volume One on the right, but on the left we have my 24 Hour Comic from last year, Mustaches. Yes, those moustaches are felt, and yes I cut and glued them all by hand. But wait, you get your choice of flavors! As you can see, they are available in sexy blonde, classic brown, macho black, stately gray, and the elusive orange. It’s a little something for everybody! I also just finished printing a few hundred free, screenprinted takeaway cards for radrobot.org, as well as some for bigtimeillustration.com (not pictured).

Oh, yeah, and I came up with this kick ass t-shirt design to wear at the show. For the time being, this design will be a one-off, but if the interest is there, I might want to have a run of these printed, however, I’m not too clear on the legalities of parody t-shirts. If you don’t get the reference, maybe you need to take a long, hard look at your life and feel shame, for you have not rocked hard enough.

If you’re going to be tabling or just attending Stumptown, and we haven’t met before in person, I’d sure like it if you said hello sometime this weekend. I’ll be there both days, behind the Robopocalypse Comics Collective’s tables (12-13), and I plan on attending most of the pre, award, and after parties. I LOOK LIKE THIS, but probably not so intense, and I’ll be wearing the t-shirt above at least one of the two days, so say hey.

For those of you wondering when you will see The Life and Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume Two, I assure you that it is fully written and the drawings are in the works, but a lot has seemingly been standing in the way of getting any real work done on it. At the moment, I’m realistically anticipating a mid-summer release for Volume Two.

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