Dylan Meconis ([info]quirkybird) wrote,
@ 2008-04-24 09:22:00
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Entry tags:art, comics, print, stumptown

We're Big In Japan. By Which I Mean Portland
Folks in Portland should grab a copy of the Portland Mercury today - it features a full page, full color comic about the Stumptown Comics Fest, fashioned by Bill Mudron and myself, with some excellent early hand-holding by Erika Moen!




I'll post a higher res version this afternoon, but for now, the Mercury's online version is pretty legible. I did script and layout/early pencils, and Bill did all the final art. There are more in-jokes and cameos in this thing than there are licks in a Tootsie roll pop. I enjoy abusing authorial privilege.

And with this feature, I've made it into five of Portland's papers in some form or another! This town is going to be totally sick of me by the time I hit my fifth anniversary.


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[info]chris_walsh
2008-04-24 05:07 pm UTC (link)
This makes me grin, grinningly. Good to see your guys' work.

Hope to say "hi" in person. Stumptown's gonna be fun.

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[info]verabee
2008-04-24 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Awww, that's adorable. :D I like Erika's cleavage.

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[info]goraina
2008-04-24 05:20 pm UTC (link)
Whee hee hee! I hope we can find a copy of this tomorrow!

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[info]erikamoen
2008-04-24 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh, awesome!

Also, I think my boobs should have been, like, three times that big. This IS comics, afterall.

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[info]mudron
2008-04-24 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Count yourself lucky that EVERYONE isn't sporting a pair of G-cups in that strip.

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[info]snagvictim
2008-04-24 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Four local newspapers? Dag. Now if you can place something in the Portland Business Journal, The Scanner and Just Out and I think you'll, like, advance to level two, or light the extra ball, or something.

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[info]quirkybird
2008-04-24 07:00 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, a few of those appearances were gratis the studio! Between Stumptown and Periscope, I gots mad connections.

Does this mean I have business cards? No, it does not.

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[info]unrendered
2008-04-24 06:14 pm UTC (link)
nicely done. And congrats on all the press. :)

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[info]marionv
2008-04-24 06:37 pm UTC (link)
I weep happy tears reading this. I love how you fit the utilikilt in. :)

Awww- I'm filled with envy! Have a great Stumptown and I want you rockstars to tell me all about it! :D

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-04-24 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Can you now wave your magic wand and make everyone's weekly comic assortment not stink on ice ? Here's five dollars. I'll send you another five once the job is done.

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[info]quirkybird
2008-04-24 07:55 pm UTC (link)
If only, ma'am.

If only.

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[info]spookable
2008-04-24 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Awesome job!

I used to do a comic like this on my coast, and this makes me miss it terribly.

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"Used to"?
[info]merussell
2008-04-25 06:56 pm UTC (link)
You stopped doing "Framed," Lowrance? Good Lord, why?

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Re: "Used to"?
[info]spookable
2008-04-26 09:37 pm UTC (link)
It just sort of happened. Less "stopped" and more "realized I hadn't done one in months and my publisher didn't care."

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Re: "Used to"?
[info]spookable
2008-04-27 03:02 am UTC (link)
Hm, that makes it sound like I didn't care either, which isn't true. Will "Affording to eat got in the way" do as an excuse?

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[info]b_zedan
2008-04-25 01:10 am UTC (link)
Woo!

I pick up copies of the free weeklies for the "man bench" at the store, and I conspicuously placed the Mercury atop the WW, because of the comics thing.

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[info]b_zedan
2008-04-25 01:11 am UTC (link)
I also need you to know that I spelled "conspicuously" correct all on my own.

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[info]quirkybird
2008-04-25 05:24 am UTC (link)
See, that's why you can sleep over any time you like, Brenna.

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[info]hereville
2008-04-25 01:49 am UTC (link)
Oooh, so much to love here! And I don't say that only because I'm in it...

Speaking of which, I recognize Family Man, Dicebox and Hereville (yay for distinctive color schemes!), but what comic am I reading there?

My favorite thing is probably the caricature of Kip in the bottom panel, which is... JUST... PERFECT!!! That is not only exactly Kip, it's exactly Kip in his "cheerful public expansive" mode.

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[info]quirkybird
2008-04-25 05:24 am UTC (link)
Boy, heck if I know - ask Bill!

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[info]alephnul
2008-04-25 09:38 am UTC (link)
Is there a very funny in-joke behind the fact that "full page, full color comic" in this post links to a NYTimes article about how Clinton is a PC and Obama is a Mac? Or have I simply gone insane, and those words actually link to here?

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[info]bahboh
2008-04-25 10:11 am UTC (link)
No disrespect to Craig, but THAT should have been the Stumptown poster! GOLD.

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