Hey it was a fun time talking to everyone who came by the table at the Philly Alt Comic Con yesterday and unloading some books on ya. Here are some blurry, small photos to give you a sense of the room. Intimate, hot, but fun. And apparently a big improvement over last year’s inaugural event where everyone just got drunk in an alleyway or something. No, this was a good show and we’ll definitely be doing it again next year.
Hey, I’ll be at the Philly Alternative Comic Con this Sunday the 8th with a stack of Meathaus books to sell you at a discount. I’ll only have about three copies of S.O.S. unfortunately, (I’ve got to order more) but I will have GO FOR THE GOLD! 2s and 3s and a bunch of mini zines for free (with purchase of something else) and boxes of older Meathaus issues to unload on you. Expect combo deals. Check the link above to see all the other swell exhibitors. The poster above is by P.A.C.C. organizer, Pat Aulisio.
The winner of the 2nd POKETO wallet was chosen yesterday from people who responded to the call for entires on Twitter and Lidia won that. Today, Tristan was chosen by the random computer from the 66 of you that responded to the call for entires from our registered meathaus.com users and he gets the 3rd wallet. We have two more wallets to give away so what I’m doing is adding up all the entries from the comments, twitter and email replies and selecting two more winners from that pile. So you all get another two shots at one of these bad boys. I’ll follow up in the comments on this post in 20 or so minutes and of course I’ll email the winners to notify them.
EDIT: The deed is done. See comment if you care to.
Remember all the way back to yesterday when we posted about these wallets from Poketo? Well here is an interesting wrinkle: we are giving away one of each of the five designs in the new “Perverse Universe” series to five lucky people over the next week that will be selected in five different ways. Poketo describes their new series thusly:
“We are so very thrilled to present to you guys the Perverse Universe Wallet Series. We have harnessed the wild and crazy energies of Matt Furie, Jon Vermilyea, and Louie Cordero into wallet form, as well as comic books, prints and posters!”
To see what they are talking about, check this link. The five wallet designs are above.
Let’s begin. To win the first giveaway wallet selected from above, comment on this very post by late tonight, July 20th. That’s to be safely entered in the running. If you happen to catch this in the early hours of July 21, you can still comment and enter. The selection happens when I roll out of bed at some ungodly hour in the morning and devise a computerized system for random selection of the winner. Then I will contact you to get your name and address. So be sure to comment with your email, not anonymously. Duh.
The remaining four wallets will be given out over the next week in different ways. Stay tuned. Secret clues: Twitter. Registered Meathaus Blog Users.
Meathaus is at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual art fest tomorrow, Saturday the 10th and Sunday the 11th in NYC. All the details are here.
Manning the table will be Farel Dalrymple, Chris McD, Celia Bullwinkel, Jay Sacher, and Amid Amidi with more Meathaus associates surely to be milling around the table in unpredictable clusters and/or exhibiting elsewhere at their own tables or publisher’s tables. Inés Estrada, Michaela Zacchilli, Dash Shaw and Becky Cloonan are all listed to be somewhere in the room doing something awesome, for example. Our table is A11, along one of the walls, between NYU and Buenaventura Press. C U there.
You may have noticed that it was a weird posting week on meathaus.com, I was eating mofongo in Puerto Rico and totally didn’t have time to post extensively but I didn’t want to let you know that I was there so you could all come and rob my house. I have an alarm in any case. Thanks to Jay for picking up the slack with his prime selections. I hope he sticks around and posts more frequently despite already having posting duty on both his own Golden Circle Story Time comics blog as well as the Chronicle Books blog. I know that the rest of the Meathaus guys would post more too if they could ever remember their passwords—their hearts are in the right place. Lastly, I keep hammers in various places around the house for both nailing down floor boards as well as for potential self-defense against all of you blog reading home invaders. OK, back to it.
Sweet little post over on the art blog powerhouse that is the BOOOOOOOM about our new sketchbook anthology GO FOR THE GOLD! 3. Because of how Jeff designed his BOOOOOOOM logo with the square formation, I was able to visually pick up quickly the correct amount of “O”s to add in every BOOOOOOOM I type. Two “O”s then three “O”s then two more. With FFFFound! on the other hand I’ve always found myself just mashing in a bunch of “F”s into the browser then punching the search button, even though now looking at it it should be easy to remember there are four “F”s. I believe that it was Jeff’s ridiculous amount of “O”s that forced me to really examine and count them in the first place.
Nick Gazin writes this column for Vice where he reviews comics and then burns the ones that he hates the most at the end, with video for proof. He liked GO FOR THE GOLD! 3 so much that he made it #1, so it didn’t get burnt, and he posted a bunch of new preview images from the book over here as part of his review. And with 100% journalistic integrity (does that apply to blogs?), Nick gave full disclosure that he of course is also in GFTG!3. Like I said, “that’s synergy, dudes.”
If you are on the fence about buying the new Meathaus sketchbook anthology GO FOR THE GOLD! 3 for monetary reasons, maybe free shipping on one copy from lulu.com will push you off. According to their promotion:
Enter coupon code MAILSHIP1 at checkout and receive a discount equivalent to free shipping (up to $3.99 USD) on any single paperback book.
That is today only, Monday, December 7th. Also the book will ship from Lulu, not Meathaus, so you wont get the weird photocopied doodle zine or a sketch in the book, etc. But $3.99 off is yours to be had over there, today only.
Go For The Gold! 3 and Go For The Gold! 2 and the mini bonus doodle weirdo zine are here and ready to ship worldwide! The store has them both and there is a preview of GFTG3 here. I’ll keep shipping these mini zines with every order because I can, and who cares? Right!
Now that all the fine contributing artists’ copies are shipping out to them, the pre-order phase is over. You order these books now, and I’ll be getting them into a Priority Mail package to you the next day.
Here’s a secret that’s no longer a secret: You can order these books directly from the print-on-demand printer too, if you prefer. That is over here. Books ordered from Meathaus here get the bonus zine and priority mail, and are already printed and ready to ship. So what is the advantage of ordering direct from the printer? I don’t know, maybe they have favorable international shipping or something.
