June 11, 2013 • 2 notes

DEADLINE FOR BEST FRIEND RACE SUBMISSIONS THIS SATURDAY!!

If you’re working on one and need a little more time to finish, talk to me. Chances are I can accomodate you.

It’s gonna be a small zine regardless, but please help by spreading the word! Here’s the submission guidelines one more time:

I want to see the queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race being best friends; doing each other’s nails, eating ice cream while watching soaps, going on vacation together, being each other’s wingwoman, all the sort of things that best friends do!

Submit illustrations, comics, limericks, whatever your little heart inspires you to do. Try to keep it PG-13 – kiki yes, kaikai no. Don’t feel obligated to try too hard on that front though.

Tech specs:

  • Black & white (greyscale, halftones, etc are ok)
  • 8.5”x7” (half legal), with 0.125” bleed, at 300 dpi
  • Between 1-3 pages
  • Deadline: June 15th, to have it ready in time for SPX

Send your submissions to bestfriendrace@gmail.com.

June 10, 2013 • 739 notes • spikedrewthis
spikedrewthis: It’s here. The Sleep of Reason is a 360-page black-and-white anthology of horror comics for mature readers. Inspired by likes of Taboo, Uzumaki and Black Hole, this collection is devoid of the familiar by design. There are no garden-variety monsters in The Sleep of Reason; no well-worn terrors from film and television. This is an anthology of comics that strive to inspire unparalleled dread. No monsters with a rule book. No easy answers. Interested? Pre-order The Sleep of Reason now, and you help support its creators, supplement their page rates, and finance the book’s print run. It won’t happen without your help! Grab a book with free US shipping, and perhaps one of the project’s incredibly unique backer rewards— like having a new species of beetle named after you!— here. And guess what? Help us hit $80,000, and we’ll include a BRAND NEW FULL-COLOR STORY by DAVE COOPER! We have 30 days, folks!  THIS BOOK IS AMAZING, FOLKS. Like Bluebeard’s wife, I secretly took a little peek. Now I am perpetually screaming in a combination of horror and madness. A++ would read the whole thing. ALSO, NOT ONLY DO STEVAN AND I HAVE A 16-PAGE STORY IN THIS BOOK, BUT: If you pledge $300 you’ll get the book, the ebook, and a one-of-a-kind never-to-be-reproduced mixed media (mostly needle felted, possibly including some real bones) monster made by me. And if you pledge $350, you’ll get an even more completely unique and larger mixed media monster modeled after the one in our story. It’ll be covered in soft, shiny, terrifying tussah silk fur. I’ll be posting process pictures of those as I work on them. Keep an eye on this here friendly neighborhood Stabwool tumblr.

spikedrewthis:

It’s here.

The Sleep of Reason is a 360-page black-and-white anthology of horror comics for mature readers. Inspired by likes of Taboo, Uzumaki and Black Hole, this collection is devoid of the familiar by design. There are no garden-variety monsters in The Sleep of Reason; no well-worn terrors from film and television. This is an anthology of comics that strive to inspire unparalleled dread.

No monsters with a rule book. No easy answers.

Interested?

Pre-order The Sleep of Reason now, and you help support its creators, supplement their page rates, and finance the book’s print run. It won’t happen without your help! Grab a book with free US shipping, and perhaps one of the project’s incredibly unique backer rewards— like having a new species of beetle named after you!— here.

And guess what? Help us hit $80,000, and we’ll include a BRAND NEW FULL-COLOR STORY by DAVE COOPER!

We have 30 days, folks! 

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING, FOLKS. Like Bluebeard’s wife, I secretly took a little peek. Now I am perpetually screaming in a combination of horror and madness. A++ would read the whole thing.

ALSO, NOT ONLY DO STEVAN AND I HAVE A 16-PAGE STORY IN THIS BOOK, BUT:

If you pledge $300 you’ll get the book, the ebook, and a one-of-a-kind never-to-be-reproduced mixed media (mostly needle felted, possibly including some real bones) monster made by me. And if you pledge $350, you’ll get an even more completely unique and larger mixed media monster modeled after the one in our story. It’ll be covered in soft, shiny, terrifying tussah silk fur.

I’ll be posting process pictures of those as I work on them. Keep an eye on this here friendly neighborhood Stabwool tumblr.

June 3, 2013

RUPAUL’S BEST FRIEND RACE FANZINE - Two weeks left!!

Only two weeks left to submit your artwork, folks! Deadline is June 15th!

Here’s the post with the technical specifications: http://stabwool.tumblr.com/post/50512397143/rupauls-best-friend-race-fanzine-one-month


If you need more time or have questions email me at besfriendrace@gmail.com.

May 31, 2013 • 26 notes
LOOK AT MY PIONEERS PRESS PACKAGE. LOOK AT ALL THE ZINES I HAVE. THIRTY ZINES. I AM THIRTY ZINES RICHER TODAY.

LOOK AT MY PIONEERS PRESS PACKAGE.

LOOK AT ALL THE ZINES I HAVE.

THIRTY ZINES. I AM THIRTY ZINES RICHER TODAY.

May 30, 2013 • 24 notes
Preview of a short comic Stevan and I have been working on for The Sleep of Reason. It’s gonna be a sweet anthology and I can hardly believe I’m in it.

Preview of a short comic Stevan and I have been working on for The Sleep of Reason. It’s gonna be a sweet anthology and I can hardly believe I’m in it.

May 15, 2013 • 19 notes
-=RUPAUL’S BEST FRIEND RACE FANZINE=- ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ART!! Here’s the submission guidelines again: I want to see the queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race being best friends; doing each other’s nails, eating ice cream while watching soaps, going on vacation together, being each other’s wingwoman, all the sort of things that best friends do! Submit illustrations, comics, limericks, whatever your little heart inspires you to do. Try to keep it PG-13 – kiki yes, kaikai no. Don’t feel obligated to try too hard on that front though. This will be a B&W zine, with the first print run funded by my own well-meaning pocket. Because of this, I can’t offer to pay you for your submission, but I can offer you free copies of the final product as well as a print-ready PDF for you to do all the hard work of folding and stapling! YAY! Tech specs: Black & white (greyscale, halftones, etc are ok) 8.5”x7” (half legal), with 0.125” bleed, at 300 dpi Between 1-3 pages Deadline: June 15th, to have it ready in time for SPX Send your submissions to bestfriendrace@gmail.com.

-=RUPAUL’S BEST FRIEND RACE FANZINE=-

ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ART!!

Here’s the submission guidelines again:

I want to see the queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race being best friends; doing each other’s nails, eating ice cream while watching soaps, going on vacation together, being each other’s wingwoman, all the sort of things that best friends do!

Submit illustrations, comics, limericks, whatever your little heart inspires you to do. Try to keep it PG-13 – kiki yes, kaikai no. Don’t feel obligated to try too hard on that front though.

This will be a B&W zine, with the first print run funded by my own well-meaning pocket. Because of this, I can’t offer to pay you for your submission, but I can offer you free copies of the final product as well as a print-ready PDF for you to do all the hard work of folding and stapling! YAY!

Tech specs:

  • Black & white (greyscale, halftones, etc are ok)
  • 8.5”x7” (half legal), with 0.125” bleed, at 300 dpi
  • Between 1-3 pages
  • Deadline: June 15th, to have it ready in time for SPX

Send your submissions to bestfriendrace@gmail.com.

May 9, 2013 • 24 notes • creturfetur
creturfetur: NEEDLE FELTING ONTO A WIRE ARMATURE Class this Sunday, May 12 at Hill Country Weavers in Austin, TX! 11 AM - 2 PM, only $25 plus materials(if you have never needle felted before and don’t have any wool or needles, bring $10 extra and you’ll be more than covered) I need a minimum of 3 students, so please register by calling them at the number on this page. Thanks and hope to see you soon! that’s meeee come learn fun things! they usually give us free coffee!

creturfetur:

NEEDLE FELTING ONTO A WIRE ARMATURE

Class this Sunday, May 12 at Hill Country Weavers in Austin, TX!

11 AM - 2 PM, only $25 plus materials
(if you have never needle felted before and don’t have any wool or needles, bring $10 extra and you’ll be more than covered)

I need a minimum of 3 students, so please register by calling them at the number on this page. Thanks and hope to see you soon!

that’s meeee come learn fun things! they usually give us free coffee!

April 29, 2013 • 47 notes

RuPaul’s Best Friend Race ZINE SUBMISSION CALL!

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Since their inception and boom in the early 90’s, competition-based reality shows have been host to the frequently uttered phrase, “I’M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS.” More often than not, participants with a cutthroat attitude and strong strategies get pretty far (just like in the real world, one could argue, if one’s a dick). Reality shows are mostly pretty horrible in many, many ways.

RuPaul’s Drag Race, however, is fucking amazing. While you do have your PhiPhis and your Roxxxys and your Heatherses, the great majority of the relationships between contestants are close, sincere, tender and constructive. As a season progresses, the public watches drag families quickly form.

Moreover, drag queens are fabulous and fun as hell to draw. So I’m putting together a fanzine celebrating drag friendships!


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I want to see the queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race being best friends; doing each other’s nails, eating ice cream while watching soaps, going on vacation together, being each other’s wingwoman, all the sort of things that best friends do! 

Submit illustrations, comics, limericks, whatever your little heart inspires you to do! Try to keep it PG-13 – kiki yes, kaikai no. Don’t try too hard though, it don’t bother me none.

This will be a B&W zine, with the first print run funded by my own well-meaning pocket. Because of this, I can’t pay you up front for your submission, but I can offer you free copies of the final product as well as a print-ready PDF for you to do all the hard work of folding and stapling and selling at cons! YAY!

Tech specs:

  • Black & white (greyscale, halftones, etc are ok)
  • 8.5”x7” (half legal), with 0.125” bleed, at 300 dpi
  • Between 1-3 pages
  • Deadline: June 15th, to have it ready in time for SPX!

If you’d like to participate, email me at bestfriendrace@gmail.com. Now sashay, away.

April 25, 2013 • 3 notes

heysawbones answered your question: Zine ideas

how do you get glam portraits of spiders?

I will draw them

draw them good

lots of bloom & soft focus

April 25, 2013 • 8 notes

Zine ideas

An informational booklet about spotted hyenas (already well underway)

A collection of cartoon portraits of RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants (vaguely started)

A collection of photos of stray dogs from south side San Antonio

A mini of glam portraits of spiders

any of these interesting? all? some? which?