Just So You Know...

From the Sick and Wrong Podcast- via You Tube- via MadTV, you KNOW someone's working on perfecting this invention even as I type this and when they do they are going to be RICH! Enjoy:



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Is It Just Me Or

Does anyone else get the same thoughts every time they see one of these billboards:



Maybe it's the additional banner along the bottom saying that they are sponsored by a local church called "Mount Hope", but for me, every time I ever saw these billboards the same two words always sping to mind:

"Anal Rape"

Probably just me... Also probably a good thing we're not treated to the entire picture of the guy. He sure looks like he's in pain. Remember "NOTHING'S too hard for God!"

The most inappropriate logo of all-time

In the 70s, this picture stood for God's children. Now it just stands for boys giving priests a good ol beej. Yes, this is an actual logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission. It even won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles.



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Random Thought

Just had to make a note of this:

I was visiting the Motor City Comventions HQ today, setting up a few things (like "guest appearance" "publisher's booth" and such), and we got to talking about the fact that it was the twentieth year anniversary of the MOTOR CITY COMIC CON, and the fact that the t-shirt design this year should be special- just to celebrate (I've done their t-shirt work for 19 of those last 20 years- and you don't have to guess which shirt out of their 20 was the worst seller- =) ).

Anyway, it was pointed out to me the fact that the only character Marvel apparently created exactly 20 years ago was USAgent, and the first thing that popped into my head was "Marvel has sucked for that long?!? Wow."

Honestly- that's the first thing that I thought.

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JUST BECAUSE...

You can never have enough insignificance:


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STATUS: FLINT COMIX WEEK 3

It has now been three weeks since our initial distribution of the first issue of Flint Comix started. We have less than 1000 issues undistributed of the initial 10,000 print run and over 225 drop off points to date.

We are having a rough time keeping places stocked. I tell folks "Hey, who doesn't like FREE comics?", but seriously we underestimated the amount we have been dropping off to folks drastically. I have tried to drop off no less than 25 to any drop off point, and there are a number of points that I am now on my 3rd and 4th time stocking. Some places are well into their second hundred, while others still have 11-13 copies left of their original 25. It all depends on how visible we are displayed and the the obvious traffic flow in and out of the location. To date our best places are family restaraunts, especially those where we are the most visible (like placed on top of gumball machines). There are 2 such drop off points within walking distance of my house and both are past the 75 copy mark in distribution. I'll be dropping off 50 copies initially to each point for issue 2.

We also discovered that a lot of party stores and family restaraunts have open wire rack space designed for free publications. We're using these drop off points as often as possible. We are keeping track so hopefully with issue two we'll be able to distribute the issue within a matter of a few days as opposed to weeks. Now that we have points established, all we'll have to do is keep feeding them to keep them, while we continually search for more. What takes the longest is the initial contact and permission asking. I have only been turned down distribution from about a dozen places that we have asked, and most all of those places telling us no are from femaile managers/owners with little, if any sense of humor. I can tell if they'll say yes by how quickly their faces light up when they see the paper. Those that look like I just shoved a piece of poop under their nose are not very likely to allow us to leave it there (again, I'm typing the obvious...sorry).

The Flint Journal discovered us this last week and ran a pretty good article on us in their Thursday edition as well as their online site. Here is a link to the online article HERE: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2009/04/flint_comix_and_entertainment.html.
Any publicity is good publicity, and despite the "It's a bird, It's a plane..." opening, and the little graphic explosions with "Bam!" and "POW!" in them (That were cliche' from the era of Adam West's Batman), it was a nice article and a small bump in our email traffic.

We've found a few more local talents out here and plan on printing them in future issues. One cartoonist especially does a good 4 panel strip that we plan on incorporating into out standard strip pages. He's professional enough and skilled enough that we'll have to run a header strip telling folks that he's actually a local talent- that's how good he is.

Our main website foundation was installed and put online last week. Still not enough information on it for my taste. but much more is on the way for it. If you have the chance to check it out it's at http://www.flintcomix.com. there is an original modern day Spark story there as a reward for anyone surfing the site.

Response has been nothing but positive so far, and quite frankly that makes me really happy, if not a bit nervous.

I'm working on the second issue now, I have 2 comic pages, and a Flash Gordon page mostly done, while I'm scanning in The Fool #1 and am thinking of serializing it over 3 issues, just so no feature gets more than 3 pages at a time.

That's about it for now. PLEASE remember that these updates are only for you, the Spank blog reader, and I'll update you again as soon as I get more news and a chance to put it here.

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