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So I wanted to think up of a good way to thank those retailers who were particularly supportive of Fingerprints. Those shops that are just top of the line. I wanted to do something that could also help these great shops move some books.

So perhaps misguidedly, I decided a screen printed poster would be just the thing. Hell, I like a good screen printed poster. Doesn’t everybody?

Anybody?

So here it is …
Size:  8” x 24”
Color:   Three color (Orange, Light Blue & Metallic Blue)
Paper:  Lemon Drop, French Poptone, 80# Cover.

Special shout-out and thanks goes to Jonathan Schuster for helping me out with the printing. And by “helping me out” I mean he printed the poster on the Aesthetic Apparatus’ autopress while I stood around and tried not to screw things up too badly. Which I did a reasonably good job of, if I do say so myself.

So, I have a few of them left. You want one? Of course you do.

ONLY $10 + Shipping. Just head over to the Etsy shop.

It can be done if four easy steps.

Step One:
Make a fake zine.

Step Two:
Photograph yourself holding said zine.

Step Three:
Screen Print

Step Four:
You’re all done.

Now go tell all your friends about Zinefest. It’s always a great time.

Time again for the screen printing photo log. You can get one of these prints for yourself over in the shop.

James Sime at the Isotope Comic Shop has a rather large gallery of toilet seat artwork that lines the topmost part of his store. When I was at the shop this last month, he was kind enough to give me a toilet seat of my own to draw on.

So this is what I came up with:

Special thanks to Pat Callahan for all the help painting this sucker black and the screen printing. This was definitely a collaborative effort.

The other toilet seats on display at the Isotope can be seen on this flickr page.

Sometimes you miss the paper

Here’s the step by step process of creating a screen print at synthetic sunshine studios:

1. Gotta make the seps.

2.Picking the color. I’ve been really into the Vivid FX colors lately. That blue looked good to me.

3. Let’s print on random sheets from around the studio.

4. Important step. The beer of choice for the night.

5. Also VERY important. Music to print to. The new Flaming Lips.

6. Print the print.

7. Hang em’ up.

6. Look at it glow under the black-light.

7. The final product.

I’ll be giving these away at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend in San Francisco.

Rather than skip town for the extented weekend Synthetic Sunshine and myself labored over the printing of the cover for the Covered in Confusion mini.

Here’s a preview:

Zinefest!

Prepare yourself. It’s coming. You can’t stop it.

Here’s some photos of the new poster by Tom Kaczynski (Illustration), myself (design) and Pat Callahan (printing). These bad boys will be going up around town over the course of this month. If you’re interested in having one, or know of a great place to put one up, just let me know.

Twin Cities Zinefest
July 11 + 12
zinefest.org

Last night I found the time to stand around and watch some friends of mine print up a poster for the Intoxicologist Dinner that’s going to be at the Bulldog in North East.

What you see here is a true collaboration between Pat Callahan (concept/bulldog drawing), Jonathan Schuster (design/screen printing) and myself (background pattern/cigar smoking).

Pictured above is the poster and below is the menu. Kudos to Ray Roberts for pulling the thing together.

The dinner, an evening of 6 drink and food pairings, is June 16th.

Here’s some photos of a brand new Couple Print. This was was printed on many different types of paper and with fluorescent ink.
They’ll glow under a black light.

I’ll be giving these away at the various comics shows this year.

Next Saturday, I’ll have a couple pieces for sale at the Bird x Bird show at the Northrup King Building. The website has all the info about the event.

Above is a print that will be for sale at the show. It’s one color on 140# French paper in an edition of 25. You can get one for yourself for $7.

Every October we have a comic convention here in Minnesota called FallCon. Well this year will be the 20th anniversary of this convention. To celebrate, the organizers sent out 5 blank cards for people to draw on which will be auctioned off at the show. I’m pretty sure they went out to anyone who has ever had a table at FallCon.

Sarah and I both received a set of the trading card sized blank canvases. And since neither her or I are going to be able to attend (FallCon is the same weekend as SPX this year) we wanted to do something fun.

Basically we collaborated on one big drawing and screen printed it across all the cards at once.

They remind me of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards I collected as a kid. There would always be a string of cards that would be just a part of a bigger image, and you had to collect them all to see the full picture.

Oh, and did I mention that the bright violet ink that Synthetic Sunshine chose to print the cards glows under a black light?

Collect them all this October 4th and 5th!