Space-Gun Studios in October's Zuda!

Space-Gunner Evan Bryce (artist) and Vinh-Luan Luu (letterist) with writer Doug Wagner of Gaijin Studios are in this month's Zuda competition with their story "Hammer Sound". The story followd Jonah Henry, a descendant of John Henry, in a dystrophic future of 2057. Jonah must protect his charge Pollie as he grants her mother's dying wish: deliver her daughter and their tiny kitten Beebee to the only man she trusts, the father that ostracized her years ago. The future of the world is tied within the little girl's DNA; so it's up to Jonah and his trusty hammer Lucille to protect her from assassins and deadly robots.

This is a big opportunity for us and we would really appreciate your help. Please register/log-in to Zuda (it’s free and they do keep your information private) and give your vote/favorite to Hammer Sound. You can keep up with Hammer Sound news at our Facebook or MySpace Group. New artwork and wallpapers are constantly being updated on our production blog. Thanks!

Vote for Hammer Sound!

Fanboy Video!

This past March at STAPLE! the fine folks of Fanboy video managed to do several interviews on the con floor. You can check them out here on the Fanboy Video STAPLE! playlist on Youtube!

STAPLE! 2009!

Hey everybody,

Mark your calendars!

We are back and proud to announce that the 5th annual STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo will be happening on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, Texas!

To commemorate five amazing years of celebrating the best in independently created comics, zines, arts, crafts and animation, we’ve arranged to bring you a very special guest. The legendary creator of Usagi Yojimbo - Stan Sakai! Stan’s been producing comics for over twenty-five years and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eisner, Harvey, Inkpot, and the American Library Association Award. We are truly pleased and honored to welcome Stan to STAPLE! In 2009!

As usual we’ll keep posting lots of interesting interviews and podcasts to the STAPLE! website. To kick things off we’ve put up audio from Goon creator Eric Powell’s panel at this year’s show. To listen to it and subscribe to future episodes go to http://www.staple-austin.org/podcast/ and stay tuned for lots more to come! Recording services generously provided by the fine folks at Dial-a-Stranger http://dialastranger.com/

Exhibitor tables are now on sale for next year’s show! These always sell out very quickly, so if you would like to be an exhibitor at STAPLE! 2009 go to http://www.staple-austin.org/register/ to secure your spot today!

There’s lot’s more exciting announcements to come so be sure to stay tuned!

See you soon!

Chris "Uncle Staple" Nicholas
www.staple-austin.org
http://www.myspace.com/staple_austin

string #8

Now available for download — the latest issue of string, the regular anthology of comics from 7000 BC.

Download a PDF of string #8 and check out future issues every month.



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