AUGUST 2008 update

Hey gang!

My pal Shannon Smith just posted a really nice review of all my Rashy Rabbit comics thus far!

Needless to say, I’m really flattered.

click here to read Rashy Rabbit review

also,

On the last day of Heroes Con some of us “Wappies” sat down with Indie Spinner Rack for a fast paced interview. Check out the zaniness with J Chris Campbell, Duane Ballenger, my main man, Brad McGinty and me, Josh Latta on-line at www.indiespinnerrack.blogspot.com it’s about 58 minutes into episode #137 for those that are impatient.

JUNE 2008 update

Whats up dudes and dudettes?

Another year, another fabulous Heroes Con in the lovely city of Charlotte, NC, for those of you that are stupid and without a map.

Travel chums Brad McGinty and Patrick Dean made both the trip up and back fun with their amusing anecdotes and sound effects while I drove the Yaris full of fun mini comix and pasty nerds. I seriously can't believe we fit all of that in a two door car. Oh well, the things we do to save on gas, which by press time is now up to $74.67 a gallon. Why do I bring up gas prices? Trust me it came up a lot.

This is my fourth year going, first year as a featured guest in Indie Island.
I guess I'm moving on up the comix latter. Why, next year at this time you might have maybe possibly heard of me! Not bloody likely, but a fella can dream, right?

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I shared a table with the other half of Cute Girl Demographics, Brad McGinty (who's not a cute girl) , and our super duper pal and fellow cartoonist Shannon Smith.

The table was cramped and tight but it was nice to have someone at the table at all times, 'cos I like to walk around n' stuff and buy stuff n' stuff.

And Brother, did I ever buy stuff! I think I did my part to stimulate the economy, thank you.
I don't think I 'll ever need another comic as long as I live. Just kidding, please send me your comics, everyone!

That's my biggest regret of the show. I really wish I met and traded with more of you out there. But I digress.

What, was there even a point?

Oh yes, the stuff I bought or otherwise (shoplifted):

The Claws Come Out
by Pat Lewis

I was already sorta familiar with Pat's work through the stuff he did For Wide Awake Press. I really love it. His style is super bouncy and cartoony. I love cartoony books. We need more fun comics, I mean they're called Comics, right? Anyway, the book is great, buy it now. Pat's gotta lot of great minis too. Go to his site right now and say "What up, homeskillet?!"

Superior Showcase #3
by various jerks

Man alive! What a great book. All three stories (by Brian Maruca, Jim Rugg, Laura Park and Dustin Harbin) are great. Am I saying great too much? I must admit, I had hesitations about Steet Angel, mostly because I thought it was gonna be a comic adaptation of the
1984 film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill about the High School Honor Student by day, Hollywood Hooker by night. Well, true believers, it's not. I 'm a fan now. I loved Street Angel.

I 've slobbered over Dustin many times in many places, so I'll just say,
"Dustin, you make me wanna quit drawing, and I mean that in the best possible way."

A side note about this book. I got Chris Pitzer to sign my issue, he personalized the lovely Roger Langridge cover for me and for whatever reason felt bad and offered to give me a clean copy too. I wouldn't hear of it. In fact, I want Chris to autograph all my comics for me from now on. Y'hear that, Chris? Look for my collection coming to you C.O.D!

Skyscrapers Of The Midwest
by Josh Cotter

I haven't read this one yet, but man, the book is gorgeous, it really looks great(there's that word again!)
Oh, I have read an issue or two of this book when it was being serialized as a floppy, but I don't know how it reads all together. I 'm wagering it'll be great(That's it, I quit).

The Blot
by Tom Neely

Would you believe this beautiful book is self-published? Cripes, the craftsmanship on the cover alone is enough to make me throw my own books in the nearest landfill.

Tom has kinda a 30's Ub Iwek/Fleischer looking rubber hose style that he uses to tell a sad and psychedelic tale that I honestly would do a disservice by trying to explain. This book is all pictures. There are a few word balloons, but it's mostly a pantomime. I've seen this book around, and I 'm glad I have it now. Look out for The Blot, he's gonna be huge!

Girls Of Monster Paradise
By Stephanie Gladden

First things first, the cover of Girls Of Monster Paradise looks MUCH better in real life. I was just too lazy to get a good scan and I couldn't find a better picture in Google image search.
In a perfect world, you and I could turn on the TV and this cartoon would be on the air. Then after we finish watching a little TV, we could get up and go to the kitchen and make ourselves a bowl of Girls Of Monster paradise cereal while dreaming of a world when gas was still only $2.98 a gallon.

The Surrogates
by "Hollywood" Rob and some other guy

Jeez, Rob. I'm sorry it took me this long to get around to buying your book.

Some other odds and ends:

* a nutty European Disney Duck comic that has some dragons and junk
* Superman Family Vol2
* ...and a grounds for divorce-worthy amount of golden age funny animal comics.

You're still reading this?

Let me say how great it was to see my friends, J.Chris Campbell, Duane Ballenger, Rob Ullman ,
Ben Towle, Topshelf, Adhouse, Sarah Louise Wahrhaftig, Chris Schweizer, Team 8 Press, Dollar Bin, all those guys from Macon, Indie Spinner Rack and lotsa new friends too.

Admittedly, I didn't really make out at the Con like a bandit in terms of my sales, but a good time was had and that's all that really matters, right?
I honestly wish I walked around and did more trading.
I guess I was just darned embarrassed!
I guess there's always next year-
Unless of course, we live in a Mad Maxesque post apocalyptic world by then.
In that case, comic books would be pretty silly, really.

JUNE 2008 update

Hi pals. I'll be a guest on Indie Island at HeroesCon in Charlotte next month. June 20-22. If you like things like comics and fun and hanging out with cool people and fun and comics and drinking beer at a bar with the guy that drew your favorite comics and fun and things then you need to go to HeroesCon.

Come see my pals and Cute Girl table mates(in no particular order) Brad McGinty and Shannon Smith.

Come say hi and Buy Rashy Rabbit 4 before I'm all sold out, and I mean that in more than one way,dudes.

MAY 2008 update

Heya, pals!
This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. Take the wee ones down to your local comic book shop to pick up your free comic books-
You heard me right- Free comic books!

If you happen to live in Atlanta go visit our chums at Criminal Records and get your free copy of Anxiety, Sleep Problems and Depression no.1 by your old pal me, Josh Latta! (While you are there, you could pick up Rashy Rabbit no.4, but really, that's up to you. I really wish you would, though.)

Anyway, Just drop by Criminal Records ask for your free copy of Anxiety, Sleep Problems and Depression no.1, dudes. It's that easy.

It's free, free I say! FREE!

For those of you who are anything like me and hate leaving the house for anything and everything you could always get your free comixxx fix here from Wide Awake Press.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I 've got to get back to avoiding germs and people.

Love,Josh

From the desktop of J.Chris:

Wide Awake Press follows up last year's successful download comic EATS with an anthology of prehistoric tales.

Go to wideawakepress. com
on May 3 and download the FREE comic PILTDOWN. Join us on our journey back in time and see what stories surface when artists draw upon their inner cro-magnon. Dinosaurs, Cavemen and all types of prehistoric beasts gather together for you to discover.

DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE
ON MAY 3RD
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

APRIL 2008 update

INTERVIEW WITH JOSH LATTA FOR THE ATLANTA CREATIVES PROJECT

Though it isn’t obvious from his demeanor and dialect, Josh Latta was born in Nashville and grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain. And while he makes a living creating Flash animation for kids games and conservative clients, he is most proud of his confessional comic books starring a down-on-his-luck rabbit in search of something more meaningful in his life than bong hits and strip clubs.

While working on the fourth issue of his Rashy Rabbit series, he took some time to talk about Rashy Rabbit, the local comics scene and what led him to cartooning.

For those who haven’t seen it, what’s your comic book about?

It’s about a character named Rashy Rabbit and they’re semiautobiographical stories about me and other people I knew growing up. They’re usually about sex and drugs and other various debaucheries. It stars a rabbit, who’s basically my stand-in.

Is it an online comic or in print?

I would like to probably put more online. I have them on places like MySpace and Blogger, but not a specific Web site where you can just read the comics. A lot of people like to read comics online, but I just could never get into it. I think comics are always going to be a printed medium. That’s how I enjoy reading them and I assume a lot of other people do to. Then again, what do I know? There’s a lot of online comics that seem to be real popular nowadays.

Magazines and newspapers are moving towards that, too. But to me comic books and magazines are things I want to read when I’m not in front of a computer.

Yeah, exactly. I like to lay down when I read, or sit in a comfortable chair. Sitting in front of a computer just feels like work to me and I can’t really relax in front of a computer. I guess that’s also because a lot of the art I do nowadays is going to be done on a computer some way or another. It’s going to be in Vector or Flash animation or Photoshop. Everyone wants files, not raw art. I don’t really have original art anymore since I piece together so much of it on my computer.

At what point did you realize art was something you wanted to pursue?

According to my mom, I’ve been drawing since I was 2. I’ve always wanted to do exactly what I’m doing, which is cartoons. For whatever reason, that particular medium just spoke to me, there’s something really special and magical about it and I always wanted to do it. Animation always just felt so far away from me, though, because growing up in the pre-Internet days there wasn’t really that much information on how animation was done. I just didn’t know how people did it. That’s one thing about Flash animation is it puts the tool in anybody’s hands.

Did you go to art school or are you self-taught?

I’m self-taught. In some ways I wish I went to art school, probably more for the social aspect of it. It might have sped up the process a lot more. But when I got out of high school you couldn’t have convinced me that college was the thing to do after being in school for that long.

Who are some of your favorite cartoonists that have influenced your style?

My earliest influence would be Disney. I was a big Disney fan and that stuff always stood out. Looney Tunes cartoons, Cheap Hanna-Barbera cartoons – I loved that stuff and still do. I read Disney comics growing up and a lot of Mad magazine and humor books. I didn’t get as much into the superheros. Further on in my life I guess more quintessential influences would be Robert Crumb, Dave Cooper, Pete Bagge – a lot of the alternative guys. But Robert Crumb in particular opened my eyes and showed me that you can tell personal, unflattering, un-politically correct stories through the medium of comics. And I love that, I love when people are honest in art and I think most people aren’t, people are afraid to show their dark side.

Take us through your creative process.

It still always starts off the same way, which is pencil and paper. I still sketch everything out and try and get it right in the pencil stages. With comics I still do it by hand and with the computer I scan in everything and ink it in Illustrator and Flash. It still starts off the old fashioned way with pencil and paper. I think nothing can beat that.

Where did you get the idea to do Lattaland.com?

That came from my father, actually. He would jokingly refer to our house as Lattaland and he put that in the cement in our driveway. I always thought that was funny and obviously there’s the Disney influence. I thought about getting a new Web site because I don’t know if it’s too hard to find me with Lattaland instead of Josh Latta. But I like the sound of it.

Do you ever do gallery shows or just the comics and online stuff?

I’ve done a few art shows, but I always end up feeling misplaced in something like that because my art really doesn’t look that great when you see it because I do piece together things in Photoshop like putting word balloons in and whiting out stuff. A lot of my stuff is drawn on tracing paper, so it looks kind of rough when you see it up close. Like I said, I think comics are a printed medium and that’s how I like my work to be presented.

How do you feel about Atlanta’s art scene?

There are a lot of good artists here. To me the comics scene is something entirely different and what I do is even an offshoot from what most people in Atlanta do. I self publish and put out mini-comics that are personal stories and humor based. I don’t think a lot of people are doing that.

It’s hard to get a comic book in people’s hands. It’s hard to get people to read just about anything, so it’s an uphill battle. I don’t do well at Atlanta comics shows, I seem to do better in other cities. There’s a good small press expo in Baltimore and in Charlotte I do really well. And I usually get a better response from people who aren’t already into comic books than comic book fans.

I do have a lot of good friends who are cartoonists. One good thing about being in Atlanta is we have Turner, so there’s a lot of opportunity for cartoonists. I have a good friend who’s also my mentor in cartooning named Stephanie Gladden and she’s been a lot of help. Another good friend who was actually the best man at my wedding is Brad McGinty, who’s a self-publisher, and he’s amazing. He puts out so many books, he’s a machine.

Who are some of your favorite local artists?

I like Stephanie Gladden, of course. And I like Bethany Marchman as far as fine art goes. Brad McGinty’s not only a good friend of mine, but he’s also a great artist and I’m a big fan of his work.

How would you say Southern culture has influenced your work?

Oh, it definitely has. When I draw my comics I draw a lot of real things from the South. The one I’m working on now, Rashy Rabbit No. 4, there’s a scene inside the Pink Pony and I didn’t even call it some goofy name. It’s just the Pink Pony, so I’ll call it the Pink Pony. Rashy Rabbit’s world is pretty much an animal version of Atlanta. It’s kind of like Song of the South with animals that are clearly meant to be of different races. I don’t shy away from stuff like that because I think it’s honest and sincere and it’s coming from a place where I’m like, “Hey, we are different and this is the South and this is what I personally deal with.”

Why are you Rashy Rabbit and how do you decide which animal characteristics are going to apply to certain characters?

I don’t know exactly. Rabbits are kind of a quintessential cartoon animal. Rabbits are at the bottom of the food chain, everybody will eat them and they really don’t have much purpose except to be food and fodder for other animals. And since a lot of my comics revolve around sex, I thought the rabbit’s sex drive would be apt, too. I use other animals, too, but pretty much everybody’s a rabbit or a weird dog kind of creature.

Where can people find your comics?

You can find them online at Cutegirldemographics.com. If you’re here in Atlanta I’d recommend looking at Criminal Records and on my Web site and at comics shows.

INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN WILLIAMS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY NEDA ABGHARI

Thanks ATLANTA CREATIVES PROJECT!

APRIL 2008 update

Brad McGinty and Josh Latta on Dollar Bin

Wanna hear the sweet sound of nasally drone coming out of our pie-holes? We talk about things and stuff!

Click Here and listen to Brad and Josh on The Dollar Bin!

Do I really sound like that?

Thanks Adam and Brian!

*UPDATE*

Uh-oh. This interview was too saucy for the internet. It had to be taken down. You snooze you lose!

APRIL 2008 update

Oh, and we almost forgot-

Check out this awesome review of Brad McGinty’s Wysteria by our good pal, Shannon Smith! I think Shannon is a good cat, and he really seems to get ”it” too. We're in modern times, right? I don’t need to tell you what to do when you see links, Right? Right? Click here, stupid!

Don’t forget to check out the catalog, ‘cos not only do they go quck, but once they’re gone, they’re gone for good! Cute Girl Demographics don’t do reprints, dude.

we got new mini’s by my main man, Brad McGinty coming soon.

Click here and ask Lulu Callier why she doesn’t do comics anymore.

Buy (more of our)comics!

APRIL 2008 update

Another year, another FLUKE MINI-COMICS FESTIVAL in beautiful downtown Athens, Georgia. Now it is over- GONE! Into the dusk from which it came- Blah blee boo. Sorry, I was feeling rather poetic today. I guess I get little melancholy after an amazing small press convention that takes place in a bar.

So, brothers and sisters, Fluke was last weekend and it was great to get out there and see all of you. I got a stack of real gems this year. Can you believe this has been the 7th FLUKE? You can’t? Well then- the nerve of you!

Did I mention that FLUKE takes place in a bar?

Really, I wish I coulda got more mini comics but every time I opened my wallet a lone moth fluttered out. Brad and I saw some of our favorite monsters of mini comics on Saturday like J Chris Campbell, Justin Gammon, Duane Ballenger, Patrick Dean, Andy Runton, Shannon Smith, Drew Weing, Eleanor Davis, Jon Chad and Sarah Louise Wahrhaftig. Not to mention Top Shelf, Dollar Bin and Creative Director of Heroes Con and all around homeboy, Dustin Harbin. Ow! My foot! I dropped a lotta names! Kidding, kidding, of course. But seriously Dustin, get some of your beautiful cartooning out there!

I think my favorite debut book, besides my own (Rashy Rabbit No.4 now in the CUTE GIRL DEMOGRAPHICS CATALOG) was Delaine Derry Green’s compilation of other artists’ auto-bio comics, Not My Small Diary no.14. Not to smite all the rest of you cartoon- I mean, sequential artists out there. We love all of you. There was a lotta great stuff! Your sequential artists pals, Josh and Brad.

PS. RASHY RABBIT No.4 available now!

RIP Ollie Johnston 1912-2008

MARCH 2007 update

So- what have you been doing the last year n’ ah half?
If you were anything like me, then you were working on a mini comic epoch. Hey, I ‘m like me!

A New Low For Rashy Rabbit is available now!

January 2007 update

It's been a year sense I updated this website last? Sheesh what a stupid, crappy year!

It's coming folks, look out for the next issue of Rashy coming next month!

Face front true believers and all that other comic booky crap! It's been a while, as you no doubt aware, since our last update. So much has happened I don't even know where to start. Wait, yes I do..(singing) I think I'll start with me glorious me.(end singing)

I have a four page comic about Ralph Reed and his icky ilk coming soon in Atlanta's free weekly only alternative news source Creative Loafing. This is a pretty big deal for me because it'll reach an audience that ordinarily wouldn't spit in the mouth of a comic book even if it was dying in the desert. Plus it's all political n' junk. Look for it soon my friends!

Okay, Let that swim around in your collective heads a little bit longer, because I'm about to serously bum you all out. Due to cosmic reasons beyond all of our control, Jennifer Young is from this point forward no longer
a member of Cute Girl Demographics. Fear not though, Jenniphiles! She'll still be kicking out the jams Cold Summer: Book Two style, just not with us.Lemme just say, from all of us:Goodbye, Jennifer! You're irreplaceable!

On a similar note, we replaced Jennifer with my good pal, Lulu Callier. We will be carrying and distributing all of Lulu's dang ol' funny-funny book series Lulu and Burd Bird. If you like fresh air, hobo spindles or centaurs you'll f'in love Lulu and Burd Bird!

Unless, of course, you don't like fresh air, hobo spindles or centaurs. I take no responsibility.

So hang tight friends, the catalog is back up and surprises abound!
Wee!

Thanks for stopping by. Excelsior!

Josh

July 2005

Wow, something to talk about! We've been busybodies this past month, getting ready for the Heroes Convention 2005 in Charlotte, NC. While Josh and I stocked up on the production our books, Anxiety, Sleep Problems and Depression #1 and #2 and Cold Summer: Book One, Brad was the busiest, producing Chapters 1-4 of his beautiful series, Wysteria. (Hey, check out the new items in our catalog!) Oh yeah, I also had to get my little Suzuki fixed before we could hit the road, costing me the money I saved for the trip! But never fear! Credit cards are here to save the day (and put you in debt tomorrow!)!
We met so many prolific and incredibly talented creators, such as Robert Ullman, Jennie Breeden, a myriad of SCAD students and alum, J. Chris Campbell, Andy Runton, Bob Burden, Andy Lee (who, during Free Comic Book day painted us some beautiful pictures, including his dramatic rendition of Brad's Pee Dog!), the guys from Common Bond, oh god, there're too many to list! The experience definitely brought us back home dripping with inspiration and aspiration!
We're thinking about going to SPX 2005, in Bethesda, Maryland at the end of September. It's the biggest independent and small press con ever! Although tables are all sold out already, we're might just do the trench-coat, black market selling of our own, mwa ha ha! I get dibs on the darkest, most sketchiest corner of the con!
So what's next? Brad continues to work on the last two chapters of Wysteria, Josh continues to work on his third issues of Anxiety..., and I'm still working on the second half of Cold Summer, though I'd like to put together something different for SPX. Like sheets of Cold Summer character paper dolls, and maybe another autobiographical mini... This month is the first annual zine and mini comic con, Zine-A-Palooza in Duluth, GA on July 31st. Come on out and check out Brad's badge design!

Dear Friends;

It’s been a while, eh? Well, let’s see how good my memory is…
We celebrated Brad’s 25th birthday on April 16th! We went to get measurements for his hips for near-future replacement while we spiked his prune juice with vodka and Old Spice! It was great, you should’ve been there!
Brad and I took a one-week excursion to Lefse-ville – otherwise known as Minnesota, a couple of weeks ago, to attend the annual one-day comic convention, MicroCon 2005. As our first time attending, we didn’t know what to expect. Pleasantly surprised by the long line awaiting the opening, we went in and unpacked our lil’ suitcase full of goodies. We initially sat next to this old couple (yup, older than Brad, if you can imagine). I guess the guy draws porno cat-women? We tried to be friendly, but our Southern hospitality didn’t take. They were really snobby. I guess I would be too, if I drew women with cat-like characteristics in compromising positions – rrowww!! But these other dudes gave us some of their hardcore band paraphernalia to switch tables, so we ended up sitting next to a nice, cool guy, Sean. He works for Avatar and draws Lady Death and such. I also got to finally meet, in person, Michael May, who’s written nice reviews of my work in Comics World News, and Nick Post of Source: Comics and Games, the bestest comic book retailer ever!!! We ended up selling more than we ever have at any other con as of yet. AND, they gave us a FREE TABLE AND FREE FOOD AND BEVERAGES!!! Why did I leave Minnesota again?! Needless to say, it was refreshing to see comic shops on every corner again, unlike Atlanta’s tumbleweed-filled comic book scene. We may be back up for their big FallCon2005 in October!!!
We’re also currently starting to work with distributor Cold Cut, and we’re hiring sales rep Tony Shenton to help us market and sell our books. Slowly, but surely, folks! Speaking of hiring, we’re getting a new intern, Briana Cox, for the summer! Maja (see picture at left) has been a GREAT intern for us, but she’s going back home for the summer, so we’ll be sadly waving good-bye to her for now. She’s helped us sooo much, it’s not even funny! Briana will be lucky enough to work in our brand new office – among other things, she’ll be helping Brad prepare for his highly anticipated, big, huge, beautiful book, Wysteria. The whole story in 160 pages! Wooooowwww, all that work will be worth it!

Upcoming happenings:
May 7th – Free Comic Book Day! We’ll be stopping by to do a signing at Criminal Records in Atlanta, GA!
June 24-26th – Heroes Convention 2005 in Charlotte, NC! It’ll be big and good – who can ever beat big and good?!
July 31st – Zine-a-Palooza 2005 in Duluth, GA! The first mini-comic and zine con held by Mux Productions. Check out Brad’s badge design!

Dearest Friends

I think time quickens at an exponential rate, because the older I get, the faster the months go by! What should I say about this month? Well… Cold Summer: Book One is finally available online, and, as promised, Josh’s great new book, Anxiety, Sleep Problems and Depression #2 is also now available. The cover is in full color, and there are a lot more pages than the first! More for your money, folks! There’s also a bonus three-pager at the end, written by Josh’s grandfather, engorged with densely detailed pencils by Josh, and absolute breathtaking inks by Brad. Curious? Well, go read it! It’s a gorgeous little story. Hard at work is Brad, finishing up the full story of Wysteria. It will be produced as one big book (well over 124 pages), available next month. Personally, I can’t wait to spend hours taking in the intricate ink-work, amazed and envious of his drawing and inking abilities.
Having so many projects going on, in and outside of CGD, we had to hire an intern to help us with production and other such grunt work. So let me make a shout out to Maja Tokic, who has been such a big help, and is fun to work with, too! She just started, but I’m sure we’ll be talking about her more in the near future. Hey, I might as well make a few more shout outs while I’m at it… Big thanks to Liz Malpass from Alterna180 (see link) who set up our website, and a gigantore thank you to Lucas Saugen from Mad Dog Services (see links page) for helping us update our catalog in exchange for old playboy magazines. Thanks for the support of writers Jen Contino (Sequential Tart) and Michael May (Comics World News) who find time in their busy schedules to help a girl out. The cool cats at Criminal Records in Atlanta, Georgia and the teddy bears at the Source: Comics and Games in the Twin Cities, Minnesota deserve a big smooch (ya’ll can choose between Brad or Josh for the smooch) for supporting our work. We would be a bunch of ne’er-do-wellers living in shanties selling comics to our moms if not for these big-hearted peeps.

Your loving homepage update writer,
Jennifer

Ah, geez, is it February already?! I was just getting ready to write the New Year’s header! I guess time flew by as me and the boys were getting ready for FLUKE, Georgia’s own small press convention at the hometown of Michael Stipe’s squeaky head. He’s still bald, right? Anyway, some good old-fashioned winter weather came through to the South last weekend (Jan 29th), hindering many potential patrons (and artists) of Fluke, but fear not! After an hour of scraping half an inch layer of ice (oooh, reminds me of my Midwestern hometown!) off my car, we carefully (careful of you dang Southern folk who can’t drive on icy, sleety roads) drove down the street to see if Fluke was still going on. And it was. By about 2pm, the place was surprisingly bumpin’, considering the weather. Artists happily traded, encouraging and inspiring each other while local Athenians and college kids came by to avoid cabin fever, looking through Fluke’s high quality comics and zines, and even buying a good bit of them! .For us, it was a great experience, unlike our first public debut at the now-dead ATL ComiCon last year. This time, despite the smaller space, the place was packed full of small pressers, and therefore the patrons were geared toward our humble stash of Cute Girl stuffs. Stacks of Brad’s Pee Dog Posse and Josh’s Anxiety, Sleep Problems, and Depression #1 flew off the table, having to be refilled every half hour or so, while my debut of the 121+ page Cold Summer: Book One practically sold out! So what’s next for CGD??
Josh just finished inking the second issue of Anxiety… and predicts it will be available online and in stores by March. I’ve had the honor to read it, and it’s bigger and better than the first! The complete book, of the silently beautiful Wysteria, by Brad, is also in its final stages of production, while I’m continuing to write and draw Cold Summer:Book Two, due next year (gimme a break, it’s a lot of work!). But just to tide you over, I’ll have a new teeny tiny title out called Plank Girls. If you like girls, and if you like planks, you’ll love this little series! As a collective, Brad, Josh, and I are also looking into attending more conventions. One we’ll be attending for sure is Mux Production’s Zine-a-Palooza ’05 on July 31st, in Duluth, GA.
Until next time, fans, friends, and curious people!
-- Jennifer