Set to Sea 81

on February 16, 2007


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They’re doing some drankin’!

I hope you had a tolerable Valentime’s. We made hand-done cards for each other as has been our tradition for four years running. You will never see these cards, as they are far too embarrassing.

We have been reading Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the World series. You should check them out, especially if your grip on world history is as hazy as ours.

This Of Montreal song is set about three blocks from our house.

I’m about to try making a Kolsch!

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Set to Sea 80

on February 12, 2007


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Oy vey, the hatching went a little wild in this one. Also, it looks pretty crappy on the screen.

You now have 144 days to finish your Fluke Anthology submission and send it to me! That deadline would be 7/7/07. The actual festival is on April 7th, so don’t forget about that either.

I got my identity thefted the other day! An overdraft notice showed up in the mail for almost $800 worth of ATM withdrawals in what looks like Italy (Colli Di Baccanello? Gaverina?) accompanied with overdraft charges and international processing fees. Luckily it was an old account I don’t use very often or keep any money in. Also lucky that the Wachovia people seem pretty ready to believe that I didn’t travel to Rome on short notice just to use the ATM.

We bottled the beer yesterday! We tried tasting some – it was flat, but unmistakably beer! Two more weeks, and we can actually drink the stuff for reals.

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FLUKE ANTHOLOGY!

on February 5, 2007

Hey! Are you psyched for FLUKE 2007! What is FLUKE, you ask? Why, it’s Athens, Georgia’s premiere minicomic and zine festival! It takes place in a bar! And it’s happening on April 7th!

Are you psyched about the FLUKE 2007 Anthology? What’s the FLUKE Anthology? It’s an annual mini-comics anthology, and the Official Publication of FLUKE! Kazimir Strzepek’s first Mourning Star comic and Johnny Ryan’s first Comic Book Holocaust strip both saw their debut in these hallowed pages – and now it’s your turn.

Okay, hyperbole over. Since a solid majority of the FLUKE Council of Elders have come down with serious cases of baby-itis, I’m stepping up to the plate and assuming responsibility for this issue! We’ve only got about two months to go till the actual festival, so I’m thinking it’s not very realistic to get the book out for the con itself. Let’s aim for mid-summer. So here it is!

FLUKE 2007 Anthology

Deadline: July 7, 2007

Format: 1-5 pages. The final book is going to be standard minicomics size: 5 1/2 inches wide, 8 1/2 inches tall – so size accordingly.

How to send the pages digitally, in order of preference: First, make sure they’re at least 600 dpi bitmaps or 300dpi grayscales. Put the page number in the file name. Then:
1.) Upload them to your own personal webspace just like any file, and send me the link at: drew (the at symbol) drewweing (dot) com.
2.) Or… send them to the above email address via yousendit.com, rapidshare.de, megaupload.com, or one of the other file sharing services.
3.) Or… Email them as attachments to the above email address. Please make sure your attachment is 5mb or less per email.

How to send the pages in “the mail”:
1.) Make a nice crisp black & white copy or printout of each page. Be sure they’re numbered in some way. Mail them flat, with some cardboard or something to keep them from getting bent up by vengeful postal workers. Please don’t send your originals! The address:

Drew Weing
PO Box 1926
Athens, GA 30603-1926

The Rewards: You get a free copy of the book! And the undying praise of a grateful nation.

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Set to Sea 79

on February 5, 2007

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Lots of stuff happened since the last time I posted!

Our post-SCAD, newly-Seattleite friend Max Clotfelter stopped by for a day last week, and we had a pretty pleasant time showing him around our mundane little stomping grounds. His website is down right now or I’d link to it… I guess I’ll just link to this USS Catastrophe page. We missed seeing his gf Kelly though… maybe next time?

I made some beer! Or at least I’m hoping it’ll be beer. It’ll be a couple weeks before we really know. Right now it’s just a mystery liquid in a big plastic bucket. There’s a little water-filled airlock device on top of the bucket, and I had a good time watching it bubble for a couple of days. It’s very hard not to think about making up labels and packaging. This is known as “putting the cart before the horse.” Weing’s Signature, Undrinkably Foul, Bacteria-Infested, Pale Ale.

I went to a comic convention yesterday! Robert, Patrick and I all crammed into a pickup truck and tooled up to the Atlanta Comic Convention. This involves a big room full of middle-aged men and stacks of long boxes. It took me back to my youth – a callow lad with a pocket full of allowance money and a well-thumbed-through copy of Wizard, pawing thru the boxes in search of whatever book was going to be the “hot score” for that month. Bloodshot #6 with first appearance of Ninjak! Sweet! Brigade #2 with intact coupon? Lemme at it! X-O Manowar #15 with variant pink logo? This is going to be worth some real money some day! Anyway, I walked out with a little stack of graphic novels & manga from one of those “all graphic novels 50% off!” tables.

On the ride back, we talked a little bit about Fluke 2007. I’m going to be taking over the ’07 Fluke Anthology! But I’ll put that into its own post shortly.

Eleanor’s knees are killing her! We think she has “runner’s knee,” which is essentially a misalignment of the kneecap. It’s been bothering her a little bit ever since she took a bad fall while we were jogging about a year ago. But it’s been really flaring up recently, leading to a lot of her sitting around, legs propped up, ordering me to bring her drinks, pick up her dropped pencils, and fetch her knick-knacks. More than usual, I mean.

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