doctorgeof's posterous

Tea-fuelled scientist and cartoonist and occasional bicycle courier.

If you recognise my stuff it's possibly one of the following:

- you're related to me;
- you've worked with me;
- you've read the fetishman comics or found them somewhere;
- you've seen my drawings or me and the stall in a steampunk/physics/tea-related/fetish/goth/comics convention/market/club-night/weekend/magazine/newsletter/web-thing/anthology/gallery;
- white russians were involved.

sound about right?


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mugs!

Kind of catching up again at last, should be able to sort out me commissions over the next couple of days, buuuut what i do also have is a re-stock of the mugs at the online shop if ye fancy.

Next step: get the webcomics to update regularly again!

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Manchester Fair!

Quickie, mad busy, but if you're about in manchester today then there's a mahoosive alternative/burlesque/steampunk fair on just next to oxford road station, which, as it happens, i and the usual crew will also be attending!

much more news to add, and apologies for the lack of webcomic updates, but for the moment all I probably need to say is WEBSHOP!


laters!
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On comics and drawing and stuff (part 1)

Thought bubble is this weekend and, along with the tea museum-ening (in the armouries hall! a museum inside a museum! fuck yeah!), I'm touched to have been asked to join the "Everything you ever wanted to know about self-publishing" panel talk by the We Are Words And Picture peoples. It's a nifty little line up of some of the most active small press guys I know including Katie Green, Steve Tanner, Hugh ‘Shug’ Raine, and Andy Sykes. As such, and also because of a couple of polite emails got me pondering stuff, I've recently been contemplating the (cue dramatic thunder) THE VERY NATURE OF SMALL-PRESS COMICS PUBLISHING THEMSELVES! (itself? themself? yeah)

There's a pile of blog-posts I could do on the subject of "how I came to this predicament" and "printers! why some of them and lovely and some of them are just plain baffling" or "mistakes i think i've made" but to begin with I'd just like to re-echo Phil McAndrew's post, cos I think it really gets to the heart of it all:

Draw. Draw more. Not just draw final things but sketch and plot and play with ideas (Currently I'm thinking about zeppelin pirates and I've about 6 ideas as to how the strip works and I'm torn between the first one i came up with last night and the one i thought of when i woke up this morning. Arrr). Try out new things but generally have fun (when the lack of sleep kicks in I have considered that the word "fun" isn't quite right at times, maybe "satisfaction" "contentment" but moreover some word meaning "a tiny nugget of joy"), because if you end up doing this as a living and you don't have fun then you may as well get a job doing anything else that isn't fun but which will leave you with spare time to draw the stuff that is fun. Is all to do with the fun-optimisation I reckon.

Right, must get back to other things, laters!
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and then whitby!

So, back from a lovely time down at the MCM in london, good to see the comics & steampunk guys and a delight to be at White Mischief again (and what a line up! Mavis can't stop humming "we're doing it for the whigs", but if he has stopped and reads this I'm sure it'll set him off again. Mwahahaha).

Home now and packing for the Whitby Goth Weekend (was a shame to miss last week's but we are blessed with a profusion of goth-ly weekends in whitby this year), will doubtless see many of you there, armed with copies of the inaugural Steampunk Literary Review and fetishman #14. Right, back to the do-ening

Whitby Goth Weekend - 4th-6th November
in the spa foyer - friday, saturday & sunday

Novacon in Nottingham - 11th-13th November

Thought Bubble in Leeds - 19th-20th november

Heresy n Heelz Manchester Alternative & Burlesque Fair - 10th december

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fetishman 14 incoming! everywhere! anywhere! aaah!

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Fetishman #14, the Trans-comic: tragedy strikes and Andrew O'Neill comes to Fetishman's aid, leading him on a quest that traverses space, time and comics, all to help rescue Fetishman's beloved sidekick Lactose Intolerance Boy.

Am picking it up from the printers tomorrow, subscribers issues sent out early next week, available from the webshop by mid-november, comic shops just as soon as I get to them, all good Andrew O'Neill gigs, and any of the following events that me and the stall are travelling to over the next few weeks:

MCM Expo in London - 28th-30th october

Whitby Goth Weekend - 4th-6th November

Novacon in Nottingham - 11th-13th November

Thought Bubble in Leeds - 19th-20th november

Heresy n Heelz Manchester Alternative & Burlesque Fair - 10th december

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More!

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A sofa-full! Second batch of the Steampunk Literary Review is here now, thanks to fulprint and Cathy. Brendan just helped finish the museum structure, so just some layout to do tonight. Timings sor ted for tomorrow. Looking good.

Now, please buy the SLR so I can reclaim the sofa for my housemates. X

Leeds Steampunkery!

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Dear gods I over-commit myself. Still, better than being bored. So anyway, that's how we end up with me helping to run two separate steampunk events in my home city this weekend:

The Leeds Steampunk Market
- exactly what it says it is, and featuring the second ever outing of the tea museum!

The Leeds Steampunk Semaphore Office
- a project for light night. with Morse code! and lights! And the slowest bit-rate in years!

To be honest it will have been a good couple of home weekends for me: last weekend was also Leeds-y with the Leeds Alternative Comics Fair where I sold out of the first run of the Steampunk Literary Review, (hurrah! and fear not, the next batch is already in production over in york) and got to have a really lovely chat with Darryl Cunningham.

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Leeds Alternative Comics Fair 3 pt 2!

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ALSO I'll have a few copies left of the first run of the Steampunk Literary Review with me, my first steampunk anthology!

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Leeds Alternative Comics Fair 3!

right, am mad busy organising next weekend's steampunk events but this weekend, if you can make it and I'd advise thee to as it are most awesome is the Leeds alternative Comics Fair. Jam packed with talented small press creators and in a pub in the city centre, it are an most excellent way to spend a lazy saturday afternoon. Anyway, in their own words:

The 3rd Leeds Alternative Comics Fair will take place on Saturday 1st October, in A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds, just behind the Leeds City Art Gallery.

In keeping with previous events, our small but perfectly formed event hopes to bring you some of the best Northern, alternative comics makers, print-makers and illustrators, who will be selling their wares in the quirky, relaxed bar on Cookridge Street.

Don’t like comics? There’ll be lots more on offer, such as craft wear, badges, art and music.

This event’s guest list includes old friends such as Steve Tillotson (Banal Pig),Hugh “Shug” Raine (REET! Comics), Gary Bainbridge, Andy Waugh, Gareth Brookes, Helen “Memo” Entwisle, Huw “Lem” Davies, Ben Clark, Kristyna Baczynski and Geof Banyard (Fetishman), who will be showcasing new work.

New exhibitors include James Downing (COUK), Jim Medway, Isaac Lenkiewicz,Kelly Walton, Bob Milner (Milk Two Sugars) and a cameo appearance fromDarryl Cunningham, of Psychiatric Tales fame.

We are also reintroducing the communal table, giving non-exhibitors the chance to bring their comics along to sell. All we ask is that you help man the table for a short period of time.

The event will run from 12 noon until 5pm and is FREE to enter! So come along, have a browse, a chat, a drink and a fish finger sarnie!

Find us online at leedsalternativecomics.wordpress.com, Facebook search “Leeds Alternative Comics” or tweet us @leedsaltcomics

geof

Blergh.

Wheeee! Just had a lovely lovely weekend in Lincoln, new badges & mugs & comic were well received (Yay! New comic - the steampunk literary review - was so new I had no idea if it would be loved or no, but it seems to have come down on the side of beloved!), chatted to many new and lovely peoples, got to see The Men gig on the saturday (genius new track: Victoria's secret), sadly arrived too late to set up the travelling ftc museum (boo, but then the paint was still wet ...), and may have christened last night with tequila. Hence the "Blergh" of the post's title. Mmmmm, that was a good weekend.

Right, pack and away to Leeds, and do more stuff! And maybe breakfast.

Laters my loves.
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