Fetishman

issue ten’s shaping up nicely, I’m trying to track down the first subscribers to ask if they wish for more hot posted-fetishman-comic action, the fetishman banknotes need collecting, the whitby almanack heads to the printers soon, and rising like a leviathan from the fog of sleep deprivation comes the birmingham international comics show 2009. WHICH IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN! entirely mavis-ed up and ready to roll, join us on the 2-4 october if you’re about.

http://www.fetishman.co.uk/fm/events/

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gf

Ah ’twas a good weekend, got to hang out with Jim and caught up with Mavis and met many many people who have enjoyed the comic (which is a welcome boost as the fight to finish the next issue commences) and had the opportunity to gawp at the works of many other inspiring creators.

I rely on Mav as a good indicator and while last year it was Edginton and D’Israeli’s beautiful war of the worlds graphic novels, this year it was the steampunk badgering of Bryan Talbots’ Grandville. However this simplifies it far too much as there was loads of beautiful stuff going on: bomber-man ear-rings from mooglybear; some sordid networking with the wrexham universitygraphic novellists; undeserved praise from Den; osmosing original art to Den’s compadre Jared; fawning over the beautiful rainbow orchid books; loving the Mal; and last but not least the awesome wall of fetishman banknote forgeries! (yep, will email the winners in the next couple of days, just need to punch the bulk of the next comic to the floor first).

http://mooglybear.etsy.com

http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/en/Undergraduatecourses/IllustrationforGraphicNovels/

http://likealittlekidwithabeard.blogspot.com/2009/10/british-comics-show.html

http://www.pornokitsch.com/2009/10/bics-done-that-too.html#more

http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/

http://www.thefallenangel.co.uk/

http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/BICS09-27.jpg

laters!

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gf

ps/ oh and i just found this, possibly the mightiest of con reviews ever:

http://theraggedman.blogspot.com/2009/10/citadel-of-comics-fantasy-convention-in.html

… and in answer to your question, no, the judge dredd guys with their rubber and their handcuffs and their truncheons barely even noticed us. Although we did get a stormtrooper to throw the metal salute so frankly we won. at everything.

If you attend the whitby goth weekend (hey, my spell-checker thinks that it should be “whitey”! bad spell-checker) as i, and more recently the fetishman stall, have a habit of doing, then you may be aware that there are some shenanigans going on that may result in either a split in the festival or the whole thing moving from it’s regular dates. This all sucks somewhat and the official organisers are circulating a petition to see if they can make it all a bit less “shenanigan-y” in the future.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/whitbydates

Have a read, have an opinion, circulate it to people you think might wish to know.

Like an idiot I’ve signed it twice (dare i say i got confused?), but to be honest I should be finishing the comic instead of working out what the ipetition donation page means.

laters
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gf
ps/ comic are awesome

almost there, i think tonight’s going to be the all-nighter and then it’s done. it’s at times like this that i depart from the one true tea-y way and partake of the coffee … until about 2am when I’m too jittery to drink anything so crudely stimulating and then it’s straight back on the tea.

at the london film and comic con earlier this year a pleasant couple of gentlemen approached me and asked if i’d like to yield unto them my top ten music tracks. Slightly baffled i said yes of course, i wondered if they’d misread the fetishman sign, maybe they’d got confused and thought i was some kind of scott bakula, but then they did actually email me and so it only seemed fair to actually generate a top ten.

Much flailing later i realised my music tastes are far too generous, hell i can find something nice to say about spice girls tracks (okay, that one’s “they’re no longer played on the radio thank satan” but nonetheless). As such i have no absolute top ten. I could have given them the fetishman top ten (tom lehrer, velvet underground, NIN) instead i gave them my if-i-had-to-put-up-with-a-really-crappy-mp3-player-that-only-had-space-for-ten-tracks-what-would-be-on-it top ten.

http://www.fairhearing.co.uk/?p=659

laters!

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gf

Comic is at the printers, mugs are due to be delivered thursday, all i need to do now is sleep and science my tits off.

Once again the comic will hit the non-subscribing public at the whitby goth weekend – at the Leisure Centre as ever with my other stall-holding buddies and even an travelling Mavis! all much fun. One quick note though, the fetishman stall will only be trading friday and saturday, I’m reclaiming sunday (and thus saturday night) for hi-jinx and hilarity!

laters

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aaah! still packing! am sure this will be resolved in time.

if you’re about you’ll catch us at the Leisure Centre once again, but be warned I’m only trading friday and saturday this time so’s that i can get me some time out with my good lady.

also, if you missed out at birmingham then you may be glad to know that the fetishman-pound forgery competition is happening again! and yes! there’s another gimp-bear to win!

http://www.fetishman.co.uk/fm/events/

laters!

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geof