| WUVABLE OAF at STUMPTOWN this WEEKEND!!!
This weekend, April 16-17th, Wuvable Oaf will be making his triumphant return to The Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland(ia), OR, at two different booth locations! Oaf's home base will be table E-29 and Ed will be doing signings at the Prism Comics booth (#s E-6/E-7), with merchandise available at both locations. We're really looking forward to seeing all the kind folks we met last year and hopefully making some new friends! For info on the show, visit stumptowncomics.com!
The merch debuting includes a second Print of Ultimate Sacrifice/Muddy Buddy:
A second printing of the sold-out Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy Flip-book Mini in Regular and Special Editions. Each version comes with new band logo covers and the Special Edition comes with two ready-to-frame 5" x 7" archival quality prints of the original covers! Created especially for WonderCon and Stumptown, this low run reprint is limited to a total of 69 copies (35 regulars and 34 special editions). Also available online at wuvableoaf.com while supplies last.
Noise Pop Oaf Poster:
An exclusive, event-only item, this is a poster version of the "sequential report" comic Ed did for San Francisco's Noise Pop Fest featuring Wuvable Oaf, Smusherrrr, Hunx & His Punx and a whole lotta texting teens. Full color on 11" x 17" bristol paper, limited to a signed and numbered edition of 100.
And for the first time at Stumptown:
Henry & Glenn Forever Gang Bang Prints! 8" x 8" reproductions of Ed's two paintings from the H&G4ever show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, on archival quality MOAB digital print paper. Choose from "Henry & Glenn, Newlyweds" and "Henry & Glenn, Cat Fanciers".
Lastly, it comes down later mid-April in Amsterdam but you can still snag the poster from The WUVABLE OAF Show (uncensored, of course)! 11" x 17" full color bristol poster.
We'll also have all the usual assortment of comics (including the Reigning Goteblüd mini) and schwag!
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| THE WUVABLE OAF SHOW OPENS THIS WEEKEND IN AMSTERDAM!
UPDATE: EXTENDED TIL APRIL 30TH!!!
The Wuvable Oaf Show opens this weekend at BOVEN Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands!!! The artists' reception, featuring Ed, Mark and Matthew, will be Saturday, January 15 from 6-9 PM. The show itself is up from January 14 - April 10, 2011.
Included in the exhibition are paintings, original pages and limited edition prints from nearly three years worth of Wuvable Oaf comics. Issues of Wuvable Oaf #0-2, Special Edition #2, Gory Details and Reigning Goteblud will also be available for purchase, along with four different Oaf shirt designs and a special Wuvable Oaf Show Poster, commemorating the event!
If you can't make it all the way to Amsterdam, have no fear...you can snag your own little piece of the exhibition at wuvableoaf.com. Our store is currently featuring:
The aforementioned Wuvable Oaf Show Poster (see above), uncensored, picturing Oaf's mysterious booty tattoo (as briefly referenced in WO #1). Printed on 11" x 17" Bristol, this poster will be shipped FLAT, protected in a plastic sleeve between cardboard...stamped DO NOT BEND!!!
Also available: A limited run of signed and numbered color prints from the show! Choose from Oaf, Smusherrrr, the Nefarious KinK9 (Non-Peanut Butter Version) and Eezie from the cover of Muddy Buddy...or buy three and get the fourth free! Each is roughly 5" x 7" image is printed on MOAB's 8 1/2" x 11" Entrada Bright 190 Rag, a premium archival quality digital print paper! The color is as vivid as the original pieces themselves...maybe more! Mailed out in protective sleeves, with the cardboard sandwich treatment!
Items ordered at the online store will be shipped Monday, January 24th, to give us time to recover from our journey!
We're excited to meet a whole slew of folks during our brief stay in North Holland, so please come on out and say howdy if you're in the neighborhood this Saturday!
NEXT MONTH: See you in LA for the HENRY & GLENN FOREVER SHOW
at La Luz De Jesus Gallery! More details then!
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| Goteblüd is proud to announce our participation in the NY Art Book Fair, taking place this weekend!
Location:
MOMA PS1, 2225 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, NY
Hours:
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
Friday/Saturday, November 5-6, 2010, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 11am - 5pm
This is a *very special event* for us, as we will be exhibiting in a dedicated project room as big as our actual shop!
We will be presenting "You Are Her" - our traveling show of over 600 titles and over 1000 Riot Grrrl and female zines of the 90s, all available for hands-on reading and photocopying to the New York public!
We will also be bringing along a large assortment of vintage zines for sale, as well as Wuvable Oaf comics and original art.
AND, we will also be featuring for the first time - more new "radical paper":
- Chicano t-shirt art of the 80's/90's
- LSD blotter art by Mark McCloud
- vintage gay porn of the 60's/70's
So stop by, say howdy to Matt and Mark and see how much stuff they can possibly cram into that space! It's on the **3rd floor** between the two zine rooms.
And if you're in NYC at the fair, stop by and see our friends at 2nd Floor Projects and Straight to Hell, 3rd floor in PS1, as well as Ryebread Rodeo on the second floor.
For more info:
goteblud.com
nyartbookfair
ALSO:
This coming weekend, the Goteblüd store in San Francisco will be OPEN our usual hours of 12-5pm, Sat/Sun. Ed will be on hand, stocking the store with his new Oaf mini-comic "Reigning Goteblüd" and the remaining limited edition Oaf Cover Posters from APE! He will also be debuting a new "Goteblüd" t-shirt design in a Satanic shade of RED!
So whether you're in SF or NYC, stop by and see us.
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| NEW WUVABLE OAF MINI, SHIRT and POSTERS AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW
at wuvableoaf.com and at SAN FRANCISCO's ALTERNATIVE PRESS EXPO, THIS WEEKEND!!!
635 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
THIS SATURDAY, 11 AM - 7 PM and SUNDAY, 11 AM - 6 PM
Wuvable Oaf and the Goteblüd store expand to TWO TABLES (#428-429) this year, with twice as much Oafie goodness and zines! Ed will be debuting three new items at the show, including:
The WUVABLE OAF SPECIAL: REIGNING GOTEBLÜD!
Who is the mysterious Goteblüd and what does he have to do with Oaf? This special flashback mini-issue captures a pivotal moment in Oaf's past, featuring a bloody wrasslin' match between the Capricornian Marauder and Pompidude, defender of all things French. Also includes an Oaf Paper Doll (from the sold out Special Edition of Wuvable Oaf #0)...with a new Goteblüd uniform card! (Oops...I think I just gave something away...?)
THE NEW GOTEBLÜD SHIRT!
Goteblüd in all his brutal, furry glory on a blood red Fruit of the Loom Heavy T, sizes S - 3XL!
And finally, Extremely Limited Edition WUVABLE OAF 18" x 24" Posters!
The covers to Wuvable Oaf #0, Wuvable Oaf #1, Muddy Buddy and Oafemera reproduced on 80# coated cover weight paper! These are the first test run prints, so we ordered them in extremely low quantities. Each is signed and numbered as a first edition on the back.
Remember, all these items are also for sale ONLINE RIGHT NOW at wuvableoaf.com, so out-of-towners can score this brand new schwag too!
This year's second table will shine a light on the Goteblüd store's wide array of vintage zines, especially comics. You'll find some real treasures, (like early stuff from James Kochalka, Bobby Madness and Mike Diana) and many long-forgotten favorites!
Hope to see a bunch of you this weekend!
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Howdy, everybody...hope you're having a great end of summer! Just letting you know Goteblüd and Wuvable Oaf will be a part of this coming weekend's San Francisco Zine Fest events!
First up, I'll be doing my first ever comics reading at The Cartoon Art Museum, Friday, September 3rd at 7 pm. Here's the press release:
Now See This: SFZF x CAM Comics Reading - Friday, September 3rd from 7pm to 9pm. The Cartoon Art Museum and San Francisco Zine Fest are proud to present "Now See This", a live, multi-media comics reading at the Cartoon Art Museum on Friday, September 3, from 7pm to 9pm. This event will kick-off the Zine Fest weekend (September 4 & 5 at the SF County Fair BLDG) and marks the third annual collaboration between the SFZF and CAM.
This year’s stellar lineup includes SFZF 2010 Special Guest Jesse Reklaw (10,000 Things To Do), John Porcellino (King-Cat Comics), Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf), Jamaica Dyer (Weird Fishes), Hob (The Witness), Noah Van Sciver (Blammo), Susie Cagle (Nine Gallons), and Jonas Madden-Connor (Ochre Ellipse).
The suggested donation for this event is $5, benefitting both the SF Zine Fest and the Cartoon Art Museum. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
I'll be reading from a medley of Oaf stories, including one that requires some early 90's Alt Rock singing and an as yet unpublished tale from Oaf's adolescence! And we'll be playing the EJA©ULOID track "FEARCE" for the first time in public too!
Then, join us at the Goteblüd booth for the San Francisco Zine Fest, Saturday and Sunday, September 4-5 from 11:00am – 6:00pm at the SF County Fair Building (formerly Hall of Flowers) 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way (in Golden Gate Park).
From their site:
[ZINE FEST] is a FREE annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of DIY life are represented — comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more. SF Zine Fest was founded in 2002 by Jenn of Starfiend Distro.
SF Zine Fest 2010 is brought to you by the hard-working folks at Family Style, New Lights Press, Monkey & Seal, Goteblüd, StreetWorthy Zine, SLAB Comics, and many other wonderful volunteers. We are very excited to be returning to our new home at the San Francisco County Fair Building! The SF County Fair Building is easily accessible by bicycle (lots of parking right out front) and also by public transit: The N train and the 6, 16BX, 43, 44, and 71 bus lines all drop you off within a couple blocks of the Fest! Parking can be more difficult, the adjacent lot is for loading and unloading ONLY. There are some paid parking lots in the nearby Inner Sunset district.
Go to sfzinefest.com for more info!
Matthew, Mark and I will be on hand with a special selection of zines from the Goteblüd store and our usual assortment of Oaf comics and schwag! So if you have yet to snag an OAFEMERA sketchbook or the new Oaf Kitty and Oaf Face shirts, now's the time!
And as if that's not enough, Matthew has curated a show, "PUNK TABLOID", to coincide with the event. It will be on display at the SF County Fair Building for the duration of the weekend and then it moves to the Goteblüd space at 766 Valencia, SF. It will be on display there during normal weekend hours from 9/11/10 through 10/31/10. Go to goteblud.com for more info!
From the press release:
Featured in the show are complete runs of three seminal publications - Search & Destroy, Damage and Another Room Magazine. They exemplify radical, independent publishing in the Bay Area from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The format - oversize newsprint, often with spot color - afforded great graphical capabilities. All three publications realized the potential of the large page, creating beautiful, striking and original layouts that still inspire three decades later.
And there's a panel: A discussion for the show will take place on site from 2:30-3:30pm Saturday 9/4, and features V. Vale (Search & Destroy) and John Gullak (Another Room Magazine), moderated by Matt Wobensmith of Goteblüd.
That about covers it! Mark your calendars... APE is coming up October 16-17th!
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| At last, the wait is over!
NEW OAF SHIRTS ARE HERE, in OAF KITTY and OAF PUSS designs, sizes Small through 3XL! Available for pre-order NOW at wuvableoaf.com (ships August 2) and in very limited quantities at the Prism Booth at Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 22-25!
Also debuting:
The OAFEMERA Sketchbook!
Now available for pre-order online and also at Comic-Con, the first Wuvable Oaf sketchbook, OAFEMERA: The Art of Ed Luce! Twenty pages of Oaf sketches, commissions, personal gift art and other assorted ephemera with commentary by me! Includes sixteen full color reproductions, two mini-fold out sections and a wrap-around cover featuring the Oafs as Lanterns, inspired by DC's recent Blackest Night storyline (please don't sue me Warner Bros). It's another swanky handmade art book with bristol board cover and heavy-weight interior paper!
To reserve your shirts and/or sketchbook, go to wuvableoaf.com right now and snag 'em! This is a pre-order, so if purchased online, your items will ship August 2nd (when we get back from Comic-Con)!
For those attending COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL in SAN DIEGO, read on...!
We'll be partnering with Prism Comics, booth #s 2049, 2146 & 2148, this time for all four days of Comic-Con! As of this moment, my appearance schedule reads like this:
Thursday, July 22nd: 2 PM - 7 PM
Friday, July 23rd: 2 PM - 7 PM
Saturday, July 24th: 9 AM - 2 PM
Sunday, July 25th: 1 PM - 5 PM
So stop by, say howdy and snag some Oaf schwag including the new shirts (in very limited quantities) and sketchbook, as well as our remaining stock of the original shirt designs, the usual array of comics and other goodies!
Also scheduled to appear at Prism: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby), Charles “Zan” Christensen (Mark of Aeacus), Dave Davenport (Hard To Swallow), Dylan “NDR” Edwards (Politically InQueerect), Justin Hall (Glamazonia), Jeff Krell (Jayson), Steve MacIsaac (Shirtlifter), Jon Macy (Teleny and Camille), Brad Rader (Fogtown), Chance Whitmire (Fanboys of the Universe, Fanaticon), Sean-Z (Myth), Brian Andersen (So Super Duper), Paige Braddock (Jane’s World), Abby Denson (Tough Love: High School Confidential), Tim Fish (Cavalcade of Boys), Sina Grace (Books with Pictures), and Michael Troy (The Blonde Squad), among many others! The most up-to-date schedule will be posted daily at the booth....check prismcomics.org for more info!
Also, I'll be participating in a panel...here's the 411:
“Queer Press Grant Roundup”, Saturday, July 24, 3:00-4:00pm, Room #3. Prism Comics started the annual Queer Press Grant in 2005 to help queer cartoonists self-publish their comics. Five years and many thousands of dollars later, the QPG has helped out an impressive lineup of some of the best upcoming LGBT cartoonists and remains one of the only grants available for comics creators today. Prism will kick off the submission process for the 2010 Queer Press Grant at Comic-Con. Join moderator Roger Klorese (Prism Comic's Publications Chair) and past recipients Justin Hall, Ed Luce, and Steve MacIsaac as they discuss applying for the grant, what they've been up to since receiving it, and what's next for both their comics and the grant in 2010.
I think that about covers it! Can't wait to see a bunch of y'all at COMIC-CON!
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Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy and Money Shot / Pig In The City Specials are now available at wuvableoaf.com! Supplies are very limited (after Stumptown, there are fewer than 30 Money Shots left!) so grab yours today!
You can also pick up copies of Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy (while they last) at Isotope Comics
( isotopecomics.com ), 326 Fell Street @ Gough, SFCA.
Both Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy and Money Shot / Pig In The City Specials are available at our Goteblüd store
( goteblud.com ), 766 Valencia between 18th & 19th, SFCA (weekends only).
Bay Area folks, take note: I'll be manning Goteblüd by my lonesome this Saturday from 12 - 5 pm so please feel free stop by, have a chat and get the new books directly from me!
Also, I’m very excited to announce the debut of the first brand-new COLOR Wuvable Oaf comic strip in BEAR Magazine #71! The issue releases May 3rd, so be sure to reserve your copy at your local bookstore or Borders!
Finally, BIG THANKS to all the folks who came out to STUMPTOWN COMICS FEST last weekend. The Oaf got a whole lotta wuv at the event, so we’ll most definitely be back next year!
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| WUVABLE OAF at
STUMPTOWN COMICS FEST
APRIL 24th & 25th in PORTLAND!!!
http://www.stumptowncomics.com
With great excitement I announce Oaf's big debut at Stumptown Comics Fest, this weekend at the Lloyd Center Doubletree Exhibit Hall in Portland, OR! We’ll be at booth #69 for the official launching of the Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy Special! This standard comic-sized mini is limited to a signed and numbered handmade edition of 300!
Also, to commemorate our first Stumptown, I’ve produced a second print of the previously sold-out Money Shot / Pig In The City Special, with new covers! Yeah, I know I said R.I.P. to this issue a while back...but it needed to be resurrected for those folks who've only recently gotten into the Oaf! This unique little version is limited to a signed and numbered handmade edition of 69 (cuz we’re cheeky like that). Any leftovers will be put on the Oaf site the following week, so those that can’t make it to Portland will get their chance to snag one online!
We’ll also have the full line of Oaf schwag and comics, including Wuvable Oafs #0, #1 and #2, Special Editions #1 and #2, Gory Details, the All-Star Bent Comix #1, Kitty Undies shirts, Mug mugs and Trapper Keeper stickers too!
For all the Stumpy info, be sure to hit http://www.stumptowncomics.com !
Prism's Zan Christensen shocks the bejeezus outta me. Photo by Ted Abenheim
In other news, I just wanted to thank Prism Comics (http://prismcomics.org/) once again for naming me co-recipient of this year’s Queer Press Grant (the other half went to Ethan Green creator Eric Orner)! It’s a very great honor and I can’t wait to get started on the project I proposed! The deadline for next year's grant is October 1, 2010, so anyone interested should get their heinies in gear and check out the guidelines: http://prismcomics.org/grant.php
That’s it for now...look for a very brief entry next week, letting everybody know the Ultimate Sacrifice / Muddy Buddy and Money Shot / Pig In The City books have hit http://www.wuvableoaf.com !
And I just might have one more special announcement to reveal too! ;)
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| WONDER CON 2010:
WUVABLE OAF at PRISM COMICS!!!
WUVABLE OAF: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE / MUDDY BUDDY SPECIAL
"SOFT" RELEASE at PRISM COMICS BOOTH #715!!!
I'll be bringing a very limited number of the brand new WUVABLE OAF: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE / MUDDY BUDDY SPECIALs to Wonder Con 2010, April 2 - 4 at Moscone Center in San Francisco! Come visit me at the Prism Comics booth (#715), Friday from 5:00 - 6:00 pm and Saturday from 2:00 - 3:00 pm to score a copy before its official online and store debut this May!!!
I'm also very proud to be taking part in Prism's panel discussion on Friday, April 2, from 3:30 - 4:30 pm in room #220:
Queers, Comedy, and Camp: LGBT Humor Comics
"From campy gag strips to witty graphic novels, LGBT humor has flourished in comics, tackling issues such as coming out, identity politics, relationships, and the vagaries of gay culture. Brian Andersen (So Super Duper), Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf), Sean Seamus McWhinny (Diary of a Catering Whore), Joey Alison Sayers (Thingpart), and Rick Worley (A Waste of Time) are joined by moderator Patty Jeres (Prism Comics Co-President) for a spirited discussion."
In other con news, making a very splashy debut at WC2010 is the Fat Free Comics dynamic duo of John and Frank, in the Small Press area at booth #SP52! Some of you might remember John's most excellent pin-up rendition of the Oaf from Wuvable Oaf #1...well, his own work is bursting with so much vibrant energy and color, it can barely be contained on the printed page! Definitely hit his table in search of his storybook-style comics, including B. Thrustrocket, Magical Fairy Tale Interior Decorator Bears (a personal favorite!) and Undead Doraliah! Visit FatFreeComics.com for more info...including animations!!!
That's it for now...in just a few weeks, I'll be dropping you another line about our appearance at the STUMPTOWN COMICS FEST in Portland, April 24 - 25th! Til then...
Hope to see a bunch of you this weekend!
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