Stumptown!

"Yes, Stumptown has come and gone" slurs Funhouse mainman Fredo "and I have little in the way of money or comics to show for it but the memories...oh the memories!" You can also find some pictures here.

"Sales were just so-so." he continues "Guys, no more Friday/Saturday cons, okay?". SPX reportedly suffered from this as well. "Can't complain though, I jump at any opportunity to go to Portland. Everything was pretty well received. Of the few comics I got there, Bad Grades by Carla Yacenda and Fathers and Sons by Elijah J. Brubaker stand out."

Portland has become the land of cartoonists in the last few years. Ranks have swollen with the recent relocation of Jesse Reklaw, Andrice Arp, T. Edward Bak, Zack Soto and others. The city is also home to industry heavy-hitters Dark Horse, Top Shelf and Oni.

IN OTHER NEWS

Circus Peanut has been pulled from the Funhouse catalog



Rarely has a comic turned heads and then stomachs like this book. The fall-out has landed directly on that lousy nogoodnik, Dirty Sanchez. "Do sumpin' wif elves and leather", he wrote in a leaked internal memo "Dat shit is funny to me, an' I know funny! I am Dirty Sanchez, yo!". Well guess what else you are, Dirty. Fired! That's what! Pack your bindle and hit the bricks!

Until Dirty's position is filled, the incomparable Phil Legris will step up handling quality control as well as creative direction. "What's another hat?" he was quoted as saying earlier "I already wear The Funhouse Fez, Bowler and Beret. Just throw Sanchez's Sombrero on top after you take it to the drycleaner.". What a trooper! Among projects he'll be assisting on are the long awaited B'Nau-5000 #2 and Black Sheep #3. Stay tuned.

Until next time, BOOYAH!
Percy Gondwana

SPXcetera

SPX went relatively well. Sales on BlackSheep #2 were healthy, though hardly staggering. This is due to a couple of things: Greater D.C. is a considerably more conservative area than my own Bay Area or New York (where my sales are always much better) there were also issues with traffic flow (or lack of) in the convention center itself. For most of the first day only one door was open at the far corner of the hall. The few people who made it all the way around to our side were pretty well picked clean. They opened two more doors on the second day, which helped considerably. Still, Friday sales (and, really...a Friday con in that area is just foolish) were so abysmal that the rally on Saturday didn't make up for it.

The new location is far from ideal as well. It's several stops up in White Flint and doesn't have half the accoutrements that the old location does. The closest restaurants were Arby's and McDonalds. Locating essentials like beer proved to be
pretty difficult too.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all bad! I really enjoyed hanging out with my friends and table mates, Geoff Vasille (Trackrabbit) Joe Sayers (Thingpart) and Justin Decarlo (Hypertoast). I also got to meet a few people that I've encountered only in the pages of anthologies and online like Onsmith, Eleanor Davis and Kaz(imir). There's more but I can't remember them right now through the haze of beer.

IN OTHER NEWS

Dirty Sanchez has been released from his contract in the Funhouse Quality Assurance Department for reasons that I can't discuss (seriously, don't ask). Stay tuned for the announcement of his replacement.





Former Funhouse Quality Assurance Fictitious Person Dirty Sanchez

BlackSheep # 2

Premiering at SPX.