Dark Corners, our latest 4-Square book, along with the new anthology Funny Aminals, will be having a joint mini-tour later in October. Dates will be:

Friday October 16th: Desert Island in NYC (Williamsburg, Bk), 7pm-9pm

Saturday October 17th: Hub Comics in Boston (Union Square, Somerville), 7pm-9pm

Sunday October 18th: Ada Books, Providence RI, 2pm-4pm

And we’re going to be giving away some free gifts with purchase! A copy of the gorgeous tour poster by Ignatz-winning artist Cat Garza will be available with purchase of Funny Aminals, and a limited-edition Dark Corners blank notebook/sketchbook will be given away with each purchase of Dark Corners.

Hope to see you there!!

From the Daily Cross Hatch:
Frakes has come a long way since her earlier mini Tragic Relief (which was later re-drawn for the Xeric-funded release). Her lines are confident and vivid, her backgrounds are lush, and she knows how to apply dry brush strokes in a really effective, elegant way. Attending the Center for Cartooning Studies has clearly had a huge impact on how she works.

From Rob Clough at High-Low:
Frakes’ work reminds me a bit of Eleanor Davis in the way she works in myth and allegory, putting a modern spin on it…Like Davis, there’s a sensitivity in her line that borders on fragility, informing the actions and gestures of her characters.

From Henry Chamberlain at Newsarama:
Colleen Frakes’ Woman King, a continuation on her take on fables and myth. Since her Xeric winning Tragic Relief, her work has gotten sharper and the scope of her storytelling keeps getting more complex. A recent graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, Frakes finds herself coming into her own with Woman King giving us a distinctive style and vision.

And a nice mention from Brett Warnock at Top Shelf:
I got her awesome book Woman King, too, but in mini-comic form only. I saw at MoCCA that it’s out now as an a beautifully designed “real” book.

Buy a copy for yourself here!

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

I KNOW JOE KIMPEL TO CELEBRATE LAUNCH OF “TRIVIAL” ANTHOLOGY
Comics collective to hold book release party in Greenwich Village of NYC

I Know Joe Kimpel and Thompson Street Comics will host a party to celebrate the launch of the latest 4-Square anthology “Trivial.” On Friday, April 3rd, creators, friends and comics enthusiasts will gather at the specialty comic book store located at 215 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village of New York City. Festivities will begin at 7:30 P.M. and wrap up at 9:00 P.M.

ABOUT “TRIVIAL”: “Trivial” marks the 3rd volume in a series of 4-Square anthologies brought to you by 4-cartoonists of I Know Joe Kimpel. Featuring the works of Xeric-award winning cartoonists Alex Kim (Wall City) and Alexis Frederick-Frost (La Primavera / Adventures in Cartooning), Sean Ford (the highly-acclaimed self-published Only Skin mini-series) and A.L. Arnold, this anthology invites you to imagine the mundane aspects of superherodom, the base desires of Antarctic explorers, the hidden life of hands, and the everyday musings of a ghost.

I am in the new issue of Kuti Kuti, not only that, I’m the only American in this one!

“KUTI is a free full colour comic newspaper that is published quarterly and distributed in Finland by Kutikuti and our friends. Our aim is to provide a publication format for new free form graphic literature and art. Kuti is bi-langual, in Finnish with English translation. Along with comics we sometimes include articles about authors, publications and phenomenons that we like.”

Get a subscription, it’s worth it!

This week I created letterpress covers for my new mini comic, Woman King, which will be debuting at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend, November 1st and 2nd. Woman King is 16 pages, 6 x 3.5″, $2. It continues the story of the little girl adopted by a sleuth of bears that first appeared in I Know Joe Kimpel’s 2nd 4-Square Anthology, No.

Of course, we’ll have plenty of copies of No for sale. No contains new work by Jon Chad, Morgan Pielli, Lauren O’Connell, and me, Colleen Frakes. 7×7″, 60 pages, b+w interiors with a silkscreen cover, a bargain at $6!

’twill be available at SPX, and elsewhere afterward!

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Tuesday September 16, 2008

Contact:
Colleen Frakes
ColleenFrakes@gmail.com

Featuring exhibits and performances by nearly 60 Dartmouth employees, the third annual ArtWorks Festival will be held on Wednesday, September 17, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., in Alumni Hall and the Top of the Hop.

On exhibit will be artwork by Colleen Frakes from the latest I Know Joe Kimpel “Four Square Anthology”, No, as well as a preview copy of the book featuring stories by John Chad, Lauren O’Connell, Colleen Frakes and Morgan Pielli.

The Four Square Book, No, will debut at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD on October 4th and 5th.
It will be available for purchase on October 6th at www.iknowjoekimpel.com

The book is 7″ square, 56 pages, b+w with a screenprinted color cover, retail price $6

The Artworks Festival is free and open to the public.
More information, including the performance schedule, is available at www.dartmouth.edu/~hrs/artworks/

Issue one of a planned eight-part series, Jeff Lok’s Pockmarked Apocalypse got a great review on The Daily Crosshatch recently. We’re now selling this lovely comic book at the I Know Joe Kimpel Store, so check it out here! Check out some sample pages below- great stuff!

That’s right, “Girls Don’t Poop,” the instant classic from Mario Van Buren, is now available for purchase right here!

It’s a steal at only $2! Order extras to give to your friends, parents, classmates, co-workers, bartender, mailman, grandmother, priest and/or rabbi, mayor, chiropractor, shoe shine boy, stripper, mechanic, pet, pilot, drug dealer, sports hero, and hair stylist!