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!!

Sadly, I won’t be at the I Know Joe Kimpel table at SPX this year, but I will be close enough to throw paper airplanes at them.

Ok, and my comic book Woman King got nominated for one of those award-thingies for Promising New Talent. If you happen to be there, it would be nice if you voted for me. Or, anyone really. Everyone who was nominated in that category is pretty amazing.

That’s all, hope to see you there!

For Immediate Release

Contact: Colleen Frakes
Email: ColleenFrakes@gmail.com
URL: www.iknowjoekimpel.com
Phone: (802) 356-2972

FIRST FRIDAY BOOK RELEASE PARTY

WHERE: Revolution, 26 North Main Street, White River Junction VT, 05001

WHEN: Friday July 3rd, 6pm-9pm

DEBUTING FOUR NEW COMICS:

Woman King by C. Frakes $7
5.5 x 5.5″, 88 pages, perfect bound

http://www.tragicrelief.blogspot.com

A story about a girl raised by bears and the cyclical nature of war.

“(Frakes’) lines are confident and vivid, her backgrounds are lush, and she knows how to apply dry brush strokes in a really effective, elegant way.” Sarah Morean, Daily Crosshatch

Monsters & Girls: Amelia Part 2 by Denis St. John $5

http://denisstjohn.blogspot.com/

36 pages of Twisted Terror!
Amelia faces creatures and horrors both real and imagined in this strange book that brings new meaning to the term “body horror”, for mature audiences only!
The first issue will also be there, and free glow in the dark eye balls!

“Monsters and Girls? What else is there?”-Gilbert Hernandez

Indestructible Universe Quarterly 2, by Morgan Pielli $5
8.25 x 6.75 20 pages

http://www.morganstories.com

Apoplectic aliens. Harmonious hadrosaurs. The ghastly grin of God. Morgan
Pielli’s anthology series Indestructible Universe Quarterly explores the
edge of the human experience by way of the strange and the surreal.

“These are just the kind of books that you hope you’ll come home with…
Really cool, beautifully done, and in turns interesting, exciting, and
inscrutable.” –Jim Ottaviani, Two Fisted Science, Suspended in Language

and

Don’t Hate, Menstruate by Jen Vaughn $5
5 x8 1/2″ 24 pages

http://thevaughncurse.com/

A 24 page comic made in 24 hours focusing on one girl’s trials and errors (and more errors) with different feminine products.

“Bloody Good Comics. Period.” -Dennis Pacheco of Neon Girl

“These comics are good…it’s about time a woman came in and did a little menstruating on the place, ya know?” -Liz Baillie of My Brain Hurts

ABOUT THE LOCATION

Revolution is open Seven Days a Week - Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm, Sundays 12pm-5p

Revolution is a dynamic independent boutique featuring eco-chic apparel & ultimate gear for men and women.

Established in 2002, founder, Kim Souza modeled Revolution after urban thrift legends including, Eva B’s (Montreal), Beacon’s Closet (Brooklyn) and The Garment District (Cambridge).

In 2007, Kim partnered up with mother-daughter team, Ann & Simi Johnston, to reinvent Revolution to become the most radical shopping experience in the Upper Connecticut River Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire.

Mixed with a core of pristine vintage clothing, you’ll now find a series of collections from local independent designers, a vast selection of reconstructed apparel, 7th Avenue designer surplus, accessories & housewares made from recycled & vintage materials, all blended with new merchandise which meets our standards of a sustainable ethic of production

Contact us via: info@shoptherev.com or 802.295.6487

Free Food and Drinks at the Event!

Stumptown 2009 was two tons of fun!

I Know Joe Kimpel shared table space with the Center for Cartoon Studies, Tragic Relief and Jon Chad Comics.

As usual, Girls Don’t Poop was the bestseller, with Jon’s comics coming in at a close second. There are new Girls Don’t Poop and Tragic Relief t-shirts, which will also be at MECAF, MoCCA and SPX!

Pictures soon, right now, sleep!

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.

Denis St. John, Colleen Frakes, Emily Wieja and Lauren O’Connell from I Know Joe Kimpel were all at APE, and we had an amazing time!

If you didn’t see us there, it might be because we forgot our banners.

I ran to Walgreens and bought some markers and a roll of craft paper, and we made a NEW banner, ten times better than the old one! Hand turkeys make everything better.

Here are some highlights from the trip:

#1 Meeting Matt Groening!

As an alumni of The Evergreen State College, Matt Groening, the creator of Life in Hell and The Simpsons, and fellow Geoduck is one of my heroes. So, when I saw him walk by our table I couldn’t help but call him over and gush and try to give him copies of my books for free. He wouldn’t take the freebies, but he did buy copies of good number of what we had out on the table! This was the highlight of the trip for me. Apologies to anyone I run into for the next couple of weeks, because I can’t stop talking about it.

#2 Free beer!

Across the street from APE at this place called Mars Bar, there was a release party for a book called that I think was called Dr. Graves, a Google search has turned up nothing. But there were free drinks and creepy masks to be had!

#3 Reunion!

It was great to hang out with all of the fellow CCS alumni, now that we’ve scattered to the far corners. I miss you guys!

Look out, lovelies, I’m coming to your town! Also, if you’re interested in purchasing my new book but you want to avoid having to go somewhere and wear earplugs, that can be arranged right here.

In more ways than one. The weather was hot, the books were even hotter, and there was a fire scare in the Puck building that sent us all out into the blazing inferno for a half-hour or so. But the I Know Joe Kimpel crew had a great time this year despite (or because of) all the hawtness.

First, we sacrificed a small goat to Billy before we set off for MoCCA, to ensure a good harvest.

Then we hung up our sweet new banner.

Bob Oxman and Jeff Lok stood proudly beneath the banner, overseeing our wares.

Colleen Frakes had an impressive spread of books, and sold out of all the copies she brought with her of the new Xeric edition of Tragic Relief. Don’t worry, there are still copies to be had in the IKJK online store.

Girls Don’t Poop was the surprise sensation of the IKJK table, and Mario van Buren is working on reprinting as we speak.

After that poop mania spread through MoCCA like wildfire!

Ken Dahl graced our table with a stack of Welcome to the Dahlhouse.

Denis St. John distracted Lynda Barry so that we could snap this covert pic.

But then Emily and her mom managed to corral Lynda at her What It Is book signing and convinced her to take a legit, if geeky, photo with them. What a lovely lady she is, and meeting her was truly one of the highlights of MoCCA ‘08.

Sam Gaskin showed off his dry underarms at the Secret Acres table. His new book Fatal Faux Pas kicks ass!

Soon it was time to count our cash.

Mad billz.

In short, MoCCA ‘08 was awesome. Keep checking the blog in the coming weeks as we’ll have many new books for sale in the MoCCA aftermath.

Colleen Frakes is hosting a release party for her new Xeric book! Colleen’s series “Tragic Relief” netted her the Xeric award, and her grant went towards printing up a handsome new edition of her work. Come to the Main Street Museum in White River Junction, VT, on May 31st at 7 for the release party.

It will also be the co-release party for Secrets & Lies, a new anthology edited by friend-of-CCS Cat Garza.