STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo 2008

/> Robin and Toby Craig w/ the kids from Brooklyn.
/> When the drop light is not loud enough get Marianne.
/> some guy.. a cartoonist or something.
/> Another random person. Didn’t catch his name.
/> Free High Fives!
/> David DeGrand and Barry Rodgers left thier wives while they checked out comics. They were very excited.
/> I was eating at the pizza place when I saw this. It’s what I imagine heaven is like.
/> Couples skate ONLY!
/> Holy Moley, there was a cute girl under all that stuff!
/> Fred Grisolm was cool enough to do a little advertising for me.
/> After zooming and adjusting the contrast you can read the sign " Cultural Void is drawn by a homo" The other side said "sapien".. I hope.
/> This is Angelle and Ryan. She is from New Orleans where her dad lost everything in the flood. Her comics are very cute, and her book was very funny and touching you missed out if you didn’t get one. Go to her site and see if you can buy one!
http://krahsloop.livejournal.com/
/> I think this is the guy from the Boondocks.
/> We have to beat the ladies off with a stick.. the zombie ladies.
/> and a random picture of some Mexican He-men I own. Skeletron and Skeletrex.

Dude, wheres MY pic???? :cry:

/> I’m married so I had to pretend like I was taking a picture of some dude.
Yeah, that’s my story..

I’m more than a bit wiped out today, as I’m sure many others of you are. For now I’d like to post this one picture of Uncle Staple, something that I think sums up the whole STAPLE! weekend:
/> Thanks to everyone who made STAPLE! what it is. By "everyone" I mean the organizers, exhibitors, volunteers, attendees, and the members of this forum.

/> I’m married so I had to pretend like I was taking a picture of some dude.
Yeah, that’s my story..[/quote:95d8482bfa]grins
I look ridiculous, and that is one of the only times all weekend I wasnt sporting cleavage but I like it! :D

awesome pics Dave!!!

Here’s a selection of the pics I took this weekend. These are straight from the camera, no tweaks other than resizing.
Jason Degroot, man of many comics.
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Noppie is known for having opinions about soda. He didn’t hold back.
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Kit Lively is living proof that a man with comics talent can snare an attractive companion.
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Chad "Chaired" Hopper looks like a nice guy. And that’s precisely what he wants you to think.
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Danielle Corsetto risked carpal tunnel to finish sketches for attendees.
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The men of Weevishams Fine Handcrafted Fictions gave our first presentation of the day. I arrived in time to learn a new meaning of the word "tuber."
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Manton, the STAPLE! webmaster, defender of the forum’s right to exist despite repeated attacks, and a tireless STAPLE! organizer. Tireless? Okay, sleepless.
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Dave Crosland holds off a fan in order to answer a phone call.
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The winner of the first STAPLE! raffle of the day. I’m not sure if she went to Disneyland afterward.
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Toby Craig educated folks about DIY bookmaking. Then he swore all attendees never to reveal his methods, upon pain of severe paper cuts.
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Meghann Rosales smiled for the camera despite any doubts she may have had about where the photos would end up.
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Josh Howard created a new story that was optioned by Steven Spielberg before the end of the day.
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Nikki Bertrand and her mom, when they stand next to each other, provide enough energy to power a small city.
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Nate Southard and Danny Blount of Frequency Press sold books covering both major comic genres: car chases and redneck zombies.
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The Xeric award winners (L to R): Michael LaRiccia, Summer McClinton, Emily Benz, and Alex "Dance Machine" Cahill.
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The folks from Playground Ghosts had quite a colorful spread. Ghost-colored is the new black.
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A STAPLE! exclusive: Christian Beranek revealed this image from the upcoming [i:1c9774c22c]Dracula vs. King Arthur # 4[/i:1c9774c22c] for the very first time. When he finds out I posted this I’m gonna wake up undead.
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Geoff Sebesta sold comics in English and in French. And possibly in Martian.
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This is what Miss Monster looks like from the ground after she knocks you on your pansy ass.
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Charlene McBride of the Austin Zine Library created the cuddliest office product of all time, the Staplegator plush.
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Keith Knight remained calm throughout his presentation, not in the least disturbed that several members of the audiences actually laughed themselves to death.
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David Hopkins and Brock Rizy reviewed their plans for taking over next year’s show.
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Dave Crosland and Jim Mahfood exhibited all day and painted all night, and the last I heard they were talking about staying up to continue partying. They probably have to drink just to keep from going supernova from all that artistic energy.
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Jason Chalker, realizing that Northcross Mall pizza was not perhaps the healthiest choice for lunch, had the foresight to bring his own food.
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Uncle Staple confirmed that Marianne Ways announced the winners of the STAPLE! raffles, the Austin equivalent of the Oscars.
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Drew Edwards and Jami Deadly, back in black.
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Tony Millionaire entertained the audience and himself during his Q&A session with Fanboy Radio’s Scott Hinze.
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As they talked the serious talk of comics, neither Paige Braddock nor Randy Lander acknowledged the existence of the fully frontally nude statue named "The Birth of Fiction" located nearby. That’s professionalism.
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Keith Knight, Tony Millionaire, Christine Pointeau, Christian Beranek, and Chad Hopper are attended by fans taking their drink orders.
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Harrison won the last door prize. Korey Coleman, for reasons that are yet unclear, began undressing as soon as the camera was pointed in his direction.
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After the show ended, there wasn’t a lot of time to pack up, eat, and head to The Ritz downtown for the Live Art show. Uncle Staple leadfooted across town.
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Dave Crosland and Jim Mahfood put on a hell of a Live Art show at The Ritz downtown.
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Live Art crowd scene #1: at the back of the picture you can see Crosland and Mahfood casting long shadows over the whole evening.
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Live Art crowd scene #2: hey, isn’t that you, in the back? No, not that one, the other one.
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Rafael Navarro and Nate Southard brokebacked the night away out of sight of their lady friends.
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DJ Digg and his crew provided some seriously cool music throughout the night. Thanks, guys.
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yeah, that shirt Korey is wearing was literally the one off my back!! lol. good times. :lol:

/> saved the freaking show!!!
thanks for fixing what the venue effed up!
get in touch w/me man!

someone gave me video of Alex Cahill at the afterparty:

a selection of the pics I took this weekend. These are straight from the camera, no tweaks other than resizing.
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hahahaha… those are great!

Hooray! I had so much fun this weekend, it was lovely meeting all of you. I can’t belive the insane amount of photos that I took, so instead of trying to post them all I’m just going to give you this high five from Chris…
/> And here is [url=http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dollomite/album?.dir=18f8&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos]a link to the rest of photos[/url]
Enjoy! And please feel free to let me know the names that I left out or yell at me if I got names wrong.

/> The guy in the background was answering the question "how awesome are Marianne and Colleen?"

Aww, those pictures make me wish I had gotten to go even more!!
I so want a staplegator plush and a staple! t-shirt!!!

gave me video of Alex Cahill at the afterparty[/quote:d32a76897f]
Dude. Alex was a [i:d32a76897f]dancing machine[/i:d32a76897f] at the party! But then again, if I was Alex right now, I’d probably do a little dance too.

Great photos! Over the next few days we’ll start linking to everyone’s photo galleries and weblog write-ups from the main STAPLE! site. I also took the liberty of grabbing a few of Gary and Dave’s for the home page, but we can cycle those out with people’s permission.

Wow, an actual nice picture of me! Thanks!

Wow…is my table cloth really THAT orange?

photos! Over the next few days we’ll start linking to everyone’s photo galleries and weblog write-ups from the main STAPLE! site. I also took the liberty of grabbing a few of Gary and Dave’s for the home page, but we can cycle those out with people’s permission.[/quote:bf0f1a247f]
yay! Use ‘em up!

/> Angelle Barboza took a picture of me WITH a stapler, proof that things were being stapled in an exciting way, hence the name Staple!
Here’s the rest of her pictures.
http://krahsloop.livejournal.com/99530.html?#cutid1

Ok, this took way longer than it should have, but here is my LJ post about the show: http://dollomite.livejournal.com/116765.html
And Dave, it’s so true. The guy in that photo caught on pretty quickly. He also told me to tell you that you have "whale teeth", whatever that means.

have "whale teeth", whatever that means.
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hahahaha… my teeth are tiny! It’s like I have a mouth full of chicklettes.
Great, now I want Chickletes.

Feel free to check out my report on STAPLE!, along with my pictures from the Live Art Show:

STAPLE kicked ass and then Mahfood and Crosland’s art and music jam later that night kicked more. Asses were sore for miles around…. that sounds wrong. Anyway, I’ve only been in town for a total of five weeks so it was cool that this con is one of my introductions to the city.
a set of pictures from the art and music jam at The Ritz[/url] There’s 24 in all. I’m not in any of them though. Although the last picture is an accurate representation of what I saw by the end of the night.
Here’s a picture of me and two other people from the con though.
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I’m the pale guy on the right in the guy-with-a-raygun T-shirt, and I look like I’m asleep. Never trust random people in hallways to take a picture without explaing how the camera works first.

Ok I’m still working on my pics and report for my blog, but these are my three fave pics….
/>Me and Rafael with Chris lurking in the background… what is with that lil gleam in his eye? lol.
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Me and Nate as taken by Rafael… drink much? And Nate looks like hes about to pimp slap him!
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This very lonely man who needed a blowup date and let Drew DRAG him off the street to take a pic with us.

What is up with my mouth in that picture? I look like I have palsy or something?!

free to check out my report on STAPLE!, along with my pictures from the Live Art Show:
/> Great report man. Good to see you again.

is up with my mouth in that picture? I look like I have palsy or something?![/quote:b53f04a4c6]You were saying "bitch better have my money"

I was going to meet up with people at the Magnolia Cafe after Ritz closed for the night, but ended up going home instead. Good thing I don’t live far from there because I was seeing this by that time.

From paperclips06:
/> Contact Chris for a T-shirt and Charlene (ursonate) for a Staplegator Plush. Post a reply and I can send you their email addresses privately.

/> The guy in the background was answering the question "how awesome are Marianne and Colleen?"[/quote:6fb2e5af0f]
Woo!
Though are you sure he wasn’t saying "How awesome is the fake goatee colleen has in this shot"!
I must say the level of the awesome Beardage at STAPLE! was ridiculously high. I’m TOTALLY going to work on my own before next year.

/>Contact Chris for a T-shirt and Charlene (ursonate) for a Staplegator Plush. Post a reply and I can send you their email addresses privately.[/quote:4c4e69e843]
The Staplegator plushes are on Etsy.com, too, if she hasn’t sold out, but I can’t remember her name on there. It may be "ursonate" but I can’t remember (although I just saw it on these forums somewhere the other day…).

You can check out my Staple report here: http://repercussioncomics.wordpress.com/2006/03/05/the-staple-2006-report/
Chris, I emailed Marc with your contact info regarding saving the show :), hopefully he’ll be in touch with you soon. Great to see everyone at the show!

Yet another good con report. Thanks.
After the show we were wondering where the STAPLE! scavenger hunt cards came from, and now that I’ve read your con report I know it was you. Several of us organizers liked the idea, and I expect we’ll be talking about it when we have our next STAPLE! meeting.

another good con report. Thanks.
After the show we were wondering where the STAPLE! scavenger hunt cards came from, and now that I’ve read your con report I know it was you. Several of us organizers liked the idea, and I expect we’ll be talking about it when we have our next STAPLE! meeting.[/quote:7c3bb6e42c]
Cool! I hope you guys have better luck with it than I did :) I’m going to try a scaled down version of it at SPACE in May.

Staplegators are here: http://www.etsy.com/view_item.php?listing_id=112331
Buy one!
For some reason my username over there is Blindstitch.

very lonely man who needed a blowup date and let Drew DRAG him off the street to take a pic with us.[/quote:37194e5155]
I think that’s probably my favorite memory of Staple this year too. ;)

Gawd that was too funny… what did u tell him to get him over to us anyway?

that was too funny… what did u tell him to get him over to us anyway?[/quote:8f3a52d313]
It was very simple really. I said some friends of mine wanted to meet him.
He asked who my friends were. I said a couple of gals. He walked over there.
Hook.
Line.
Sinker.
Hell…I coulda been Jack the Ripper for all he knew. Guess he was too drunk to care.

Yea, and did u hear when he wanted us in the pic with him I yell out
"Yeah, obviously the guy can’t get a REAl date so let’s give him a thrill!"’
He wasnt even offended. :lol:

another good con report. Thanks.
After the show we were wondering where the STAPLE! scavenger hunt cards came from, and now that I’ve read your con report I know it was you. Several of us organizers liked the idea, and I expect we’ll be talking about it when we have our next STAPLE! meeting.[/quote:c795eb4d2e]
I’ve already nicked the idea for the thing show. But i’m not going to tell you.

another good con report. Thanks.
After the show we were wondering where the STAPLE! scavenger hunt cards came from, and now that I’ve read your con report I know it was you. Several of us organizers liked the idea, and I expect we’ll be talking about it when we have our next STAPLE! meeting.[/quote:07633850ca]
I’ve already nicked the idea for the thing show. But i’m not going to tell you.[/quote:07633850ca]
Just call it Scavenger Hunt UK and we’re cool.

and did u hear when he wanted us in the pic with him I yell out
"Yeah, obviously the guy can’t get a REAl date so let’s give him a thrill!"’
He wasnt even offended. :lol:[/quote:2f7275e2fb]
Some people are just sad. He was one of them.

and did u hear when he wanted us in the pic with him I yell out
"Yeah, obviously the guy can’t get a REAl date so let’s give him a thrill!"’
He wasnt even offended. :lol:[/quote:fcafa32d6d]
Some people are just sad. He was one of them.[/quote:fcafa32d6d]
as a sad person, I am offended!

He looked kinda happy to me. Maybe he was crying on the inside.

Damn right he was happy! You don’t see where my other hand is! :lol:

right he was happy! You don’t see where my other hand is! :lol:[/quote:de6ade3419]
OK, now [i:de6ade3419]I’m [/i:de6ade3419]getting…happy.

My wife Melissa posted [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/mel-x/110655196/in/photostream/]these photos[/url] on her flickr account.

Hahahaha! No pictures of me posted.
That rocks! I see that I have thus far attained my goal of no photographic proof of my existence.
Excellent!!!
:twisted:

But u forget dear tess, I HAVE a pic of you darling! wait till my report(s) get posted :twisted:

Damn it!!!
But wait, I thought that was a "private" picture….......you promised you weren’t going to show that to anyone, or else you know I never would have worn that outfit. It was all your idea!!!
8)

Oh no no no! Not THAT picture!! That one is all mine, I snuck another one fully clothed and without the riding crop in your teeth! :wink:

Oh thank [b:73cb7353fc]god[/b:73cb7353fc]!
big sigh of relief
Just had to double check which pic you were teasing me with. Although I have to say the riding crop was [b:73cb7353fc]hot[/b:73cb7353fc]!!! My week has been so dull since you left…..sad lonely tess…..
:twisted:

But the red marks and bruising should last a while longer ;) I know I have your bite mark still imbeded in my ass. :lol:

No pain, no gain is what I always say. :D
Well you know, I have been told quite a bit this last week that biting is indeed my specialty. I received a rather nice response from the woman I saw last night. :wink:
bad tess!!!

wife Melissa posted [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/mel-x/110655196/in/photostream/]these photos[/url] on her flickr account.[/quote:c959ab5060]
wow, those are really good!

No pictures of me posted.
That rocks! I see that I have thus far attained my goal of no photographic proof of my existence.
Excellent!!!
:twisted:[/quote:a0b2bc07f1]
sorry to break it to you but
/> though you managed to look away I still gotcha!

see that I have thus far attained my goal of no photographic proof of my existence. [/quote:7a9ad47cb5]
Well, here’s another picture besides the one Uncle Staple posted.
/> Background: Live Art at The Ritz
Midground: Mahfood, woman # 1 with beer, woman # 2 laughing (?)
Foreground: Tess guzzles something from a red cup while looking at the trio (or perhaps a specific member thereof) instead of at the camera.

So we now have conclusive proof that the back of Tess’s head does indeed exist!

I have photographic evidence of the front! Check out my staple report (the unofficial one) on my blog . http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=18137417&blogID=96827665&Mytoken=15284486-9CAA-6972-721C1539C8A9669F29013720

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dude! that’s sweet!