Cat Luchador production #3- Day before TCAF.

 The day before we had to leave for TCAF, printing did not start til after 6PM...

 3 hours later, everything is finally printed.

 Luckily we had 7 sets of hands to help put together the books!

 Lots of paper, lots of beer.

"El Gato Del La Muerta" Issue #1! We were done and I was out of the studio by 11PM. We left NY for Toronto the next morning. We did pretty well at TCAF and Toronto was a blast! Check out some of the photos of our trip from my tumblr.

Cat Luchador production #2

 stacks of paper

 stacks everywhere

Taking out used masters (wet wax paper), this is a method we call "dog pooping" 

**special thanks to our intern Luisa (pictured above) who helped greatly in the production of our Cat Luchador zine!!

Cat Luchador Production #1- Breaking into our new studio Riso machine!

 Color stickers for color drums!

 A new blank color drum.

 Making the new blank drum flourescent pink!

 Test prints.

 Beer and cigarette break on the roof with Choi.

BCGF!!!

 

I'll be at Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest this weekend in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY! BCGF marks my last show of 2012, and I've already started planning my next year, so stay tuned for that news. 

 

Find me downstairs where I'll have on my table the last batch of Nature Nurture zines plus a bunch of prints. I'm at table D20, next to Nobrow Press table. This is one of the more highly anticipated festivals of the year and I'm so excited!!

SPX + new zine!

It's been a while since my last update but I've been busy working on my new fully silkscreened zine and I'll have copies available for SPX this weekend!
Here are some photos of the screen printing I've been doing over the past couple weeks:

 I went in to print shop right when it opened for the school year and it was real nice because nobody was there. 

 Some mushroom prints on the rack.

 Part of my inspiration for determining the palette of the illustrations is the growing popularity of risograph printing. I purposely limited myself to 2 colors for a lot of the book because of it and I'm really happy with the results.

 Bone folding paper. Also, the zine comes in 2 different color covers!

 One of the last steps after stapling, putting it through the guillotine. (the weird looking water bottle is filled with coffee in case anyone is curious....)

Finally, Small Press Expo, here I come! This will be may first time exhibiting at SPX. I've attended previous years and it's loads of fun. I'll be tabling with my friend, the very lovely and incredibly talented Jess Ruliffson, find us at table D12. I also booked a hotel room which will be jam packed with old and new friends. Like every year, SPX will make hanging out in Bethesda a crazy good time like no other. So stoked!!