New Mini-Comic Available

I've got a new mini-comic that you can buy. The Mall Preview is a 20 page mini-comic following three characters in a small city where chain stores are affecting locally-owned and run businesses. The Mall is a pet project that has been calling to me again recently and Jimmy even showed up in this year's Sketch Charlotte Anthology. While there are always changes that I'd love to make, I'm happy with the end product. I've also managed to make them cheap enough that I hope you'll share them with friends.

50 cents plus the cost of a stamp.

Please Buy Something

I don't like doing these posts, just blatantly selling stuff. However, it's part of the role of an artist. I have a few things that are ways you can show me some love and help my family pay bills, eat food, and the such. I am posting this now mainly because a little extra cash would be really useful right now. Really useful.

Original Artwork

I sell original art and other hand made items on Etsy. I mostly reserve my Etsy shop for selling the original art, and I tend to sell it rather cheap. I'm even selling the jet-pack I made and used to haul around to conventions.

Why do I use Etsy? Well, it's to reach a wider audience. I have sold artwork to people I don't know, and I'm pretty certain they found me through Etsy. There's lots of good stuff there as well, so browse it it if you haven't for a while.

The Art of Stan Ford: The first full-color collection of artwork done in the years spanning the run of Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01. It sports a dust cover and 36 pages of artwork, commentary, and sketches. Features an introduction by Brandon Padgett of Sketch Charlotte.

$10.00 w/ free shipping!

Commissions

I’ll do commissioned drawings. These will not be sketches, but fully rendered drawings, detail depending on the subject you request. All drawings will be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ card stock, making them easy to find a frame for. Depending on the subject matter, the medium will be charcoal or ink. Either way, you’ll have a nice darkly rendered drawing to show off. The price for a drawing is $25, as long as you’re not asking for more than three people in it.

I’ll also do 5″ x 8 1/2″ for $10, with the same level of detail as the larger drawings.

I hear you asking, how will this work?

First off, e-mail me at carpaltunnelpress@gmail.com, letting me know what you want. If you want a likeness of someone, send me a photo. I draw comics, but for you, I’ll draw just about anything. When I’m done, I’ll e-mail you a watermarked scan of your drawing, at a resolution of 72 dpi.

How do you get money to me? I prefer PayPal, but you can mail me a check, if you want. Once I have the money, I’ll mail you your drawing in a plastic sleeve and inside a reinforced envelope, clearly marked “DO NOT BEND.” If you have trouble with your mailman bending your large mail to fit, consider having it sent to a work address.

Other books I've done

I have a limited supply of these books. Once I sell out I'll take them out of this post. Until then, there's more here that you can buy and see what else I've done.

		Bunkee #4 collects the first part of the Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01, including a couple of nice, themed parody ads.Just $1.50
		Bunkee #3 is a sketchbook special, featuring sneak peeks at upcoming work such as wrestling, Jet-Pack Jenny, and some stuff that’s fallen to the wayside, but has not been forgotten.Just $2.00
		The Failure Anthology is an anthology from the five creators that made up Failure in 2003. Each creator gives their tale of a time in their lives when they felt like a failure. Five autobiographical tales in a full-size 32-page comic. Chris Allen of Movie Poop Shoot said about Failure,”Not a bad book overall, with a good theme, clever design and very funny cover idea; the refrigerator with the failing report card on it,” and had great things to say about the individual creators. He even mentioned it in his “best of 2003″ report. Steven Grant of Comic Book Resources said about Failure,”It reads pretty well, keeping the entries fairly short and tight, with most participants resisting the urge to explain themselves and demand sympathy. (A big problem with most autobiographical comics; if criticism demands ruthlessness, autobiography demands it in spades.) It’s good.” Other people love Failure, what are you waiting for? Just $2.00!
		Too Scared To Die I just stumbled across a print run of my first minicomic, Too Scared To Die. This is the last chance to get the autobiographical comic done as I was exiting the world of art school and setting my sail into the world of comics and all the anxiety that brings. A lot has changed since then, so this is the last chance to get this comic.Just $2.50

That's a lot of ways you can help me out by sending money and getting quality stuff in return.

Thank You, Thank You!

Right before the weekend, The Kickstarter goal was reached! Today, I'm starting on the incentive drawings, and those contributors local to me that pledged $25 or more will get theirs personally from me early, as they get done. I'll post the drawings as I get them done.

While I didn't mention it in the Kickstarter pitch, even on the 8 1/2" x 11" drawings I'll try to accommodate requests, but can't guarantee anything. The (so far) two color pieces I have to do I will accommodate as much to the letter as I can.

Thanks again, everybody!

I can curb back now on the relentless Tweets begging for contributions, but I would be remiss in not mentioning that just because I reached the goal, you can still get in on the incentive drawings by contributing here.

Update on FCBD

I'm sad to say that I will not be at Borderlands for Free Comic Book Day. Things outside of my control have just conspired to make it impossible to make the trip to Greenville.

I am still in the Sketch Charlotte anthology that you can get at Heroes Aren't Hard to Find in Charlotte, NC. I'm proud of my little four-page contribution to this year's effort and hope that you can pick it up. The Mall Preview will soon be available here on a special page for buying comics.

Just a reminder, thanks to a lot of help from a lot of good friends, I'm almost to my goal for getting Factor of 01 printed. If you haven't pledged, please do so! Worse than not getting anywhere near enough contributions would be falling just short. Just click the box over to the right or go here.

A Fresh Slate

I'm starting over here. A lot of things led to moving my stuff from my own web site to this space. I'll get into those at a later date.

Help Get Jet-Pack Jenny printed

The Kickstarter project to get Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01 printed has been launched! Go here to contribute at a level that gets you some nice incentives!

It took me five years to finish the story, but I'm very happy with it, and I feel like it's actually worth asking people to contribute to see it happen. I just need $400 contributed in order to meet my printing goals, but if more is contributed, I'll be able to print more copies. No money will go to waste.I will be printing these in July and shipping out as soon as I receive them from the printer.

So what will the printed collection contain? It will be 40 pages, containing all of the strips printed three to a page, with the book measuring  8" x 7 1/4", making every strip so much easier to read than if I tried to print this as a mini-comic and do two to a page. It also frees up lots of room for guest artwork, annotations giving you a behind the scenes peek at the making of the comic and sketches from the making of the comic.

Just in case you need more prompting to donate and make this book a reality, here are the donation incentives:

• Donate $10 or more and get a copy of the book with a free head sketch of the lead character, Jet-Pack Jenny. This head sketch will be inserted on a separate 5" x 8" card.


• Donate $25 or more and get a copy of the book and a free full body sketch w/background of Jet-Pack Jenny on 8 1/2" x 11" Bristol.


• Donate $50 or more and get the $25 reward and a piece of original art from the story. All original art is in strip format. I don't think I need to say that you'll get your choice of which strip, provided it's available. Two are no longer available.


• Donate $100 or more and you get the $50 reward plus an original drawing of Jet-Pack Jenny done to your requested subject matter, hand colored, drawn on 11" x 17" Bristol. In case you're counting that'll be two drawings and a piece of original art!

Your help in getting this published would be greatly appreciated, and hoping to have to draw a lot to show how much I appreciate it.

Free Comic Book Day

Another Free Comic Book Day has come around, and once again, I'll be at Borderlands Comics and Games in Greenville, SC for their event. Last year was a blast and if you're in the area, then you should make it one of your stops. I'll be doing free sketches along with many other artists.

I'll also have copies of the 2012 Sketch Charlotte Anthology that I have a four page story in. It's 24 pages of comics from some of my friends in Sketch Charlotte that are great cartoonists. To the left, you'll find a page of my story that you'll find in the anthology.

I'm also going to have copies of my 20 page Mall Preview for 50 cents each. Because my FCBD anthology story uses characters from it, it just seemed appropriate to offer it for sale. Details will be coming soon if you want to buy a copy from me through the web site.

FCBD looks to be very fun all the way around! I hope I get to see you there!