OILY at TCAF 2012

Table 102 between to Secret Acres and One Percent Press is where you can find Oily Comics Books and friends such as Alex Kim, Sean Ford, Melissa Mendes and Joseph Lambert. New stuff we'll have at TCAF are The End of the Fucking World #7, Lou #3 and an interview zine with Noah Van Sciver.
Also, we'll have the brand new Sundays #5 edited by Sean Ford who will be signing his new tome, Only Skin at the Secret Acres table. We'll also have copies of the brand new Snake Oil #7 published by Retrofit Comics who will also be at the show with a ton of great comics. We'll also have some prints including a brand new Tyrant print by Steve Bissette and colored by me (chuck forsman).

We've noticed that ever since we started signing our comics "Charles Forsman" that people are now calling us that as opposed to "Chuck." That is totally fine but I really don't care. If you called me Chuck before then keep doing so. Only my mother and the state of California call me Charles.

I have a cold as I type this. I really hope I recover by this weekend. Nothing worse then travelling and selling comics while ill.  Despite that I have a ton of enthusiasm going for this trip to Toronto. I can't wait to see new and old friends. These shows means lot more to me ever since we moved out to the country. It's pretty amazing to get all these like-minded folks together. Makes me feel okay.

See you this weekend in Toronto.

-c

Oily Boutique

Hey true-humans!  check out the Oily boutique for comics by Melissa mendes (the super-awesome Freddy stories and a new dream comics with glorious brushy lines) and now the Sundays anthology.  Possibly more to come in the future...

this is what i look like when i am a surf monster:

SPX/Snake Oil 4

Hey true-believers.  Sorry for the lack of Gerry and Olga last week.  Bad news:  no Gerry and Olga this week.  Good news:  New Snake Oil issue at SPX and online after.  Getting this ish done is taking my attention from Gerry and Olga.  Good thing I'm not working for a newspaper.  Below you can see the new cover.  No screen printing this time.  thought I would change it up with some watercolor.  It'll be 28 pages long.  If you haunt SPX, I'll be at table G5 with Sundays, Sean Ford, Joe Lambert, and Melissa Mendes.  We'll have the reprinted Sundays 3 and Sean will have Only Skin number 4!!!!  Eat it! Tell your friends.  PLEASE stop by and introduce yourself.  Ask me to draw you something.  I will.  Oh I think I'll have a new screen print for sale on the cheap.  I'll throw up a pic when it's done.

Until then...

everything

Hello.

Page 13 of Gerry and Olga was the last page of chapter one.  I am taking a break from posting because MoCCA preparations are kicking my ass.  I will be posting some sketchbook stuff instead and then next week we'll be back with chapter 2.  I hope anyone reading this going to mocca will stop by and say hello.  I'll be at the Sundays table number 807.  way in the back of the room next to the amazing SECRET ACRES.

Thanks to jimmy rugg for the kind words the other day.  That dude is a swell fellow.

I have some comics being posted on the Sundays blog this week colored by my man, joe lambert.

Also, Sundays 3 will be at mocca. i am so excited for this book.  we tried to do something pretty different this time around.  We hope you like it.

Oh and I am one of the authors of this new blog centered around the CCS Schulz Library.  Lots of cool stuff up there from James Sturm, Michelle Ollie, Steve Bissette, Jen Vaughn, and Robyn Chapman.

holy crap i feel like a big bucket of molasses and my brains are the goldfish in the bucket with the molasses.   I got the allergies and the i wanna sleeps.

Words with info

Ok, time for some talking.  So what is this Gerry and Olga stuff, I have been posting.  Well, it's a new self contained story I have been working on since July '08.  It will be about 90 pages in length and I have decided to just post pages as I do them up here.  I"ll be posting 3 times a week.  Monday. Wednesday. Friday.  I'll start this monday.  I am pretty much done with chapter one so I am working ahead on this.  Gerry and Olga is meant to be read in a printed form and I'm not sure how it will read on a blog but I think giving myself a deadline such as posting 3 times a week will keep me doing pages and hopefully I'll get some feedback from anyone who may be reading.  Still working on printing ideas but I'll worry about that when I have the whole thing done.  I hope you enjoy it.  I have been with this story almost a year now and I am still interested in it.  It's the only thing I want to draw.

Ok, so there are some conventions coming up VERY soon which is kind of crazy.  This time next week I will be in toronto at TCAF.  I will be tabling with my mates Joe Lambert and Dustin Harbin.  I have never been to this show and am very excited cause Dustin is going to buy me all kinds of drinks.  That guy is fucking swell!  I will have all three Snake Oils, a new little mini, and I hope a new screen-print for sale.  Stop by and say hi.  We will love you.



Then a week after that(May 17th) I will be at MeCAF with Joe and Melissa Mendes and there will be a whole slurry of CCSers there too.  A con on the water.  How amazing.  This is the day after CCS third commencement ceremony where this year's commencement speaker is Jeff Smith.  Crazy!

And finally, go here to see the sundays anthology page.  I am co-editing another volume set to come out at MoCCA.  We are doing something pretty different this time around, but more on that another time.  Please check the site often as we will be posting comics from various folks 3 times a week up until the debut at MoCCA.