Staple! Austin 2012

It took a while for me to get this up. BEFORE the show I didn't want to unveil anything too early. AFTER the show, goodness. Well, the Day-job and other projects took me on a rollercoaster. Here are the items I did for this year's Staple! Independent Media Expo. What a blast it all was!

Staplegators illustrated by Brian Hurtt, Everything else (color, layout, Paper-burst on the TShirt) done by me

The idea was to use the Micron-holding Staplegator as the "advertisement" version of Staplegator...

And the "Paper-Explosion" Staplegator for use on items on the Show-day itself! (buttons, program, and...)

The T-Shirt. Super happy with how the limited color-palette worked out. It was a really nice T-Shirt!

Meeting Brian Hurtt and Cullen Bunn

Staple! 2012 Highlight - Meeting Brian Hurtt & Cullen Bunn

Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt are probably my favorite team of creators working today. Their Stories "The Damned" and "The Sixth Gun" are wholly entertaining. The stories are very cool and imaginitive (and actually creepy and hell) and the art is JUST the kind of art I want to see.

When they were at Staple I felt that awkward hero-worship thing kick-in a bit, but I was able to swallow it enough to chat with them about their work without seeming too much like a drooling fanboy.

Brian was doing free sketches. Being on a budget, "free" is for me. And it was by one of my favorite artists. So, tremendous value there. I could have said "Draw Sinclair or O'Henry or Eddie from the Damned..."

But I was hoping for something more unique, but not something that would take up too much of his time. I told him he could draw the guy any way he wanted to, but I asked for "an old man seeking revenge... and the only instrument he has to exact his revenge was a cursed bullet." And he drew this.

Pretty freaking awesome. :D