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Our Annual APE-venture, Addendum

A special thanks to John Parkin from the blog Robot 6 for his detailed article about this year's Alternative Press Expo at Comic Book Resources, and for including some quotes from yours truly! Not to brag, but one of my quotes was actually used as the article's headline!

If anyone is checking us out as a result of that article, drop me a line, and I'll happily send you a complimentary copy of my first solo self-published comic, Karaoke Comics #1. Otherwise, check out the rest of this blog for the works and history of K.O. Comix, or the rest of my self-published work at KaraokeFanboy Press, or Brent's new dogs vs. cats apocalyptic western, Dog Town! Plenty of K.O. goodness to go around!

Our Annual APE-venture!

We'd like to welcome and thank anybody and everybody that visited the K.O. Comix booth at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco last weekend, and we'd especially like to thank everybody that picked up one of our comics or zines! If you're new to K.O., we've been around since 2001 (as a self-publisher -- as people, our origins trace back to the '70s), and our latest comics, Brent's amazing Dog Town and my Karaoke Comics, are labors of love we hope you take the time to enjoy. Please use this post to comment about our work, good or bad -- Give us feedback, or give us death!



Of course, if you missed APE, you can e-mail and ask about ordering any of our books all year long!

I have some personal thoughts and narrative about our experience on my other blog within the week, but until then check out the K.O. shout-outs at Robot 6 and Semantink and some reviews of our fellow exhibitors' work at A Comic A Day. It was great talking to all these guys, and we hope to keep in touch!

Dog Town is Done!

Dog Town, Book 1, the Incident at Blackrock, is complete! You can read more about it at the Dog Town blog, and you can even buy one online at Lulu. Cool, huh? If you're going to APE, bring a few extra bucks. Russ and I have a booth there and we'll be selling new and old stuff.

Enter: KaraokeFanboy Press!

I've begun a blog dedicated to my solo self-publishing efforts, which will include my 2009 Poetry Zine Series, my sketchbook, and Karaoke Comics #1! Here's the back page to the fanzine Far & Wee #1 so you can see what I've been working on. I must mention on this blog that without the collaboration and encouragement of my friend Brent, I doubt I would've mustered the courage and patience to produce even piddly projects like these.

So visit the KaraokeFanboy Press blog today -- maybe it'll even have a post or two!

Nerd-vana

Looking forward to the San Diego Comic-Con this year!

Enter: ORION!

BRENT: Back in the early days of K.O., Russ and I knew a few . . . characters. One of the greatest of the greats was Orion. I'll let Russ fill in the details, but I'll start off with the only known photo of the man known simply as . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . ORION!

RUSS: Ah, Orion -- or, as the Greeks knew him, "the hunter" -- was indeed a man on the prowl . . . for good comics. When the Colorado-based Mile High Comics chain had a store here in Southern California, Orion was the manager. Unfortunately, apparently, "manager" is a weighty term; "ringleader" may be more like it, as his, um, peculiarity reflected both his staff and core customer base . . . of which I was proud to be a part.

Don't get me wrong. Orion was a great, hospitable spokesman for the comic book retailer industry. He let an unknown indie publisher like K.O. Comix host more than one promotional event in his store, he and his staff hosted a local indie press expo, and he was flexible with prices when regular customers really wanted a comic. He just wouldn't make eye contact with you while he cut that deal -- or ever. Looking at this old Comic Con picture, I doubt Orion even knew he was at the K.O. booth. He may very well think he's ordering a Big Mac from my big, orange head, like I'm a drive-thru speaker box. Thank goodness he didn't lean in for a bite.

I don't know why Orion stopped working with Mile High -- nor do I suspect he was related to its fatal, mysterious fire a few years later. Considering his pure passion for comics, I would never make such wild accusations. That would hitting below the belt. Right below Orion's belt.