The Royal Bison is over and the latest installment of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home is available for purchase online. Also, keep a look out for its availability at Nokomis and Eden Lily (here in Edmonton) in the coming days. It’s just a matter of walking through our recent snow storm to deliver them…

Anyway: BUY IT HERE!

Besides that, you can also expect to see a re-print of Chapter One by the end of this week, or early next, as it’s hard to sell part two of something when part one is all gone…

Will keep you posted, of course.

As of right now, you can find a few copies of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home in Edmonton, AB at:

• Nokomis
• Eden Lily.
• and online, right here.

The next printing of books that will be up for purchases in the future will most likely be the second chapter in the series, due at some point in March ’10,  hopefully. If these sell out, well, that will probably be it for a while…

Off to Chapter Two…

International Beauty Saloon 4: The Space Issue, is finally ready and available online, and I have to say: it really is the best IBS issue yet. We’ve finally mastered our bookbinding process, and our margins and gutters are looking better than ever. And to top that all off, our contributors submitted some top notch space related (or, interpreted) content. It was released at the Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair, and half of the IBS4 stock sold pretty much instantly. Get it while you can – it’s going for a measly $5 + shipping. As Jimmy Giegerich would say, NOICE!

Also, We Hate This Place Here: It’s Our Home is currently in the printing process, and they should be ready for purchase at some point in the middle of next week. SEE Weekly even interviewed David and I about it…

The past week has been bonkers. On top of having to complete a few illustration gigs on the tightest of schedules yet, e.g, above for The Globe & Mail, rush to get tons of books printed and bound for the past weekend’s Royal Bison Art + Craft fair, Genevieve and I also had to move into our new maison / studio. As of this exact moment, all that stuff is done and my middle name is now Serenity.

Anyway, Royal Bison was a blast. Our small first print-run of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home sold out almost instantaneously, and over half of our stock of International Beauty Saloon 4, The Space Issue flew off the table.  Note: if you contributed to IBS4, expect your copy in the mail soon!

So now that costs are recouped for David Berry and I’s graphic novel, we have to get back to the printing and chopping block so that we can meet the demand. At some point by the end of next week we should be refilled, and the books will be available online as well as at a few other stores in town. I’ll tell you where when they actually exists. I’ll keep you posted.

Finally, I should not forget to mention that the (currently) last copy of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home is up for grabs (and free!) on Raymond Biesinger’s The Daily Sentry if you can successfully guess his favourite single digit number. As of this posting, no one has guessed it yet…

Surprise! It turns out we have a very small handful of International Beauty Saloon Issue 2 zines left. Now that Story Motel is over – a zine show out in Scotland – the remaining zines were sent back home. There are less than 10 left, and they can be found on the online shop.

I feel like I’ve blogged about this zine a million times now, but I promise that this will be the last. I swear.

International Beauty Saloon has two new screen printed posters up for sale, as well as reduced prices on older stock that has got to move (mostly, The Breeders and Liars posters we made for Sled Island 2009). Get it while it’s hot!

Above: One of Genevieve’s posters for sale. 50cm x 70cm. Edition of 12.

The fine chaps at Pop Echo Records needed a T-shirt design. They weren’t totally sure what they wanted but knew that they liked the idea of an Ice Pegasus duking it out with a Fire Dragon. I was instantly sold on the idea.

The shirt isn’t out yet, but will be soon. It’s fresh stock for the upcoming Biannual Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair (which I’ve been known to help the great Raymond Biesinger organize) and will be happening this year on November 28th + 29th. If you’re a local Edmontonian with goods to sell, be it art prints, clothes, zines, music, etc. etc., you should apply. Genevieve and I have been there for the past four, and use it as a gateway to release our International Beauty Saloon zines, along with other silly wares, which I’m sure I’ve mentioned many times before…

Happening tonight at the ARTLIFE Gallery in Calgary is the Sled Island Music Festival Poster Show. Every year a select number of artists are asked to design posters for some of the festival’s “bigger” acts, and this year I was lucky enough to be asked to do the posters for one of my favourite bands of recent times, Liars.

These are three colour serigraph prints made by hand by yours truly. These are printed on lovely 15″x 20″ Stonehenge paper. Sexy!

Liars’ first show is an early evening show on the 26th of June, where they play at about 8pm at an outdoor venue, thus the orange sunset / hue in the print. The next night they play a more “all ages” show, on the 27th at 1 am, therefore a night scene. Each of the posters come in editions of only 50. I will be at both Liars shows with these posters for sale. They will be going for $20 a pop! If you can’t make it to the concerts themselves, go to the ARTlife gallery tonight and scoop one up. They are selling at the gallery for $30 per print, and they only have 5 of each, so there’s a chance that they won’t last long!