Press Gang Debuts on Robot 6

We've been working with our pals Zack Soto (Study Group Comic Books) and Jason Leivian (Floating World Comics) on a new publishers group called Press Gang, which joins Family Style to their respectable small-press companies to create something a little bit more hefty and hopefully awesome. Sean Collins interviewed the three of us over at Robot 6, so check it out for lots of chatter about the pleasures and perils of collaboration, lots of previews of upcoming projects including ELFWORLD #3 and much more! We've got big plans for PG over the coming years, so stay tuned here and thePress Gang Tumblr, too!

Family Style at EBAP Book Fair this Saturday!

Family Style will once again be exhibiting at the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair, aka EBAP, which will be returning for a second year this Saturday, Dec. 10th! We had a great time last year, and Jonas will be representing us again this year. Come check it out, its FREE and fun, and there's a ton of other great creators and cartoonists there to buy all your DIY holiday goodies from.

EBAP Book Fair • Saturday, Dec. 10 • 10am - 4pm • Berkeley City College 2050 Center Street, Berkeley (right by Downtown Berkeley BART Station) • FREE! • RSVP on Facebook

Short Run This Saturday + Press Gang is an Awesome New Thing, I'll Tell You More Later

Family Style will be exhibiting at the first annual Short Run small press show this Saturday in Seattle... And we'll be doing it as part of the brand new Press Gang publishers' party... A trio of like-minded publishers (Family Style, Floating World Comics, and Study Group Comic Books) banding together to increase the awesomeness in a variety of as yet super-secret ways and shapes. But to start off with, Press Gang will be exhibiting at killer shows like Short Run and the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest in December. Oh yeah!

So if you are in the Seattle area this Saturday, do swing by... Short Run is free and open to the public, and there's a great mix of comics creators, small-press publishers, intellectual illustrators, and convivial crafters... it's gonna be great!

Short Run • November 12, 2011 • 10:30–4:30 • The Vera Project • Seattle, WA

Tales Art Show Up Thru October

Wow, I somehow forgot to mention that the big indy-fantasy group art show I organized for APE was going up! Yikes! Well, in case you see this, don't forget to check out this super delightful fantasy panopticon, on display at Mission Comics & Art for the remainder of the month! There's some beautiful art on display from past and future ELFWORLD contributors, including Roman Muradov, Dylan Horrocks(an awesome and rare chance to see his originals in the States), Andrice Arp, Eve Englezos (a truly awesome piece of art), Daria Tessler(a crazy-detailed screenprint), and many more... Definitely worth a gander, and many of the pieces are priced very reasonably, too!

Here's the somewhat expired Facebook event page. The show will be up thru the end of the month!

Tales Indy-Fantasy Art Show • Mission Comics and Art • 3520 20th Street, San Francisco

Nice bit about ELFWORLD in Robot 6

I was going through my Google Reader this morning (I'm trying to keep up with the world of the comics biz better... and check out DC New 52 art, sadly), when I spotted the cover to ELFWORLD #2 topping this "What Are You Reading?" post on Robot 6! Mike Baehr picked up ELFWORLD at the Stumptown Comics Fest, and had this choice praise: "Elf World from Family Style is a fun anthology series of fantasy stories by independent and small-press artists, and the first 2 issues of the 2nd volume have the nicest production values I’ve seen in minicomics, with gorgeous letterpress covers illustrated by Sammy Harkham and Daria Tessler."

Nice... He's also mentions some other comics selections he liked from Stumptown, including Too Dark to See by Julia Gfrörer and Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce, both of whom have ELFWORLD stories coming up very soon!

ELFWORLD at Chicago Comic Con this Week!

I (François) was really surprised when the folks at the Chicago Comic Con asked me to be a guest at their show, which is taking place this Thursday - Sunday. I was quite delighted (I haven't ever been a guest before!) and a little confused... Chicago Comic Con, put on by Wizard World, definitely has more of a mainstream comics/sci-fi/genre media profile. But hey, I used to live in the Windy City, and there are some fantastic ELFWORLD creators in residnce there, including the original ELFWOLRD mastermind, Jeffrey Brown. So why not!

Well... Unfortunately I won't be in attendance this weekend. My August schedule is just quite crowded, and flying out for the weekend was a bit prohibitive financialy, too. So no François Vigneault at this weekend's show!

Luckilly, I've got some fantastic ELFWORLD alumni and their pals to represent us. Grant Reynolds (seen in EW vol. 1 and vol. 2 #1) and Jeremy Tinder (with a tale in EW vol. 2 #2) will both be there, selling the anthology and their own very awesome artwork. They'll also be joined by fellow Trubble Club dudes Bernie McGovern and Nate Beaty... All in all a terrific line up! So if you are in Chicago this weekend, please swing by and say hi to those dudes, and complain to them about how angry and disappointed you are that I'm not there, too!

Chicago Comic Con • Aug 11-14 • Donald E. Stephens Convention Center (Rosemont)

Portland Zine Symposium the Weekend!

The 11th annual Portland Zine Symposium is taking place this weekend, and Family Style will be there! François will be sitting with Greg Means of Tugboat Press and the wonderful Aron Nels Steinke all weekend, selling comics and gossiping.

Family Style doesn't have any new releases for this weekend (shame on us!), but François will have his new illustrated chap-book of Ambrose Bierce stories, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", which is being published by the fantastic team at Scout Books! This is the first in a series that François is editing for Scout Books, go and check 'em out!

Finally, if you are in Portland, head on over to Floating World Comics to check out a show of Wuvable Oaf creator Ed Luce's artwork, including the originals for his upcoming story in ELFWORLD #3!