Family Style | Press Gang at VanCAF + "Gang Related" Art Show and Mixer

Family Style will be exhibiting at the first ever Vancouver Comics Art Festival this Weekend, in Beautiful Vancouver, British Colombia, CANADA! This is getting straight up international in scope.

François and Jason Leivian will have all the usual Family Style, Study Group, and Floating World goodies, including the still newish ELFWORLD #3, DIY Magic, American Psycho, Study Group Magazine, and much more... Presuming our package makes it through customs in time! Yikes!!

Aditionally, the kind folks at Lucky's Comics are feting Press Gang, hosting a one-night-only art show featuring works by Sean Christensen, Andrice Arp, Zack Soto, Jennifer Parks, Keith Carter, François Vigneault, and more... if you are in Vancouver this weekend don't miss us!

Vancouver Comics Art Festival | May 26-27 | 101 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver BC, Canada

"Gang Related"— Portland Art Comix from Press Gang and Beyond | May 26 8:00pm | Lucky's Comics | 3972 Main Street Vancouver BC, Canada

Family Style | Press Gang at Stumptown Comics Fest This Weekend

The whole Press Gang team of Family Style, Study Group Comic Books, and Floating World Comics will be out in force at this weekend's Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland OR. This will actually be the first show where all thre Press Gang founding fathers (Jasn, Zack, and François) will be present! There is a solid chance that the awesome will simply be too much and the Press Gang pavilion will burst into flames.

In addition to all of our awesome publications, such as ELFWORLD, Study Group Magazine, D.I.Y. Magic, and much more, we'll also have all of the Good Ink titles from Scout Books which François has been editing, and bonus titles and art from some of our many contributors and friends. We'll have a wonderful array of creators hanging out and signing at our massive Press Gang pavilion including Zack Soto, Jason Leivian, François Vigneault, Benjamin Marra, Kaz Strzepek, Ian MacEwan, Andrice Arp, and more!

Come by any time this weekend to visit!

April 28 & 29, 2012 • Oregon Convention Center • Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-6

ELFWORLD #2 Nominated for Best Anthology at Stumptown

For the second year in a row, ELFWORLD has the honor of being nominated for Best Anthology at the annual Stumptown Comics Art Awards! We're really so delighted! Just like last year, we're in some excellent company, all the nominees are worth taking a look at:

Study Group Magazine #1, edited by Zack Soto
Lies Grownups Told Me, edited by Nomi Kane, Jen Vaughn, Caitlin M.
Kus! #9, edited by Ryan Sands
Dark Horse Presents, edited by Mike Richardson

and of course, ELFWORLD #2, edited by François Vigneault

The Stumptown Comics Awards are an "audience choice" style award, so please feel free to vote for ELFWORLD (or really, any of the nominees) online! Vote early, I don't know when the voting ends but it closed quite early last year.

Big thanks to all the creators of ELFWORLD #2: Cover artist Daria Tessler, Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville), Jeremy Tinder (MOME, Cry Yourself to Sleep), Matthew Reidsma (High Maintainance Machine), Marek Bennett (Mimi's Donuts), and Eve Engelos & Josh Moutray (Icecreamlandia), and Anna Hurley. Special thanks to James Tucker for the beautiful printing on the covers.

Nice Little Review of EW #1

Quick little review from Susan Damon on the site "Why Not Indie?" Why not indeed? She sez: "There’s a story in it for anyone, provided you’re into fantasy." Awesome.

Hmm... the only thing is, media folks, please double check stuff like links and images... Susan's got drawings from the Vol. 1 paperback and a link to the Amazon listing of that book, not the newer issue #1 that has the comics cited in the review. Thanks!

ELFWORLD available at Image Comics Fest & Online!

Huzzah! The third issue of ELFWORLD has arrived!

This issue is just jam-packed with genre goodness! This is the biggest single issue yet, clocking in at 48 pages (does that count as "Gargantuan" or just "Large?") of crazy fantasy comics from your fave indie-cartoonists. We've got Ed Luce (Wuvable Oaf), Malachi Ward (Expansion), Tom Biby (Two Fine Chaps), Jesse Reklaw (Slowwave), Maris Wicks (Project: Romantic), Julia Gfrörer (Too Dark To See), Ryland Thomas, Jess Smart Smiley (Upside Down: A Vampire Tale), and Eve Engelos & Josh Moutray (icecreamlandia), and endpapers by Anna Branning (Dutch Door Press). All wrapped up in a lovely letterpress-printed cover with artwork from EW founder Jeffrey Brown, hand-printed with the aid of Julia Gfrörer!

All in all this is bang-up issue, with everything from delusional ant warriors and role-playing owl bears to kindly witches and vengeance-seeking shapeshifters. Also, I designed the craziest table of contents yet for this issue, with heraldic shields for all the stories AND a full on miniature battle scene! Check out a bevy of preview images below, if you are doubting the majesty of this tome!

Available now for orders online and also making its premiere at the first-ever Image Comics Expo in Oakland this weekend!

Press Gang/Family Style at Image Comics Expo this Friday-Saturday-Sunday

Family Style and Press Gang will be at the first annual Image Comics Expo for three fun-filled days of comics insanity! This looks to be a pretty cool and unusual event, with a massive line up of Image Comics dudes celebrating the 20th anniversary of that company and a wide variety of other creators showcasing their creator-owned, self-published, or otherwise artist-directed comics. With Image having a banner year with the new Prophet, Walking Dead, and much more, this seems like it will be a very fun and zeitgeisty convention, nicely straddling the mainstream and indie parts of the comics scene. We're gonna be at table # A608 in Artist's Alley, come say "hi!"

Family Style will be releasing the long-awaited third issue of ELFWORLD, which features fantasy tales from Ed Luce, Julia Gfrörer, Jesse Reklaw, Tom Biby, Malachi Ward, Maris Wicks, Jess Smart Smiley, and Eve Englezos & Josh Moutray, all wrapped up in a lovely letterpress-printed cover by Jeffrey Brown!

Floating World Comics will be premireing DIY Magic by Anthony Alvarado, with all new illustrations... Its gonna be a lovely little book. We'll also have a full range of Press Gang goodies, including the newest issue of Study Group Magazine, Diamond Comics, Object 5 by Killian Eng, and a bunch of comics from Jonas Madden-Connor, Zack Soto, François Vigneault, and more!

Image Comics Expo • Friday, 2/24 - Sunday, 2/26 • Oakland Convention Center • 550 10th Street (Right by the 12th Street BART Station) • Tickets $20 and up

Coming Soon!