{"id":397,"date":"2011-03-28T20:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-03-28T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:41:04","slug":"the-beginning-is-the-end-is-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/secretacres.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning is the End is the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SEND A HEARTBEAT to the void that cries through Sean Ford<\/a>, because he is done with Only Skin<\/em><\/a>, and because he is a closet Smashing Pumpkins<\/a> fan. Or he was until now. You can pre-order Only Skin 7<\/em> here<\/a>, or wait and grab them from Sean directly at MoCCA<\/a> (which is less than two weeks away!) or you can get them right here at the Emporium<\/a> (soon-ish). We can’t wait to put the whole Only Skin<\/em> enchilada together!<\/p>\n

Major props to Secret Acres ourselves for having finally gotten through our website spring cleaning. We have an actual Facebook<\/a> page for you to “like” (h\/t to Rina A<\/a>) and one of those goddamn Twitter<\/a> things, for briefer musings than the novelizations which happen here.\u00a0 We’ve got the ever lovin’ Mike Dawson<\/a> all set up with his own artist page, and we have an Only Skin<\/em> screensaver ready to download for Gratis<\/a> (yes, it’s Windows only for now). Everything is brand spanking new on Small Plates<\/a>, including some stuff you have never seen before anywhere from mastermind John Brodowski<\/a>. We fixed all the stupid links<\/a> (thank you, newly reloaded Comics Comics Journal<\/a> for rendering a whole bunch of them redundant; it’s totally worth it, but still).<\/p>\n

Not good enough? We made a couple additions to the Emporium, too: you can now pre-order I Will Bite You!<\/em><\/a> Yes, that’s right. Holy friggin’ sweet baby cats, we’ve been waiting to write that for thousands of years. In fact, one more time: you can now pre-order I Will Bite You!<\/a> <\/em>Really, it’s happened. Go<\/a>. Click<\/a>. And while you’re there, you may order Hot Topic<\/em><\/a> from evil twins Samuel C. Gaskin<\/a> and Matt Furie<\/a>. Buy it or you will miss out on some Insane Clown Titties and that’s for serious. These things were gone in sixty seconds at BCGF<\/a>; they’re not going to last much longer here.<\/p>\n

More still? We’ll have a new comic-style over-sized comic from the aforementioned Sam for TCAF<\/a>. 2012<\/em> happens then, in 2011, which is like Christmas in July. If you’re wondering, 2012<\/em>, the comic, is truly the end of the world and it features Jackie Chan and vampire sexing, which all the kids are into these days. There will be a teaser of this guy in Conor Stechschulte’s sexy anthology (we’re quoting here) at the Closed Caption Comics<\/a> table at MoCCA. The Mayans were right.<\/p>\n

There have been a ton of shoutouts while we were sprucing up a bit. Edie Fake<\/a> got his at Under the Radar<\/em><\/a>, the Daily Crosshatch<\/a>, Read About Comics<\/a>, Newcity Art<\/a> and threw down with none other than Eamon Espey<\/a> for Mildred Pierce #4<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 If you happen to be round Chicago way, Edie and underground forefather George Hansen<\/a> will be conversing and watching cartoons at the Hungry Brain<\/a> on April the 12th. If Chicago is not happening, you can still maybe pick up an awesome Edie print from the good folks at Cinders here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mike, Joe Lambert<\/a> and Theo Ellsworth<\/a> got their Best American Notables noted here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and our man Ken Dahl<\/a> was digitally molested (that’s pixels, not fingers, pervert) by Robin Bougie here<\/a>. Finally, the smartest guy in the room, Dan Nadel<\/a>, put Curio Cabinet<\/em><\/a> in his top five for the Economist’s<\/em> More Intelligent Life<\/a>. If you want to know why Dan likes it so much, Rob Clough explains for you on ye olde Comics Journal here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phew.<\/p>\n

But what will we do for you lately? We are hitting the road to go examine the wacky kids and their doings at the Center for Cartoon Studies’<\/a> Industry Day. We’ll be reviewing portfolios and torturing the students with horrible personal questions about their hygiene and reading habits, and, no, folks, we aren’t kidding. If you take a close look at our Gesamtkunstwerkers<\/a> pages, you’ll note that we have raided that place pretty viciously, so our expectations are through the roof. Tom Spurgeon<\/a> will be making the trip as well. Poor Spurge. Thought you could escape us forever?<\/p>\n

Then there’s MoCCA. After that, we’ll be at Dan Nadel’s SVA<\/a> class, where we might drop our thoughts on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Cartoonists, or we might not (there is an Eighth Habit, but that one’s Marry a Nurse and it doesn’t count – and before we get into one of those Dilbert <\/a>moments, there are male nurses, folks, and they are awesome, too, if you prefer marrying a man and are planning on practicing the Eighth Habit). More on those last two later, because that’s enough for a late night blog post. We almost don’t even feel bad for being away for so long now.<\/p>\n

Your Pals,<\/p>\n

Leon and Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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