News
| 11/30/2004 |
Little Scrowlie 8 out in December As it says on the front page, Little Scrowlie 8 is out on the 15th of December. For those of you who depend on this site to find out what to buy, there's also the Little Scrowlie trade paperback - Little Scrowlie: The Call of Cuthbert, out since Sepetember. You can buy it at your local comic shop, or online at places like Powells (our recommended online bookstore). Amazon has it, as well, of course. Jen is currently finishing up issue 11. Todd (that's me!) is working on issue 12, flirting with deadline disaster, as usual. That's all for now. -Todd |
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| 06/25/2004 |
Little Scrowlie Signing in Berkeley
From
Jen's LiveJournal:
Saturday July 3 I'm pretty darn excited
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| 06/06/2004 |
Little Scrowlie #6 out in stores That's right, Scrowlie #6, aka "Do Fashion Zombies Dream of Electric Blue Faux Fleece", is out in stores, now. Though we knew nothing of the Dawn of the Dead remake when it was written and drawn, you could say that the latest Scrowlie comes straight from the front pages of February's Entertainment Weekly! Topical, that's us. Also, you certainly don't want to miss the Little Scrowlie bit in the SLG Free Comic Day comic, coming out July 3rd. It's FREE at any comic store. That's right, free! Can you believe it? Also, look forward in September to the first Little Scrowlie trade paperback, "The Call of Cuthbert". This volume collects issues one through four of Little Scrowlie, written and drawn long before Jen and Todd became superstar, jet-setting millionaires in the employ of Evil Mad Overlord Dan Vado. Unlike the SLG-published comics, these were not drawn in gold ink on platinum, nor were they carefully stitched together by children just out of infanthood. But you can't have everything... In addition to the original four issues of Little Scrowlie, "The Call of Cuthbert" includes a four-page, never-before-seen theatrical trailer, an 11 page origin story - "Lil' Scrowlie: Born Under a Scrowlie Moon", and several pages of guest art by such comic luminaries as Tommy Kovak and Derek Hunter. And lastly, we've finally set up a Little Scrowlie mailing list. You can sign up from the front page. We will, of course, never give anybody any email addresses we collect, and we'll only send Scrowlie- and Jen/Todd- comic related messages. If you have any doubts, remember, Todd is a mail admin at an ISP, so he hates spam more than most people. |
| 02/06/2004 |
Little Scrowlie #5 preview up That's right. You can see the preview for the upcoming Little Scrowlie right here! Here, actually. Scrowlie 5 is an exciting issue involving evil corporate coffee shops, Hell, and of course, shopping and cats. And of course, you should visit Jen's and Todd's livejournals. |
| 01/21/2004 |
Buttons! We keep meaning to make them, but finally, they're ready for APE. The designs shown below and on the front page are not in CMYK, so they'll look different in real life, but that difference is definitely an improvement. Here they are:
Hopey
Little Scrowlie
Timmy the Ghost
Cthulhu Livejournal madness Well, SLG's recent foray into the world of livejournal.com has incited Jen and Todd to do the same. You can see Jen's livejournal here, and Todd's here As the SCA is wont to say, Huzzah! |
| 12/11/2003 |
Scrowlie 4 and Chi TPB out! We were down to the SLG X-mas party, and we got hold of the new Chi TPB. It looks great! The editor, Jennifer de Guzman, did a wonderful job. Pick one up at your earliest convenience, I'm tellin' ya. You can buy it:
from Amazon As also mentioned, (the SLG version of) Scrowlie #4 is out. The goriest, scrowliest issue, yet! And of course, #5 will be out in March, #6 in June, and etc.. Jen is currently sketching issue #9, and Todd is 1/3 done with #10, so there's plenty more coming. Cinderblock carrying t-shirts for Scrowlie and Chi! It's taken them a while, but you can buy Jennifer's art at Cinderblock's website. Check the shirts out, they're pretty cool. To see them, follow the link, then choose "Little Scrowlie" from the pulldown menu (it defaults to "AFI"), then click "Shop". |
| 11/03/2003 |
Upcoming Releases The reprinting of Little Scrowlie goes as planned. Scrowlie 5, the first fully new issue in over a year, will be out in March, but until then, Scrowlie 4 will be out in December. Here is a preview of the brand new, extra bonus cover:
Las Vegas con We just got back from the Las Vegas "Comic-con". As conventions go, it stunk. As hanging out with fellow comic nerds and the creators and employees of Slave Labor goes, it was great. Definitely worth it, if you didn't have to sink loads of money into it. Jen on Women in Comics Definitely a case of needing to fire the webmaster. If you're in the Sacramento area, Jen spoke at a panel about Women in Comics at an event I can't, for the life of me, find any information about. Must have been done through snail mail or something. Anyway, it's over now, and due to the negligience of this typist, it's too late to see anything, anyhow. Yar.
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07/28/2003 |
Comic Con 2003 We were there, and it was a great time, despite the Slave Labor table, or perhaps the whole convention, having some sort of curse on it. People were sick or hurt all over the place (saddest of all for us was Sequential Tart's Adrienne, who is usually an almost constant presence throughout the interesting bits of the convention, who we didn't see once during the con, and who we were told was sick the whole weekend. Sucks!) But man, is it much more fun not having to pack all our stuff in boxes and sit at the table all day every day, with no breaks together. This having-a-publisher thing is much more relaxing. Jennifer and I signed, and Jen drew a lot of sketches. I also utilized my Jen-taught skills with the pen, and added a cat head sketch to comics I signed. Altogether, a very exciting time. We picked up some cool comics, the most exciting being "True Porn", edited by Xeric grant winner Robyn Chapman and comic creator Kelli Nelson. Also on the list of cool comics (and actually my personal favorite, being a nerdy sci-fi sort of thing), Doug TenNapel's "Creature Tech". You know it's a good sci-fi comic when Jennifer reads and enjoys it. Lastly, we discovered "Hey, Mister", which puts us way behind in the curve, I guess. Great, funny stuff. Oh, and inexplicably, we were neither nominated for, nor won, an Eisner. Go figure. "Little Scrowlie" reprinting continues The reprinting of the first four issues of "Little Scrowlie" continues on. Issue two came out in June, and three will be out in September. Once December and issue four rolls around, the reprinting will be complete, and everything is new from then on. Waiting for the necessary reprinting process to finish is making Jennifer and I very antsy. We've been getting the hang of producing a serial comic as we go, and by issue five, the process was starting to be not so much plain work as fun work. I no longer approach the writing of each comic with dread, intimidated by the 24 blank pages staring me in the face. If you're interested in the structure of the comic, it goes something like this... issues five through eight constitute the next Scrowlie story arc. Jennifer is currently about to start inking issue eight, and I'm a little over halfway through nine, the beginning of the third arc. Each story arc is a chapter in a larger story, one that I hope will achieve the appellation, "epic". There are probably six four-comic chapters in the Scrowlie saga, though it's hard to say. We've got a good idea where we're going, but the stories sometimes turn out differently than planned. "Chi" to be published by Slave Labor In other news, Slave Labor is publishing Jennifer's self-published mini-comics, the "Chi" series, in one cute little trade paperback, in December. The "Chi" trade paperback will include most of the first three issues of "Chi" (with a couple bits that Jennifer doesn't like tossed out), along with a story or two Jennifer drew in the early 90s, back in RISD, as well as a couple illustrations from that time. The "Chi" TPB will be 96 pages. You can see a preview of the cover here (please note that the thumbnail is in RGB mode, not CMYK, and so will look different in the printed version). Comic by Jennifer in "Broad Appeal" "Broad Appeal", an anthology published by Friends of Lulu, includes a story by Jennifer. Check out Friends of Lulu at their website. |
| 04/17/2003 |
The SLG printing of Scrowlie 1 was released in March, and sold many more
copies than we'd imagined it would. The main difference to the comic (and
to numbers 2-4 to follow) is the re-drawn covers. However, we re-scanned
the first two issues, as well, utilizing our greater understanding of
electronic reproduction of original art, so if you compare our self-published
version of issue 1 with the SLG version, there is an obvious difference. The
first two self-published issues of Scrowlie look more pixelated, a problem
that is easily solved, but we didn't know what we were doing at the time. If
you are an aspiring self-published comic, and ignorant of the ways of scanning,
feel free to email Todd for tips and
tricks. Not that he's claiming to be an expert, but we've at least figured
out how to get rid of that ugly pixelation. Jennifer and Todd will be at the Wondercon (April 25-27) in San Francisco this year. We'll be at the Slave Labor table. Lastly, to all those who've read issues 1-4 and feel as if issue 5 will never be released, some encouragement (I hope): Jennifer finished drawing issue 5 in January, finished issue 6 in March, and is nearly to the point of inking issue 7, which will probably be done by July. This doesn't mean the comics will come out any faster, but it does mean that, once we've caught up, the whole quarterly-release thing should come easy, quite an improvement over bi-annually. Coming up post-issue 4 is a shopping expedition that unwittingly becomes a trip to Hell, truck with cat-loving (and not-so cat-loving) demons, an army of fashion zombies, and, related to the first item, the revealing of the location of the gates of Hell. |
| 10/23/2002 |
Scrowlie 4 is finally available through paypal. Trust
me, it takes weeks, sometimes months, to resize the front cover, copy it to
the website, and edit an HTML file. Weeks.
In really big, exciting, should-be-at-the-top-of-the-update kind of news, Little Scrowlie (ie, Jen Feinberg and Todd Meister), has sold out, and is going to be published by Slave Labor Graphics!!! This means some publishing schedule changes. Whereas Scrowlie was just about to establish a regular 6-month interval between comics, we are now starting all over again. Issue one will be released in March, 2003, with a new issue every three months after. This is much more quickly than back when we were self-published, but for folks who've been following each issue as it comes out, that means the next new comic will be issue five, in March, 2004. So good and bad news, there. Regardless, this is the next step to the eventual toppling of the Sanrio empire by the might of Little Scrowlie and independent publishing!! And you have no idea how excited Jen is about this. She's been a huge comic nerd since about 35 seconds after she was born, so this is a dream come true. |
| 07/29/2002 |
Many things. First, Scrowlie 4 is out (debuting at the San Diego Comic-Con).
Second, we'll be at the San Diego Comic-Con, Wednesday through Sunday. Look
for us in the Indy Island booth. Third, Jen's got an exhibition (through
Ladyfest SF) at the Pond gallery in San Francisco, and (this should have been
up earlier) she was on a panel Sunday, the 28th, about women in comics.
Besides all that, we also have three new items of clothing for sale, all with the two-headed cat design - tank tops, baby dolls, and hoodies. The hoodies are very good quality sweatshirts. We'll have them all at the Comic-Con. |
| 05/8/2002 | Added a text-based counter today, and the rest of the Little Scrowlie and Chi samples to those respective sections. The counter is counting from today, so there aren't nearly as many hits as one might expect for a site that's been up for over three years now. |
| 05/6/2002 |
Another update, or rather, a massive reworking of the whole site. Nothing
is the same, except the Kitty Porn Section. Amongst the changes: Basically, every page has been updated, I've added frames and, yee-gads, the bane of the internet - mouseovers. Extraneous bits have been removed, as well. There are still some incomplete pages, but they should be finished very soon. |
| 04/24/2002 |
This site has been languishing un-updated for over a year, now. Sadly (and
yet, happily, as well), this is not due to a lack of news. Rather, the problem
is that the whole thing needs revamped, a revamping which is in the works.
Since the last update, Scrowlie 3 came out, a couple/three conventions came and
went, Jen was invited to exhibit art and speak on a panel at the
Bay Area Ladyfest, and
Cinderblock, printers of fine
t-shirts, has begun selling a Scrowlie line of t-shirts, never before printed
(and in color, too). Scrowlie 4 is due out in August, and Scrowlie 5 is being
written, hopefully out by APE 2003. On top of all that, we'll soon begin
accepting paypal payments, so you can buy fine Scrowlie merchandise on-line.
All this and more, when the site makeover is finished. To that end, the ever-diligent webmaster has been ravenously devouring back-issues of Cosmopolitan, intent on finding just what goes into a successful makeover. |
| 02/14/2001 | Little Scrowlie 2 is finally out, just in time for the APE. This year's APE should be much better than last (two days, this time). LS3 is in the works as I write this, and LS4 is being planned. |
| 10/26/2000 |
Much news since the last update. Little Scrowlie #2 should be out by mid-December. Scrowlie was reviewed (twice!) in Sequential Tart: Chi was reviewed at fyuocuk Little Scrowlie was picked up by Last Gasp. If you'd like to mail order Scrowlie, that's a good place to do it (of course, you can always contact us directly) Little Scrowlie will soon also be distributed by Cold Cut. So, if you'd like your comic shop to carry Little Scrowlie, tell them Cold Cut's where they can find it. Once Scrowlie #2 is finished (art-wise, work on Scrowlie #3 will begin. Jen's method means comics are a long time coming (her method of error correction is throwing away the page and starting fresh). It's not so easy to spend a lot of time after work and on weekends, either, but lately Scrowlie's been receiving such a great reception with the folks who have actually read it, that Jen's been inspired to devote even more time to drawing. I'd like to send out thanks to all the people who have given Scrowlie good reviews, to Last Gasp for distributing it, and to Cold Cut, who also recently ordered a bunch of copies. |
| 07/25/2000 |
Just got back from the San Diego Comicon. It was the best convention, yet.
Made up for the last Ape, at which Little Scrowlie debuted, and which was
a one-day event in the boonies of San Francisco. San Francisco is just _not_
the place to hold a convention, it turns out. No goddamn public transportation
to speak of (BART's a joke, I realized, after visiting New York). Anyway, this whole site is badly in need of updating. Since the last update, three t-shirt designs were created and printed up, Chi 2 came out, and Little Scrowlie 1 came out. For an explanation of Little Scrowlie, check out this page. |
| 2/25/1999 | New section added: Kitty Porn. Pictures of cats, Chi and Hopey, to be exact. And they ain't wearing any clothes. |
| 2/24/1999 |
About Chi is now very badly up. The last several stories have
been htmelled, go look. The email submission form is working,
though the mail looks sloppy, and if you sign up or don't sign up
for the non-existent mailing list, I won't know. Think I'll take that
down. That's probably much better. It'll be back up when it's working. So, this is the weekend of Apecon. We'll be there, table and all. My last geek convention was DefCon. Didn't expect another so soon. Gotta love it. In other news, much talk has been going around in the offices of chi-jen, inc. about the creation of a couple new tshirts. One exists already (available from fine comic book stores everywhere). It's white, with a black two-headed Chi on the front (like on the front page of the this site). The other two will most likely be (always in-fashion) black. The designs for said shirts are being worked out right now, but another cat-theme is likely for at least one of the shirts. If you're interested, you can fill send an email to Jen at orders@chi-jen.com. |
| 2/4/1999 | Comic news: drtboi writing, and this ain't my comic, so I dunno what to say. Jen can do this later.
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