I spent most of my working time this weekend putting together the Family Man website move/redesign. With the assistance of Mr. Tyler Martin it will hopefully come out looking very classy and atmospheric! And all in one place, so you’re not obliged to scoot around addresses to read the blessed thing.
BUT all work and no play makes Dylan a cranky girl, so I finally let myself color what I called the Revolutionary Hotties print.
Here’s the current draft of the near-finished project (click it for full-size):
Yes. I went there. It’ll be on sale starting sometime this week in the store, to commemorate Bastille Day and the brave, idealistic, occasionally evil, but always charismatic men who gave their heads for the Revolution. I salute them! And their cute little butts.
I know you want some 18th century man-meat on your wall. You so do. ADMIT IT.
I haven’t quite settled on the dimensions – 8 x 16? Meredith has warned me that I will rue the day I try to ship anything longer than 12 inches on a side, but dammit I never claimed to be smart, and I kind of adore poster tubes. What say you, internet.
Better late than never! Here’s this week’s page of Family Man: relative calm as compared to the frenzy of new information that’s appeared over the last few updates. Still plenty of mystery, though. As always.
Also of note with this update – I’ve switched over my online store services to Shopify, and have added some items, including the first ever piece of Family Man merchandise.
I’ve developed a great relationship with a local printer, who does wonderfully faithful giclee (high-end digital inkjet) art prints – they’ve done such a great job with prints from the Lady Parts show that my only problem has been keeping them in stock.
So I’ve decided to start offering an experimental print-on-demand service for all the pages of Family Man to date.
If there’s a page you’ve really enjoyed and would like to have in a frame-ready physical form at the original size I drew it – 9×12 (or bigger, for that famous library page!), you can now buy it from me, and I will run over to the printer and ask him to please calibrate and print it just for you.
I’m starting things off at the low-low price of $25 per page (on archival paper, $40 on fancy watercolor paper). It’s safe to say the price probably won’t drop anytime soon, so here’s your chance to get in on this before I decide it’s a big ole hassle!
Oh yeah, also, those chicken stickers are still at the store. Never gonna stop pushing these. I love them so.
This week’s page of Family Man will go up on Friday! Paying work intervenes. But, in the meantime, I have a new store online!
Now you can purchase glorious chicken stickers, or custom-order prints of Family Man pages, and I can actually have a back-end order and fulfillment system which means no marking up spreadsheets with highlighters and crying myself to sleep at night because your order is inexcusably late and probably you hate me now*!
Everybody wins.
(*If you are Abigail Ravn or Caitlin Starling, send me a line – your orders didn’t make it through the mail.)
We sit on a rock
to allow our souls
to catch up with us.
We have been traveling
a long time.
Behind us are forests of books
with pages green as leaves.
A blood sun stares
over the horizon.
Our souls are slow.
They walk miles behind
our long shadows.
They do not dance.
They need all their strength
merely to follow us.
Sometimes we run too fast
or trip climbing
the rotten rungs
in fame’s ladder.
Our souls know
it leads nowhere.
They are not afraid
of losing us.
Erica Jong
Man, two big reveals in as many weeks! Hearkening all the way back to, hey, page 3. (Apologies for making you look at things I drew in 2006; I take comfort knowing it’s not nearly as painful for you as it is for me.)
Technically there’s one big reveal and one obscure tip-off. But let’s not get greedy about it.
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COMMERCE: I’ve finally acquired the last of the stock items (spoons, some of the Lady Parts prints) that were holding back some very late orders on books and prints, especially international orders! So if you have been patiently sitting on your hands over in the UK or Canada, don’t fear, I haven’t forgotten you.
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NEW STUFF: I’ve got a new poetry chapbook out. It’s called Private Island, and it’s for sale in my store at the LOW LOW price of $2.00, which is a mere ten cents for each page of action-packed verse, most of which has never seen the light of the internet before!
There are many flavors in this one, and it’s the prettiest thing I’ve ever made at a copy shop, so snag one at will.
