The Jitterati book
Okay, by Friday next week there’s going to be a Jitterati book. I’ll be selling it at Wellington Zinefest in Mighty Mighty on Saturday the 21st.
I’ve been working on it very very slowly since April last year, and I haven’t talked about it much because it hasn’t exactly been a good year for me finishing things. So, mentioning it here – an obvious arena, wouldn’t you think? – gives me a fairly gritty incentive to come up with the goods.
It’s 80 pages, the biggest book I’ve ever made, and contains about 253 cartoons. It should also come with a DVD of every cartoon in colour, which I’ll put together next week as soon as the PDF is at the printers.
The cover is going to have a circular colour inset, and If I have time I’ll do some variations. What would people like to see? I’m also talking to Havana Coffee about including a free coffee sample with each copy.
November 13, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Sorry for being kind of unimaginative today, I had been busy shipping ‘Your Shout’ to various establishments. You can now tell people that there is a sample of your work in Te Papa, although it isn’t necessarily viewable to the public.
November 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm
A free sample of Havana coffee with each copy?
…Sigh. *So* Wellington.
Needless to say, I’ll buy two: one for me and one for a traveler friend for Christmas.
~JamesM
November 14, 2009 at 5:11 pm
What, you don’t think it’s a good idea? (tears well up) But… but…
November 14, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Like I say: I’ll buy two. Of course I’d never admit it out loud, but it was the free coffee that sold me. I am, after all, a Wellingtonian.
November 16, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Are you going to put an ISBN on it? You totally should, and see if you can turn your cultural legitimacy into a way to sell copies to libraries all over the country. I think Dave Bradbury made a mistake with not doing it for pictozine II.
November 16, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Yup, it’s all ISBN’d up. And I’ve put a big plug in the cartoon for it, but it’s okay because I managed to work in a reference to the sesquicentennial of Origin of the Species.