You can get my newest comic Fucky the Bear #1 on our website. This is my favorite comic out of all the ones I’ve done. I just got the books in from Canada and the quality is excellent. Each book comes indivually wrapped. I will sign each one and draw a little Fucky on the wrapper for you. Click on the link to get it.

You can now buy our best selling Convention item “Fun Ways To Kill Your Children” for as low as $1 each in our BULK for Stores area.

This books sells for $4 at cons and we always sell out of whatever we bring. We are going to be reprinting it as an actual book (it is in the form of a 36 page comic book right now) and we figure that we’ll sell off the rest of them cheap.

get them at angrydrunkgraphics.com

So anyway, last weekend we did our New York Comic Con thing. It went pretty fucking awesome except for one small thing. My books were stopped at the border because they decided that FTB #1 was too offensive for the citizens of the United States of America.
This sucks for a few reasons, the main one is that i lost money at Comic Con, the other smaller reason is that people who work for the government on the border have the right to decide what might offend me. Some mouth breathing shmuck, who is only smart enough to get a job checking boxes at the border can decide for me what I might find too offensive. That is, in a nutshell everything that pisses me off about this country.

My friend Justin Melkmann (who does and awesome comic about GG Allin) couldn’t get his non offensive book because mine was so offensive to the box checker that he wouldn’t even check the other boxes. So he lost money and disappointed his fans too.

Other than that the weekend was great! I got to share table space with friends and artists who I’ve admired for years. If I wasn’t in this business I would have went to the con just to meet Sam Henderson, Mike Diana and Doug Paszkiewicz. To have them at MY table was fucking awesome. We (Angry Drunk Graphics) got kudos from all kinds of newspapers and from the people who run the con for being the ones to put this table together. And we got respect from a lot of artists for not ripping them off and overcharging them like most of the scumbags in this medium would do.

We also spent Saturday night drinking at Blaggard’s pub on 35th Street. We’ve been going there with our friends every Saturday night since the con started. I was a little worried because someone handed me a card for an “An annual NYCC after Party” that was at a Blaggard’s. Thank god it was the one on 38th street not ours. I don’t know if you have ever drank in a room full of “artists” but it sucks.
Typical artists or artsy people have got to be the most annoying people on earth. They are always looking for someone to tell them how clever or how talented they are. The only thing worse than hanging out with artists are actors, acting doesn’t even require talent all you have to do is read what someone else wrote convincingly and try not to say anything racist in public and you can be an Oscar winner.
After the bar we walked around Time’s Square. All the times I’ve been to New York I’ve never been to Times Square so I decided to go. Fucking terrible, it’s like you are sitting in a box and all four sides of it are playing different commercials at the same time. Actually it gets even worse, imagine you are in this magical commercial box and someone keeps dumping in new unfriendly people every fifteen seconds and half of them are trying to sell you crap too. The only fun I had was trying t make unfriendly people say hi to me.
I also had fun arguing with the preachers of the Apocrypha who were sitting on the corner reading the bible verses that piss of women. You know, stuff from Leviticus and such. At first I tried to win their trust by helping them bash women with verse. Then when they would let me speak without interruption my conversation went like this-
Me- “I have a question”
Crazy Preacher- “ask it”
Me- “Adam and Eve only had two kids correct?”
Crazy Preacher- “Correct”
Me-“And they were both males correct”
Crazy Preacher- “Correct”
Me- “Who did they sleep with to make the rest of the human race”
Crazy Preacher- slight pause
Crazy Preacher- “Each other”
Me- “eww, I’m outta here”
These are all the things I can remember from the weekend right now.
If you came out, thank you for supporting Angry Drunk Graphics. See you at the BBQ June 13-14 Same Place.

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From: ANGRY DRUNK STEVE
Date: Dec 5, 2008 6:21 AM

Hosted By: Angry Drunk Graphics
When: Saturday Dec 13, 2008
at 7:00 PM
Where Asbury Lanes
209 4TH AVE
Asbury Park, New Jersey|31 07712
United States
Description:
Angry Drunk Graphics

Click Here To View Event
Performances by our friends Ray Gradys, Loafass, Common Enemy, Ash Monday,Hoth,Hit the Ground,Takers, Crasher and special guests Peelander Z

Underground comic book artists from all over the world.

Cheap Booze, Bowling and tater totz.

Only 10 bucks to get in. 18 to enter 21 to drink.

Dont drink and drive get a hotel room within walking distance at the Berkely Carteret - Ocean Front Hotel
1401 Ocean Avenue | Asbury Park, NJ 07712
732-776-6700 | Fax: 732-776-9546
Ask for the “Christmas Party” rate to get rooms for $79

First 100 people get gift bags and free R rated Xmas Comic featuring works by Douglas Paskiewicz, Sam Henderson, Ryan Jones, Sergio Zuniga, Steve Vincent, Mike Diana and more.

Here are flyers by some of the attending artists
Ryan Jones -Humanburger. com

Sergio Zuniga- Beernutcomics. com

Mike Stoneroad-MikeStoneroadart. com

Steven Vincent-SpazticColon. com

I keep getting asked about events, more specifically if I can throw events for people or venues or if they can just put the name Angry Drunk Graphics over their events so that people will actually come.

The answer is ….no.

But I will tell you the secrets of throwing a successful event.

Ready?

Promote it.

That’s it, promote the shit out of it. Not just on Myspace either, get out from behind the computer, take a ride down to Staples/Kinkos or whatever and drop $20 on 100 flyers. Then drive through the towns near the venue and flyer places where people might hang out (record store ,skate park, jail exc…).

Think of why this event is special ( if the event is not special then make it special) call some newspapers get some free press.

That is the cheapest way to do it.

Promoters

There are so many promoters who (besides posting a bulletin on myspace) don’t promote their shows. Then they blame the bands for the shitty turn out. Here’s the thing, instruments are cheap now so everyone under 35 years old is in a band these days. And since everyone is in a band there are more bands that suck out there now. We’ve all been to a show where we can’t wait to see a good band but we have to sit through hours of mediocre talentless copy cat drivel to hear them.

Because there are so many shitty bands playing at clubs you aren’t going to get the curious new music loving crowd that you used to get in the 80’s or early 90’s.

You need to listen to all the bands that are playing and you need to promote the shit out of the show you are throwing. To let people know how awesome of a job you did picking these great bands. You are the promoter; you make a living off of the shows you throw spend a little more time doing your job. Promote it.

Bands

Your songs sound like crap on Myspace and you know it. Focus more on the shows than Myspace. Myspace is an awesome networking tool but that’s about it. You need to promote the shows that you are playing. Most bands have more than one member. But for some reason only one member puts flyers around. There is no reason why a band with 5 members can’t bring another 10 people with them to each show. I’ve been to a lot of shows where the band rolls in and plays and leaves. They bring nothing except themselves, bring people for fucks sake. Have a good time, you aren’t Slayer you aren’t even Hanson, you are a local band that people can see almost every weekend , unless your band is really awesome people aren’t going to show up just because they see your name on the bill. Contribute something.

And don’t cancel shows at the last minute, unless you are fucking doctor there is no job that you can’t get out of weeks in advance.

Anyway, now that that is off my chest, we are only going to have at the most 4 shows a year 2 big ones

The ADG BBQ in the summer

This is our only all ages show and it’s our only free show, this is the nice one. It’s a good way for people to see new bands without being stuck in a shitty club with no re entry.

The Happy Drunk Xmas Party in the winter

This is for us and our friends , the bands that play are friends of ours, the artists that come are friends of ours , the booze is cheap and we have a taxi service that goes from the club to a nearby hotel.

A convention

The ADG Filth Fest – this will be starting next fall.

We are kicking this off September 6th with the Mike Diana benefit, the event will continue yearly every fall. We want perversion and filth. This will be a small convention like event with vendors and artists showing off their naughtier items that they may not be able to show at places like Chiller and Monstermania. There will be 6 live bands, 6 main artists and 6 special guests at each one. As soon as we find a venue we will post it (must have a hotel within walking distance).

And a random show

The ADG ACT- This will be in the spring

More info coming soon, we were going to have a spring show in NYC for Comicon but they moved it to February again. Now it will be in Atlantic City.

Fucky the Bear 2 is on it’s way. Here is a preview of the cover.

Here is a drawing I did for the Edward Gorey House.

Yup, I sold out.

The guys who are making the plush called me last night and told me to reformat 3 of my ODd Tales books “The Snow Prince”, Devilboy in the Land of Love” and “The Boy Who Ate the World”.

Each book will be sold with a PVC figure of the main character. In a 5×5 inch box with a window showing the character and using the book as the backround.

In 2009 the books will be in books stores like Barnes and Nobles, Borders, B Dalton and are even being pitched to Walmart, Kmart and Toys are us.

I also need to redraw some pf the pics from the Boy who Ate the World, and draw turn arounds for the three main characters.

If this goes good more sets will follow.

I even have to design variant PVC figures for NYComicon and San Diego Comicon.

I’m pretty excited.

The only thing that sucks is I have to take down all other versions of my Odd Tales Books. So if you want them get them now.

-Steve