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May 11th, 2009
07:08 am - lack of entries...
hey everyone.
sorry bout the lack of entries on my livejournal. i'm mostly posting at my blogger account. http://skronked.blogspot.com which is were i will continue to mostly post.
in the meantime here are a few comics...
-a
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March 10th, 2009
February 22nd, 2009
06:30 pm
hey everyone.
next weekend (feb. 27th-march 1st) i will have my own table in artists alley at wondercon this year. table 115 to be more precise. If you live in the bay area and go to wondercon stop by and say hi. i'll have a bunch of original art, high quallity color prints, several tshirts in all sizes, Comics and graphic novels, sketchbooks, zines, and last but not least... free shrinky dinks with every purchase!
hope to see you there.
-a
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February 12th, 2009
09:28 am - hello t-shirts are now availible
SLG was kind enough to print up another one of my shirt designs. this time it's the revamp of my "Hello" Sasquatch design. a 4 color t-shirt. i'll post some good pictures of the shirt when i get a chance to take them in the mean time you can get yourself a copy... here.
 also you can still get the aliens playing poker shirts on sale here.
thanks
-a
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February 6th, 2009
09:37 am - art openning tonight!
hey everyone my art opening in san jose is tonight. if your local swing on by. Live music and stuff.
Event details:
When - Friday February 6th
Time - 7:00 PM until Late
Where: SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
577 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Call 408-971-8929 for more information or email info@slgpubs.com.
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February 2nd, 2009
11:44 am - hourly comic day...
So yesterday was hourly comic day...which means that you try to draw a comic every hour you are awake and it always takes place on febuary 1st. The superbowl was also yesterday and we had a superbowl party at my house so the day pretty much focused mainly on that. I'm not that big a football freak but can get into a game if i watch it. it's also a good excuse to grill, chill with friends, and get rowdy. You can see more hourly comics from around the world here. Below is mine. (click on the images to see a larger version.)
           
-a
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January 30th, 2009
03:34 pm - art show in san jose.
hey bay area folks.
I'm having an art show next friday (febuary 6th) at my publisher SLG's Boutiki Gallery in San Jose, California from 7:00 to 10:00. Here's a map the address is 577 south market st. There will be live music featuring Shy Grape and the Sundowner Sessions. Should be cool spacey stuff.
here's the flyer that slg made up for the show.
hope to see you there.
-a
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January 13th, 2009
09:25 am - Interviews and Reviews!
Hi-fructose vol. 10 and Coilhouse issue02 are availible at your local magazine spot now. I was very happy to leaf through (and purchase) these great magazines both featuring guest appearences by the Babysitter (which is currently on sale at the slg website.
 Hi-fructose vol. 10 and Coilhouse issue02 are availible at your local magazine spot now. I was very happy to leaf through (and purchase) these great magazines both featuring guest appearences by the Babysitter (which is currently on sale at the slg website. I was honored to have Attaboy of Hi-Fructose magazine review the Babysitter in issue 10. the review went something like this. (and i quote) "With his new The Babysitter Collection, Andy Ristaino shows that his mind's eye is a limitless anti-void, constantly surprising us at its reach. Sure, some of his work takes work to figure out. But it's always worth it. And for those who can't summon the synapses to focus on the story can just peel back their eyelids a page at a time, suck a thumb, and get lost in the purty picture spreads at a measured pace. In Babysitter, Andy grabs the now common "Japanese schoolgirl" theme and holds it at ransom, as Ristaino approaches the comic format like no other, at least not since the days of Little Nemo in Slumberland. His boxes aren't just storyboard containment devices, so much as constructed boxes. Platforms with dimensioin: portals from which his stories constantly spill out and borders offf of with his characters bounce their diatribes. This makes the nature of his projects more Charlie Kaufman-esque than anime-inspired. the characters are conscious enough of these boxes to physically use them, but don't care to "wink" at us. Ristaino's previous Slave Labor Graphics series, Life of a Fetus, a graphic novella about a um...runaway fetus, always left me wide-eyed, bewildered and awestruck. And i'm guessing i wasn't alone, as SLG decided to print a Guide to Life of a Fetus to reveal the series' many Naked Lunch-type turns and narrative trickery. With literally hundreds of character extras, guest cameos, and multi-dimensional planetary chaos, a Ristaino book shows the universe to be a very crowded place and his babysitter's world expands just as the story does. And like the real world, if you focus to hard, you'll miss something " AND... as i've mentioned in a previous post, my good friend Meredith interviewed me for Coilhouse issue 02 I'm not going to type out the interview but let me say there are some nuggets to be found in the interview and coilhouse is an awesome magazine.
below are the pages in coilhouse.
-a
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January 11th, 2009
11:56 am - aliens playing poker t-shirts now availible.
the alien t-shirts were printed up! and here they are. black shirts 3 colors available in men's and women's sizes at the slg store!
 
-a
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January 1st, 2009
01:53 am - noisvani...
Dan Vado of slg publishing offered to do a run of 3 color shirts for an art opening i'm having in February at the slg boutiki gallary.Well back in college i was pretty obsessed with aliens. Did a big run of images of aliens doing different kitschy things. Among those images was the classic aliens playing poker. so i am resurecting a certain design and making it conform to t shirts. which do you like better? i'm leaning towards version 1 at the moment.
version 1 version 2 version 3 here's the one i did in college
thanks
happy new year!
-a
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December 26th, 2008
December 15th, 2008
01:18 pm - babysitter recommended!
i was surprised as anyone to find that my book "the babysitter" made i09's 10 graphic novels that make thrilling gifts list. TOTALLY AWESOME! io9 is a webblog dedicated specifically to science fiction.
Graeme McMillian says " You probably won't have heard of Andy Ristaino's mind-bending story of Setsuko Kagaku, the Japanese schoolgirl who happens to be the world's greatest babysitter, but once you've seen this amazing, mind-bending book that gleefully rewrites the rulebook on how comics work and questions the nature of reality, you'll never be able to forget it."
click the link to above to check out the other 9 comics!
-a
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October 28th, 2008
05:19 pm - a.p.e.!!!!
almost ready for ape! And it's a good thing because it's this weekend. mainly just waiting for some books in the mail. but here's the spread of things i'll have at my table.
the stuff i personally will be shillin':
the babysitter graphic novel
my new self-published "Night of the Living Vidiots" art book (if i get them in time!)
all 7 issues of L.O.A.F.
Meathaus S.O.S.
Free skronked zines
hand silkscreened t-shirts of several designs.
high qualitly art prints
Assemble head merch (records cd's and tshirts)
greeting cards for every occasion
a free shrinky dink pin or trinket with every perchase.
and i'm sorry to say folks that steven colbert will not be appearing there.
this is my first time having a table that isn't the fine folks at SLG, and I'm pretty excited about it even if we are way in the back! table's 259 and 260 (see image below.) not sure which one of the two i will be at. but i will be sharing it with two good friends Liz Walsh and Alex Theodoropolis.
Also Andrew Farago was kind enough to ask me to participate in the Bay Area Young Cartoonist Panel with some other cool artists on Sunday.
3:45-5:00 The Bay Area’s Young Cartoonists: 2008—Think the San Francisco comix scene hit its peak in the 1960s? Think again. Moderator Andrew Farago of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum interviews Rina Ayuyang (Namby Pamby, Doodle Daze), Andy Hartzell (Fox Bunny Funny), Briana Miller (simple, still), Thien Pham (Thien Pham, Awesome), Andy Ristaino (The Babysitter), and Jason Thompson (Manga: The Complete Guide) about their comics and the ins and outs of the Bay Area creative community.
hope to see you all there!
-a
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October 23rd, 2008
10:51 am - more tshirts...
i'm going to be burning screens today! exciting.
here's my second t-shirt design.
i've got more ideas but i think this is all i'm going to be able to get done in time for the show.
-a
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October 21st, 2008
09:29 am - t-shirts for a.p.e.
i'm getting really excited about a.p.e. this year. It's the first year i've had my own table with a few friends and I plan to have a ton of stuff for sale. Posters, prints, records, comics, a new artbook, zines, tshirts, cards, shrinky dinks, and probably some artwork as well. I'm planning on have a very limited run of one or two different types of shirts at the show. limited number because i'm printing them up myself in the garage. If they sell well i'll definitely print more. Below is one of the designs you! (the colors on the final shirt might be different) 
hope to see you there!
-a
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October 4th, 2008
09:11 am - night of the living vidiots! (in color)
finally finished coloring the piece i'm going to use for the cover to my art book i'm putting together for ape. and here it is. i have two color versions which one do you like better? (again, click image to see bigger)
-a
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September 21st, 2008
04:51 pm - the post it project...
hey just wanted to remind every one about the post it project. a place where i and several other artists post post-its we doodle at work on a semi regular basis. below are a few of the post-its i've done over the past year or two. enjoy! (click image to see larger)
-a
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September 17th, 2008
08:00 am - night of the living vidiots!
just finished sketching the cover to a sketchbook/artbook i'm putting together to sell at a.p.e. and use for self-promotion. hopefully i'll get it all done and printed before the convention in early november.
(click image to see larger)
-a
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August 11th, 2008
08:45 am - signing at al's comics on saturday the 16th!
hey everyone! if your in the bay area, i'm having a signing with calvin wong, matt furie, and jason sacher, at al's comic book shop this saturday. 
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July 30th, 2008
08:23 am - san diego comic con part 2: the shwag...
or how i spent too much money in too little time to insure that getting to and from the airport was as much of a hassle as possible.
here is a list of the comic booty in no particular order. (my apologizationals to those i could not fine links to.)
click on the pictchas to see em better.  the professor's daughter by joann sfar and emmanuel guibert. book plate betties by bill pressing. mixtape 2 and stupid comics phoenix edition by jim mahfood. deep sleeper by phil hester and mike huddleston. oogeley boogeley 3 by animation tour de force pascal campion. gus and his gang by chris blain. flesk publications fall catalog various artists. comics comics number 2 and 3 featuring pshaw and many more. NBM free fall sampler various artists. modern masters vol 6 arthur adams (who i sat a row behind on he flight back to san fran). alter ego no. 78 dave cockrum. five color comics no. 1 various artists put out by house of secrets. massive swerve books 1 and 2 by robert valley. jellyfist by j. vasquez and j. goldberg. lobster ladd and pirate club vol. 2 by derek hunter. usagi jane and the skull bunnies by ben seto. don't flash the octopus by steph laberis. the goddess of war by laura weinstein. lost penguin of elephant island, the caterpillaar space force of robots, he becomes who kills him, he curse of the silver cobra, journey along a fieldline, space junk all by zander cannon. animal blog and the young minotaur by gabriele pennacchioli. bone sharps, cowboys, and thunder lizards jim ottaviani and big time attic. tom columbus gave me his self published zines she says, serving time, and a sketchbook. monday night gig a smith bros. film. this years SLG catalog has the babysitter collection on the cover! the free nerd burglar by various artist. god the dyslexic dog issues 3 and 4 by alex nino. with friends like these 3, take out 1,2,4, 5 by raina telgemeier. swingin scary larry and gagert present carnival of souls. sean hemak and devon devereaux. discover dark horse comics 2008 various artist. we lost the war but not the battle by (the director) michel gondry. mad magazine's comic con freebe various artist. notes on a war story by gipi. oh my stars and garters the art of sarah dungan vol. 2. blister no. 1 by helen jo. biocreep 4 story stash. by the great mike daley. modern masters vol. 7 john byrne. six hundred and seventy six apparitions of klloffer by typocrat (i'm not sure if this is the publisher or the artist).
i also got some posters and free shirts and stuff like that...
haven't had a chance to read any of it.
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