STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo
March 5, 2005
Austin, TX
www.staple-austin.org
MORE SPECIAL GUESTS!
Shannon Wheeler, creator of
Too Much Coffee Man, lived in Austin, Texas from '89-'99 during which time he wrote, drew and stapled 12,000 TMCM mini-comics before self-publishing his own full-sized comic books. One of the only people to have self-published full color comics, he now lives in Portland, Oregon where he publishes
Too Much Coffee Man magazine. Shannon will appear at STAPLE! courtesy of sponsor
Austin Books.
Barbara Lien-Cooper, writer of
Gun Street Girl at
Graphic Smash and one of the original founders of
Sequential Tart, is currently co-columnist at
Silver Bullet Comic Books and managing editrix of the 2004 Eisner award-winning print magazine
Comic Book Artist. Named by Mark Millar as one of the three most promising new talents in the next wave of comics writing, Barbara will be exhibiting her works at STAPLE! and joining
Lea Hernandez and
Aaron Romo on the STAPLE! Webcomics Panel.
STAPLE! ON THE RADIO!
Yours truly will be appearing on Fanboy Radio www.fanboyradio.com to talk about STAPLE! in an interview to be broadcast on KTCU - The Choice FM 88.7 in Fort Worth, Texas and webcast around the world on Wednesday 11/17/04 at 1pm CST. Check it out and dig my dulcet tones! [
Note: The episode is available online in their archive for 75ยข through BitPass.]
MORE EXHIBITORS!
Friends of Lulu, a national nonprofit organization promoting female readership and participation in the comic book industry.
The
Austin Zine Library, an Austin, Texas non-profit organization dedicated to archiving and preserving underground literature and providing a space for it to be read and enjoyed. AZL will be accepting submissions for their archive at STAPLE!
Viper Comics,
Little Engine Studios,
Repercussion Comics,
Sparkplug Comics,
Studio NDR and MORE!
Randy Lander of
The Fourth Rail will review the comics exhibited at STAPLE!
For those wishing to exhibit at STAPLE! I urge you to send in your registration form (available at
www.staple-austin.org) as soon as possible. Space is limited so don't delay!
STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo will be held Saturday March 5, 2005 in Austin, Texas and is open to creators of small-press, independent and self-published comics, mini-comics, zines, graphic arts and more! For more information go to
www.staple-austin.org or
email us.
See you there!
Chris "Staple-Head" Nicholas
www.staple-austin.org
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