Got everything ready the night before so just had to basically jump in the rental car and speed off for APE. This was the first day of the 2 day show. Saturday, October 17th, 2009. I saw the sign out to the side of the place and grabbed a quick shot with my little Canon camera. Parking was around the building to the other side. Both days I left I got lost leaving as I was all turned around, but I got a nice shot of the city at night because of that. (See the photo the end of this posting.)The... Read Full Story
OK, let's recap. It is Friday, October 16th, and I'm in San Francisco. I've just survived an action packed, gut wrenching climb up 100's of steps and back down. I then locate a fantastic Japanese Resturant for some Phai Thai. Now, all full, rested and ready for action, I locate the offices of Last Gasp Comix Warehouse. It is very fortunate that I write down everything, like the address of LG. They have no logo, name, anything on the building except for the large 777 on the side. I park nearby... Read Full Story
San Francisco----or Part 1 of 3. This will be a long rambling report with lots of photos. I hope. APE (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco is probably the largest Small Press and Alternative press show in the world. (I've not been to SPX yet though.) I figured I had to check it out someday. Plus, I love San Francisco. This would mark my third trip there. Frist in 2000, my adoring wife and I went there when she was an adoring girlfriend. We drove down the coast from Seattle, WA. Beautiful... Read Full Story
Above photo is about 1/3 of what I picked up at SPACE.My friend and fellow publisher and artist Clint Basinger picked me up at 7:30am (Central Time) for our trip to SPACE this year. We had the car full to the brim with boxes, suitcases full of books and more as usual. The trip never seems to take 5.5 hours since we are talking the whole way. We did get stuck for maybe 1 hour between Louisville and Cinncinati where a huge tractor trailer full of boxes of bread had gone off to the left and took... Read Full Story
I'm typing this Sunday at the start of day 2 of SPACE in Columbus, OH, April 19th. Yesterday was great with lots of people talking, and buying small press comics. My Fan-Atic Press booth was doing well, mostly selling my newest books, especially Slam Bang #4 Vol III the music theme issue. I also for the first time put out the complete 4 issues of Rock and Roll Death Wagon the series by Ed Bolman. Issues #3 and #4 arrived from the printer to the hotel I was staying at. That's cutting i... Read Full Story
It was a fun show. I drove to the show with Clint Basinger and set up next to him http://www.cosmicmoustachecomics.com/ and we sold some stuff and made lots of contacts on Saturday. Sunday was much slower but I did have time to get interviewed by John Wilson of www.comicrelated.com Go here to listen to my interview which is part of a longer podcast. http://www.comicrelated.com/audio/relatedrecap041.htmlIf you only want to hear my interview go to www.fanaticpress.com "News" page and ... Read Full Story
DEAD RANGER covers.Well it was a long day for Clint Basinger of Cosmic Moustache Comics (http://www.cosmicmoustachecomics.com/) and Allen Freeman (me) Fan-Atic Press (http://www.fanaticpress.com/) as we were guests at two place on the same day!First we set up our booths at the Comic Quest in Evansville, IN. A great store that got a nice crowd to come by and get their free comics and see all the guests. The comic Dead Ranger #1 was debuted at this event with lots of the contributors to the is... Read Full Story
Dead Ranger is a book that I helped work on. The Comic Quest Creators Alliance meets once a month and together we are putting out this comic. It will have 4 covers to chose from. This is the one I worked on myself. I also wrote the story for the 24 page comic and inked 2 pages.This is the cover that Clint Basinger created. I did the colors.I took a sketch by Jeff Lindell and inked and colored it and came up with this cover idea from it.This book will be a 26 or 28 page comic out by Free Comi... Read Full Story
The following is an interview that I did with Dave Stevens in 1988 over the phone for the first issue of the Rocketpack Newsletter (With Chuck Haspel). To my knowledge it has never been seen anywhere else till today:Allen: How, when and where did your career begin? (Your interest in art, The Rocketeer...any formal training.)Dave: My interest in art began when I was a tiny, tiny kid. My dad drew all the time and I grew up copying his stuff. I kept drawing and drawing. This Rocketter business c... Read Full Story
