Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Katy Moves On

After turning in some fine work at MarketWatch, Katy is moving on.

She starts at Thompson in three weeks. Hey -- doesn't that mean she'll be working at Reuters again?

Friday, August 24, 2007

peepsNet Made on 267


Thumbs Up Originally uploaded by Samer Farha.

Curses!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

More Mike

Could be because peepsNet only just signed up for Type Illy email updates that I just got blasted with four (4) missives. Much of it has already been covered here, but here are some as-yet unreported tidbits:

"The CHARLOTTE ARTS FESTIVAL turned out to be the most succesful outing TYPE ILLY PRESS has ever had. Not only in terms sales, but also in solidifying a long term business strategy for independent comic creators (particularly of color)..."

"we did our HIGHEST first day sales numbers at the CHARLOTTE ARTS FESTIVAL, and we owe it all to the lovely parents and children who came out and dropped HEAVY support for SOUTHSIDE NEFERTITI. Parents looking to get their children reading took to the book, and young teens dug the hip hop angle. The incredible cover art by Randolph Williams caught eyes all weekend, and the story kept them reading."

"Everybody's experience is different, but the reaction to SOUTHSIDE NEFERTITI and the continual support reaffirms to me that there is a significant audience for high quality comics by independent creators and people of color. Not only that, but people of color will SUPPORT high quality comics if they are done well and if the story resonates with them. In one day, I moved more units at the CHARLOTTE ARTS FESTIVAL than I did in an entire weekend at WIZARD WORLD LA and mainstream comics shops put together.

And the Charlotte Arts Festival had a LOT FEWER people. Men lie, women lie, but numbers don't lie. (c) Jay Z And the numbers keep saying to me that people of color – ESPECIALLY PARENTS – are much hungrier for this particular TYPE ILLY comic than mainstream comics fans."


" From the SOUTHSIDE TO SAN DIEGO... SOUTHSIDE NEFERTITI has stepped into new territory. TYPE ILLY'S latest release SOLD OUT the entire special edition print run for the 38th Annual COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL at the San Diego Convention Center!(WEE PALS Creator Morrie Turner and KUNTA KINTE at our (ComicCon) booth, yall!!)


DCist: Morning Roundup: Animal Criminality Edition


OK -- basically we're just going to start phoning these in.

Samer blah blah blah DCist blah blah blah Morning Roundup blach blah blah featured photo.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

DCist: The Weekly Feed: You're at Happy Hour Already Edition


More DCist love for Samer via The Weekly Feed: You're at Happy Hour Already Edition.

Is Samer getting any $$$ for these marvelous captures? Maybe he should be selling them. peepsNet just might suggest it and ask for a cut.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Manholes: The Other Great Enemy


P.E.P. CO. Originally uploaded by Samer Farha.

I think I am starting to understand the editorial policy at esteemed competitor DCist:

  1. Check out the DCist flickr group
  2. See if Samer has posted anything recently
  3. Decide to do a story that they can use Samer's picture to illustrate

Well, if that isn't the way they work over there, it should be.

Samer's " P.E.P. CO." is the art on the Aug. 16 DCist story Manholes: The Other Great Enemy. It graces this article, too.

Hey, DCist -- we knew him first!

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Mike @ Comicon II


A profile of The Antidote Trust, the independent collective of which Mike is a member, is at Black Comic Book Blog. Peg is the Trust's showing at ComicCon.

Passage on Mike:

"Mike SalesHe’s a writer, he’s an artist and he’s publisher of quality Comics, so of course he’s Triathlon (Mike actually wears many more hats than those but Multiple Man didn’t quite fit the analogy). To be good at so many facets of the business and still be a team player is a super power all by itself."

Mike @ Comicon


Long Q&A with Mike (and lots of pictures) at Pink Raygun.

This is a very in-depth interview with Mike. He talks at length about his business plan, marketing and team of artists.

Best for me was the explanation of his inspiration for Nefertiti Jones, Mike's single mom superhero.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Blah Blah Blog

We don't know what part of this sentence we like better:

"Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis ..."

SFist has picked up on the awesomely last named awesome NYTimes article about an up-and-coming SF neighborhood and -- since all blogs are only about the blogger anyway -- the item became vitriol magnet for author Brock Keeling.

Our favorite, posted anonymously: "If you call the Western Addition, NOPA, you deserve the stabbing or shooting your stupid white ass will get." Ouch.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

New York Times? N(o)P(a)!

The embargo has been lifted, and with it, our spirits.

peepsNet is pleased to reveal that Nicole has crashed through the gates of that certain East Coast newspaper of record with an article about a cool, emerging neighborhood in that West Coast town where she insists she must live.

Sunday's New York Times -- Travel Section, page 4, as earlier alluded to -- carries Nicole's homage to NOPA -- "the name stands for “north of the Panhandle,” that sliver of green jutting east from Golden Gate Park — was once known mostly for low-income housing and random shootings," Nicole writes. "But an influx of attention-getting restaurants and boutiques in the last decade has made it one of the city's cooler destinations, even as it struggles to maintain its gritty individuality," she continues, mocking the inaccessibility of this budding paradise to we Right Coast denizens.

The story is already on the web (yes, that is about the 11th link to it in this pimping puff piece. You should be so lucky.) but we cannot wait to see it in print which, as any New York Times reader will tell you (assuming that Jane O’Shaughnessy speaks for us all), is all that really matters.

peepsNet takes special note of the special care the NYT gave Nicole's article, commissioning a lovely illustration by Jorge Columbo to which we have linked, the better to shore up the paper's sagging readership.

No charge, Gray Lady. A reciprocal link would be just fine.

Monday, August 06, 2007

I'm Just Sayin'

I know you are all as upset as peepsNet is with the New York Times shrinking and all, but wait until Sunday before you give up on the Gray Lady.

Travel Section.

Page 4.

I'm just sayin'.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Counter Culture -- I Wish I Had Thought Of That



Nicole is at it again: tormenting all those SF renters who'd rather just like to kick back with an Anchor Steam and watch The Bionic Man set a home run record with even more ways to productively fill their down time.

Now it's indoor gardening. This, from a girl who lives five blocks from a farmer's market and is already booked solid through her 30th birthday (the planning for which has begun, I am sure).

Take a breather and stop making the rest of us look like lazy bums. We like the produce section at Ralphs. We consider vegetables optional anyway. Give us more stuff like you don't have to clean the place all the time. And since you're up, get us a beer.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

9 Reasons


9 Reasons Originally uploaded by Samer Farha.


More DCist love for Samer.

Of course, peepsNet will publish anything having to do with RFD.