No that’s not a title of a long lost scooby-do episode where they have to where they find out the ghost bassist was really Old Man Shanninny the plumber and everyone was really super shocked when I had already guessed it had to be him, mostly because we only met him for the first 10 seconds of the episode and also ONLY A PLUMBER WOULD BE SO SKILLED WITH HIS HANDS TO ROCK OUT THAT HARD!
Now…back to the purpose of this post. The Ghosts (Chris Y, David !, Tour Manager Marianne, and me aka Colleen) just got back from another awesome year at STAPLE! Austin’s best independent comic show. (I would even argue it’s the most fun to go to out of ANY of the small press shows!) There will be a full report when I have more of a brain, but you can check out our ghost photos here.
In the meantime you should enter our new “Record our Theme” contest. Sir Malki ! during a particularly slow part of the morning, wrote a rapsterpiece and we want YOU, yes YOU (the one who can play the bass almost as good as Old Man Shanninny) to record it. You can listen to it in the video below and can read the lyrics here:
Should you get selected as the best song we’ll pimp the HELL out of you on our sites and also at all of our Ghost shows! Submissions must be sent to submit[at]scrapsofcrap.com in mp3 form (or links to mp3’s). Submission deadline is um…soon? We’ve got a whole lot of shows coming up so submit now or forever hold your guitar like a guitar, but not play it.Oh yeah, and if you are another comic artist and are looking for ways to attract more customers, using pit-smell-technology and the use of free products often works.
If you are in the TX area, or if you are in the “rest of the world” area and know what’s good for you, you should come out to STAPLE in AUSTIN this coming Saturday, March 3 (*cough 2007, in case you have just woken up from a coma, in which case you may want to spend time showering and stuff before you go to the show cough*).
David !, Chris Y, Colleen, and Marianne (the official GHOST PROMOTER) will be there dispensing high fives and selling books, shirts (including a NEW GHOST SHIRT unveiled at that show!!), prints, greeting cards, custom dunnys, wooden mini-ghosts, choreographed dances, and self esteem!
The show opens to the public at 10am and closes at 6pm, and takes place at the Norris Conference Center, which according to our favorite show organizer is “located on the South side of the Northcross Mall, at 2525 W Anderson Ln. The easiest way to get there is to enter at the driveway by the Sonic sign, just South of the Sonic Restaurant on Burnet Road, which is itself South of Anderson Lane. Anderson runs E-W, and Burnet runs N-S.”
David Malki ! has created three unique Wondermark poster prints that are being auctioned off to benefit Child’s Play, the charity started by Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade. Each piece is unique and was created especially for these auctions.
The first piece went for $242.73 to Thomas from California!
The second went for $247.50 to Jason from California!
The third is going on now! 100% of the final bid prices will be donated to Child’s Play.
SPX was such a success that now I have absolutely NOTHING to sell at STUMPTOWN next weekend. Eep! If you need me I’ll be sewing like a crazy mo-fo watching SANTO films for the next two days.
Want to know what you missed at SPX? Well read the full Playground Ghost report HERE! (aka the “Guess How Many Cherry Tomatoes We Can Fit In Our Mouths!” Report) You can also see all of our pictures HERE.
Or if you don’t know how to read you can just watch it in the form of a 45 second movie of David! entertaining the hell out of booth traffic:
Other reports you must read!
-Publisher’s Weekly Official Type Report
-Matt Hawkins (tied for second place in the Cherry Tomato Competition and won first place in the “terrifying number of pictures where Colleen looks like she just sniffed glue”)
-Pat Lewis (one of our roomies who had the FUNNIEST tale of the entire con which involved our room winding up with Tony Millionaire’s Ignatz for a night)
-Klio (this one is TOLD IN SOCK PUPPETS!!!)
-Jess Fink (who drew everyone she met including Fluff’s own Marianne Ways and myself)
-Speaking of Marianne, you should read her report, which is somewhat similar to the Ghost one, since we stole ALL her pictures…muahahahaa!
-The SPX Journey of Mini-Sir Ive
-Liz Baillie’s Report
-Robin Enrico’s Report
-MK Reed’s Report
Those of you who live in Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, and San Francisco now officially have your awesomeness quota met for the year. Not only do you get free print edition of THE ONION in your cities already but now you’ve got free print editions of THE ONION featuring Wondermark! Yes, that’s right our very own Mr. Malki! is currently wowing the country once a week print form, right there on the same page as Cathy en español, which is 2,000 times more funny and coherent than the english version. Especially if you don’t speak spanish.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in one of these beautiful cities you can totally get a subscription to print version of THE ONION by visiting this page. ¡Todos adoran Wondermark! ¡Aún Cathy a pesar del hecho ella tiene amor propio bajo, muslos gordos adiposos, y no tiene nariz!
Chris Y. has created another batch of one-of-a-kind ghost toys. This time there’s even a ninja, a charlie brown ghost, and a bunny that if you stare at long enough it will hypnotize you. I now am programmed to steal eggs from convenience stores and hide them in my friends’ apartments. I will now take this opportunity to apologize to Annie for the “present” in her shoe the other day. I must insist someone buy the hypno-bunny soon. He’s dangerous and I think needs a good home to set him straight.
The first batch went super fast, so if I were you, I’d hurry my little tush over to the store. As always, some of the proceeds from ghost sales go towards bringing all of us ghosts to conventions near you and the other part of the proceeds go towards keeping Chris Y. alive with food! Two very important charities!
-C to the O to the double L E to the N to the Watch-Out-for-Raw-Eggs-I-will-Put-In-Your-Shoes
Playgroundghosts.com just got a major face-lift and I even added a few extra elements to the face, like an extra eye, half of a new ear, an interactive Ghost Photo Gallery, the greater portion of a left eye-brow, a site feed for easy keeping up to date, a whole bunch of banners and buttons you can use to show your ghost-love. I’ve also enabled anonymous commenting, so let us know what you think of the new site design or just tell us a story about your cat. We’d be happy to read both.
Love and Moustaches, Colleen, Playground Ghost and Code Monkey
P.S. There are still some amazing wooden ghosties left in THE TOY STORE. Not only are they one-of-a-kind art pieces but every ghost helps pay for Playground Ghost convention appearances.
The tiny little wooden ghosties are here.
Free to anyone who stops by our table in Austin! I know you may be jealous if you can’t make it, but rest assured these little dudes will at some point become available online as part of the Playground Party Pak.
If you are in Austin or anywhere in that connected bit o’ land you should most definitely stop by the Playground Ghosts table on Sat, March 4, 2006 10am - 6pm. The show’s only $5 and will take place at the Red Oak Ballroom, 2525 West Anderson Lane.
Chris Y. and Colleen will officially be representing the Ghosts along with honorary Ghost Guest Klio from 10,000 drawings. We’ll have loads of giveaways and goodies on hand from all the Ghosts, including books, stickers, handmade wooden Lil’ Spooks, buttons, and the Playground Ghosts Sampler featuring comics by all of the ghosts and a FRIGGIN’ SWEET cover by Steve.
