Sundays Anthology

What’s that, pizza? You want to know how we do what we do here at Sundays 2?

Here is Alex Kim putting in about two hours printing each color of the cover. The Sundays 2 cover has four colors. The back cover has two.

You can see the first few on the drying rack here. At this point the first two colors are on.

Sundays 2 was printed and bound at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Here we see Jeff Lok’s beautiful pages coming out of the printer.

Sundays 2 is 70 pages. We stapled the pages, and wrapped the back cover around the spine to hide the staples and then glued the back cover to a flap on the back (I’ll try to take more detailed photos next time so as to better explain the process).

Then we trimmed the book using CCS’s hydraulic paper cutter. I think the final size ends up being 10.25″ by 12.25″

Sundays 2!

You can purchase a copy of Sundays 2 by clicking here, or going to the “Buy Sundays 2″ link on the side of this page. We will also be at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC June 20th - 22nd, and SPX in the fall. If you buy a copy at a con we’ll give you a free bag.

Here are some pics of the Sundays set up at MoCCA just this past weekend. Even with all the heat we managed to have a good time. Sorry if we missed you at the show. You can catch us in 2 week’s time down in Charlotte, NC at HeroesCon in Indie Island. It’s our first time there and we are super excited. We hope to meet a lot of new folks and hang with old friends. Come along if you can.

Oh yeah. Now you can buy the brand new Sundays 2 right here for $15(no extra shipping charge). We will ship out your book at fast as humanly possible.

Sean and Jeff over look the table

Alexis, James Hindle, Joe, and JP do it up at one percent press

Dane drinks from the blood of the gods

Jeff keeps shit in place

Denis stopped by to tell us some beard jokes

Alex fans beats the heat using Only Skin

Joe eats

More photos from Joe’s flickr.

And Alex’s.

Hello friends.  Please come see us at MoCCA.  We will be sitting upstairs in the skylight ballroom.  Don’t forget to ride the antique elevator.  It’s worth the wait.  We will be near the CCS, One Percent Press, and IKJK tables.  We are very excited about the book.  We hope you come and look at it.  Until then,  here be the cover drawn by Joey Lambchops and hand-pulled by A Krim.

Next week starts the Sunday’s Sam n’ Dan Sunday Spectacular! Full color, full page strips! Every Sunday! All April! Yikes!

Hello all! Just wanted to drop a line and let you know that we will have a limited amount of Sundays available at SPX. You can find it at table H2 right next to our friends at One Percent Press and across from Alternative comics. Along with Sundays, you can check out a smattering of comics by the Sundays editors. Among these will be the debuts of Sean Ford’s Only Skin #2 and a new split-mini by Alex Kim and Chuck Forsman called Hey,Guy. Can’t wait to see you there!

Like Sean said before, SUNDAYS SOLD OUT! We’ll have more copies soon and they will be available at
*Copies are now available at:

I Know Joe Kimpel.com 

This post was taken from my own blog. I’ve taken out everything that doesn’t pertain to Sundays though. I think.

Here we go:

MoCCA 2007

Sundays Sold OUT!

It was a solid two days of traffic as buzz built around the book. Thanks to all of our friends who sent people to our table, or told them to stop by, you guys are the best. Special thanks to James Sturm for personally bringing people to the table several times; and to the CCS table for being our buddies across the way, we sent people to you and we know you sent people to us.

It would be easy for us to milk the interest in CCS and use that as a platform to toss our books out there, but the fact is that the books we students are putting out are really good! The quality of stories, art and production are right there among the best at the show, and we’ve only just begun.

Photos:

MoCCA took place in four rooms just like this one. It was huge and bright and white. Like a comics heaven.

“Hey guy. What’dya doin over there? D’you wanna comics? D’you wanna large format comics? Where you goin?”

Medusa, the book unfolding out onto the floor, sold out! It was written by our Jess and drawn by Alex. It was great, a real involving read with the format and flowing artwork and language.

Alec Longstreth and James Sturm talk. About what, I wasn’t privileged enough to know.

The one and only Rich Tommaso came over to our table early to check out Sundays, but was unimpressed with the size…

I mean, look at the size of his pages of original art!

I continued to take as many pictures as I could, trying to document the weekend, but I wasn’t the only one:

Chuck gave me a taste of my own medicine. It was sweet and filling.

The show filled up soon, and remained constant.

The one and only Sam Gaskin had a good show with his Pizza Wizard debuting. It was easily one of my favorite books of the show.

The Sundays table was right up against the One Percent Press table. We were one big comics family.

In addition to carrying the 54-page 11 x 17 inch anthology masterpiece Sundays, the table also had books by each of the co-editors. It was a handsome table, made only handsomer by the handsome folk behind the table.

Here’s Alexis Frederick-Frost, CCS grad and author of Maria of Montmarte and La Primavera with his wife Kristen, and myself, the third-wheel.

One Percent Press, Sundays table neighbors matched!

That’s Becca giving Alex her, “You think you’re sooo funny” face.

Sundays was only 10 bucks at MoCCA, and you got a free screen-printed bag to carry all of your wares in. It will be 12 on IKnowJoeKimpel.com in a couple of weeks. But still well worth it. And you may even get some free sketches or comics along with it.

The second day started with a cookie for Chuck.

Kenny Dahly playing the banjo between rows.

WOO! Alex sells the very last copy of Sundays to some guy!

Alexis sells and signs his very last copy of Maria of Montmartre to some guy!

Ken Dahl sells a copy of Monsters #2 to some lady, who was a huge fan. Of the comic, or the mustache? We’ll never know.

The famous Clutch McBastard karate chopped my face off when I asked how he thought the show was going.

We made free sketch bookmarks for people at the Sundays table,

While Kenneth grabbed up the free wraps at the end of the show,

Jeff kept an eye Loked down on Charlito. A man of fierce loyalty, Jeff made sure Charlito didn’t talk no jive to his Sundays Brothers Sean or Chuck.

Sean, one of Sundays’ editors is a man of class and disguise.

Thanks to everyone who made this weekend amazing.

MoCCA was a blast! The first print run of the Sundays Anthology sold out, but Editorial is planning to go back to press immediately and make copies available on I Know Joe Kimpel by the end of the week. We just want as many people who want to to be able to see this book.

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported and visited us at MoCCA. It was an unbelievable weekend on several levels and I’m sure the other editors will chime in with their reports soon.

Keep checking out this blog for more Sundays news. We’ll let you know here when the book is available online and we’ll keep posting info about the talented contributors roster.

A special thanks to Heidi MacDonald, who mentioned Sundays several times on The Beat and helped spread the word. I got to meet Heidi for the first time this weekend and she’s great. Thanks to all who helped spread the word.

Favorite book from MoCCA so far: Jamie Tanner’s The Aviary, but I’ve barely scratched the surface of a huge stack of books.

Stay tuned, there’s more Sundays info to come. Thanks again.

The books are bound, the car has been started and the good ship Sundays is about to set sail for MoCCA. Wow, that sounded bad. But we’ll be there Saturday morning, bright and early. See you at MoCCA, folks… just look for this banner, hanging from Table A45 in the main ballroom on the first floor…

or look for this cover…

or look for these people, hopefully more well rested…

or look for Alex playing with Joe’s corpse…

or follow the trail of happy customers who look like this!

Thanks for reading and enjoy. There’ll be more updates on Sundays news here in the coming days and weeks… did someone say sequel? Animated series? Action figures? No. No one said any of those things. YET.

Also, if for some reason you can’t make it to MoCCA, Sundays will be available at I Know Joe Kimpel directly after MoCCA. So, if you don’t have IKJK bookmarked - do it now.

So, we’ve, uh, been asking a lot of Alex screen print-wise lately. To the tune of, like, well over 1000 screen prints on the front, back and inside covers of the Sundays Anthology. I also had him screen print some puppy drawings on socks. We thought he could handle it.

Unfortunately, it seems that late last night, Alex snapped and killed the talented young cartoonist Joe Lambert. On the bright side, anyone who owns Joe Lambert originals now stands to make a pretty penny. The below photos will probably have some sort of legal ramification for Alex. Sorry, Dee Oh Double Gee, implement cruise control.

On the bright side, the cover for the Sundays anthology is all done!

Alex, hard at work.

Lambert makes one too many wise remarks…

…but it was all worth it.

Read an interview with screen printer extraordinaire/cold-blooded killer Alex Kim here.