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Science: Fact and Fiction – Issue Preview!

As the Editors/Organizers finish putting together our latest issue for our release party this Saturday, we wanted to offer everyone a special preview of what’s in this latest issue, centralized around the themes of science and science fiction!

“Science: Fact and Fiction” Issue Preview

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Our amazing cover,
artwork and design by Everett Patterson!

“Space Commander Mouse!” by Brad Britton

For Ms. Butler by Tonya L. Jones

“The First Time…” by Kane Lynch

The Transit of Venus by Sang Park

“Songs of Dead Sea Cows” by Lillie Craw

Voyager by Leda Zawacki

Laser Cannon D by Pegacron

“It’s Magic” by Jon Hallman and Katy Ellis O’Brien

This All I Know by Amy Souza

As you look these few contributions over, you can really tell that this issue really spans the spectrum of science fact and science fiction… And this is only a preview! You can get the whole issue at our release party tomorrow at Floating World Comics.

Double Release Party – Science: Fact and Fiction and Hazel Newlevant @ Floating World

SU ZINE RELEASE PARTY
Science: Fact and Fiction

Where: Floating World Comics
What: ”Science: Fact and Fiction” and “Ci Vediamo” Release Party
Featuring: Readings, Beverages, Socializing, and a “Mad Scientist” Costume Contest
Who: Stumptown Underground
When: 6pm-8pm on Saturday, July 28th

We are having a release party for our “Science: Fact and Fiction” anthology, centralized around the themes of science and science fiction, this July 28th and Floating World Comics. The release party is free, all ages, and you’ll be able to meet and greet with the issue’s contributors and purchase copies of “Science: Fact and Fiction” for just $5 and before all your friends!

In addition to being able to pick up the lastest issue, you can meet-and-greet with many of the contributors and other wonderful cretive people. We will have some experimental beverages from the mixologists of Stumptown Underground, both alcoholic and non, for you to enjoy. If you are feeling experimental yourself, show up in your best “Mad Scientist” costume to compete in the party’s “Mad Scientist” costume contest! We’ll have a vote and the top 3 costumes will receive a free copy of the new issue.

Several of the contributors will be reading from their included work in this issue during the party. “Science: Fact and Fiction” is the twenty second zine anthology from Stumptown Underground. In these issue, you’ll find comics, writing, and illustrations from the likes of Everett Patterson, Amy Souza, Tom Eichacker, Lisa Marshall, James Michael Williams, Lillie Craw, Rachel Dominguez-Benner, Suzette Smith, Asher Craw, Leda Zawacki, and many other talented folks.

This is also in conjunction with the release of Hazel Newlevant’s Xeric award winning mini-comic, Ci Vediamo. “Ci Vediamo” is an Italian goodbye. Literally, it means “We’ll see each other.” Ci Vediamo the mini-comic is a wordless story of love, loss and moving on. The comic uses overlapping vellum pages to tell the story.

Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised cartoonist attending SVA. She is a frequent contributor to Stumptown Underground, and has self-published comics like Curio, Chili Dog Dad, and the faux-children’s book People of Coloring Book. Check out her work at http://newlevant.com/

Here’s the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/164106793723933/

We will be getting an online preview up soon, so stay tuned!

6 Apr 2012, 9:40pm
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Issue #22: Science and Sci-Fi

Issue #22 – JUNE 2012
Theme: SCIENCE and SCI-FI
Deadline: MAY 23

Can you imgagine a world where andriods are running for president? Or have you been dying to illustrate a comic explaining exactly how a rainbow is made?

Science and art are two great tastes that taste great together! Send us you science or science fiction contributions and be in the next issue of Stumptown Underground…

See our Submissions Guidelines for criteria.

Send your submissions to:
stumptownunderground@gmail.com

Short Run Small Press Fest Recap!

We tabled at the first-ever Short Run Small Press Fest in Seattle this past weekend! The Short Run Small Press Fest reminded us a lot of the Portland Zine Symposium in feel, ethics and organization.

Short Run was held at The Vera Project, an all ages, non profit, music and art venue in Seattle Center. We want to give a big thank you to all the organizers who worked hard to keep tabling costs low and admission to the event free, key ingredients to any independently minded festival (as a PZS organizer, Blue can attest to this)!

I (Blue) drove up to Seattle with Emily and Virginia Paine of Sparkplug and tabled for Stumptown Underground, sharing a table with Alex Wrekk.

We met so many people, got a lot of Stumptown Underground zines and information passed out, and had a lot of fun. There were many people checking out Short Run that hadn’t even heard of zines, so it was great to be reaching out to so many new people about independent media. When I talked to organizer Kelly Froh at the end of the day, she said that their count for attendance was 820!

Thank you so much, Short Run! We will want to go again next year, so keep up the good work.

15 Sep 2011, 3:12am
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Tell SU your short secrets!

One of our editors, Jon Hallman, volunteers at Title Wave Used Book Store, which has graciously donated three $10 gifts certificates for us to give away in a secrets contest!

We are having a little secrets contest to go along with our upcoming secrets-themed issue. The deadline to submit art, comics, and other longer secrets to that issue is September 23rd.

In the meantime, we’ve made a handy little survey for you to fill out to submit your shorter, juicy secrets to us for a chance to win one of three $10 gift certificates to Title Wave Used Book Store.

Fill out the survey for the secrets contest here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VBDSG6J

The deadline for submitting your secrets online for the contest is also September 23rd, as we will be putting them up to be voted on then.

All submitted secrets will be put up online, without names, to be voted on by anyone. Voting starts on September 24th, online, winning secrets will be announced on October 7th at our release party!

If you do not include any contact information, however, we will be unable to award you any gift certificate. We will be awarding the three gift certificates to the top three submitted short secrets that have included a way to contact them. You are still welcome to submit your secret and have it included online… You know, just for the glory of being voted on and ranked. If you would like to give us contact information to make you eligible to win one of the Title Wave Bookstore gift certificates, please leave your number or email address within the survey.

We will also be including the top 10 submitted secrets in the printed zine. This can be anonymous or not. If you would like your little secret to not be considered for inclusion in print, please indicate that in the appropriate box within the survey. Please also indicate if you would like your name on your little secret in print. We will assume not, otherwise.

Thanks for reading, we can’t wait to see what we get!

28 Aug 2011, 12:17am
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Issue #20: Secrets

Issue #20 – Due out October 2011
Theme: SECRETS
Deadline: SEPTEMBER 23

We all have our secrets, what’s yours? The theme we’ll be focusing on for our 20th issue will be secrets. We want to know yours. We want to know how secrets have affected you.

We’ll be doing a little secrets contest outside of the issue (think 140 characters ish), but more on that later.

See our Submissions Guidelines for criteria for submitting to the secrets-themed zine, issue #20 of Stumptown Underground.

Send your submissions to: stumptownunderground@gmail.com

19 Aug 2011, 10:16pm
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New Zine at Art in the Park!

Stumptown Underground will be debuting the new issue, a summer and ocean themed flip book, at Art in the Park on Saturday, August 20th!

With work from Everett Patterson, Tonya Jones, Aaron Brassea, Tom Eichacker, Molly Teutimez and more! We hope to see you there sometime, should be a fun day in the sun with lots of other artists.

Check out more info here: http://cherrysprout.com/?p=677
Or here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195443197186953

12 Aug 2011, 7:16pm
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Stumptown Underground Is Looking for a Couple More Organizers!

Did you know that Stumptown Underground is collectively organized? Well, it is. Each organizer/editor has a say in every decision Stumptown Underground makes, we all pitch in (as we can) to pay for publishing costs (and get reimbursed as we sell issues), we all hand out fliers, we all vote on every submission we receive for each issue, and so on! Right now, two of our organizer/editors are out of the country, we’ve had a couple editors that have moved on, and two editors get really freaking busy every year during the Portland Zine Symposium. So, right now, we’re really feeling the need for extra hands.

If you’re interested in becoming a Stumptown Underground organizer/editor, email us to try it out! All potential new organizer/editors have to be unanimously approved by the current members (we have a tightly-knit crew going on here that works well together, we want to keep it that way) and we’d love to have answers to these few questions when you inquire about joining on our organizer team…

1) What is your creative background?

2) Why does helping with Stumptown Underground appeal to you?

3) What skills/talents do you feel you particularly possess(ways in which you are awesome) that would add to our awesomeness?

We seriously need a couple more DEDICATED and PASSIONATE organizers, so even if you have little experience with zines (organizer Jon was very inexperienced when he joined, now he’s practically an expert), shoot us an email!

26 Apr 2011, 11:41pm
Issue Previews Photos: art comics covers Everett Patterson illustrations images Katy Ellis O'Brien Max Karl Key Robnoxious writing zines
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“Heartbreak” and “Peas in a Pod” Special Previews!

The SU Editors/Organizers are wrapping up putting together our “Heartbreak” and “Peas in a Pod” issues, debuting tomorrow night at The Saratoga with a special music show. So, we wanted to take a last minute opportunity to get you all excited for these two new issues with a special preview!