This weekend Roy and I will be setting up shop at the Stumptown Comics Fest, here in occasionally beautiful Portland, OR.  Roy will have his standard fair, including dozens of fancy full color prints, and perhaps a few other comic projects he’s worked on.  I’ll be packing my library of mini comics, buttons and even a silly poster.  Oh yeah, we’ll also be selling copies of Roy’s Boys: the First-Twenty Weeks, for $3 a pop.  We’ll be at table B-25 (pictured in the handy map below)!

The festival is located at the Oregon Convention Center, and is open Saturday, 10-6pm and Sunday, 12-6pm.  You can buy tickets online or at the door.  Both day passes and weekend passes are available.

So if you’re in the area swing by and say hello.  And be sure to check out all of the other awesome comics and creators on display; it’s a really great show, promise.

Prolonged Contact, Episode 7: Temporary Black Hole

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In the latest episode we talk about Stumptown Comics Fest, store brand beer, tall boys, Stratego, desert islands, Friends, Portal, baseball, botched perspective, cocktails and our apparent favorites, dicks and farts.

Strips Discussed: The Freak, Blast From the Past, Revelations, Constant Concern, Morning Glow, Mated for Life, Riding in Cars with Boys and Hard Decisions.

Questions Answered:

-Hi guys my name is Perri Winkle, and I’m so happy to be here today. Bachelor #1. if we were trapped on a desert Island, and we could each have one object with us, what object would you want to have, and what object would you want me to have? (44:58)

-Hi, Perri Winkle again. Bachelor #2. If we were dating and you caught me and Bachelor #1 playing Street Fighter Alpha 3 naked together. How would you react, and how would you prove to me that I should be playing with it you instead? (51:32)

We want your questions, more questions – pertaining to the comic or not. Hit up our Formspring plug-in on the left side bar or email us info (at) roysboyscomic.com

We announced a while back on the last podcast that we now have an Etsy store, but honestly, we know you aren’t all listening to that.  Well, we’re here now to re-officially announce our shop, which you can find here or from that handy link up on the menu navigation.  Within the friendly confines of the Roy’s Boys Etsy shop you’ll find a selection of my original pages and our mini comic collection, Roy’s Boys, the first twenty weeks – sadly there are no originals of Roy’s work, as his work is 100% digital.  All orders come with a set of three buttons, and an original doodle.

Some of you might remember originals used to be able to be purchased directly through the site with the Buy Print link under every comic, but that became too difficult to maintain and we wanted a place to have the mini comic – it just made more sense to put them all together.  Prints can still be bought from the site though, for each and every strip.

The other thing, if you’re in either Portland, OR, or New York City, you can actually buy Roy’s Boys, the first twenty weeks, in person.  The collection is available in Portland at Floating World Comics, and in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at Bergen Street Comics.  In store, the books retail for $3.  We have a handful of other shops we’d like to get the mini comics into, and if you’re in another city with an indie friendly shop, let us know and maybe we can get in there too.  We’ll let you know of any other shops carrying the book as they happen.

Again, thanks for your support.

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