tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58485188866179939452009-05-02T12:39:24.214-07:00Jonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15790625414865805361noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-15388127986291251162009-04-23T08:33:00.000-07:002009-04-25T20:05:42.568-07:00Jonas and I had a pretty good time in PDX for the <a href="http://www.stumptowncomics.com/">Stumptown Comics Fest</a> over the weekend! I'll post more in <a href="http://www.family-style.com/friendorfoe/index.html">my blog</a> soon, but thought I'd share this apearance by Jonas and myself in Jesse's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessereklaw/">Diary Comic</a>, we are the bewildered bearded dudes in the third panel: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3462404300_49a760fa07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3462404300_49a760fa07.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-1538812798629125116?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-64339048604563036222009-04-16T11:05:00.000-07:002009-04-16T18:13:24.147-07:00Jonas and François will be at this weekend's <a href="http://www.stumptowncomics.com/">Stumptown Comics Fest</a> in Family Style's home away from home, Portland, Oregon. Unfortunately, you won't find us on the official list of exhibitors; the show sold out and we weren't early enough with our application! Yikes! Happily, our old pal <a href="http://www.graphesthesia.com/hob/index.html">Eli Bishop</a> of <a href="http://www.hobocomics.com/">Global Hobo</a> has agreed to squeeze us in at <a href="http://www.stumptowncomics.com/scf09/SCF09_floorplan_layout.pdf">table #95</a>! Huzzah! Please come by and say hi! We'll have a slightly edited selection of our comics, zines, and stationery, including the newly back-in-print <span style="font-style:italic;">Ochre Ellipse</span> #1 and <span style="font-style:italic;">Friends</span> #2!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-6433904860456303622?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-59080008153503352702009-03-21T11:24:00.000-07:002009-03-21T11:33:32.516-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.family-style.com/images/catalog/stjohn1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 519px;" src="http://www.family-style.com/images/catalog/stjohn1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />"Extended Family" member Nick St. John's fantastic debut comic <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg5.htm">Further Notes on my Unfortunate Condition</a> is currently under consideration for the <a href="http://bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com/">Best American Non-Reguired Reading</a>, a rather awesome anthology edited and selected by a panel of high school students along with series editor Dave Eggers and managing editor Jesse Nathan! Unlike most juried anthologies, the ABNR committee publishes their thoughts and comments as they work through the selection process... click <a href="http://bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com/2009/03/meeting-31709-san-francisco.html">here</a> for the panel's discussion of Nick's awesome comic! Like what you hear? You can grab a copy in our <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg5.htm">catalog!</a> And of course, please keep your fingers crossed for Nick!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-5908000815350335270?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-34204167507936388132009-01-19T19:08:00.000-08:002009-01-19T19:15:51.301-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.50367582.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 430px; height: 322px;" src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.50367582.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I've had these up on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=64145">Etsy</a> for a little while, but my hand-made Mini-Comp sketchbooks are newly up on our slowly expanding <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg4.htm">Crafts</a> catalog page... I've been making these in little batches lately. The covers are reused cardboard lids from envelope boxes... how nice that they print them with that great "composition book" pattern! Each one is hand bound and trimmed, using some of the fancy tools at my lovely workplace, <a href="http://www.hellolucky.com">Hello Lucky</a>! Fun Stuff! Get yours today!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-3420416750793638813?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-51056107447552237752008-11-02T13:12:00.000-08:002008-11-06T20:40:09.040-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/3009847220_a398068b86_m.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/3009847220_a398068b86_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Family Style's resident artistic genius, Jonas Madden-Connor, won the <a href="http://www.isotopecomics.com/">Isotope Comics</a>' Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics last night! Our pride knows no bounds! Come by APE today and say hi! Or, check out our <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg2.htm">catalog</a> to purchase this great book!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-5105610744755223775?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-31821727033136260092008-09-17T23:39:00.000-07:002008-09-17T23:47:55.203-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.family-style.com/mumblingmynah/uploaded_images/cover.02-774372.jpg"><img style="float:center; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.family-style.com/mumblingmynah/uploaded_images/cover.02-774372.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />We are so proud to announce that one of Family Style's founding and central members, <a href="http://www.family-style.com/mumblingmynah/index.htm">Jonas Madden-Connor</a>, has been nominated for an <a href="http://spxpo.com/ignatz.shtml">Ignatz Award</a> for best Mini Comic of 2008! Congratulations, Jonas!<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg2.htm">here</a> to buy this amazing comic!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-3182172703313626009?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-32253562109196784122008-05-11T21:55:00.000-07:002008-05-11T22:04:07.764-07:00You may or may not know that Family Style has had a hand in running the <a href="http://www.sfzinefest.com">San Francisco Zine Fest</a> for the last three years... well, this year we are holding a very special Family Reunion panel there! We will be getting the Family Style founding members together for a rollicking discussion of the F.S. Jamboree, the pitfalls of colaborative creation, and the crazy inter-personal drama the project created for us! It should be a seriously hilarious and potentially enlightening panel for anyone who is thinking of creating a collaborative, community-based project, or any one who wants to get to know us better than they already do! It looks like pretty much all of our original members (Beth Bouffard, Chris Brennan, Jonas Madden-Connor, François Vigneault, Antonio & Pablo Roman-Alcala, Gabe Ramos, Jenny Dickow, and Sarah Gion, thus far!) have signed on. So we'll see on Sunday, July 20, at the SF County Fair Building!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-3225356210919678412?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-35877133325838031172008-05-06T13:55:00.000-07:002008-05-08T19:27:26.706-07:00We have TWO great new comics from Family members Jonas Madden-Connor and Sarah Gion:<br /> <br /><em>Ochre Ellipse</em> #2 is fantastic stand-alone comic with subtle ties to Jonas' premiere issue; it is at turns amazing, formal, spare, deep... This is the comic where Jonas is really coming into his own as a creator and a serious talent.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.family-style.com/mumblingmynah/uploaded_images/cover.02-774372.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.family-style.com/mumblingmynah/uploaded_images/cover.02-774372.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Sarah's new issue of her long-running zine/comix series <em>The Science</em> has hit issue 24 with a great mix of hilarious and bittersweet quotidian tales. This is (I believe) her first all comics issue, and she knocks the ball out of the park with her finely tuned observations and sweet drawings.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.family-style.com/images/catalog/science24cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.family-style.com/images/catalog/science24cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Both comics are available in our <a href="http://www.family-style.com/catalogpg2.htm">catalog</a>, go get 'em!<br /><br />All this productivity from my co-creators is making me look bad!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-3587713332583803117?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-47268891245815833012008-02-03T18:58:00.000-08:002008-02-03T19:01:38.032-08:00Exciting news! We have yet another new page in our ever-growing catalog: The "<a href=" http://family-style.com/catalogpg5.htm">Extended Family</a>" section will feature zines and comics from some special friends of ours, including John P. (<em>King-Cat</em>), Captain Joyce Leslie (<em>The End of a Perfect Day</em>) and Raquel Reyes (<em>Tapir Caper</em>). These are works which we will be distroing for our friends alongside our regular Family Style publications. Much more is to come in the coming year, so check back again soon!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-4726889124581583301?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>François Vigneaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04966111026080774293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848518886617993945.post-21813559520924783712008-02-03T17:17:00.001-08:002008-02-03T17:17:26.391-08:00Currently testing a new site format.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5848518886617993945-2181355952092478371?l=www.family-style.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Jonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15790625414865805361noreply@blogger.com0