ELECTRIC ANT ZINE BLOG

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The romance wasn't THAT bad was it...?

The totally awesome Prison For Bitches (produced by EAZB's very own home team) finally made me give da Ladyz stuff a look/listen and I gotta confess I liked what I saw/heard. So much so I cranked out this picture. My apologies to Ms.Gaga, Xianxingzhe and the good people of Paramus.

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ELECTRIC ANT ZINE NOW AVAILABLE AT ATTRACT MO.DE

One of my favorite new sites/boutiques, the video game culture shop Attract Mode is now carrying Electric Ant issue 1 & issue 2!  Please check out the shop, which features goods by other contributors such as Derek Yu, HARVEYJAMES, Hellen Jo, Calvin Wong-- along with excellent zines by our friends Matt Hawkins (Fort90), Raina Lee (1-Up MegaZine) and Matthew Kumar (exp). 

           

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Spotting our zines and comics at The Beguiling

I'm going to add a new post to Same Hat specifically about The Beguiling (to add to the series of TCAF posts) this weekend. But before that, I wanted to share these photos and sightings from the shop. (I know Comic Relief lovers will be shocked by this, but I contend that The Beguiling is the best comics/manga shop in North America).

         


1) The shop from the outside - I think it's a converted Victorian
2) The zine and minis rack right by the counter in the front (what is that in the lower-right?)
3) Copies of Electric Ant #1!
4) They also featured Hellen's comics right in the front
5) And finally, 3 copies of Tokyo Zombie were in stock upstairs.

Saying So Long to Issue 1...

We had a rare and lovely day of NO RAIN in San Francisco today, so I did a bit of aimless wandering in my hood. Stopped by the small-but-impressive zine shop, Needles & Pens, for my fix of local goods. While making mental lists of things come back and buy, I was pleasantly surprised to see restock copies of Electric Ant #1 gracing the front display and featured shelf inside the store!

   

As much as I still like talking about Issue 1 (due to it's still pulling a few sales a week, and it took so frakking long to put out), it's time to stop fixating on it and commit to undertaking work in earnest on Issue 2. I've done all the preparations and ruminating, and have all the contents and desired contributors written out. Yes ma'am, it's time to finally DO THIS THING.

Yeah, so I'm not normally one for online navel-gazing, but I thought a post to you guys here would best help me TAKE THE PLUNGE and knock myself from the "planning stages." I'm gonna send invites for feature contributions out by Monday or Tuesday - check your inboxes!

PS: Planned release date for issue 2? SPX at the end of September.

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SHOPS CARRYING THE ZINE

(EA#1 on the shelves at Quimby's, photo from evan)

[Updated December , 2009]

IRL (america)
+ Needles & Pens, 3253 16th st, san francisco, ca 94103 (site)
+ Mission: Comics & Art, 3520 20th st suite B, san francisco, ca 94110 (site)
+ Giant Robot SF, 618 shrader st, san francisco, ca 94117 (site)
+ Giant Robot 1, 2015 sawtelle blvd, los angeles, ca 90025 (site)
+ Giant Robot NY, 437 e 9th st, new york, ny 10009 (site)
+ Pony Club Gallery, 625 nw everett st, #105 portland, or 97209 (site)
+ Quimby's, 1854 w. north ave, chicago, il 60622 (site)
+ Ada Books, 717 westminster st., providence, ri 02903 (site)
+ Forbidden Planet, 840 broadway st., new york, ny 11201 (site)
+ Cosmic Comics, 10 e 23rd st., new york, ny 10010 (site)
+ Desert Island, 540 metropolitan ave, brooklyn, ny 11211 (site)
+ Rocketship, 208 smith st., brooklyn, ny 11201 (site)
+ Floating World Comics,20 new 5th ave portland, OR (site)

IRL (abroad)
+ Village Vanguard, 3 rue de Nemours, 75011 paris, france (site)
+ The Beguiling, 601 markham st. toronto, on, canada (site)

ONLINE
+ Attract Mode, video game culture shop (site)
+ ICFYC Distibution, punk/noise/zines (site)
+ Poopsheet Shop, zine/comics distribution (site)

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Electric Ant #1 reviewed in Giant Robot

I got an exciting piece of news this week when I cracked open my copy of Giant Robot #57 and saw a capsule review of Electric Ant #1... Thanks to Eric Nakamura for writing us up! Dude was nice enough to contribute a list of ten tidbits of zine wisdom (which graces the inside back cover).

   

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