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Calvin fucked up

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:11:44 GMT

Hey everybody, it has come to my attention that some orders for Ramble On! have slipped through the cracks and have not been fulfilled. Blame the UI clusterfuck that is yahoo mail, where I can't even tell the difference between a Zimbabwean Trying to Scam Me vs. Somebody Actually Trying to Give me Cash Monies. I have since changed my paypal inbox to my gmail account where I will be super alert and vigilant about orders because of the clean UI and excellent spam filter.

I sent some of the delinquent orders out this morning with some extra goodies as an apology, so if I have inadvertently scammed you out of your $4, please contact me!

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Electric Ant #2

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:03:25 GMT

Hey dudes, I will be at APE this weekend (BANG GANG table) with a zine called "COMIX QUEST"-- it's basically a collection of older comics with a common sci/fi fantasy bent.

I'll also be there to support my pal Ryan's new perfect bound zine ELECTRIC ANT for which I did a handful of drawings. I took a look at it on the plane back from SPX and I can vouch for it's kickassitude-- the theme was BODY HORROR. Forgive me if posterous fudges the below HTML but this is the "buy" link:

<br> CLICK TO BUY ELECTRIC ANT #2!

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DS-10 Ringo, Te Amo (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) !

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:06 GMT

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Recently I discovered this great Cher paean to the least understood Beatle via Hellen (from the 60s: Ringo, I Love You) and I decided to cover it on my DS-10. It's not the whole song (i ran out of memory for patterns) but it's most of it. The Kraftwerk-esque breaks were artistic license of course. There's a new version of the DS-10 coming out in September that doubles the amount of Analog Synths you can have and doubles the drum sounds. Only for the DSi unfortunately though :(

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In NYC this week for MoCCA!

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:53:06 GMT

I'll be showing this Kirby inspired piece + two older pieces at the Panelists show at GRNY on Saturday, as well as the MoCCA comics fest this weekend for the first time ever! This trip is mostly for leisure and mostly came out of a series of happy coincidences so I didn't prepare any new stuff, but I'll be selling Ramble On! and the Game Over/Continue Fake Instruction Manual I made for Stumptown a month ago. Hellen and I will be demoing the game we made again, but only for as long as my Macbook battery lasts (3 hours or so) since apparently at the Armory you literally are not allowed to put a plug into another plug.

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Group Art Show Opening/Book Receptions
Panelists V June 6 - June 24, 2009 Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net Giant Robot is proud to present the Panelists V art show and as well as a reception for three new comic books at the Giant Robot Gallery in the East Village.

The follow-up to the popular series puts a spotlight on indie-comics creators from across the country, ranging from stapled-and-folded stars of DIY to art-gallery superstars. The show will feature original illustrations, paintings, mixed-media work, and special surprises from an assortment of contributors--including many Eisner and Ignatz Award nominees and winners. This event coincides with the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival."

If you're in the area, stop by! We are at table 810 with Damien Jay, and Corrine Mucha.

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STUMPTOWN POST MORTEM

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:34:00 GMT

Well a week ago today I was in Portland OR for the Stumptown Comics Fest with Hellen and Ryan. It was the best one I've been to yet, making good scrilla and hanging out with friends old and new. I couldn't help but feel like a rockstar after the Guapo reading, and not just 'cause I forced people to listen to my guitar playing-- Jason Martin ( Laterborn ), Vanessa Davis ( Spaniel Rage ) and of course Miss Hellen Jo rocked the mic as well. It was probably the most well-paced of the 3 Guapo readings I've been to the past few years. I didn't win the Maisie (Vanessa did) but I felt honored to be nominated from 40+ zines. Plus I drank my pain away with all the free beer they had that night... dang, Jeremy and Allie of Guapo got HOOKED UP.

Tons of people stopped by and played Hellen and Derek's game. Some even played for 10 minutes plus, despite our disclaimer that the game NEVER ENDED and had NO GOALS! Just goes to show you how important the look and feel are in making videogames! Anyway, if you guys want the fake instruction manual zine we made, just paypal 5 bucks to me @ calvin_w_wong@yahoo.com

Highlights not mentioned above!

Sustainable Sushi Saturday with Erik, Jason, Ryan and Hellen!
Goofing around in the car on the way to parties!
Seeing the premiere of host Gariet's OLLIE video at the Laurelhurst about the life and times of Ben Franklin!
Dunja Yankovic's reading of "Department of Art" at the Multnomah library. She played improvised keyboard music while reading her comic. Bar none the best reading ever.
Robin Enrico's BUCKET O DONUTS. Peanut Butter and Oreo donut FTW
Spontaneous INDIE CARTOONIST BAND JAM at Jesse's where the WORST COVER OF ROCK LOBSTER EVER was borne upon the earth. Dunja and Shaye are also amazing drummers, who knew?
Trading a comic also inspired by Ramble On by David Lasky! Zep rules!
Angie Wang!

Anyway, there's a full flickr set here. Unfortunately we didn't get time to see the sights as much as we would have liked, mostly restricted to the Lloyd center area and the hectic convention schedule. We didn't even stop by Powell's! How fucked is that. Hellen and I just got confirmation that we will be sharing a table at MoCCA-- for that trip we'll definitely relax more and see the sights!

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Stumptown this Weekend

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:32:54 GMT

Hey all, if you are in the area please come to the Stumptown Comics Fest at the Lloyd Center Doubletree in Portland, OR April 18-19th. I'm tabling with Hellen, and our friend Ryan Germick (www.ryangermick.com) at table #74, where I will be selling copies of Ramble On! + some older comics, the new Papercutter, Jin and Jam, and you will have a chance to play the game we made for Attract Mode at Giant Robot (http://attractmo.de/blog/game-over-ii-opens-at-grsf-on-032709/). We made a fake instruction manual for the game, chock full of lame retro gaming jokes which we will be selling for a fiver!

Also, tomorrow Hellen and I are reading our comics at Guapo Comics and Coffee, and if the flyer is any indication, it will be the BADDEST COMICS PARTY EVER. Oh yeah, and I'm up for the Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration. It's too late to vote, but if you did, thanks!

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15 minutes...

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:18:26 GMT

I've had my browser open to CADIE's blog and I've been hitting F5 periodically:

This is bad... I have the panda music playing in the backrgound... but.. its so fun!!!!!
Cuate Nunez 4/1 2:36pm

It looks like a myspace page with Japanese anime porn music.
jjmiller878 4/1 1:45pm

I <3 http://www.google.com/googleblogs/images/cadie/sunday_panda.mp3
Sapacious 4/1

has anybody noticed that u cannot turn that annoying music off
Unknown 4/1

I never thought I'd see 4chan and SA memes on google's site. Ryan you are a genius sir.

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Rockford Files Theme + Like A Virgin + Blue Monday = this

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:36:08 GMT

Secretlabwithpandas by Calvin Wong
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More DS-10 stuff! I love this thing.

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Too much fallout?

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:07:10 GMT

So originally this was just gonna be a regular ol' picture of an ancient japanese horror skeleton but I had to put all the post apocalyptic/anachronistic stuff in. For an upcoming zine.

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Podcasty

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:23:12 GMT

Last week Hellen and me ate bean dip and gabbed on the Comics Claptrap with our friends Rina and Thien, ostensibly about comics but mostly about random stuff like cheese filled hot dogs and mongolian hot pot.

http://comixclaptrap.blogspot.com/2009/03/episode-10-hellen-jo-and-calvin-wong.html

listen if you wanna, there's some shoutouts to EAZ contribs Derek and Jenn somewhere in there.

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[EDIT]: we come in at about the 42 minute mark

mabel, mini mechs

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:09:47 GMT

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Watercolor studies: Bushy 'do and Leaper

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:24:16 GMT

Apparently according to their respective reference photos, the one on the left is "Edie Adams" and the one on the right is "Elke Somner." I did the originals in B&W and then did some ghetto colorizing on the Adobe.

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Lady Chemist, Hattie and Millie sketches, A guy with a club

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:00:42 GMT

Just getting used to drawing 'em. Red and blue pen + messing around with colors in photoshop.

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Monster sketches & Ultraman

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:42:36 GMT

I sketched various creatures during the TAD shutdown:

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a zine for an audience of one

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:22:29 GMT

My girlfriend got her cell phone stolen a while ago. A lot of our early courting was done via text messages, so I spent the whole day Friday making a 52 page zine with sort of the greatest hits of her texts to me, some funny, some sad (the title is from one of the funny ones). I have a woefully outdated B&W phone (pictured on the cover) which is why I decided on using the sickly pea green paper below. At a capacity of 52 pages, it actually trumps the storage on my phone by +2!

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catching up with things: Whinging, Hattie and Millie sketches

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:34:26 GMT

Tonight was the start of a minor vacation for me, so I spent it watching random youtube clips and drawing in my sketchbook. It felt good to draw again without work hanging over my head like a black cloud. The last drawing is an illustration of one of my favorite lines of dialogue in a movie ever. The other sketches are just stylistic sketches + characters for a new comic I'm working on. I've drawn these characters before but I'm really trying to work out how I want them to look in the next comic. I'm getting there. I wrote a page of notes and a barebones outline too, but in the interests of not spoilering stuff I won't put it up.

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Thing a day #9,10 Self Portrait and Song snippet

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:24:31 GMT

9. I made a little self portrait of myself that reminds me a little of Hideo Azuma (read Disappearance Diary, one of the best comics of 2008 in my opinion) for some reason. Pen & Photoshop.

10. Then later with my new Macbook and Garage Band, I recorded this 80s Cure/Smiths/MBV ripoff riff thing with my circa 1960s cheapo Teisco guitar. It was fun, and easy to do! I have too low of an attention span to ever make a whole song though.

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Cureesque by Calvin Wong
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COVERED! Gen 13 #1 miniseries

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:05:24 GMT

Another horrible comic of my youth. I'm still not sure if the "cram every possible thing that happens in the comic on the cover" design really works, but I bought it anyway, probably coz of the promises of nudity.

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My 13 year old self is impressed with my 29 year old self

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:08:32 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calwong/3235321122/

A little late to the meme-party. I was gonna watercolor this but I had some extra time at work so I put in some flat colors with photoshop. Original attached!

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GRLA post-its

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:21:55 GMT

I hopefully will be part of the upcoming post it show at the Giant Robot in LA this month, along with many, many other artists. Here's a preview of the ones I did:

1. Hobbins And Apparition, 2. Fishes, 3. Dr Sparkplug, 4. Death Turtle, 5. Tapatio Guy, 6. haruko, 7. Look What Has Happened With Just One Kiss, 8. Faux Pause, 9. Cuppa Jo, 10. Dragon Racer, 11. Hellen Drawin' Post Its, 12. Dots And Stripes Forever, 13. Cat's Eyes, 14. Bizarre Gardening Incident, 15. Incognita Lopez

Jesse's diary strip of Nov 4

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:29:14 GMT

Me and hellen opened for Jesse Reklaw in a series of comics readings Tuesday at UC Santa Cruz. I was a bit tongue tied but most of the day went ok.

We really did high five in the middle of class!

APE 2008 Mini Report

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:05:06 GMT

The Best APE was this year's APE. I got lots of great feedback on "Ramble On!", and it was great seeing so many familiar faces again, including those of the great BANG GANG, some dudes travelling from as far as SWITZERLAND just to make it to a dank drafty warehouse in SOMA for a couple of hours. The rain was indeed harsh on Saturday but luckily things cleared up Sunday.

Stuff that ruled:

touring the offices of Last Gasp on halloween as pigsy and monkey

getting my grubby mitts on Derek's comics zine "DETH'S HEAD", the Electric Ant zine by Ryan and Evan, and "Empire Park" by Jason Shiga!

selling out of all 50 copies of "Ramble On!" I brought to the show

getting a sack of tecates from Alex on Sunday

having mustered liquid courage from booze and adrenaline from trader joe's chocolate-covered coffee beans, a group of us practically accosted Dan Clowes with Derek's masterpiece(NSFW) and our zines.

clowes telling Hellen, "Kid, you're going places!" about "Jin and Jam!" whotta capper to the evening

passing around Evan's iPhone at dinner afterwards and making fun of shitty rob liefeld drawings!

I have since printed more of the "Ramble On!" zine and you can buy it at my site via paypal. Or let me know if you want to trade.

Also, as a guy who had never voted before yesterday, I'm elated about the results of the election-- except for Prop 8.

im bananas for ape

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:24:09 GMT

Bay Area pals: I will be tabling at the BEST TABLE EVER (aka the Bang Gang #415) this weekend at APE! Everybody got their shit together and we've got PREMIERES, PREMIERES, PREMIERES of all NEW FUNNYBOOKS for your consumption!

Check it:

New comics from wunderkinds Anthony Wu and Derek Yu!

JIN AND JAM #1 by Hellen Jo

ELECTRIC ANT #1 by Ryan Sands and Evan Hayden, with a contribution by yours truly

TOKYO ZOMBIE by Yusaku Hanakuma translated Ryan Sands and Evan Hayden

RAMBLE ON! by Calvin Wong my new 24 page comic zine with two stories I'm going to submit for Elfworld. I just finished it yesterday and is rife with anachronisms and factual errors! You guys wanna trade?

And we will also be selling Evan's photo art, tee-shirts and prints. I'll be selling that witchy woman print from Zine Fest, and we'll bring the Jin and Jam pencil cases too! See you there!

VP debate sketching

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:54:56 GMT

Did I mention it was LOUD?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:02:49 GMT

Top 5 things the 15 minute noise jam in "You Made me Realise" sounded like at the My Bloody Valentine show last night:

5. An alternate universe consisting of only infinite aural snow
4. The Big One
3. Standing underneath the rocket engine of a space shuttle as it takes off
2. Bikini Atoll, 1954
1. Cosmic dust swirling into a new star

I was watching the band and their hands were like buzzsaws the entire time. They gotta have the endurance of marathon runners to do it every night of their tour!