NEW ITEMS including IAN JAY SUPER COMICS VOL. 1, new color stickers and button packs, and a FORMERLY SECRET LAZER WOLF T-SHIRT that I unearthed from the Ian Jay Vault!
Accurate shipping costs! AND YES, CANADIANS: We have an entirely separate shipping category for you, so that you don’t have to pay out the nose for general international shipping. COOL, “EH”?
Special promotion discount codes! SUCH AS: if you order $30 or more of Ian Jay merchandise between now and April 15th and use the code “FUCKTAXES”, you get 10% off your entire order! DANG!!!
Head over there and check it out! Even if you’re not going to buy anything right now! I’m super proud of how it looks.
Hi, guys! I’m typing this from a Red Roof Inn somewhere in the beautiful (if somewhat damp) city of Seattle, Washington, to let you all know I’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend!
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s an informative video on the topic that features me dressed up like a leprechaun for little to no reason:
As the video said, I’ll be selling copies of my new book, Ian Jay Super Comics: Volume 1, as well as stickers, buttons, Epiphany minis, and other cool stuff. I’ll be sitting at table A-08 in the Artist’s Alley, teaming up on table space with Devour Comics, as well as anywhere between three and a million other artists. If you live in the area and plan on attending, don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to grab you some Ian Jay swag! (Seriously, it’s once in a lifetime. I don’t know when the heck I’m going to be back on the West Coast after this.)
ALSO, TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED FUND THE BOOK: Thanks again! I’ll start mailing your orders out once I get back home next week. This will be the largest shipping maneuver thing that IJSC has ever had to handle, ever, but with advanced new technology at our disposal (such as an “electric scale” and “digital stamps”– feel free to stop reading if you feel like your head’s spinning from the ADVANCED-ness) we’ll be able to get them all out in no time at all.
AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T: Don’t worry, you didn’t miss out on a chance to grab a copy of my book, or of any more of our sweet merch! Once the convention ends we’re ALSO going to be posting a revamped version of the Ian Jay Merch Table. This one will be run through BigCartel.com, which theoretically means it’ll be easier for you readers to navigate the site and find what you’re looking for (as well as easier for me to track inventory and organize shipping). All of my new stuff, as well as a lot of my older stuff, will be on there. It’s kind of an experiment I’m trying out, so let’s see if it works!
Alright, I’m going to go grab some more free coffee from the lobby. Catch you later!
So we MADE THE DANG GOAL. In case it wasn’t already obvious, THANK YOU SO MUCH, donators, promoters, street team, everyone, because YOU ALL ARE INCREDIBLY AWESOME. But you know? I’m wondering how far we can push this. Nobody ever got anywhere by playing it safe. LET’S RAISE THE STAKES.
This fundraiser ends March 17th. If we can hit $1300 before then, I’ll throw in a full set of pre-Series 1 buttons and stickers to EVERY ORDER— not just the thirty-dollar-and-up ones or anything, ALL OF THEM. EVEN digital ones.
Now, these are the buttons I’ve been selling in the Ian Jay Store up until now, so if you don’t own them yet now is a great time to hop on the bandwagon and get an AWESOME BOOK FULL OF COMICS as a bonus. Also, keep in mind that once these buttons and stickers are gone, they’ll be gone— I won’t be printing any more. Nab them now before their value skyrockets on the indie comic merchandise speculator’s market! (If such a thing exists. If not, THEY’RE STILL REALLY COOL-LOOKING.)
If you’ve already donated, keep spreading the word! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this book possible. I’m already incredibly proud of how we’ve done— you guys have helped this project smash through the Roof of Small Press Failure and into the Skies of Infinite Possibility beyond. Let’s keep rising!
CLICK HERE TO PREORDER IT. It’s called Ian Jay Super Comics: Volume One, and it collects every significant minicomic and anthology piece into one sizeable tome. If you’ve never read many of my longer comics before, this is a great place to start! And if you do already have some of my minis, now is a great chance to get all of them in one place (and within a sturdy binding). THIS IS NOT THE LAST YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT THIS, trust me.
NEED MORE EXPLANATION?? Watch this hilarious YET INFORMATIVE video I made on the subject:
A FEW OTHER THINGS:
-New Epiphany updates are coming soon– I just need to move into my new apartment and finish work on this book layout. AFTER THAT: we’re in the clear. Thanks for being so patient, and FRIENDLY GREETINGS to any new readers I’ve managed to snag!
-I’m going to Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle next month! I’ll be selling the new books there, as well as some FRESH new merchandise. If you live in the area and you plan on going, keep an eye peeled for me. I’ll post more info on the event before it happens.
-ARE YOU ON TUMBLR??? Because I’m rather more active on there than I am on here nowadays, not gonna lie. Check out my art blog at http://ianjay.tumblr.com for drawings, doodles, works in progress, and general art news. I also have a Facebook fan page that I’ve just started getting back into updating; search for Ian Jay Super Comics. Don’t be afraid of social networking! It’s the wave of the future.
-Speaking of Tumblr, IT’S AWESOME EPIPHANY FAN ART TIME:
I uploaded a bunch of new videos to my Youtube Channel, including highlight videos from New York Comic Con and a new “Questionnaire” promo for MFF (see below). Go check ‘em out, subscribe, do what you will. Making weird videos has kind of become my new passion, so they’re worth a peep. WATCH OUT THOUGH: some vids may contain salty language, so don’t watch them at work or around small impressionable children.
This weekend I’ll be going to another dang furry convention– Midwest Furfest in Chicago, Illinois. If you’re in the area and aren’t averse to hanging around a bunch of sweaty people in animal costumes, I’ll be there selling prints, comics, commissions, and merchandise.
I’ve started doing these things called “Ian Jay Bad Movie Nights”, where every week (Wednesday at 10pm, usually, though I’m doing one tomorrow that’s a definite must-see) I livestream a really crummy movie, usually something from the Nineties that people remember as being better than it actually is. Yesterday I screened Space Jam, which, like, we hit the limit for the number of people that could be in a (free) livestream room at once. Keep your eyes peeled for future Bad Movie night announcements on my DA or Twitter.
Epiphany super-fan Violet sent me an awesome piece of art! I don’t get a heck of a lot of fan art for this series, so receiving this was a real treat. Check it out:
Anyways, that’s all for tonight. Expect some more big announcements to come very, very soon. Keep reading, folks!
