Eric Adams

So, I spent 2007 avoiding any and all promotion for LW/myself/whatever. Probably a poor decision, and I blame myself for over-promoting in 2006, not finishing any actual comics works and feeling a need to make up for it in 2007. And I think I did. Make up for it, that is. Essentially, I’ve laid the foundation/started building three new comic projects + continued work on LACKLUSTER WORLD.

Anyway, I’m aiming for the right balance in 2008 and I’ve spent this morning plotting out the year. With LACKLUSTER WORLD #5 going smoothly, I’m on track to release it at SPACE on March 1 & 2.

You may be raising your eyebrow, thinking, “FIVE?! What happened to FOUR?!” Like I said, I completely dropped the ball on promoting it, but it’s been out since… wow, seven months ago. I’ll make a big post about it next week after New Year’s, but you can read a preview and buy it right now at www.lacklusterworld.com.

Back to the point: This is completely UNOFFICIAL right now as I’ve not signed up for anything except SPACE, but my 2008 appearance list is shaping up like so:

March 1 & 2 - S.P.A.C.E., Columbus, OH
April 6 - Gem City Comic Con, Dayton, OH
April 25, 26 & 27 - Pittsburgh Comic Con
April 18, 19 & 20 - New York Comic Con (as a spectator only, NOT EXHIBITING)
June 26, 27, 28 & 29 - Wizard World Chicago
September 27 & 28 - Baltimore Comic Con
November?? - Mid-Ohio-Con, Columbus, OH

There are a few maybes: SNAP! (in Detroit, and might happen on Free Comic Book Day in May), Wizard World Philadelphia, and I’m entertaining the idea of trying an anime convention this year though I don’t know which.

Also, it’s time I finally put together some new promo materials. I’m making some postcards, stickers and buttons. I have postcards covered. Stickers, I think I have covered but I’m open to suggestions. As for 1″ buttons, who do you use?

I’m making some new shirts too. By popular demand, I’ll stop resisting and make the damn JESUS AND TALKING BEAR shirt. Every convention I go to, there are seriously three or four random people asking me to print a tee shirt of that particular panel from LW#3. Madness.

Haven’t been feeling very Internet-social these past few months, but I’m coming around.

Just wanted to post that I’m flying out to San Diego tomorrow night for that con thing you’ve probably heard about. I don’t have a table, but will be on the floor Fri, Sat and Sun. Leave a comment here or email me (eric AT ericadams DAWT net) if you want to meetup. Call or TXT if you know my number.

It’s 2:19AM. I’m exhausted, having driven 4.5 hours to Pittsburgh after a grueling day of racing to finish a deadline. After an entire week racing towards deadlines really.

Come make me feel better by trading me some of your money for some lovely LACKLUSTER WORLD comics at the Pittsburgh Comicon this weekend. I’ll even draw you a sketch. Or write you a haiku. You decide.

So, I’ve had a busy week catching up on client work. (Worked until 3:30AM last night ouch ouch ouch) The details I intended to post about LACKLUSTER WORLD #4 will have to wait until next week.

You can, of course, quench your LW thirst early with a nice cool glass of S.P.A.C.E. in Columbus this weekend. And if LW isn’t your drink of choice, surely you can find one right for you from the 150+ other exhibitors ready to accommodate you with their cool, comic freshness.

Who’s going?

It’s been well over a year, but a new issue of LACKLUSTER WORLD is finally complete and will debut at S.P.A.C.E. (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo) next weekend on April 21 & 22 in Columbus, OH.

If you can’t make it, try Pittsburgh Comicon the weekend after (April 27, 28 & 29).

More details, some preview pages and “buy buy buy” buttons to go up all this week.

- Been very busy preparing for S.P.A.C.E. and Pittsburgh Comicon which are both just a few weeks away.

- Lackluster World #4 will go to the printers next week.

- Once it’s out of my hands and in the printers, I’ll be posting a preview online, sending out review copies, all that jazz.

- My studio is lined with artwork taped to the walls.

- I’m almost 28 years old now. Hm.

- Watching (or just listening) to television series via the Internets is quite fun while drawing.

- Plane tickets for San Diego Comic Con are purchased. I’m not setting up, but I will be in attendance.

- This video makes me happy:

STUART (from FOUR STORIES if you will recall) will be making another appearance, this time in the anthology, NEGATIVE BURN #9, due out later this month. He’ll be in good company too. Evan Dorkin has a new MILK & CHEESE in there and, well, here’s the solicitation text and cover art:

story and art by BRIAN BOLLAND, EVAN DORKIN, CHRIS ELIOPOULOS, PHIL HESTER, JOE KEATINGE, DOVE McHARGUE, MATTHEW SMITH, ERIC STEPHENSON, DALIBOR TALAJIC, and R. G. TAYLOR cover by MICHAEL GAYDOS

The Eagle, Eisner, and Harvey Award nominated anthology returns this month with yet another issue packed with todays top creators and tomorrows brightest talents. This issue Milk and Cheese returns and a cover by fan-favorite Michael Gaydos!

The 64pp BW issue will be on sale on February 29th for $5.99.

You might note that mine and Chris Arrant’s names are missing. We were selected for inclusion after the promo text went out, so don’t be fooled. Surely our names would have been bannered across the cover in 80pt type if there was only enough time. Hell, they might have renamed the whole thing to the CHRIS AND ERIC SHOW.

Anyway, we are of course pleased STUART is still getting exposure and we hope the opportunity to give the little guy his own full-length book will present itself someday soon. I’m talk to you Mr. Deep Pockets Publisher…

boingboing.net recently posted about a pirate TV signal hijacking an episode of Dr. Who airing in Chicago in 1987. Here’s the vid:

(YouTube link)

Fascinating. Hollywood had tricked me into believing that this wasn’t all that rare of an incident, but lo and behold this pirate transmission happened 20 YEARS AGO and was the last of its kind. In fact it was really only the second of its kind. Max Headroom, by the way, was never caught.

The other was a more simplistic hijacking by some guy under the moniker of Captain Midnight a year earlier. He basically hijacked HBO only to complain about their prices:

Wikipedia mentions a few other non-detailed accounts. One of which also occurred in 1987 when the CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK paid a man to hijack the PLAYBOY CHANNEL.

This kind of thing needs to happen more often today. I might actually turn on my television once in a while if I thought there was a chance that the lackadaisical local news or an idiotic sitcom rerun could be interrupted by a pantomime Jesus Christ corn-holing Big Bird. There are tens of thousands of people hacking the Internet left and right all for the sake of fun, yet no one is attacking terrestrial signals.

Come on, nerds. Show us some magic.

Methinks I feel a story idea coming on.

Signing up for Pittsburgh Comicon and they want a short bio. Here it is:

Eric Adams
Eric is best known as the creator of the indie comic series, LACKLUSTER WORLD, a dark satire following newspaper journalist / albino, Fahrenheit Monahan as thwarts his siblings’ religious assimilation techniques, fends off the slander of his ‘party-hard’ co-workers, and attempts to change the lackluster world at large before it changes him.

In 2006, he participated in the FOUR STORIES anthology, illustrating STUART, a short story penned by Chris Arrant.

Eric is also a contributor to Newsarama.com, writing SEQUENTIAL SMARTS, a thorough series of articles about marketing comics from the perspective of a small press / self-publisher.

Check out Eric and his work at www.lacklusterworld.com.

I’m trimming my comic convention schedule down significantly in 2007 in favor of more time to actually work on comics and whatnot. The list:

April 22-23: S.P.A.C.E. (Columbus, OH) - definitely
April 27-29: Pittsburgh Comicon - definitely
June 15-17: Heroes Con (Charlotte, NC) - very slim chance
July 26-26: San Diego Comic Con - not exhibiting, but plan to walk the floor
August 9-12: Wizard World Chicago - possibly
October ??: SNAP! Comic Arts Festival (Detroit) - possibly