blue bed
Roman Muradov. Illustrator/writer.
bluebed.net
Jan 29th, 2010 @ 12:18 am
Piles of fonts.
Also, I’m in next eatsleepdraw magazine (dead fish cover).
Jan 28th, 2010 @ 2:42 am
I’ve been busy making fonts for the last few days. Mainly because I could never find a good one for my comics. Everything is either too superheroish or too formal. So I decided to make something myself, something loose with ink/quill/brush as a medium, yet more appropriate for indie graphic novels.
Here are four of them in hot dead fish action. All hand-made after a few days of practicing and a gallon of ink. Phew.
If you’d like to buy one (or several), drop me a line. I won’t charge much.
Jan 24th, 2010 @ 10:33 pm
brightredlemons asked: 5$ is really little! i could really see yours selling in bookstores for at least 15-20$!! that's reallyreally kind of you~ i hope i can get my hands on a copy before you sell out. @____@ best of luck!!!
if you ever get a booth at some convention in toronto some time, be sure to let me know haha~ i will set up camp right next to it. C:<
Thank you! I’ll definitely get you a copy, if not from the first run, then from the following.
I’d love to go to that convention (it’s the one with Dan Clowes’ poster art, right.) But I won’t, getting a visa would be a pain (I’m a citizen of Russia.) You should come to Wondercon though! Otherwise I’ll mail you a copy.
@ 10:08 pm
thegimpnarwhal asked: doodlers anonymous is 32 pages not full color for $12. And it is many artists.
Eatsleepdraw is $9 for 40 full color pages and the artists aren't paid.
Your stuff is great! i think you should get some profit. I think $9 is reasonable, then you could also have sales for $7 and still make profit.
in any case. put me on the list for one of those 30 if you still have a spot open.
Oh god, that’s just wrong. Art should belong to people, that’s why I’m trying to keep the price as low as possible!
5$ is the price of printing + shipping, so selling it for 6-7 will barely cover the costs and be entirely no-profit (not to be confused with non-profit, they people earn more than I ever will).
Thanks everyone else for similar responses (I’m so glad there are quite a few people who are willing to pay more than 10$ that for my stuff!) I guess 9-10 would be reasonable, after all it’s 40 full-colored pages from a hip artist hurr hurr.
As for distribution, I guess I can mail several copies here and there if you don’t live in San Francisco. I’ll write a post when the books arrive (probably in a month or more). Other than that I’ll probably bring about 3-5 copies to Isotope, Bibliohead, Issues and other little bookstores in the Bay Area. Then there’s Wondercon (I won’t have a booth) and I definitely have to give out about 10-15 copies to my editors from Dark Horse and more importantly potential editors from other companies. So, I guess I’ll do another run with a short version and spread it as two versions.
@ 9:37 pm
Okay, I ordered 30 copies of my comics, it all came up to 40 pages. Which is a lot and each copy is around 5$. So if I sell it with NO profit at all, it’s still around 5-6 dollars. It has almost every story from 2009 and a couple of new unpublished pieces in glorious full color.
Now I’m thinking I should’ve ditched several comics and cut it to, say, 28 pages. That would exclude Trout, Courtesans, the Party and a couple of 1-pagers. I’ll probably do another 30-copy run of the shorter version (4$). What do you guys think?
Also, какая сука назвала меня пиздаболом?
Jan 23rd, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
That’s right, Jersey Shore fan-art! Not quite so elitist anymore ha-ha.
Watched that fantastic show last night. Gave me nightmares (no, really). Thinking of interpreting hell as a beach again. And here’s an old photo of me being decadent at some pool party.
Ah, Ronnie just used “like” five times in a sentence. He’s almost saintly braindead.
Jan 22nd, 2010 @ 4:24 pm
owltreethree asked: I do love your illustrations! I accidently unfollowed you because I wanted to follow you. That doesn't make sense, but for some reason your posts aren't showing up on my dash. GRRR. I'm really inspired by your work. Someday I hope to be as awesome as you...someday... :D so, where did you get "Blue Bed" from?
Okay, I get this question all the time, so I’m going to answer it once and for all.
I had a blue bed back in Moscow.
That’s it.
Jan 21st, 2010 @ 6:46 pm
Cover artwork for my upcoming self-published little collection of comics. ~40 pages of weird.
Jan 20th, 2010 @ 12:33 am
“…and I no longer drink enough to think you’re witty.”
The new Magnetic Fields album great as usual. Stephen Merritt keeps writing songs just about my life hurr hurr.
Now praying for something new from Sparklehorse (without dangermouse please.)
Jan 19th, 2010 @ 2:39 pm
Spread for a new Russian magazine. Very conceptual and obviously inspired by jason/lynch/ware.
