Summer Fest 2011

Summer fest was better than we thought :> We did pretty well at our gigantic table!  We intro'd some new items at this convention, one of them being the custom Moleskine notebooks we've been putting off making for a long while, then finally did do them!
There was tons and tons of cosplay of course, and lots of people milling around. the big hits at this one were the ghosts! Everyone loves the ghosts!
It was SO COLD! SUMMER FEST WAS FREEZING COLD... O_O
It poured rain all day, cleared up for the even kinda, then poured on the way home, but its was so damp peoples art was curling on the cork boards, and our little moleskines and comics were all wrinkly with the damp. even when we got home the damp was in everything. Not fond of that at all! But still, overall GREAT!

 so here are a couple photos of the day! I didn't take many cuz I just had my phone.

Kitty at the table watching the books curl from the fog.

Kitty Checking out the neighbors

Darth Vader and sailor Moon doing that Carmella Dansen on the stage.

Guru eye view from our table.

Minicomi

Tommorrow at Vancouver Comicccon we will be launching new products! Moma (The Bachelors and the Python) and Ghost (Ghost Tales) keychains! (they will also be at Summer fest and Minicomi)
Also we have a new pile of buttons for sale as well!
So cute! Here's a little production photo of the Moma charms!
it'll also be a good chance to come and talk to us about the anthology if you had questions or ideas to share with us. 

Available as cell charms and keychains

We have our Table Number for Mini Comi, it is F3.
If you are interested in a floor plan for that convention you can see that in a Journal post by Nyurt.
It also shows where the other members of DeviantArt will be situated.

A more recent convention, that has tables available still if you are looking to sell some stuff is Summer Fest!
That is happening this saturday at SFU. We will hopefully be showing off our new table banner at this show.

prepping for Con times

My Cat is flopped over my shoulder right now, HAHA!
We're Preparing for convention season! We have 3 conventions this month (check out our calendar)! We have Vancouver Comic Con this Sunday (July 10th) and Kitty will be in attendance at this one, then we have Summer Fest the following Saturday. This is the first time we're attending Summer Fest so we're not sure what to expect! You can RSVP to this event on Facebook.
Then we have the MiniComic coming up on the 27th which we are really excited for! Our friend MyntKat will be there too!
We're preparing for them all! I spent all day yesterday finding new merchandising stuff for our tables, and I think we have a much better system for displaying our little charms!
We're also going to be launching some new stuff related to Ghost Tales, and If we're really really lucky, we'll have our table banner in time for at least 2 of the cons! I don't think we'll have it for VCC.

We're also confirmed for a table at Comix and Stories! This ones August 28th!  We're going to be at C&S with Donut! That should be interesting.

Well, back to work! I just wanted to drop in and say Hi, and let you know what's been going on!

Call for Artists - Ghost tales Comic Anthology

Confirmed Conventions

We've been really pulling it together Convention wise lately and we are registered and confirmed/paid for 4 conventions up coming, with several more looking really likely (meaning, we are waiting to send payment etc.) So here it is, the list in order by date

July 10: Vancouver Comic Con. ($4 admission or a kid friendly comic book donation)
July 16: Summer Fest at SFU
July 23: Mini Comi (Free admission!)
Sept 30 - Oct 3: Vcon

Clearly July is a busy month for us. All of these conventions are in the greater Vancouver area. We're planning on having some unique items for these conventions.
If you'll direct your attention to the top of the blog underneath the header you will see a little ribbon linking to a Calendar page. There is a google Calendar with our convention appearance Schedule. There are also direct links for you to bookmark them or even import them into your own google calendar and keep track of where we will be! Pretty swanky Eh?

Newsletter: We've got a newsletter but it only comes out every 6 months. we clearly have too much information to pack into that much time, so we're going to switch to a quarterly newsletter. Didn't know we had a newsletter?! well... go on and Sign up for our free newsletter! (its even got a mobile version)
Well, that's the news!
Hope you're excited! We sure are!

Daqueran Issue 5! (special Promo)

Guess what?! we just got in our shipment of Daqueran Issue 5! This is extra awesome because that means we will have it available at Vancouver ComicCon this Sunday at Heritage hall!

Look how they shimmer and glow! ....well they would if I used a real camera!

As a special Promotion: If you come to our table at ComicCon and tell us you saw this blog post when you buy your copy of issue 5, you get a Free Tik Cell phone charm of your choice!

Please love me!

Looking forward to seeing you this Sunday!

Free Comic Book Day

We are giving away comics on Gurukitty.com today because it is Free Comic Book Day! Possibly the best day of the year!
Getting your free comic is simple, just fill out a simple form! Go for it!!

Close ups and Behind the scenes

Hello!

a quick note to say that we will be at Vancouver Comiccon again on May 15th and the Tiks in a bottle will be back in stock in time for that con. We ran out of them last convention which was a little embarrassing but we've been busy making tiny tik sculptures and mixing and dying resin and popping it all into tiny little bottles.

Also, Chapter 5 has just been shipped to us and if the comic faeries are with us, they might arrive in time for the May 15th Comiccon! Please note that Chapter 5 is not part of the Daqueran Clearance sale, only 1-4 are.

Also, Chapter 6 is the final Chapter of Daqueran. Sad I know, but We need to move on and get more projects on the go.

I thought I'd show you some close up shots of some panels in Daqueran. You don't really get to see all the details in the hard copy comics and especially not on the web.
So I thought this might interest some of you watercolour lovers.

Just click the image to get a larger view.

Sorry for the watermarks, but you know how the internet is...

This is the page as a whole before it's scanned and gutters and text are added. All the panels below are part of this page. 

I put lots of time into this panel.  I think it turned out pretty snazzy, it was much better after I added the pink into the whites.

Typical Daqueran grumpy face, but he looks cute. 

Iada's a spaz.

I likes the inking on her profile, unfourtunatly lots of it got covered when the background was added.

Daqueran Clearance Sale

Starting right now we are having a Daqueran Clearance Sale. Some of you remember that Vancouver was all set to have a big Convention called Fan Fair Fest that cancelled a week before it was set to start! We have an excessive amount of stock as a result of preparing for that convention so now we're looking to clear out this stock. We are selling the first 4 issues of Daqueran at COST.

This sale only lasts as long as we have stock, and the sale was a big hit at Vancouver Comiccon so get it while it lasts! 

Speaking of Comicon, Yesterday Kitty sat in at Vancouver Comiccon and had a pretty successful day! We had some customers come back and tell us they loved the Tik charm they bought, and get lots of compliments on them, we sold out of Tiks in a bottle! The best part was all the compliments we got! It's really a boost to get some positive feedback! We're starting to be recognizable, and we're really excited about that! 

So we have lots of conventions coming up too!
We're going to be at Vancouver Comicon
11am to 5pm Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
• May 15
• July 10
• September 11
• November 13

Comix and stories
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
• August 28

and The MiniComi Art Fair: http://minicomi.orangesanctuary.com/
:bulletblue:UBC Student Union Building, 2nd floor, Ballroom
• July 23rd.
This one's new!

Well, I hope you take advantage of the sale, and hope to see you at the next con!!!

New Notebooks available in the GK shop!

We now have cute Notebooks in our Gurukitty shop! They’re 10 page notebooks with a high quality full colour cover, with sketchbook paper inside! Perfect for a back pocket sketchbook, or notebook to jot down all your ideas! We have more designs coming soon!

Each notebook is HANDMADE! Each cover is printed and cut, then the inside pages are hand cut to fit, and we saddle staple them with our neato little stapler. Then we press them flat for a while so that they aren’t so poofy.  Each one also comes with a matching 1” button!