FLUKE 2010 Press release.

Some people may have received the FLUKE press release with an incorrect date. The truth is that FLUKE 2010 IS HAPPENING ON APRIL 17th, 2010. The press release in full follows. Show it to everyone you know!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

NINTH ANNUAL FLUKE MINI-COMICS FESTIVAL 2010

This year’s FLUKE Mini-Comics Festival, sponsored by Bizarro Wuxtry, Ciné Bar/Café/Cinema, Flagpole Magazine and Inch-High Button Guy, will take place on Saturday, April 17th at Ciné, 234 West Hancock Ave, Athens GA from 11:00 AM until 6 PM. Admission is $5.00 for all attendees.

EVENT SPECS
Tables and spaces will be provided for mini-comic artists and distributors on a first-come, first-serve basis. All attendees are welcome to bring enough work to fill a small (3' x 4') table space. In the interest of providing display space for as many artists as possible, attendees may not use more than one table. Large displays and booths are not permitted at FLUKE, so please do not bring them. You will be asked to keep them in your vehicle.

FLUKE’S SPONSORS
With gratitude, we acknowledge our sponsors.
Bizarro Wuxtry (http://www.wuxtryrecords.com/bizarro.html)
Athens’ downtown comics shop boasts a staggering array of alternative comics and zines, as well as a friendly and extremely knowledgeable staff. There are also lots of toys, models, cards, clothes and vintage delights to enjoy as well. Peter Bagge once featured the store in an issue of “HATE,” and has referred to it as “the funkiest business establishment I have ever seen.”

Flagpole Magazine (www.flagpole.com)
Athens’ alternative weekly is a much loved and used source of information on local music, film, art, food and politics, all delivered with a real sense of ownership and advocacy for our fair city.

Inch-High Button Guy (inchhighbuttonguy@gmail.com)
Inch-High Button Guy produces the finest original designs in buttons for any occasion, available in a variety of sizes and styles (even glow-in-the-dark). The buttons are available at Bizarro Wuxtry and at special events.

Ciné Bar/Café/Cinema (www.athenscine.com)
Ciné screens a variety of intriguing films from a broad spectrum of countries and cultures, including the newest domestic and foreign productions as well as movie classics, retrospectives and documentaries. The selection includes well-known crossover independent films and small budget films, discoveries from festivals and local productions. Ciné also offers space for special events, and FLUKE is excited to make Ciné its home for the 2010 show.

FLUKE’s STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/ MISSION
FLUKE is a mini-comic festival that has been organized by Athens-area comic artists, underground publishers and their enthusiasts since 2002. Conceived as a venue for the discussion and exchange of timely ideas related to mini-comics, zines, and other independent publications, FLUKE is not a large comic convention or merchandising-saturated extravaganza. This isn't to say we don't like our share of stuff—'cause we do. However, we have kept the organization of the event as simple as possible to ensure that it remains focused on work and ideas rather than merchandising.

Digital images available on request
FLUKE online:
www.flukeathens.com
twitter.com/flukeathens
flukeathens.tumblr.com

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Three more inkers!

Michele Chidester and Joey Weiser went to Atlanta with the remaining FLUKE pages and handed them out to these folks, which is making the FLUKE anthology more potentially awesome by the minute.

Chris Schweizer
Falynn Koch
Hunter Wook-Jin Clark

in addition to-
Aaron Fu
David Mack
Devlin Thompson
Robert Brown
Robert Newsome
Eleanor Davis
Drew Weing
Michele Chidester
Joey Weiser

So there's your twelve 2010 FLUKE Anthology inkers.

FLUKE's cross-platform blogging adventure-time oh-ten!

So for some reason the wizards who run FLUKE, or one of them, at least, thought it would be a fun thing to do to start one of them Tumblr things even though nobody on the whole of the internet has quite worked out what Tumblr is supposed to actually be for.

Look, all we know is that the cool kids with the skinny jeans and the sideways haircuts all have those Tumblr websites, and we want to be cool, too. Maybe we'll sign up for Friendster and Orkut next. Everyone knows that blogspot's mainly for illegally downloading music, anyway.

The photo above, by the way, is a sneak preview of a small part of the soon-to-be-unveiled "OFFICIAL" 2010 FLUKE POSTER ART by Athens, GA's own David Mack. It is so amazingly good, that you may not be able to handle it in its entirety.

2010 FLUKE Comics Anthology- Something Different

So, the book is underway. It's happening, but instead of begging for submissions from the four corners of the globe, I came up with a crackpot plan to pencil a book length story and hand it over to local Athens comics folks to ink. Last night a bunch of us met for our regular Wednesday Night Drawing Getogether and I threw twenty-four penciled pages on the floor and nine Athens artists grabbed a couple pages each to ink.

So far, our FLUKE BOOK INKERS 2010 are;

Aaron Fu
David Mack
Devlin Thompson
Robert Brown
Robert Newsome
Eleanor Davis
Drew Weing
Michele Chidester
Joey Weiser

Joey and Michele are on their way to Atlanta today to distribute the last four pages to some mystery folks in Atlanta, so I'll update this when we find out who those folks are.

I mean, look at that list; this book is going to rock.

We Fixed the video

Apparently, the video below had one of the computer characters saying that FLUKE is on the 10th of April. THIS IS NOT TRUE.

FLUKE 2010 WILL BE ON APRIL 17th.

Sorry everyone. We have, at great expense, re-shot the video to contain the correct date. Special thanks to Friend of FLUKE Brad McGinty for pointing this error out to us. Brad will receive 400 FLUKE-BUX which may be redeemed for 3 orange Skittles on the day of the show! Taste the rainbow, Brad! (or, at least the orange part...)

We made a movie!!!

Hello and welcome to the FLUKE website. There's nothing here right now, but there will be soon. We promise. So hang in there. Things are about to get awesome. In the meantime, you can "follow" us on Twitter right here!