Monday, March 18, 2024

FLUKE Kick-Off Event Friday, March 29 at Bizarro-Wuxtry 6-9 pm




FLUKE PRE-PARTY and LIVE COMIX READING!

Friday, March 29 at Bizarro-Wuxtry
6 pm-9 pm

Location: Bizarro-Wuxtry, 225 College Avenue, Athens, GA

Before you load up at the 40 Watt on Saturday morning, come join a live comix reading event with podcast host Cam del Rosario (of @gutterboyspod) and Athens cartoonist Abby Kacen (aka Mild Pain and Keep It Weird)! 

See live readings by: 

Join us at Bizarro-Wuxtry on Friday, March 29th, from 6 to 9 pm

Food and beverages! 

Free to attend!  

Brought to you by UGA Special Collections and the Oral History of FLUKE Project. 

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Postscript: "comix vs. comics"


Monday, March 4, 2024

 

Contact: Robert Newsome, flukeathens@gmail.com, 706-614-3499


21st ANNUAL FLUKE MINI-COMICS FESTIVAL – March 30th, 2024


This year’s FLUKE Mini-Comics Festival, sponsored by Bizarro-Wuxtry,

Inch-High Button Guy, Joker Joker TV, Mystic Punks, and

The Sequential Artists Workshop will take place on Saturday,

March 30th at The 40 Watt Club, 285 West Washington Street,

Athens, GA, from 10:00 AM until 6 PM.


Admission for the public is $2.00 per person.


Masks will be REQUIRED for all exhibitors and attendees.


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.

That’s a really long time.


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

advertising-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.


FLUKE is an enjoyable, affordable event for people of all ages and interests.


Flagpole writer Hillary Brown remarks:


"Part of the delight of FLUKE is encountering new folks and browsing

through undiscovered material. There’s stuff for kids, stuff for grown-ups,

stuff for people who like serious autobiographical narratives, and stuff

for people who’d rather read a mini-comic about mice shaped like a

wedge of cheese."


EVENT SPECS

Exhibitors register in advance for exhibition spaces at FLUKE.


EXHIBITOR SPACES for FLUKE 2024 are now sold out.

It is possible that a very small number of additional spaces will be

made available.


Those wishing to obtain one of these potential spaces

should watch for announcements on FLUKE’s website and

social media (IG, Twitter (X), and Facebook).


FLUKE’S SPONSORS

With gratitude, we acknowledge our sponsors.

For more information, view FLUKE's website at: www.flukeathens.com

SELECTED HASHTAGS

#Fluke2024, #MiniComics, #Zines, #AthensGa, #SmallPress #Creators #Festivals #ComicCons #PatrickDeanForever #ForPatrickForever

SELECTED IMAGES

Photo of FLUKE 2018 inside the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. Photo credit: Saginaw-hitchhiker - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

FLUKE 2024 poster. Design credit: Jay Domingo (@smoggo on IG)

Monday, February 12, 2024

FLUKE 2024 Exhibitors List

Below is a list of all registered exhibitors at FLUKE 2024. We asked all exhibitors to provide a link to their work. As is FLUKE's tradition, anyone who did not provide a link will have their name linked to a YouTube video of monster trucks. 

We can't wait to see all of you at the 40 Watt on March 30th!


FLUKE 2024 SPONSORS

 
FLUKE 2024 EXHIBITORS
 

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

FLUKE 2024 pre-registration: HOW IT'S GONNA WORK THIS YEAR

 Hello! 


This post will contain (we hope) everything you need to know about pre-registration for FLUKE 2024 exhibitor spaces. 


FLUKE Exhibitor space lottery entries will go on sale at flukeathens.bigcartel.com at 10:00 am on Saturday, January 13. There will, at first, be 100 entries available. If they sell out, we'll make more available. Our goal is to make sure that everyone who wants a space at FLUKE 2024 will be able to get a lottery entry. 

REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY LOTTERY ENTIRES ARE SOLD, NOTHING WILL CHANGE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE ONLY 60 EXHIBITOR SPACES AVAILABLE.

You cannot buy more than one entry. Any purchase of lottery entries with a total quantity greater than "1" (one) will be refunded and you will not be entered in the drawing. 

If you use multiple emails to try to trick us and get more than one entry, we will find out, and you will be removed from the lottery drawing. Trust us, we will know. Don't get your friends to buy entries for you. Let's not be jerks about this. 

As opposed to previous years, there are no "locals only" exhibitor spaces available for in-person purchase in Athens. Locals wishing to exhibit at FLUKE should enter the lottery. 

The lottery drawing will take place on Thursday, January 25. It will be live-streamed. Right now, we're planning to roll dice to determine who gets an exhibitor space, but if more than 120 people enter the lottery, we'll use a computer program because the largest die we can find is a d120. The livestream will be a part of the regular weekly show from our OFFICIAL STREAMING PARTNER, Joker Joker TV.

Lottery entries will cost one dollar each. If you are chosen, the exhibitor fee is $15. If this seems like a crass exercise designed to generate more money for FLUKE, that's because it is. We're only in it for the money. Also, there was a 12% increase in our rental cost for the tables and we're passing that along to you. 

The online lottery tickets are sold using PayPal as a payment method. If you don't have PayPal, that's okay. Just get in touch with Robert at secondperiod@gmail.com and he'll make sure you get a lottery entry. You have to do this before Monday, January 22.

Lottery entries for exhibitor spaces at FLUKE 2024 will be "locked" and no more entries will be sold starting at 12:01am on Monday, January 22, 2024. 

More information will be posted here as it becomes available. Thanks, as always for your decades of support. FLUKE loves you. For Patrick, forever. 

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

FLUKE 2024 Pre-Registration Opens January 13 BUT IT'S DIFFERENT THIS TIME

 Hi, friends. 

We're going to open pre-registration for FLUKE 2024 on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:00 am, but we're handling things a little differently this time around. 

Last time we opened registration, in January of 2023, exhibitor spaces sold out in less than 2 minutes. While it is exciting to us that people want to exhibit their work at FLUKE, this nearly instant sell-out is kind of stressful because it means that people have to be sitting next to their computer and refreshing the page like mad just to get a spot. 

For FLUKE 2024, we're going to try a lottery-style registration. It's a significant change in the way exhibitor tables are sold, but we think it might alleviate a little of the associated stress without FLUKE having to become a juried show (to be clear, we do not want to become a juried show).

Here's how this is going to work:

  • In the past, we have sold 60 exhibitor spaces (one half of a 6-foot table) online. These are the spaces that sold out so quickly. In the past we usually have approximately 30 people on the waiting list after tables sell out. 
  • On Saturday, January 13, 2024, we're going to make 100 "tickets" available on flukeathens.bigcartel.com for ONE DOLLAR each. People can only buy one ticket. If you buy more than one ticket, you will be removed from the lottery and will not have a chance to be a FLUKE 2024 exhibitor. 
  • Each ticket purchased will be assigned a number, 00-99
  • On Saturday, January 27, 2024 we will ROLL THE DICE (standard 10-sided percentile dice) and let them randomly choose 60 of the 100 entries.
  • Those who are chosen by the dice will have 7 days to pay the $15 exhibitor fee. If someone does not pay their table fee within 7 days, we will ROLL THE DICE to determine who takes their place. 
  • We're going to try to be really silly and live-stream the dice rolling, but that might not work out because as of today we don't know how to do that. 
THIS MIGHT NOT WORK, but we're going to try ti this time around to see if it alleviates the stress of instant sell-outs. There have been some questions about why we don't just find a bigger venue and there are three main reasons. The first is that we consider The 40 Watt Club our home. we like working with the people there, and moving FLUKE somewhere else would make it feel different. We like the way it feels now. The second is that we want to stay within easy walking distance of our main sponsor, Bizarro-Wuxtry. FLUKE would literally not exist without them, the best comic book store on the entire planet. Third, moving to another venue would increase (likely greatly increase) the cost associated with FLUKE. We don't make a profit from FLUKE, and we've been able to keep our financial situation at a delicately balanced "break even" point for 21 years because we aren't interested in making a profit. But moving to another venue would increase the costs to us and we would absolutely have to pass that increase on to the exhibitors and attendees. 

Mathematically-minded readers may see the above and think "wait... this seems like a way for FLUKE to raise an additional $100 through the sale of these 'tickets' and still charge the selected vendors the same amount." Good work, nerd. You're absolutely right. This little bit of extra money will be used to pay artists a little more to make poster designs for us, have some more stickers and buttons made, and maybe (depending on ongoing pandemic progress) have cake available at FLUKE once again. 

If you have any questions at all about any of this, please email Robert at secondperiod@gmail.com. He's ready to discuss it with you. 

Thanks for reading our silly plans. We hope to see you at FLUKE 2024 on March 30th at the 40 Watt Club!


Thursday, October 19, 2023

FLUKE 2024 UPDATE

 Here's everything we know about FLUKE 2024:


  • FLUKE 2024 will take place on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. 
  • Registration will open in January. The exact date will be announced in early December.
  • Registration for FLUKE will be LOTTERY STYLE. We're going to try this out to avoid quick sell-outs and mass disappointment. 100 people will be able to purchase a lottery entry (one per person). 60 of those people will be randomly chosen (using 10-sided percentile dice) to receive an exhibitor space at fluke 2024.
  • More information will be posted here as it becomes available.
  • You are a nice person who deserves only good things. 

Monday, March 27, 2023

FLUKE 2023 Playlist

Hello. Here is a list of every song played before, during, and after FLUKE 2023 on Saturday. Now you can re-create the experience in your own home or automobile, should you so desire. 

  • Caiphus Semenya - “Ndi-kulindile” 9:11am

  • Здравствуй, Песня - “Марафон” - 9:17am

  • Sonny Fisher - “Sneaky Pete” - 9:19am

  • Harald Grosskopf - “Coming Out” - 9:22am

  • Archer Prewitt - “Good Man” - 9:26am

  • John Holt - “Tonight” - 9:28am

  • Poor Righteous Teachers - “Holy Intellect” - 9:33am

  • Tony Molina - “Not Worth Knowing” - 9:34am

  • Electronic - “Get the Message” - 9:40am

  • Charlie Moore - “Pickin’ Willie” - 9:42am

  • ConcernedApe - “Summer (Nature’s Crescendo)” - 9:45am

  • Webb Pierce - “I Ain’t Never” - 9:47am

  • Yazoo - “Bad Connection” - 9:51am

  • Christopher Cross - “Ride Like the Wind” - 9:55am

  • Atom & His Package - “Going to Georgia” - 9:57am

  • Hank Cochran - “When You Gotta Go You Gotta Go” - 9:59am

  • Chet Atkins - “Boo Boo Stick Beat” - 10:01am

  • Yuri Shimazaki - Theme from “Hakushon Daimaou” - 10:04am

  • Crown Heights Affair - “Your Love Makes Me Hot” - 10:09am

  • Aminova - “Personelle” - 10:13am

  • Wilma Burgess - “The Race is On” - 10:14am

  • Black Flag - “Rise Above” - 10:17am

  • Talking Heads - “I Want to Live” - 10:20am

  • Cocteau Twins - “Fotzepolitic” - 10:24am

  • サーカス - “夢で逢えたら” - 10:28am

  • Eddie Cletro - “Flying Saucer Boogie” - 10:31am

  • Elf Power - “Temporary Arm” - 10:33am

  • Astaron - “Black Galley” - 10:36am

  • Jimmie Widener - “Jimmie’s Jump” - 10:39am

  • Slim Smith - “What a Situation” - 10:41am

  • Curtis Gordon - “Caffeine and Nicotine” - 10:44am

  • Travis Wammack - “Scratchy” - 10:46am

  • Johnny Bond - “Lay It On the Line” - 10:48am

  • Roger Miller - “Kansas City Star” - 10:51am

  • Los Bravos - “Make it Easy for Me” - 10:53am

  • December’s Children - “Backwards and Forwards” - 10:55am

  • Gale Garnett - “The Same Game” - 10:58am

  • Johnny Lynch - “Don’t Believe Him, Donna” - 11:00am

  • Joe “Cannonball” Lewis - “You’ve Been Honky Tonkin’” - 11:03am

  • Agent Orange - “Everything Turns Grey” - 11:05am

  • Baba Brooks - “Musical Communion” - 11:08am

  • The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & His Group - “My Heart’s Desire” - 11:10am

  • Jacqueline Trieb - “7 Heures du Matin” - 11:13am

  • The Pyramids - “Hot Dog Dooly Wah” - 11:15am

  • Danger Danger - “Bang Bang” - 11:19am

  • Ron Dante & The Cufflinks - “Sally Ann” - 11:21am

  • The Orb - “Little Fluffy Clouds” - 11:26am

  • Jimme Lee Waukeen Cochran - “They Oughtta Call You Miss Heartbreak” - 11:28am

  • Chumbawamba - “Ah-Men” - 11:31am

  • Sammy Davis, Jr. - “Oh Lonesome Me” - 11:38am

  • Black Widow - “Come to the Sabbat” - 11:42am

  • Kitchen People - “Boy from Bassendean” - 11:44am

  • Ken Laszlo - “1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.” - 11:49am

  • Pogy et les Kéfars - “Fait Comme un Rat” - 11:51am

  • Goblin - “Snip-Snap” - 11:55am

  • Buz Butler - “Rubber Ball Bounce” - 11:58am

  • Howard Jones - “Pearl in the Shell” - 12:02pm

  • Depeche Mode - “What’s Your Name?” - 12:04pm

  • Smart-E’s - “Make it Happen” - 12:08pm

  • 南 佳孝 - “Monroe Walk” - 12:12pm

  • Cousin Herb Henson - “Funny Book” - 12:14pm

  • 13th Floor Elevators - “You’re Gonna Miss Me” - 12:17pm

  • K.P. & Envyi - “Swing My Way”

  • The Brass’n Beat Machine Herman Gehlen - “Exposition ‘71” - 12:25pm

  • Earl Hooker - “The Hucklebuck” - 12:28pm

  • Shut Up & Dance - “Green Man” - 12:34pm

  • Hopeton Lewis & The Chosen Few - “Boom Shaka Lacka” - 12:37pm

  • Charlie Feathers - “Can’t Hardly Stand It” - 12:39pm

  • Camper Van Beethoven - “Border Ska” - 12:42pm

  • A Mercy Union - “Guitars & Hate” - 12:45pm

  • Midnight Oil - “Blue Sky Mine” - 12:49pm

  • Biller & Wakefield - “Biller Barges In” - 12:52pm

  • Carl Butler & Pearl - “Goodbye Tennessee” - 12:54pm

  • Harold Burrage - “Hot Dog and A Bottle of Pop” - 12:57pm

  • Billy Bragg - “Upfield” - 1:01pm

  • Mort Garson - “Swingin’ Spathiphyllums” - 1:04pm

  • Braid - “A Dozen Roses” - 1:08pm

  • Vic Taylor - “Heartaches” - 1:12pm

  • Craig Safan - Main title from “The Great Texas Dynamite Chase” - 1:15pm

  • The Clarendonians - “Ten Guitars” - 1:19pm

  • Sonny Stitt and Don Patterson - “Who Can I Turn To?” - 1:22pm

  • U Roy - “Wake the Town” - 1:25pm

  • 808 State - “Donkey Doctor” - 1:30pm

  • Rick Bowles - “Baby Lied” - 1:33pm

  • Cyber People - “Polaris” - 1:38pm

  • Charlie Louvin - “What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)?” - 1:40pm

  • Matthew Sweet - “Girlfriend” - 1:44pm

  • Maxine Brown - “Take It Out In Trade” - 1:46pm

  • Jean-Michel Jarre - “Magnetic Fields (Part 2)” - 1:50pm

  • Chicory Tip - “Join Our Gang” - 1:54pm

  • Lime - “Gold Digger” - 2:02pm

  • The Mummies - “Rosie” - 2:05pm

  • Bonita Stevens - “Take Your Guitar and Git” - 2:07pm

  • Serge Gainsbourg with Brigitte Bardot - “Comic Strip” - 2:09pm

  • Crocodiles - “Refuse Angels” - 2:12pm

  • The Dead Milkmen - “Beach Song” - 2:14pm

  • Ole Rasmussen - “Sleepy Eyed John” - 2:17pm

  • Feo - “April” - 2:18pm

  • John Cena - “The Time Is Now” - 2:21pm

  • Jimmy Bryant - “Caravan” - 2:24pm

  • Brigitte Fontaine - “C’est pas d’ma Faute” - 2:25pm

  • White Plains - “My Baby Loves Lovin’” - 2:28

  • E&S Brothers - “Bomba” - 2:32pm

  • Blemish - “Reanimate” - 2:43pm

  • Blake Babies - “Look Away” - 2:37pm

  • Fani S’khosana - “Ipansula” - 2:42pm

  • The Electric Circus - “Direct Lines” - 2:46pm

  • The 1910 Fruitgum Company - “May I Take A Giant Step (Into Your Heart)?” - 2:48pm

  • Riot - “Running From The Law” - 2:53pm

  • Eddie Bond - “Back Home in Indiana” - 2:55pm

  • The Counts - “Shake the Town” - 2:57pm

  • Ruby Andrews - “Tit for Tat” - 3:00pm

  • ABBA - “Knowing Me, Knowing You” - 3:04pm

  • Slim Harpo & His King Bees - “I Got Love if You Want It” - 3:06pm

  • Four Mints - “Row My Boat” - 3:11pm

  • Doctor Ice - “Everybody Get Funky” - 3:14pm

  • Tangible Joy - “Move” - 3:17pm

  • Pet Milk - “Pictures (of You)” - 3:20pm

  • Harry Nilsson - “The Cast and Crew” (from Skiddoo) - 3:24pm

  • Dudley Moore - “Bedazzled” - 3:26pm

  • 有賀啓雄 - “Rain Dolphin” - 3:30pm

  • Jerry Reed - “Amos Moses” - 3:33pm

  • Basil Poledouris - “Rock Shop” (from Robocop) - 3:36pm

  • Enya - “Orinocho Flow” - 3:40pm

  • Talk Talk - “The Last Time” - 3:45pm

  • Black Sabbath - “Wishing Well” - 3:49pm

  • 石川秀美 - “微風・サマー・コールド” - 3:53pm

  • Mr. Oizo - “Cut Dick” - 3:56pm

  • Tex Ritter - “I’m Wastin’ My Tears On You” - 3:58pm

  • Don Drummond & The Skatalites - “Universal Ska” - 4:01pm

  • The Pretty Things - “Buzz the Jerk” - 4:03pm

  • Hank C. Burnette - “Red Hot” - 4:05pm

  • Silver Scooter - “Should’ve Stayed” - 4:08pm

  • 青山☆聖ハチャメチャハイスクール - “S*WEETS PARADISE” - 4:12pm

  • Tipical Me - “Pope No Hope” - 4:16pm

  • 佐橋佳幸 - “Diary” - 4:19pm

  • Scientist - “Rubber Foot” - 4:21pm

  • Black Sheep - “The Choice is Yours” - 4:25pm

  • Сергей Минаев - “Песня аквалангиста” - 4:28pm

  • Ohio Express - “Shake” - 4:31pm

  • The Banana Splits - “Doin’ The Banana Split” - 4:33pm

  • Thee Milkshakes - “I’m Out of Control” - 4:36pm

  • Akira Ifukube - Main title from “Destroy All Monsters” - 4:37pm

  • Rex Allen - “Raggin’ On” - 4:39

  • Cherry Five - “The Swan Is A Murderer” (Part 1) - 4:43pm

  • Hank Thompson - “Honky Tonk Town” - 4:46pm

  • Rick Springfield - “Love is Alright Tonight” - 4:49pm

  • Enrico Simonetti & Goblin - “Paoletta” - 4:52pm

  • Billy Barton - “Pardon Me, Old Buddy” - 4:54

  • Cybotron - “Cosmic Radiance” - 4:58pm

  • Audrey - “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” - 5:00pm

  • Ronnie Dio - “Do The Oop-Poo-Pah-Doo” - 5:03pm

  • The Pioneers - “Some Having a Bawl” - 5:05pm

  • Al Perkins & Betty Bibbs - “Homework” - 5:08pm

  • Andy Griffith - “Free Man in the Morning” - 5:10pm

  • Cock Sparrer - “Take ‘Em All” - 5:12pm

  • Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - “No It Ain’t” - 5:15pm

  • Little Tony Marsh - “Video Burnout” - 5:21pm

  • Howlin’ Wolf - “Howlin; For My Darling” - 5:23pm

  • Zed - “Plastic Love” - 5:28pm

  • The Family - “Do the Robot” (Part 1) - 5:31pm