FLUKE Pre-Registration update

 Here are some things you might want to know about FLUKE 2025:

FLUKE 2025 will take place on Saturday, March 29 at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. 

We're doing a lottery for exhibitor spaces again this year. It worked out okay last year. People seemed to like it, or at least not complain about it too hard if they didn't like it. 

There are 60 exhibitor spaces (an "exhibitor space is half of a 6-foot table) up for grabs in the lottery.

Going back to bold text again here...

Lottery entries for FLUKE 2025 exhibitor spaces will go on sale Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 10:00 am at flukeathens.bigcartel.com.

Lottery entries will cost $1.00 each.

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 Friday, January 17.

Lottery entries will remain on sale for 24 hours. There is no set number of entries for sale. However many lottery entries we sell in 24 hours will be the number of entries in the lottery. 

REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY LOTTERY ENTRIES 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. 

The lottery drawing will take place on Thursday, January 23. It will be live-streamed by our OFFICIAL STREAMING PARTNER, Joker Joker TV.

Everyone who purchases a lottery entry will be contacted with further information after the sales close down on January 18 but before the drawing on January 23. Thanks, as always, for your decades of support. FLUKE loves you. 

For Patrick, forever.

 - FLUKE

FLUKE 2025 Pre-Registration Update

 Hi, Friends.

We're excited that it's almost time to start preparations for FLUKE 2025, which will take place on Saturday, March 29 at the 40 Watt Club in downtown Athens, Georgia.

Last year, we did a "lottery-style" pre-registration, and we think it went pretty well. In order to avoid the 60 exhibitor spaces we sell online selling out ridiculously fast, we're going to do the same thing this year.

"Lottery tickets" for exhibitor spaces at FLUKE 2025 will go on sale at 10:00am (Eastern time) on Saturday, January 18. They will remain on sale for 24 hours. You don't need to be in a hurry, as long as you buy an entry in that 24 hour period. Entries will cost $1.00 (one dollar) each. You can ONLY buy one entry. Don't be a jerk and mess this up. We'll find out. However many we sell in that 24 hour period is how many entries there will be. Nothing will change the fact that there are only 60 exhibitor spaces available, so your chances depend on how many people buy a ticket on January 18th. 

We're not sure right now when the drawing will be, but it'll happen in public on a livestream so you can watch it as it happens. 

Good luck. We love you, and we can't wait to see you at the 40 Watt in March.    

-FLUKE

FLUKE Playlists from 2016-2024

We now have a single database of FLUKE playlists from 2016-2024 (there were no 2019 or 2020 playlists due to the pandemic). 

These lists are just metadata. If you want to help us build them out into real, ACTUAL playlists with actual music that can be shared online, fill out this form:

Patrick Dean-designed FLUKE Dracula shirts available now on the FLUKE Big Cartel site.

Several of you (this is not an exaggeration, and it is something that really happened) asked us to let you know when the Patrick Dean-designed FLUKE Dracula shirts were going to be available again because we sold out of them at the actual event. 

You can order one right here:
https://flukeathens.bigcartel.com/product/flukeula-t-shirt

Feel free to tell all of your friends about this.

FLUKE 2024 OFFICIAL PLAYLIST

 Apple keeps making it harder and harder for us to copy and paste the artists and titles of all the songs we played at FLUKE off of our somehow-still-working 2010 iPod 7G so we're being lazy and just posting screenshots. You're gonna have to work a little harder if you want to re-create this one at home. Sorry. We love you. 

UPDATE: Playlist (metadata only) here (still needs a few translations) 

FLUKE Pre-Party and Live Comix Reading 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: 

• Eleanor Davis
• Pat Rooks
• Joey Weiser
• David Caldwell
• Victor Alpi
• ...and more! 

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"

 

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. Bizarro-Wuxtry Inch-High Button Guy Joker Joker TV Mystic Punks Sequential Artists Workshop 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)