Show & Tell Press

Friday, January 29, 2010

Our Favorite Retailers

Domy Books of Houston/Austin













and Quimby's Bookstore of Chicago















have both pre-ordered cases of Crap Hound via Kickstarter to support our project! Between the two of them they've contributed nearly $700! For their support they'll receive a case (30) of Crap Hound #4 at 40% off cover, and 30 stickers and buttons as a bonus. If you're a distributor or retailer please consider ordering a case today!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Spreading the Kickstarter Love!


Aw, we just got a little plug from Berlin Reed/The Ethical Butcher on the Kickstarter blog! Also, check out the Ethical Butcher blog! And don't forget to visit him at the Portland Farmer's Market this spring!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Announcing Crap Hound #8: Superstition Winter 2010


A message from Sean, "After all the arguments, the laughter and the tears, the fists and the flowers, after all the passion and fire and heartbreak and joy, Issue No. 8 will feature Superstition. It’s going to be an interesting issue. Once the usual black cats, four leaf clovers, broken mirrors, crossed fingers and horseshoes have been covered, I’ll have to turn to more innocuous items like coins, umbrellas, salt shakers, wishing wells, wishbones, matches and cigarettes, candles, clocks, chains, charms, and bells. Focus will inevitably spiral outward to brooms, bread, moons, shooting stars, calendars, robins, crickets, crows, peas, pancakes, pins and needles, knives, nails, acorns, sneezes, cakes, moths, butterflies, bees, and ladybugs. Everything from culturally acceptable childhood OCD habits to the professional baseball player who has to have sex with a grey cat before each home game. The net will be cast wide enough to include the lucky and unlucky alike, the auspicious, the ominous, the common and obscure, modern and forgotten.. all the crazy cuckoobird batshit crazyface nutbird customs that make life so interesting."

We are currently seeking contributions. While everything in Crap Hound ends up as high contrast line art it doesn't necessarily start out that way, so your submissions don't have to be. Please include your name, email, address and let us know the source of the images you're sending.

Send your contributions to:
Crap Hound
C/O Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak St.
Portland, OR 97205

Contributors whose images are used will be listed in the acknowledgments and may receive a free issue depending on the quantity of images provided and utilized.

With Friends Like Mark Pawson, Who Needs Friends?


The dapper and talented, Mr. Mark Pawson of London, England is an artist, publisher and distributor and is solely responsible for our UK/Europe wholesale accounts. Psst! UK/Europe customers, you can also mail order issues from him and stop paying more for shipping than you do for the magazine!

Anyhow, Mark is a longtime supporter of Crap Hound, Reading Frenzy and Show & Tell Press and he has just made a generous pre-payment in support of the press. While this is not being routed through Kickstarter -- you must have a US bank account to pledge there -- it's going to allow us to accelerate publication of Crap Hound #4 & #5, if and only if, our Kickstarter project is successfully funded.

Check out his online shop: Mark Pawson & Disinfotainment. I'm especially partial to his badges and the lasercut perspex signs (like the beauty pictured above)!

Button Frenzy!


Starting with this issue, we're going to be putting out companion button sets! Here are the buttons for Crap Hound #4 plus the TEARS OF A CLOWN pledge reward. Technically I guess this should be called TEARS BECAUSE OF A CLOWN but that's not as catchy.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Thanks, Cory!


Thank goodness we got a second plug on Boing Boing because the first one quoted the rather lackluster suggestion I sent in and not much else (lesson learned!), although I was pleased to learn that Mark is also a fan. What we lack in offshore accounts and corporate jets, we make up for with friends and fans like Cory Doctorow whose Boing Boing post from late last night has already resulted in a slew of new backers!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Thank You to Our High Rolling Pledgers!



Special thanks to the following people who have pledged $200 or more to our Kickstarter project! Between the eight of them they've pledged over $2000 to help us roll out the next issue of Crap Hound!