Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Drop Target Issue 5 is available for ordering!

Two big boxes full of Drop Target #5 arrived in the mail from Vermont today, so they are finally available for ordering!  Jon did a great job printing them, and now it is my task to mail them out to everyone.  I'm ready to take your orders now!  Below is a breakdown of what you'll find in this issue:

DROP TARGET #5 - The Community Issue
64 pages! - 5.5" x 8.5" - B&W printing
First Printing: 8.5" x 14" full-color centerfold, screenprinted cover

FEATURING:
- 6TH ANNUAL PACIFIC PINBALL EXPOSITION: A written account (with illustrations) of Alec's first trip to a pinball expo.
- PINHALLS: Reciprocal Skateboards - New York, NY
- OBSERVATIONS ON A COMPETITION: A comic about Jon's first trip to a pinball competition: Pinferno 2012!
- THE REPLAY REVIEW: Addams Family (Bally, 1992)
- VIDEO MODE: Pinball Archive Videos
- SPECIAL WHEN LITERATURE: Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
- DREAM MACHINES: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Alec Longstreth, Groo the Wanderer by Ryan Claytor, Inspector Gadget by Jon Chad
- TILT TALK: Interview with PAPA director Mark Steinman
- MY DAY WITH THE CRAZY FLIPPER FINGERS: a comic by Alec Longstreth!
- BANG BACKS: www.pinballmap.com & App

If you would rather pick up a copy of Drop Target #5 in person, you will have two opportunities to do so this month:  1) Our amazing center spread artist Ryan Claytor will be at the Small Press and Comics Expo this weekend (April 13th and 14th) in Columbus, Ohio.  2) I will be at the Stumptown Comics Festival on April 27th and 28th in Portland, Oregon.  I will have all five issues of Drop Target available, so swing on by!

Also, a heads up for those of you who are collector-types...  There are only about 25 copies left of the first printing of Drop Target #2 (with the full-color center spread and a screenprinted cover on colored paper).  After those are gone, they're gone!  We will then make a second printing, similar to the second printing of DTZ #1 with a grayscale center spread and a black and white cover, with a $4 cover price.  You have been forewarned!

Okay, well, we know this issue took a long time to make, but we really think it is going to be worth the wait.  At 64 pages, it is our longest issue yet!

2 comments:

  1. Just lucked into finding DTZ #5 at S.P.A.C.E. this afternoon (I had seen your toons on Stern's FB feed, but didn't realize you did a print zine). I *love* the Dream Machines section!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Cool, glad to hear you found it at SPACE, Jack!

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