Fetishman

it’s like living in the future!

yes, about this time last year i deployed issue one of the comic as a primer/ lure/ introduction to the fetishman-ening in ebook form. i supposed little would come of it, it’s free because it’s only one issue … but somehow it seems to have been, thus far, accessed 55000 times. I’m wondering  if perhaps i should put some others on there that require a small donation? somethign small because it’s all a bonus, but still somethign just to see if the current ebook is just accessed because it’s free and not for any better reason.

Anyway, if you have yet to peruse the first issue and were wondering just exactly what the difference between the webcomic and the print comic was, perhaps then you should attend this weblink and, with a little registration due to an understandably over-enthusiastic ratings policy, view some hot comic-y action:

http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=1466

anyway, back to business, issue 10 is literally on the drawing board, and if all goes to plan the flyers should be ready for birmingham comic con next weekend (“flyers” i should say … i may possibly have created a fetishman banknote)

http://www.fetishman.co.uk/fm/events/

pip pip!

x

gf

So I’m busy updating the wordpress installation and so forth and thought i’d say hello again.

Yep, long time no see – the fetishman stuff and the science job has been occupying many of my waking hours- but i has a plan now. Over the next few months I’ll be resurrecting this site and basically making it into my science doodlings and victoriana/steampunk noodlings repository. Oh and possibly even some actual science.

http://www.fetishman.co.uk

I had a lovely time at the uk steampunk weekend last Saturday, becoming possibly the loveliest stall I’ve ever run ever by the simple measure of me drinking tea and drawing people for most of the day. Finally met the current editor of the steampunk magazine in all her loveliness. Imparted mugs to those in need of mugs which declared their voices in favour of tea. And meanwhile, as if to prove the greatness of saturday, in deepest darkest bestival Ms D-.ran into the most awesome Moog, the creator of “cup of brown joy”.

http://steampunk.synthasite.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA
http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/

A part upshot of all this is i’ve realised that

a) i quite like watercolours and

b) i can draw up tiny steampunkery quite rapidly when i put my mind to it

so the theory is that i could let this beast update once or preferably twice a week when it’s under way.

anyhoo, while we’re in transition may i draw your attention to some other repositories of geof-stuff

http://www.geofbanyard.com
http://fetishman.deviantart.com
Or, if you have a spare few minutes i’d request you take part in the awesome visual science research me and the academics are undertaking:

http://www.islandofdoctorgeof.co.uk/science3
laters comrades

x

gf

cheers for your contributions to the science! over 5000 data points rising (but more would be even more awesome! send more people there! co-opt relatives! do it again! better science through superior fire-power says i!)

http://www.islandofdoctorgeof.co.uk/science3

… and as promised here is an extensive briefing on the fetishman plans and an indication of their achievability:

0) fetishman dolls

they exist. and they’re good. sara makes them. just sorting out packaging. more news soon.

1) fetishman #10

i considered doing the inevitable spooky-zombie-goth issue but, seeing as we’re gaining a digit so it’s sort of an anniversary issue, it’s now pretty much certainly going to be the “fetish” issue: fetishman doubts his fetish-ness and attempts to out-fetish himself. and all humanity. If i remember to i think it’s the perfect opportunity for the phrase “needs more cowbell”. On the subject of anniversaries I’m also thinking some kind of launch event may be useful, but that’s one of those looser plans we’ll need to whip into shape closer to the day. the fabulous subscriber present is going to be some kind of sticker-y awesome, but i ain’t spoiling the surprise.

2) Mal and FAM

I’ve been going to comics conventions for a couple of years now and in that time have met many varied and charming people, and if you’ve been to more than a couple you may also know Mal from Fallen Angel Media, you know,  manga drawing awesome with the cat ears? yeah, see i told you. Over the past year she’s started a small press print company (the alleged FAM), ran the small press half of the Bristol Comics convention, has taken on the role of publishing fetishman back issues and also is now leading the pack under “friends i know who may take over the world before me”. But you probably know these things or could infer them without difficulty.

What you don’t know is she’s expanding FAM to take on merchandise printing and in the not too distant future (she’s moving premises right now) is going to take over the fetishman on-line shop. As it can be print-on-demand i should be able to offer an even wider range of merchandise (oh yes, the warning sign t-shirts will finally be amongst us!) and, given some of the spare time this should yield unto me, she’ll then be publishing the long-awaited “my first fetishman” book and the first issue of the steampunk-rudery travel journal of Baron Von Wagner, known to myself and my co-author Gareth as the British Expeditionary Fetish Force or BEFF.

3) the island of doctor geof

I deliberately neglected this website this past year simply so that i could get the fetishman site re-vamped. Whilst i have a portfolio website, and i use deviant art for scraps and oddments, there’s a pile of physics and steampunk stuff that wouldn’t truly fit with the fetishman site, so in the next two months i intend to revive the island.

4) and beyond

there’s always stuff i could do, but here are the more plausible things: i need to do more shot glasses and some postcards for the whitby goth weekend (as mister speedy cannot cease to remind me); greetings cards and some good fetish art, with a leaning towards a few originals along with the prints; I’m sure i owe the steampunk magazine and nocturnal magazine some more bits; “do not do this” a tiny health and safety book for the under sevens; re-building the fetishman stall is a task that never ends, however next time i want wheels; a holy text for the religion i based around my mate ahmer (it’s so much easier to prove that he exists); my telegram-translator; a time machine; etc.

x

gf