Showing posts with label Screen Printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Screen Printing. Show all posts

Monday, August 03, 2009

Eat World!

I finally listed on etsy the mini comic I made for MoCCA. Behold, EAT WORLD!
And the etsy spiel:
Eat World is a wordless mini comic zine about monsters. Each page progresses further up the food chain as weird creatures, mutants, and primordial beasts smash and tear each other to bits.

The comics are 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. The cover is a two color screen print (black and silver) on grey paper. The inside 16 pages are black and white. The first page of each copy is initialed and numbered (X out of 100) with a small sketch by me unique to each book. All copies are hand printed and assembled.

This is the first printing of Eat World. I may reprint this comic but the screen print colors will be different and the insides will note that it's a reprint. Black and Silver ink on the grey paper cover will be unique to the first printing of Eat World.

There may be Eat World 2 in the future, so if you like what you see, let me know and I'll get cracking on the sequel!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28753481

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A\V Presents John Wiese, Tumul, and Pengo

New poster for a noise show on the 24th. This one is on 8.5" x 14" chipboard. I was happy to print on something brown!

Here's the link for the poster on etsy too:http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15356259
Get while it's hot! And ten dollars :]

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

California Adventure, Day 0

Tomorrow I'm leaving for California. It's going to be a pretty long trip (I won't be back until the 28th). Since I'd be away so long I thought of trying to keep people posted via a trip blog.

I'm headed to California mainly for my friend Aaron's wedding. I haven't met his fiance Jean yet but I'm sure she's great. Then Comic Con 2008 is at the end of the month. Stop by and see me (Small Press booth N7, right next to Bad Karma!) I still don't have my books printed for it though, so things are a little shaky. In between San Francisco and San Diego I'm going to be staying with Bob and Jason in L.A. Total-college-reunion-in-parts ahoy!

Getting prepped for the trip has been pretty stressful, mainly with making sure things get sent to the proper places and the whole trying to get things printed ordeal. I did a last minute poster for the July 20th Monotonix show in town too. It was a harried ordeal but they're finished!

I'm going to miss Marlene when I'm away too but I told her I'd call near-daily. I feel like a jerk leaving town when I should be around packing to move, but that's what the 28th through the 31st are for I guess!

My flight leaves at 7 tomorrow, so I hope I don't oversleep. California, hoooooooo!

Edit: I just went to look at Aaron's blogger account and it looks like he's been hacked... the blog was post free for a couple years, but it's a weird kind of electro-death. Weird...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Imaginary Monsters posters on Etsy.com!

One whole poster for sale. Gosh!
I'll be adding other posters over the next couple days.
imaginarymonsters.etsy.com

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Monotonix vs. Yip Yip!


Dr. Hamburger and I have teamed up once again! If you're in Rochester Tuesday Oct. 2nd or Sunday Oct. 7th you should check out these shows! Monotonix rocks and so does Yip Yip. This is Monotonix's second time through Rochester this year too so I'm hoping they get a worthy turnout. Gimme a shout if you want any more details about these shows!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Adventure Underfoot 1+2 is finished and printed!

Holy bones, and just in time for comic con! Only 3 issues more to go but you people don't need to wait that long :D I printed a total of 120 copies in the first limited run. All of the covers have been screen printed by hand to boot.

I printed two cover versions, about 100 of the Skeletor Flavor and 20 of the Cringer flavor.

Here's all 120 drying on this basement table.

Page preview dump!






You can see more process photos from the cover printing here.

I'm going to be bringing about 50 or 60 to Comic Con next week, so if you're dying for a copy you can track me down there. I'm going to be wandering around a bunch so email me if you want my cell number to reach me. I'll be selling the screen printed ones afterwards too and I'm probably going to try to put the book up on Lulu too, so it should be pretty accessible.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

whoah, some other posters...

I almost forgot about these. Thanks to my assistant TRI-MAN for the photos (and Marlene! :D)I have prints of both for sale at imaginarymonsters.com / peterlazarski.com. Pick your poison! Buy me lunch. Thanks everybody!

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Hundredth post! Two new posters done.

I'm a hundred posts old! Totally weird. Apart from that, I finished two new posters last week. One for the Pit Er Pat show at a|v space: The other for the Cinco de Mayo party at John's Tex Mex: I have prints of both posters available for $20 each from imaginarymonsters.com/peterlazarski.com. Check them out!
You can see some of the process from these two posters in my flickr photos.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Acid Mothers Temple poster and process

Thanks for the bout of comments people. I figured I would explain some of the photos from the poster making last week. It will be too full of holes to be a working tutorial, but maybe we'll all learn something.This is the design before any printing, starting off with an ink drawing and ending up as some layers in photoshop. I'm doing all of my ink mixing by eye, so at best I'm approximating the colors.

This is the first screen with the second screen positive over the top. I think I was using the 2nd positive to help out registering the screens. I'm registering things by hand too, with the help of some home made registration tabs.

Lifting the 2nd positive off of the print reveals the first screen print.

Naked print! My virgin eyes! This is what fancypants printers call a split fountain, two colors in one screen making a nice gradient.

A close up of some of the ghosts in the bottom left. My favorite is the one making a face something like this: - <> -

A stack of prints and Marlene's feet. Hello, red clogs!

I was mixing magenta and black to make the maroon color for the second screen. I underestimated the darkness of straight cyan ink and should have gone for a darker maroon. Learning by experience... next time I should have some white ink so I can lighten my cyan.

These are gallon buckets of ink. I found three of them on sale in Syracuse for $30 but normally they're around $70. I'm predicting that I will run out of yellow and white ink faster than any other color (black will last the longest).

A little note about mixing your own colors: add your darker inks in sparingly. This goes for paint too, a little dark goes a long way. I think my ratio of magenta to yellow to get the orange I wanted for this print was around 1:20. The light green for the monotonix poster was probably around 1:15 or 1:10 (cyan to yellow). Start your mix on a small scale, using a small measure of your darker color. You can always scale up according to your ratio. But if you start out with 5 portions of cyan, you'll need to add 50 portions of yellow to get a 1:10. Keep some notes and do some math!

When I started printing the Monotonix poster I was out of newspaper to do test prints on (to get the screen ready and full with ink before printing on good paper). Yikes, what did I do? I remembered I had 5 bad Mono posters lying around so I used them as test print paper. I'm going to keep doing so for the next couple runs just to see what happens as print runs start to layer on top of each other...

A photo of the table setup, about to print screen two.

Self protection against soul invasion!

Test print of screen two on the multi-print. This is where I said to myself "Oh F. I mixed the maroon too light!" I think I started throwing black onto the screen and into the mix to try and darken it some.

A finished print on the line. Behold the wizard! Soul spitting, eel wrangling, demon twisting prints! If you look close you can see the cyan/maroon overprint that I wasn't expecting. But, now that I know it's to be expected. Learning again!

More prints on the line, maybe the same print and it's neighbors. I missed the Mono show and I'm hoping to make it to see Acid Mothers Temple. I haven't seen them live and I have a feeling they really tear it open in person.

A close up of the multi-print before I printed the Acid Mothers Temple poster over it. The wolf brain mix was pretty cool but I think it got mostly obscured by an eel or some wizard hair. Such is life, randomly obscured by eels and wizard hair.

Thanks for reading (if anybody does.) Peace!

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Friday, March 23, 2007

Showposter for Mono at Soundlab

It's finished! Special thanks to the lovely Marlene for helping me get through it.
The swarm overtakes my basement (in need of a drying rack...)
Here's the original output before printing:
We printed 70 of them with 65 good prints. Go to the show too, April 14th at 9pm at Soundlab in Buffalo and enjoy the good sounds of Mono, World's End Girlfriend, and The Drift. Peace!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Welcome to your doom!

Remember this guy? Well, last week I made it!


Check out that serious paper curl! I used 80# matte cover paper instead of real printing paper. Why? Because it was cheaper and I'd be happier making a mistake on a 10 cent piece of paper than on a $2 one. Thankfully the paper flattened as easily as it curled.

I printed 60 and 40 came out without heinous registration errors or smears. The screen I printed the black outlines in was a little fuzzy/underexposed in spots, but it has character.

haha, the definition of character: A failure of craftsmanship. Sweet! I'll be putting a link somewhere to buy these soon (support independent arts!) Until then you can drool over the rest of the photos in my flickr set. Peace out web homies.