Weekend Wind-Down #99 - Covered In Ectoplasm Edition

Saturday, Missy and I finally unpacked from our trip to China and then re-packed our luggage with zines, comics, and other handmade stuff to take with us to FLUKE. We got to CINE kinda early, thinking that we'd be first in line. Boy, were we wrong! A formidable queue had already formed and we rushed to find parking and fall in line...









Tables were first come, first serve...we were worried that we would not get a table because the room looked pretty full by the time we got to the door. Somewhat miraculously, we were able to get the exact spot we were hoping for, right by the entrance. Right from the get go, the room was crowded and busy with shoppers. We made back our table fee and then some within the first 30 minutes of the fair. Every sale after that was icing...





Organizer/artist PATRICK DEAN manning the door:





















We spent some time teaching our new friend and table mate, JOSH LATTA, how to use a button press, which he borrowed from a friend in order to make his own ONE INCH BUTTONS, hot and fresh...







Missy took a break from playing shop to take some photos of the Fluke art show in the lounge area and to do a bit of shopping...









Friend and superfan GARY gets the award for spending the most amount of money at Fluke...not just at our table, but just about EVERYBODY'S table...homeboy made it rain! I think he made three separate trips to the ATM...





Chelsea said it best: "It wouldn't be a proper comic con without someone showing up in a COSTUME...so I thought it might as well be me!"





FLAGPOLE comics page artists represent...JOE HAVASY, JACOB HUNT, and MISSY KULIK wave "hi!"









Our friend JULIE of SUBTERRANEAN JEWELRY stopped by with cute little ADA to say hello...











Missy showing off some of our purchases...when she couldn't leave the table to shop, Missy shopped on-line...







If you were tired of looking at zines and comics, you could wander into Cine's lobby and check out the amazing GHOSTBUSTERS-inspired art show, ECTOPLASMIC RESIDUE...













This painting of BILL MURRAY looked more like one of the SUNTORY WHISKEY ADS from LOST IN TRANSLATION than PETER VENKMAN...





My favorite pieces included Joe Havasy's MARIO BROTHERS setting a trap for one of the videogame GHOSTS, and a movie post re-imagining ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK's "SNAKE PLISSKEN" as a ghost-busting soldier of fortune...





FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - I liked being at FLUKE! And talking to the kids at the high school!
RAOUL - Oh, definitely FLUKE!

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Restless sleep at night...
RAOUL - Not being able to make it to Criminal Records for Record Store Day.

FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Seeing the kids' Tofu Baby comics at Madison County High School
RAOUL - Gary's uninhibited shopping spree at Fluke was pretty amusing!

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "That's so cuuuuuuuuuute!"
RAOUL - "She looks good bald...but she only looks good bald because she's a baby"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Ginger glazed carrots at The Grit.
RAOUL - The wasabi tofu over coconut rice, courtesy of The Grit.

FAVORITE TOFU BABY COMIC THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DID?
MISSY - I liked the one where the boy saves Tofu Baby in a net.
RAOUL - "YOUR PHONE IS RINGING!"

FAVORITE FIND AT FLUKE?
MISSY - Rashy Rabbit, Bebop, and Chelsea's Pipe Bomb zines!
RAOUL - The BEARD zine and zine with the cover that looks like a cassette tape (of course!)

FIVE ALL-TIME FAVORITE RECORD STORES?
MISSY - Jerry's Records in Squirrel Hill, PA; Paul's CDs in Bloomfield, PA; GO Records (r.i.p.) in Arlington, VA; Vinyl Ink in Silverspring, MD; Amoeba Records in San Francisco, CA.
RAOUL - Amoeba Records in LA, CA; Amoeba Records in SF, CA; Mad Platter Records in Riverside; Rhino Records in Claremont, CA; Sealevel Records (r.i.p.) in Echo Park, CA.

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - She & Him, Laura Veirs, Hanky & Panky, Laura Marling, Craftypod podcast, Craftsanity podcast.
RAOUL - Tender Forever, Unrest, Galaxie 500, Laura Veirs, Fools Gold, Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, The Wedding Present, Gaze, The Selecter, She & Him, Labrador Records' "Sound Of Young Sweden Vol. 4" comp.



Show organizers ROBERT NEWSOME and PATRICK DEAN getting interviewed as the fair started to wind down...







We celebrated the end of a tiring but successful day by heading to THE GRIT...we ordered a slice of BLUEBERRY CAKE as an appetizer to our well-deserved meal...