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things changed so covers changed. stay tuned for updates on the BFT booklets.

yeah, that one is so damn ugly I didn't even catch it on the last BFT as I had only played the disk once then shelved it. Terrible, I need to dump these. so deus: 03. Bobby Timmons - This Here is Bobby Timmons

the book: I worked at the shop when this thing was put on its feet; didn't do much really. Framed the art for a blast off party and sold some of these Mecenas Editions. The boss was (and still is) a creative guy when it came to conquer the market by filling holes and even creating holes to fill. We had a good team at the time, one guy was completely off his socks and new about most of the mainstream stuff, another one was into the gothic kind of stuff, for which there is an amazingly large market, I was responsible for framing art and serial prints and specialist for the "high-brow" european stuff like Tardi, Pratt, Boucq, Loustal etc. The boss did most of the other non-book stuff like statues and pins and whatnot. It was a good team and I had a good time (and left most of the money I earned at the store). We just announced this mecenas thing, had some leaflets printed with nice artwork drawn for the occasion, and had the customers sign up for the thing, they had to pay in advance (w/ money-back guarantee should less than 30 of these be sold), and would receive the deluxe edition, which was a B&W version of the normal book about A3 size, the size of the original pages. Such B&W books look splendid but can be made rather cheaply, maybe 30-50 EUR a piece. The remains of the money went into the first print run of the regular edition; the Mecenas people received a copy of that one as well, signed and numbered by the artists: There was an additional "regular deluxe" series of 100 of the normal print run, signed & numbered, with a nice small silk print, again a bit of extra money to put into the next print run/next title/project. Such "deluxe" stuff is a little goldmine if you do it the right way.

RIP, playing some of his music now...

prove your skills

Assisted once in a comparable thing like this with a comic book. The original page art went for sale to accompany a deluxe large size book with the whole shebang. At a price of 500EUR each and 48 pages, this brought in 24000EUR, enough to finance the regular print run of the book, pay the artists, and make some money. All pages sold BTW. With the money made on the regular print runs, the next book was financed and eventually an own printing house was established. The deluxe book was called the Mecenas Edition.

quite nice in evoking a mood yes, but by and large that's a kind of subdued mood, whereas the music almost never was. and the rainbow logo sux!

fegh, that's wack! looks like Gotlib somehow, he did some more monstrous stuff as well.

erm... the ZYX is the same as the US version BTW, just repackaged. and the package still is the same, only with a different sticker on the *bottom* of the box.

isn't this set still available at a decent price (i.e. <50EUR) ?

I have some simple, non-resealable sleeves that fit the covers tightly. Just shove the flattened "obi" in there and tadaa.

it was shortly discussed in the animated album covers thread. Both Africa_Jeff and I use Adobe Photoshop w/ Image Ready (comes with the package). As for how: you need an idea first and then a lot of patience to work it out. That can be a real hassle sometimes. Some PShop skills are welcome of course.

I'll pull some stupid music from my collection and we'll have you sit though that.

you forgot the question mark?

Ah great, with Chris on board we know whom to blame!

again less than one hour to go.... but yet: w/ love from maren & couw

it's a LOT of music in more than one way. I went through all of it once and was awed, impressed, estranged, a bit bored for a little while, warmed, scared, interested, inspired, and had a lot of fun with this. In short: take the shot, it's worth it.

I vote for self-delusional. is that a word?

virus updates: every day Ad-Aware: every week (at least) SpyBot: every week (at least) MSWindows update: once every while (usually every two weeks) Last time I did an MSW update, Bill ruined my graphic stuff completely. Weird shit. Sasser was abounding and I did the necessary update (tip for Scott: get the update!) and after that PShop didn't run anymore. Also had BIG problems with MSPowerpoint and later on even with MSWord. No viruses nowhere, so I blame Bill.

reminds me of that comic Cerebus bought of some guy in that Guys tome Dave Sim penned and skritched (yeassss comic within a comic). Cerebus thought it was real good. The guys couldn't stop laughing. Cerebus went all 'girlie' about that. Comic within the comic was titled "The Wanker" BTW. The Wanker had a spit canon somewhere on the front of his belt and like a spiderman he shot strings to swing around about on. Text was rather much double entendre and hilarious. Another highpoint in the saga that recently ended.

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