This is the latest T-Shirt design by Otis & Nate. We will be debuting them at Emerald City ComiCon. So, stop by booth M-21 during the con and pick up one for yourself!

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Well, it’s that time of the year again. ComiCon Season is now upon us and we are gearing up for our second appearance at Emerald City ComiCon. You can find us at booth M-21 in Artist Alley. We are going to have tons of cool stuff this year as we debut issue #3. So, please stop by and say hello.

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You can now purchase The Two Percent Solution Issue #3 at IndyPlanet.com!!!

So, don’t delay!  You can just click on the cover over on the left here to get it today.!

Now, we’ve got to get back to work on Issue #4.

- Otis, Nate & Ryan

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The Two Percent Solution #3 cover by Ryan Hobson

So, we have FINALLY submitted our files to the printer and await proof copies of Issue #3. Check out the awesome cover art by Ryan! He really outdid himself once again. The book should be available for order online in the next week to ten days on Indy Planet and in local Seattle comic shops like 3 weeks after that.

We are now focusing our attention on preparing for the 2010 Emerald City ComiCon. We will have a great booth this year!

Also, look for us to appear on the Backroom Podcast sometime in the very near future. We’ll let you know when the time comes.

Well, that’s all for now!

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Team Singletary-Murphy-Hobson have a new creation with their new ongoing full-page comic strip in the pages of Scoot!Magazine. The first episode will appear in the February 2010 issue available on their website as well as booksellers everywhere!

The comic follows the exploits of the teenage Jake Standish and his friend Philip as they discover the world of scooters and mod culture in the 1980’s. It’s kinda of a cool look into what makes ol’ Jake tick!

So, we have now officially signed on to create an ongoing one-page comic strip for the bi-monthly scooter-culture magazine “Scoot!”

This is exciting news for us as Scoot! has a readership of over 20,000 people worldwide.

Our strip will be Jake’s coming-of-age story set in the 1980’s. It will be in black and white and every year (6 issues) will be a complete story arc. We expect to feature the first strip to debut in the February 2010 issue.

So, we are hard at work on issue #3. Ryan has delivered 19 finished pages (of 28) so far. Otis & Nate are now laboriously lettering the pages as they come in. But, luck ass Ryan is on vacation in BALI until the beginning of October.

Anyway, we should be finished by mid-October. So, it will be available online at Indy Planet at that time and in Seattle-area comic shops by mid-November.

Speaking of Seattle-area comic shops. We are selling out quickly which is AWESOME! They are completely sold out of issues #1 & 2 over at Arcane Comics (in Ballard), but there are still some copies at their West Seattle store as well as at both Zanadu stores and Golden Age Collectables. So grab them up while you still can!

And, speaking of online sales. We use the on-demand printing services of Ka-Blam (and their retail arm Indy Planet) to publish (and sell) our book. The problem for us is that we have to order our copies to distribute to Seattle shops from Ka-Blam and it takes us a month to get our books. But if readers order our book online from Indy Planet they will get them in a few days. This is because they prioritize printing/shipping for readers’ books. So, unfortunately when a local shop runs out of copies, it takes us a month to get them more copies.

What we’re getting at is that you should really buy the book online if you want to read it as soon as possible.

Hopefully, we will find a publisher to put out our book and it will just come out with the regular weekly comics on Wednesdays. But until then it’s totally DIY for us. We are slowly figuring this whole thing out.

In other news, we have been approached to create an ongoing comic strip for Scoot! Magazine (readership of over 20,000) . We have a cool idea that ties into The Two Percent Solution so we’ll update this story as we know more.

Lastly, we need more letters (emails) for our “Letters Page”!!! And, don’t forget about our “Name the Letters Page Contest”…winner gets a bunch of free shit!

Oh, well, gotta get back to it.

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The Two Percent Solution - Issue #2

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It’s finally here! We worked our asses off and now Issue #2 is available at these fine Seattle-area comic shops: Arcane Comics & More (Ballard & West Seattle), Zanadu Comics (Downtown), Golden Age Collectables (Pike Place Market)…more stores to be added soon!

For those of you that do not live in Seattle, you can buy the book right here on our site (via Indy Planet) in the left navbar!

By the way, some of you have letters published in the back pages of Issue #2. Which brings up another thing…

We are running a “Name the Letters Page” contest! The winner will receive the entire first 8-issue story arc in single issues, a t-shirt, stickers, buttons and the Vol 1. Trade Paperback when it is published!

We value your feedback (good or bad), so keep it coming.

Hey! Our comic store copies of Issue #2 havge shipped, so they will be in all of the local comic shops: Arcan Comics & More (West Seattle & Ballard), Zanadu (Downtown & U-Dist), Golden Age Collectibles (Pike Place Market), Comics Dungeon (U-Dist) and Comics Stop (Lynnwood) next week!

Tom Pfaeffle

Nate and I started out being in a punk rock band together (The Johnbenders). We recorded our last two CDs at The Tank Studios with award winning producer/engineer Tom Pfaeffle (Nirvana, Heart, Aerosmith, UB40, etc.). How’d we get this guy to produce our CD? Well it goes like this…

I met Tom back in 1989 when I was 19 and he was 30. I worked in the warehouse for American Music in Seattle and Tom was this great, up and coming sound engineer. He was also one the nicest guys you could ever meet. Over the years I worked with Tom many, many times with several bands that I was in. We ran into each other off and on over the years and then a couple years ago The Johnbenders haphazardly ran into Tom and he offered to produce our CD. The weeks that we spent in his studio were the greatest recording sessions that I ever experienced in my life. He truly became a part of the band. He really somehow managed to get the best out of us. And this guy had gold albums lining the walls of his studio! He was a fucking genius. Seriously. He was also a professor at the Art Institute where he taught many, many people audio engineering. I’ve met a LOT of sound guys that learned from Tom. He was the best.

Well, the reason that I keep using words like “was” is because this last Friday while Tom was vacationing with his wife and children, he was senselessly murdered at a hotel in Twisp, Washington. Evidently he accidentally went to the wrong room by mistake. When he was jiggling the doorkknob, the 57-year old man inside shot Tom through the door. Tom managed to fight for 2 more hours before finally succumbing to his wounds. This was a completely senseless act. The suspect was arrested and is being charged with second degree murder. God, I hope he gets what he deserves.

Beside being a great producer and engineer, Tom was first and foremost a GREAT husband and father. He loved that he had his state-of-the-art recording studio attached to his house. So, that he could be near his family. When we were recording, his daughter would come in and hang out and dance. He would always take “time outs” from recording to spend time with them or tuck them in when they went to bed. He was just the kind of dad a kid could want.

My heart goes out to his family. This is so sad. I am deeply mournful of his passing. I totally counted on seeing him again and it is hard to believe that I won’t. I will never forget this man. Ever.

We’ll miss you Tom. But, I’m sure that you are running sound for Jimi, Janis, John, George, Elvis and friends at that big old concert in the sky.

Peace, brother.

Love,
Otis

For more information about this tragedy go here: http://www.examiner.com/a-2126017~Sound_engineer_fatally_shot_outside_motel_room.html