Copout Release Party

Hey everyone!
For about 2 years I've been part of a comics collective known as Copout Artists. This year I was part of the 2012 holiday issue which was to be the first color issue we've printed and the first issue that was to be sold. To celebrate, we've planned a release party on Friday, December 14th at Brave New Worlds in Philadelphia. Everyone is welcome and drinks are on us. You can let us know you're coming by joining the facebook event here. Hope to see y'all there!

~James Kaminski

Maple Bacon Rum

Hey y'all, this is my first post on this here blog. I thought I'd throw an image I slapped together in a few hours for a friend's brand of Bacon Maple Rum. Don't look for it in stores though, because they aren't looking to sell it yet, but rather to ingest the glorious nectar inside. They promised me some of the stuff so I naturally said I'd whip a label up. It's a little darker subject matter than I usually do (ripping strips of bacon off of a willing and smiling sow), but what do you expect for a 4 am, 4 hour, done-fer-almost-free, label. (For the record, I realize the ampersand is backwards, but they seemed to like it *shrug*). If you like it, you might like my new website too: Kaminskivision.

~James Kaminski

Mythology and the Forgotten Gods Show - Tonight at Phantom Hand

TONIGHT and the next few weeks, Phantom Hand (located at 6th & South in Philly) will be hosting "Mythology and the Forgotten Gods", a group art show curated by Anthony Pedro. It's a great show with an awesome group of local artists. Please see the showcard below.


Here is my (Jeffro's) Minotaur piece for the show. I drew it with a borrowed pencil at Bob & Barbara's listening to Kelvin, Rich, and Lucky during Wednesday's jam session. I was lucky to sit alongside fellow cartoonists James Kaminski and Michelle Miller with the legendary Bob Dix behind the bar. I finished the inks at the bar, but a swarm of Wharton students came in around 10:45 and grossed the place up. So I had to finish the colors on my lunch hour yesterday at Paolo's Pizza on Pine Street.


Tonight's show will be especially celebratory, because we found out this week that Phantom Hand has been granted an extension in the gallery space for being an 'exemplary member' of the Arts on South program. We will now be in our current location regaling you with art and assorted hand-made sundries and occasional free beer and baked-goods until mid-August.