Several of you (this is not an exaggeration, and it is something that really happened) asked us to let you know when the Patrick Dean-designed FLUKE Dracula shirts were going to be available again because we sold out of them at the actual event.
Apple keeps making it harder and harder for us to copy and paste the artists and titles of all the songs we played at FLUKE off of our somehow-still-working 2010 iPod 7G so we're being lazy and just posting screenshots. You're gonna have to work a little harder if you want to re-create this one at home. Sorry. We love you.
UPDATE: Playlist (metadata only) here (still needs a few translations)
Before you load up at the 40 Watt on Saturday morning, come join a live comix reading event with podcast host Cam del Rosario (of @gutterboyspod) and Athens cartoonist Abby Kacen (aka Mild Pain and Keep It Weird)!
See live readings by:
Join us at Bizarro-Wuxtry on Friday, March 29th, from 6 to 9 pm.
Food and beverages!
Free to attend!
Brought to you by UGA Special Collections and the Oral History of FLUKE Project.
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Postscript: "comix vs. comics"
Contact: Robert Newsome, flukeathens@gmail.com, 706-614-3499 21st ANNUAL FLUKE MINI-COMICS FESTIVAL – March 30th, 2024 This year’s FLUKE Mini-Comics Festival, sponsored by Bizarro-Wuxtry, Inch-High Button Guy, Joker Joker TV, Mystic Punks, and The Sequential Artists Workshop will take place on Saturday, March 30th at The 40 Watt Club, 285 West Washington Street, Athens, GA, from 10:00 AM until 6 PM. Admission for the public is $2.00 per person. Masks will be REQUIRED for all exhibitors and attendees. FLUKE’s STATEMENT OF PURPOSE / MISSION FLUKE is a mini-comic festival that has been organized by Athens-area comic artists, underground publishers, and their enthusiasts since 2002. That’s a really long time. Conceived as a venue for the discussion and exchange of timely ideas related to mini-comics, ‘zines, and other independent publications, FLUKE is not a large comic convention or advertising-saturated extravaganza. This isn't to say we don't like our share of stuff—'cause we do. However, we have kept the organization of the event as simple as possible to ensure that it remains focused on work and ideas rather than merchandising. FLUKE is an enjoyable, affordable event for people of all ages and interests. Flagpole writer Hillary Brown remarks: "Part of the delight of FLUKE is encountering new folks and browsing through undiscovered material. There’s stuff for kids, stuff for grown-ups, stuff for people who like serious autobiographical narratives, and stuff for people who’d rather read a mini-comic about mice shaped like a wedge of cheese." EVENT SPECS Exhibitors register in advance for exhibition spaces at FLUKE. EXHIBITOR SPACES for FLUKE 2024 are now sold out. It is possible that a very small number of additional spaces will be made available. Those wishing to obtain one of these potential spaces should watch for announcements on FLUKE’s website and social media (IG, Twitter (X), and Facebook). FLUKE’S SPONSORS With gratitude, we acknowledge our sponsors. For more information, view FLUKE's website at: www.flukeathens.com | |
SELECTED HASHTAGS #Fluke2024, #MiniComics, #Zines, #AthensGa, #SmallPress #Creators #Festivals #ComicCons #PatrickDeanForever #ForPatrickForever | |
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Photo of FLUKE 2018 inside the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. Photo credit: Saginaw-hitchhiker - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |
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FLUKE 2024 poster. Design credit: Jay Domingo (@smoggo on IG) |
Below is a list of all registered exhibitors at FLUKE 2024. We asked all exhibitors to provide a link to their work. As is FLUKE's tradition, anyone who did not provide a link will have their name linked to a YouTube video of monster trucks.
We can't wait to see all of you at the 40 Watt on March 30th!
FLUKE 2024 SPONSORS
Hello!
This post will contain (we hope) everything you need to know about pre-registration for FLUKE 2024 exhibitor spaces.
FLUKE Exhibitor space lottery entries will go on sale at flukeathens.bigcartel.com at 10:00 am on Saturday, January 13. There will, at first, be 100 entries available. If they sell out, we'll make more available. Our goal is to make sure that everyone who wants a space at FLUKE 2024 will be able to get a lottery entry.
REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY LOTTERY ENTIRES ARE SOLD, NOTHING WILL CHANGE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE ONLY 60 EXHIBITOR SPACES AVAILABLE.
You cannot buy more than one entry. Any purchase of lottery entries with a total quantity greater than "1" (one) will be refunded and you will not be entered in the drawing.
If you use multiple emails to try to trick us and get more than one entry, we will find out, and you will be removed from the lottery drawing. Trust us, we will know. Don't get your friends to buy entries for you. Let's not be jerks about this.
As opposed to previous years, there are no "locals only" exhibitor spaces available for in-person purchase in Athens. Locals wishing to exhibit at FLUKE should enter the lottery.
The lottery drawing will take place on Thursday, January 25. It will be live-streamed. Right now, we're planning to roll dice to determine who gets an exhibitor space, but if more than 120 people enter the lottery, we'll use a computer program because the largest die we can find is a d120. The livestream will be a part of the regular weekly show from our OFFICIAL STREAMING PARTNER, Joker Joker TV.
Lottery entries will cost one dollar each. If you are chosen, the exhibitor fee is $15. If this seems like a crass exercise designed to generate more money for FLUKE, that's because it is. We're only in it for the money. Also, there was a 12% increase in our rental cost for the tables and we're passing that along to you.
The online lottery tickets are sold using PayPal as a payment method. If you don't have PayPal, that's okay. Just get in touch with Robert at secondperiod@gmail.com and he'll make sure you get a lottery entry. You have to do this before Monday, January 22.
Lottery entries for exhibitor spaces at FLUKE 2024 will be "locked" and no more entries will be sold starting at 12:01am on Monday, January 22, 2024.
More information will be posted here as it becomes available. Thanks, as always for your decades of support. FLUKE loves you. For Patrick, forever.
Hi, friends.
We're going to open pre-registration for FLUKE 2024 on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:00 am, but we're handling things a little differently this time around.
Last time we opened registration, in January of 2023, exhibitor spaces sold out in less than 2 minutes. While it is exciting to us that people want to exhibit their work at FLUKE, this nearly instant sell-out is kind of stressful because it means that people have to be sitting next to their computer and refreshing the page like mad just to get a spot.
For FLUKE 2024, we're going to try a lottery-style registration. It's a significant change in the way exhibitor tables are sold, but we think it might alleviate a little of the associated stress without FLUKE having to become a juried show (to be clear, we do not want to become a juried show).
Here's how this is going to work:
