Here is a snippit of some art from Sad Robots 2, which we are currently working on. It’s similar in style to the original, but Ali made the ink be all runny and somehow… not quite right. Because there are some not quite right things happening in the story. I love it.
What in the world are they doing with those test tubes?
Do you like pie? Do you ponder what flavor of pie Alex Trebek prefers as you ponder Potent Potables on a Wednesday afternoon? (Question: What is lemon meringue, Alex?)
The Pie Project, volume 1 is now available to sate your curiosity! 12 pages chock-full of yummy pie goodness. Includes commentary, recipes, and some serious snarking. Only $4 on etsy!
We’ve been busy on other parts of the web lately…
You can follow Best Available on Facebook (click here). Event announcements, new items on Etsy, and etc.
You can follow Ali on Twitter… www.twitter.com/bestavailable and Mik… www.twitter.com/mik_loves_pie
Just so ya know.
Don’t forget - we’re also at the Philadelphia Independent Craft Market tomorrow at the 941 Theater from 12-7! Come see us!
We have some shows coming up over the next couple of months… Just FYI, we are signed up under Best Available Productions instead of Sugar and Spite to be more inclusive (you’ll be seeing more this in future - all of the Sugar and Spite stuff will still be available, Best Available is just more stuff).
April 19th - New Jersey Zine Fest
3-11pm
Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Student Center
New Brunswick, NJ
April 26th - Philadelphia Independent Craft Market
12-7pm
941 Theater
941 N. Front Street
Philadelphia, PA
(music, food, and BEER in addition to a variety of indie crafts for sale)
May 16th - Trenton Avenue Arts Festival
12-5pm
Trenton Avenue (between Norris and Frankford)
Philadelphia, PA
June 28th - Philadelphia Independent Craft Market
12-7pm
941 Theater
941 N. Front Street
Philadelphia, PA
I’ll update this list again if we add any more shows coming up soon.
It’s been so quiet here, I feel like I need to post something. I still miss the weekly webcomic. Every Sunday I keep feeling like I forgot to do something.
And yet… we gots lots of stuff cooking. It’s good times. Ali is working on a new zine for Best Available. I have some plans for a new book featuring Piratical Pie’s scrapbook. The postcards have never appeared in book form, so I’m excited about it. It’ll be sort of a zine, sort of a picture book, and sort of just itself. Plus we have Robots II, some nefarious graphic design plots, and then down the road the next issue of Revelations.
We’ve also got some shows coming up in April and May. I’ll post the info here a little closer to the date.
~Mik
If you are in the Philadelphia area…
Tune in to AM 1650 Nexus Radio tomorrow from 2-4pm to hear some readings from some local zine writers.
I’ll be reading some words about Diabolical Pea and Angry Carrot written especially for the occasion, and possibly Sad Robots. Ali will read from Jesus Crispies.
What
Katie Haegele of The La-La Theory, a crackpot zine about language * the fabulous and exalted Rebekah Buchanan of Emma Goldman and Pony Express zines * veteran zine maker and podcaster Raequel Solomon * book artist and multilingual zine writer Michelle Wilson * slam poetry champion Bonnie MacAllister * Mikkie McGregor and Ali Thompson of Best Available Productions, a comic and zine label and craft extravaganza * Mary Tasillo, the zinester and book artist behind Cake & Pie Press * andmore!
When
Sun Feb 1 2pm – 4pm
Hi Everyone,
So you may have figured out from Angry Carrot’s hijacking of the website that there are some changes around here. First and foremost, Sugar and Spite is not publishing a weekly webcomic anymore.
Here’s the deal. We LOVE the webcomic. Truly. But, keeping a rigid schedule and creating a comic once a week takes up a good deal of time. We feel like the Sugar and Spite characters have sort of outgrown their weekly, 4 panel format. It’s time to tell some bigger stories. To make better comics. So, in order to focus our energies (and time) on bigger projects, the webcomic had to go.
A selection of the webcomic is still available in the archives. They are also sorted into categories, so feel free to browse around.
We’ll still be posting here to let you know what we’re doing, and you’ll still see some comics and previews posted as well. The new Best Available page will also outline everything we’ve got for sale, and where you can go to buy it.
To those of you who have been following the comic every week, thank you. We enjoyed every minute of it!
~Mik and Ali
Deer Reading Peeples,,
Angry Carrot mad at Mik and Ali. Why to be putting his Carrots and Peas into small boxes on the internet tubes? Hims Carrot want to be more in books, with hims Peaas. Carrots wants them to be tellings BIG story and MOR Carrots and Pea!
Angry Carrots VERRY ANGRIES and has Angry Carrot Revolushon! Carrots have the Sugar and Spite web HOSTAGING now and is not for giving its back until the Mik and the Ali peeples are saying they putting more of Carrots storry in the bookses. And Peas. And all hims Carrots friends! Purse of DOOMS and Cake and the Pirate Pie man and evens Pizza (Carrots hates Pizza! Carrots STOMP HIMS in bookses!) Carrots wants being comics in BOOKES, not comics on internets.
Carotts sees hims Obama Mans coming with ALL BIG CHANGE and hims thinking he can have Changes too!!1!! Carrot voted for change!!!
Pleas to be going here and buying Carrots and Peas books.
REVLOSHUN!!!1!
-Angry Carrrot
We’ll be tabling at the Philadelphia Independent Craft market on Saturday, December 6th. Come check it out! Do your holiday shopping! There will even be beer.
Philadelphia Independent Craft Market
941 Theater
941 Front Street
Philadelphia, PA
Doors open from 11-6
So I’m getting back into painting a little. I did a Diabolical Pea tiny canvas that turned out exactly like it was in my head, which is always nice.
I’m excited. I haven’t really painted in a long time. And painting is how I got started in art. That and the tons of how to draw books my mom would buy me. Mom was a painter too, and we used to do lots of craft shows when I was a kid.
It nice to do really small things too, cause one of the things that was stopping me is the whole idea that I needed gobs of time to make a painting. And I don’t! Hooray!
-Ali
I have a new blog! It’s awesome. Basically, I’m taking some of my nonsense over to another page. But there will be nonsense.
Go! Behold my cat!
-Ali