ok it’s here. the big pile is the book i’ve been talking about for years and working on for even longer - the events that kickstart the whole damn thing happened about 8 years ago this week. it’s taken just as long to live it and write it down.
while lollypop is not going anywhere this time, the book on the left is going to be VERY LIMITED and is a collection of magazines that meg and I made together. for the time being and possibly forever, this will not be available separately from the book itself, and most likely will not go over a print run of 25-30 copies.
pricing scale - $14 for a single copy, $30 for a single copy with an original drawing, $50 for both books.
paypal your dollars to joneshiro at yahoo dot com. add $2 for shipping one copy, $1 each additional copy.
hey
whoever liked or responded to the post about the book stuff that i put up last night, tumblr is being weird and i can’t see it.
send a message.
here’s the deal. the book ‘on the good ship lollypop’ is done. again. this should be the LAST time, and it’s not going away this time. 396 pages, including an appendix to the text which is over 30 pages long. to the twenty people who cared enough to get an old copy from two years ago, thank you and sorry. this one is so much better. i have added dozens of smaller passages to existing sections, and also there are a handful of completely new parts that i either did not remember or did not see reason to put in there last time. not to mention formatting, correction of as many of the errors i could find through about 8 times editing it, and PAGE NUMBERS. here is the pricing scale: it will cost you $14 for a single copy. add $2 if i have to ship it. as i am not making very much money off of something i spent four years working on keeping the price that LOW, you have the option to add more to your purchase price if you want to. anything helps. i make enough money to do this on my own currently, but also it would be nice to justify four years of extremely hard and mood altering work. simply put, all i am asking for is the $14, and if that is all you have or want to spend on it, i am fine with that. it’s priced accordingly for a reason. HOWEVER. i am offering two “special deals” for people with more money to throw around at the time, if interested. the first will be this. for 35 dollars total i will go ahead and draw something (most likely related to the book) for you. generally my choice, and it will only be in pen, but if you have any ideas shoot them my way and i can try my best. it will also be up to you if you want it drawn into your copy of the book, or if you want it on a separate piece of paper. you can see examples of my art all throughout various picture albums here on fb, or on my tumblr site. the other deal is this. for $50 total, i will include a VERY LIMITED professionally printed copy of the collected issues of the magazine meg and i did, ‘quaalude to a kiss’. there happens to be some pretty unsettling content within, and this offer is mostly for curious or jaded parties who are interested in owning such a thing. think of it as a very fucked up art project that continued to get even more fucked up as time went along. full color cover, black and white interior. 8 1/2 by 11 page size. 108 pages contain every page of both issues meg and i did together (only a handful slightly edited for content that seemed even too fucked up for me at this point), plus a newly completed “issue three” which includes of 40 pages of content that was being put aside by myself for issue three, which never actually existed. i know the price on that is STEEP, but i am keeping it that way as a ‘warning’ that there is seriously A LOT of questionable content inside. chances are there will not be any more than 25 copies of that book, if that. so basically if you read this far and are thinking “what?”, just know that the book alone is done, ready, and costs 14 bucks. anything else will be up to you. also, every single copy will be numbered by stamp. email me for proper ordering information, but basically your options are cash, paypal or money order.
life
tired of feeling like shit. tired of yielding questions about a friend as if i were their personal press agent. tired of constantly defending that person for years now to people who don’t know any better. tired of carrying that. tired in general.
still, i will defend that person to the death as long as there is good reason to. and of course there is and hopefully always will be. it’s not the defending and answering questions i am concerned with, it’s people who are distanced but feel the need to not mind their business.
xo
