Make a Yoko Ono zine and I will mail you 1x pre-order package (1x 'Young Lions' + 1x 'untitled experimental zine')

Mail a copy to:
Blaise Larmee
3720 SE 28th Pl. #19
Portland, OR
97202

or post an excerpt on your blog (example)

This offer will expire (perhaps)

Jason T. Miles will receive a pre-order package for his Yoko Ono zine

This is what the cover looks like.

I used Helvetica because I am insecure.

I made a button for pre-orders:

YOUNG LIONS $10.00 YOUNG LIONS international $12.00 YOUNG LIONS signed with director's commentary on every page $25.00

I encourage you to click on it. If you pre-order from me I will do something special ... not sure what. Maybe I will make a new zine that will be shipped 'exclusively' with pre-orders. This zine will be heavily curated to uphold the highest standards of avant garde, meme-generating co-mix. It will have no crowd pleasing value and will be ~5 years ahead of its time.

Pre-orders will be shipped as soon as the books arrive. There will be a release party at Floating World Comics in Portland on April 1st.

Thank you for reading this blog post.

************Please************

I need blurbs

I need blurbs by Thursday

Say something general like, 'Blaise is a positive person'

I will send you a copy if I use your quote

I have been awarded the xeric grant to publish/promote/distribute the graphic novella 'young lions'*

I hope to release this in march/april, 2010

My goal is to produce an ergonomic fetishistic object that can be comfortably read in an airport or on a train

If this object were a person he/she would be ambiguously gendered, fragile, with strong hands

I would like this object to appear next to the photo book 'i am curious (yellow)' on a family bookshelf or in a small suitcase of mostly sweaters

I imagine reading this book in a bookstore several times over several months and not purchasing it and regretting that decision a year later when moving to a different city

*tentatively titled

Will find out in the next couple days whether or not I get the xeric grant to self-publish the graphic novel 'young lions'*

Will I get this grant

Feel nervous and bored

Think I asked for something like $3000 but may have been more

Really hope the story was linear enough; remembering several pages that had nothing but rap lyrics in the speech balloons

Worried 

*tentatively titled

My life as a hand model has officially begun. I am excited. please visit the blog of my new employer, Sad Hand Models.

My post-its may or may not be in the new GR2 show (on until Dec. 13th). I mailed them 'standard rate' in order to save 4.50 in postage. I hope it was worth the gamble. They are $20 each. I will stuff the 'rejects' into people's zine packages.

UPDATE
Nick Gazin' took photos of the event. View my post-its: 1, 2, 3. Twitter user 'j_hat' took a photo of his purchase here. A video has been posted of the event here. Click here 2 purchase.

'The Eve Of' is now available as a pdf. To download, click here. (link updated 01/08)
'The Eve Of' was published three years ago in the anthology 'You Ain't No Dancer 2' by New Reliable Press
How do I feel about this comic
It is strange to me how this comic is more 'successful' than many of my current projects, in terms of clear, linear narrative, crowd pleasing visuals, and overall 'poignancy'
I look at the above panel and feel like I'll never be able to draw like that again
I feel strangely 'not embarrassed' about the melodramatic/symbolic aspects
I wonder, am I stuck with these themes (childhood, death, sadness) forever or will I 'grow out of' them or how are these things decided
I was happy when the 'Nashville City Paper' 're-gendered' me:
"some under-the-radar creators slip in with winners like Blaise Laramee and her ambient tale of staying a kid just a little longer."

JT Rogstad made this here
re the previous post

this is a slideshow presentation i did via telephone for noel black's show 'the big something'. noel is a smart creative person i knew in colorado springs.



notes:

i encourage you to view this here
i will probably take this down at some point soon
most of the images displayed during the talk about a 'graphic novel' are not actually in the 'graphic novel'
i sound like a 12 year old

If you have ordered zines from me, they have been shipped. Except for the 'grab bag' packages, which are taking a little longer, but will hopefully be done tomorrow.

love
don't hurt me

I made some new zines:



















The first one is 'not comics', the second one is 'very comics' and the third one is 'basically comics'. I also made a confusing Paypal button for them. UPDATE: THIS SHOULD WORK NOW.

options

3 small zines $5.00 1 large color zine $7.00 3 small zines, 1 large color zine, 2 posters $10.00 'grab bag' $20.00

3 small zines = Comics Youth, Yoko Ono in Hot Day, Katie Holmes Death Row
large color zine = Untitled (Architecture)

I sent off the xeric application. No idea how to feel about it. I think I'll release a zine or something of the first chapter. This is an early panel.

How do people like the new layout? I am typing text here, something I normally don't do. I may do more of this in the future. Is this ok? Things will be back to normal soon. I am working on:

a split minicomic with Cole Johnson
a graphic novel to submit to the xeric grant
an interview zine which will feature interviews with Austin English, Jason Overby, and Jason T. Miles.

it's been months since i've had access to a scanner.
please don't lose faith in me

Friend and future collaborator JT Rogstad has started an interview blog and I’m the first subject. We talk about CF, Adrian Tomine, creator process, creator-character relationships and more. Here is an excerpt:

JT: okay. one of the things i always find to be the strongest in your work is how you capture posture. you seem like a very good observer of how people present themselves down to the specifics of gesture, sitting position, etc. can you talk a little about that and how maybe that might relate to the way you (visually) describe action and movement?

BL: i think part of it - something i realized the other day - is i am an observer of observers. it's sort of narcissistic. i like the observer and i think it's worthwhile watching him/her. so a lot of my characters are not really participating in any action - they're on the sidelines, content with enjoying everything cathartically. i did this whole drawing zine where each page i drew my body as it was positioned at that moment. i was in this phase where i was drawing naked on the floor a lot, and i liked the way i looked in that action. i'm not a very action-oriented person - all my energy i channel inward. so i guess it's those moments where things happen for me - when i'm sitting or standing or lying down - that real things happen. so when i capture these physical acts, they're often lacking in any external force. when i did those salvia comics, i loved the idea of showing someone's physical state while they're going through this intense internal change. it's also funny because in comics the tendency is to show all that subjective stuff, but by leaving it out you can shift the focus to its absence.