Crawl! Mega-Edition, No.1, Launching Soon!

Crawl! Mega-Edition, No.1 - A Super-Sized version of the original zine compatible with DCC RPG.

Hey everyone! I just wanted to take to opportunity to tell everyone about Crawl! Mega Edition No.1. This will be a fancy, deluxe, collectors edition in a super comic book size. It will be making its way to next Tuesday, March 10th.

This will be my first crowdfunded project, so I want to keep it simple. There will be the standard cover and a campaign exclusive alternate cover by Doug Kovacs! The content will be exactly the same as the digital and the standard edition, just larger for aging eyes, and printed on soft-to-the-touch, heavy un-coated bond paper.

This project will also coincide with the return of the original physical printed zine, done in the usual traditional copy-machine format by my local copy-shop. These will be available immediately at the wallet friendly and accessible price of ONLY $5. But you might already have a version of this. The only difference is a slightly updated cover design.

Sign up with the link below. Crowdfunding will begin next Tuesday, and early backers can save 20%! So don't miss out.

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/29a422e8-bf87-42f6-91b8-481931622751/landing

STRAYCOUCHES PRESS

I've decided to create an imprint to publish all my crap. It'll be STRAYCOUCHES PRESS. Yes, it's awkward to say, stranger to spell, but I've been using straycouches as my domain for a while, and it feels right to me. I'll be using the same website, www.straycouches.com, as the website as well.

It's hard to believe that I'll be using using the skills that I learned at school for something productive. I have no plans on getting rich doing this, but I want to publish books, zines and other printed arts outside of the boring internet. I have several books lined up. The first will be outside of the Straycouches Press Imprint for a while, but it is by all means a Straycouches publication. It's called Crawl! Fanzine. It's a zine dedicated to the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. Next up is top secret. It will likely not be authorized by its actual contributers, but I figure that it should be shared, and that's my goal and reasoning for publishing it. I expect trouble. 

I also plan to publish some books on security culture and online security. Online security? Ironic, I know, but if it's analog, it's harder to be censored.

These first publications will be zines. Analog, laser printed, hand-folded & stapled zines. The analog nature of zines is what I'm interested in doing. Later on I'll publish actual books. Which isn't much different than printing zines, only more expensive. Costs are a huge factor considering I'm broke. I'll also consider publishing ebooks. Likely in the epub format first, possibly later in mobi/kindle and pdf. But I'm not too interested in those formats, yet. (Also ironically, all the books will created as PDF for print. I just don't plan to release them as suck.)

All the software I will be using will be open-source, or availably freely. I'll be using Scribus for desktop publishing, Inkscape for logos and designs, and gimp and Paint.NET for raster graphics. Paint.NET, although not OpenSource, is freely available for Windows and does 99% of the image modifications I need quickly and easily. But Inkscape & Scribus is where all the real work is done.

Posted via email from Th' Reverend Dak Post