Congrats to the Portland Zine Symposium on their 10th anniversary! Check out all the activities this weekend at PSU including two panels with John Porcellino!

We’re excited to finally have a chance to participate in our first Renegade Craft Fair! Come see us at Fort Mason this weekend, July 31st-August 1st. We’ll be at booth 99 and will have a good selection of our print goodies and will be debuting our brand new Alpine Songs Weekly Planner by Lart C. Berliner! Hope to see you there or at the store!

I’m always coming across odd things at the local thrift store that I would love to buy (if for no other reason than they’re amusing), but instead of taking them home with me, I settle for just taking a picture. Rather than hoarding these virtual items just for my own enjoyment, I thought I would start sharing so let’s kick it off with some maritime gems…

yes, this is creepy!

Come join us this weekend at Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest! We’ll have special fest discounted pricing so stop by and stock up!

Thanks to The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler for including us and our Tour Diary in his SF/Mission article in today’s Travel section!

We had extra room when printing the new edition of Keri Smith’s Non-Planner Datebook, so rather than let it go to waste, we made some awesome notepads! We’ve got a design each from Martine & Keri and you even get your choice of color. Plus they’re a nice compact size that can easily fit in your pocket or bag. Hooray for paper!

The Little Otsu Annual Volume 4 is officially in the house and ready to ship! It turned out great with Dan Black’s intricate drawings reproduced beautifully by 1984 Printing in Oakland. Even our newest feature, fold-out mini calendars, went off without a hitch. We’re stoked and excited to get these into your planning hands!

Vol. 4 made its public debut this weekend at Flatstock in Seattle at the Landland booth. On top of doing a stellar job with this year’s Annual, Dan has been busy making lots of amazing Landland posters. He stopped by yesterday before heading back to Minneapolis and we got to choose a few for our online shop (we’ll be adding them soon). Here he is dealing to us out of his trunk…

can I get a stereo with that?

It’s San Francisco Zine Fest time this weekend so make sure to take advantage of this awesome free event at Golden Gate Park! You might even win a copy of Nine Ways to Disappear or Quietly Sure in the raffle. And help them cover some of their costs right next door to the store at Amnesia on Saturday night, 9pm, at the Zine Fest benefit show.

Yes folks, it’s that time of the year (can you believe it’s August already?!) for our new Annual weekly planner and you can get a preview and pre-order at the online shop! Dan Black worked many days into the wee hours of the morning to draw this trip into subterranean realms. We’ve also taken a leap in format this year to incorporate fold-out mini calendar pages (we came up with the idea in a brainstorming session with Lart last year and are excited to be able to turn it into reality). It’s currently being printed by our friends over at 1984, but here’s a mock-up of what the real deal will look like.

The Renegade Craft Fair is hitting town this weekend and it looks to be a good time for all! Our very own Alexa (you may know her from her lovely embroidered buttons and you’ll soon be seeing her regularly at the store on Thursdays and Fridays) will be there as Burgundy & Brown at her booth with Small Stump (along the left side of the pavilion). Be sure to say hi to them and our other wonderful vendors who will be there: Big Stone Head, Blissful, Chikabird, Honeylux, Mittenmaker, and Sycamore Street Press.

Here are some of the cute new Burgundy & Brown buttons that Alexa will be selling. And not to fret if you can’t make it this weekend as she’ll be bringing in her leftover goodies to sell at the store!