Fuck E3; this is more important.
The zine be done!



Was ist?

Fund Raisin is a new zine by your best friend Patrick Alexander, which he has made to raise funds for his impending move to Japan. It contains new and older-but-still-quite-good material, most of which has never seen print before, and much of which will probably never see print again. This material includes comics, drawings, sketches, and other things of a like nature. The zine also includes a forty-two-and-a-bit minute audio CD.

Fund Raisin has been created in a limited edition of forty-two individually numbered copies (plus Patrick's own reference copy), which Patrick will sell directly to his friends and fans. Each copy contains a completely unique, unscanned, coloured drawing -- plus a few other 'hands on' touches. This makes each copy one-of-a-kind -- so even if you own Fund Raisin, you'll still want to look at other people's copies.

Fund Raisin is an attractive and entertaining addition to the modern nerd's coffee table or airtight plastic sleeve with card backing. It's also an insight into Patrick the artist, and Patrick as a person.

Tell me more about the audio CD, cocksucker!

It contains various entertainments of an audible nature, such as songs, poems, japes, and mild racism. It does not, unfortunately, contain this excellent contribution sent to me just a little too late by the incomparable David Blumenstein of Herman the Legal Labrador 'fame':

Metzengerstein - Daytime (Patrick's Going To Japan Mix)

However, if you download and listen to that song, you will have a good idea of what the Fund Raisin CD is sort of on about.

And what about this original drawing you mentioned? Fuckface?

They are mostly drawings of Raymondo, in his little Raymondo world. Some are watercoloured, some are coloured with markers, some are drawn entirely with paint pens, and some -- many of the nicest, in fact -- are experimental. They are all flawed and very good. I was going to scan them all, but thought better of it. I think of them as being like con sketches but with much, much more time spent on them.

You can do what you like with your drawing. You can keep it to yourself, or make copies to share. If you'd like to scan or photograph it, and put it online for others to see, you can do that too.

Who's asking these questions, anyway?

Among other things, Fund Raisin contains four pages of embryonic Raymondo Person, seven pages of unseen Pickleman, and the six pages of Plink the Stickman that would have become issue #5 had I ever done issue #5. So the zine is a must-have for those for whom Patrick Alexander is Serious Business. There's also six pages in full colour, with pretty drawings on them.

Altogether, Fund Raisin contains somewhere between forty and fifty pages of content, depending on what you count as content. Like, the introduction? I wouldn't call that content. But you might. You might be deranged.

Okay Patrick, I will buy your zine. But with so much great stuff crammed into it -- plus the fact that it's strictly limited edition -- won't it be expensive?

Yes. Fund Raisin costs $42.00 Australian. Please let me know that you will be buying a copy -- leave a comment on this entry, if you like -- and get your payment to me as soon as possible. My PayPal email is panic@chickennation.com, or you can email me at that same address and ask for my bank account details for direct deposit. And of course you can buy it in person if you're able.

If I receive your payment and address by, say, Monday the 15th, postage will be free. This goes for international buyers too. If you pay me after that date, include, I dunno, $3.00 for postage within Australia.

If you need to make a unique arrangement for payment and/or delivery, contact me.

Please don't ask me to hold a copy for you. Borrow the money if you have to.

Sir, I am almost ready for the Fund Raisin experience, but I have a question of some kind.

Leave a comment, please. I will totally respond.

Okay, I have my copy of Fund Raisin. What should I do now?

Cram it up your arse.

Ha ha, I do but jest. Please, read and enjoy it, then post or comment about it, so that others might be stimulated to purchase it also.

Thank you and good morning.