Poseur Ink

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Poseur Ink is a company that was started in 2001 by comic artist Rachel Dukes. Based in San Diego, California the company specializes in independent comics, zines, buttons, and novelty t-shirts.

Since 2003, Poseur Ink has exhibited annually at San Diego's Comic Con International. They have exhibited annually at the Alternative Press Expo since 2004 and Wondercon since 2008. Their comics are sold in comic book shops nationally, distributed by Tony Shenton, and their shirts have been sold nationally in alternative apparel stores such as Hot Topic.

[edit] Side A

In April of 2007 the company released its first compilation graphic novel, entitled Side A: The Music Lover's Graphic Novel. The theme is how music has played an influential part in the life of each artist and the creative process. The book features contributions from Ben Snakepit, Sarah Shay and Corey Marie Parkhill (Creator of Scene Language and Life's So Rad), Tod Parkhill, Rachel Dukes, and Liz Greenfield (Creator of Stuff Sucks).

Side A was featured in the late March (2007) issue of The Comics Journal, in an article spotlighting upcoming publications being sold at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco.

To coincide with the release of the book, a seven inch vinyl record was released featuring local San Diego bands Get Back Loretta and Fight Fair. Limited to 1000 copies, the record contained one song from each band. There are 150 on light blue marble vinyl and 850 on black.

In July, the t-shirt competition website Threadless gave away ten copies of the book to its users, introducing their users to Poseur Ink's other products such as shirts and comics.

Side A was featured in the October 2007 issue of Alternative Press (music magazine), and the issues 40 and 41 of Razorcake Magazine.

[edit] Side B

Poseur Ink has currently opened submissions for their second anthology about the influence that music has on the creative process. It has garnered interest from such industry professionals as Jeffrey Brown, Jim Mahfood, Cristy Road, Dave Roman, and Ryan Kelly.