Not Art Issue 5 on sale now!

Just under the wire (pictured), my subscribers have been sent their November issues of Not Art. Non subscribers will have to rely on finding one of the copies I've put aside for dropping off in Los Angeles comedy theaters or selling as back issues. 

New subscribers have the opportunity to join at the following levels of interest:

• $3 - a hand-numbered copy of each new issue delivered to your home by the US Postal Service.
• $4 - a hand-numbered copy of each issue, delivered to your home by the US Postal Service, except you start at issue #1! Relive the whole thrilling experience of our first few months!
• $5 - a hand-numbered edition of your choosing of each new issue delivered to your home by the US Postal Service.
• $XX - a hand-numbered copy of each new issue delivered to your home by the US Postal Service, and your first delivery includes a copy of every back issue! (This becomes more expensive each month!)
• $26 - eBook edition. You receive an electronic copy of my physical chapbook / zine project each month, and also one physical copy is destroyed each month. 

There's a real struggle between adding dozens of mildly amusing subscriber tiers and making the whole page too complicated for anyone to care about. I suspect that on the battleground of this internal conflict, I am losing. 

(Also, there is no cover sketch video this month because I used a different method to create this month's cover.)

Not Art Issue 4 on Newsstands Now!

Well, not exactly newsstands, but you can find copies at The Pack Theater and Clubhouse in Los Angeles, or anywhere you run into me from now until the next issue is ready, or, of course, you could SUBSCRIBE and let the issues roll in to your mailbox month after month. 

UNACCEPTABLE is a spy comedy that I hawk each week at Set List, which is why this post is two plugs in one!

Set List at the Pack is a completely improvised stand-up show that happens every Thursday night at 10:30, at the Pack Theater in Los Angeles, CA. 

Not Art Issue 3 Cover Sketch

Here's a new zine for a new day. And a time-lapse of drawing the cover to issue 3. 

Get yourself a copy including a handsome photocopy of the art above, and hundreds of tiny words arranged into something like a spy story with jokes, by visiting www.patreon.com/notart.

This month I'm running a special, get a full year's subscription for full price! That's 12 issues! Wow!

NotArt Home Subscription Service

Hello friend,

I wanted to tell you about a thing that I'm making, because that's the only way that people find out. 

Among the many hobbies I've picked up from Benjamin Franklin over the years, some of my favorites include designing for print, accepting unusual gifts from the French, and writing fantastical stories. That's how I got into tiny publishing. Each book is 8 pages long and suitable for framing. But much MORE suitable for reading! 

And so I've set up a subscription system that allows me to easily collect mailing addresses and pass the expenses directly on to YOU, the potential reader!

www.patreon.com/NotArt is the internet's new hot spot, where everybody is signing up. Well, not everyone, but that's only because so far each issue is limited to 50 copies. Hand numbered, of course, to create a fun challenge if fame or infamy should strike.

If you're like me, you're in Los Angeles, so you could take your chances with running into me somewhere and seeing if I'll just give you each issue. But if you're not the gambling type, this mail-order service is for you. Plus, I've got 15 copies left of issue 1, and you can get one for free with issue 2, which is what you get if you subscribe in August. 

So sign up today, if you want to! It's a chance to get something good in the mail for a change! 

Your frequent correspondant,
-Rob

(You have received this email because: a) you've hit me up at some point in the past about YOUR crazy scheme, b) you have, at some point, cold-called me to sell me a Toyota, or c) I could imagine you being genuinely interested in this project. Anyhow, you can't unsubscribe. It's not a mailing list.)

Chapbooks available!

I don't expect you to remember, but I started writing a little series of spy comedies back when I was involved with the Higgs-Weldon. Hopefully they were ahead of their time, seeing how they were staggeringly unpopular in their day. Well, now they're back, in zine form! Each issue will contain at least one short spy story and at least one other joke that you can't just read on the Internet.

It's fun making print projects - very satisfying to have a physical object on hand. And now I've got 50 of 'em, in a very exclusive and undoubtedly valuable limited edition. I guess... let me know if you want one? Or find a free copy lurking around the Clubhouse and Pack theaters this week!