Notes from the San Francisco Zine Fest: Doctor Popular

Carla and I had a nice time at the 2009 San Francisco Zine Fest on Sunday. This week and next, I'm sharing some of the photos I took of the zinesters who came to sell their comics and zines. I'll post a new photo each day.

This is Doctor Popular, a professional yo-yoist and cartoonist. I bought a couple of "24-hour" comic books from him, which are 24-page comic books that were created in 24 consecutive hours. My favorite is Robots Don't Know Anything about Twitter. Doc Pop made the comic by tweeting "Robots don't know anything about..." and used the answers that his friends tweeted back as the panels for the comic. Fun!

I don't know if he sold out of the print version of Robots Don't Know Anything about Twitter, as it had a print run of 100 copies (each cover was hand colored!), but he is giving it away as a free PDF. What a swell guy that Doc is.

Previous San Francisco Zine Fest photos:

Sean Logic and his zine, The Great MySpace Swindle

Hellen Jo and Calvin Wong

Amy Martin

[#1 posted by Doctor Popular, August 27, 2009 3:06 PM]

I loved it every time he said "Mack Daddy", but the singing at the end was... wow.

[#2 posted by Doctor Popular, August 27, 2009 3:09 PM]

Thanks for stopping by the booth Mark. Glad you enjoyed the comics.
There's some more info about RDKABT here http://www.docpop.org/2008/10/23/robots-dont-know-anything-about-twitter.html
I'm currently watercoloring each page with the hopes of releasing a free copy of the book as an iPhone app (with commentary and such).
I'm getting excited about our next 24 Hour Comic Book Day at The Comic Outpost in October.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, August 27, 2009 3:19 PM]

What in the name of 1971 is that guy wearing? I'm no fashion maven but that denim thing combines about 10 hideous ideas into one (unisex? wrong sex?) garment. It looks like the ass of my grandma's old gardening overalls. I'm sure the comics are cool but he needs to leave that basement a little more often..

[#4 posted by Church, August 27, 2009 3:49 PM]

Doc Pop is a true renaissance nerd.

[#5 posted by Xeni Jardin, August 27, 2009 4:07 PM]

Looks like comment #1 there was meant for another Bb post.

[#6 posted by Takuan, August 27, 2009 4:11 PM]

nope, he's just using the BB Post Singularity.

[#7 posted by Doctor Popular, August 27, 2009 4:54 PM]

Doctor Popular Doesn't Know Anything About Commenting. I thought I posted that comment in this thread http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/27/meet-the-hon-james-d.html but I guess I made a mistake... or something happened cause I had two windows open?