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Hey! It's almost 2008, which means that the first issue of SEA MONSTRE will be coming out sometime soon. The deadline for submissions was a few weeks ago, so I've since been putting all the artwork together as it will appear when printed.

Not much else to say. I'm hoping for a February release, but you know how these things work... could be earlier, could be later.

Happy Holidays everyone.

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One final thank you to all the artists who contributed to Sea Monstre. Submissions are essentially over at this point, with just a few still trickling in.

Myself and a few other fellow Cornish students are going to get cracking on putting all the artwork together and getting it printed. I'm very excited to have a final product!

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One of my favorite artists and fellow Cornish student and friend, Razi, submitted two sea monsters!

Here is a sample.

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The wonderful Karly Williams is the latest artist to submit a monster. Here is a sample of it.

Thank you to Karly and all of the artists involved who have been willing to contribute.

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Two weeks left for submissions!

Love,

SM

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My brother, Keegan Basset, is the latest artist to contribute a sea monster. Sea Monstre is now a family affair!

Here is a preview.

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Hey everyone. The official deadline for submissions is going to be December 14th. That gives you a little under a month left to submit artwork. I'm incredible pleased and excited about all the artwork that has been coming in.

More updates soon with new monsters!

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The wonderful Corey Thompson, who runs Shapes of Sweetness has already submitted three monsters and they are all great. Here is one of them. Keep up the good work everyone!

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We were linked on Brooklyn Vegan yesterday which is a very cool site.



Cornish has also granted our publication some money to help with printing and production, so things are going well!

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A call for submissions:

The deadline for submissions is the beginning of December, so if there are people out there who would still like to contribute but have not yet, keep that in mind!

Once again, you can email me at trevorbasset@gmail.com

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Martin Ernstsen has contributed a great sea monster. His artwork is great and I definitely recommend that everyone check out his work.

As more and more submissions come in, I am going to keep some a mystery, so here is a sample of his monster.

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There are a lot of submissions on the way thanks to the Pitchfork article and fellow students at Cornish. I've seen lots of great stuff in progress and I can't wait to see the finished results.

I'm meeting with a funding board on Friday with a proposal to obtain money to help with supplies and printing. Hopefully everything goes well with that so that we will have enough money to print copies to distribute on the Internet.

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The wonderful folks over at Pitchfork were kind enough to write a story about our little project.



A link to the article.

A huge thanks to Pitchfork for everything!

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As reported earlier, three of the members of Sunset Rubdown have contributed their very own sea monsters.







The first is by front-man, Spencer Krug, the second by Michael Doerksen and the third by Jordan Robson-Cramer. It was a great experience to meet the band and the monsters they came up with are all great.

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I met my favorite band, Sunset Rubdown, earlier this week and three of the four members of the band drew sea monsters for us. I don't have access to a scanner during the weekend, but I will put the drawings up as soon as possible.

At this point in the project, I am going to begin to tone down on the updates. I'd like for there to still be some surprise when the book actually comes out. This doesn't mean I am done taking contributions, I'd still love many many more! Once again, if you would like to contribute, my email address is trevorbasset@gmail.com.

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One of my absolute favorite comic artists, Jeffrey Brown, has contributed his very own wonderful sea monster drawing.



I highly recommend everyone go and check out some of Jeffrey's work.

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This contribution was done by a drunken Ryan Sahlin last weekend. Props to Ryan for throwing in his own creative touch.

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Last night I had the privilege of meeting two of my favorite musicians, Rollie Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy). Both of them were kind enough to contribute their very own sea monsters to our little publication.





A big thanks to Owen and Rollie for participating. It is nice to see what sort of art a variety of people can come up with, whether those people are actors, musicians, designers, artists, et cetera.

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The wonderful Lilli Carré will be contributing to sea monstre. Check out her website! She is a great artist.

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A big thanks to my good friend Cory Schmitz for submitting his work so quickly!

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Thank you Hannah Templer for submitting five sea monsters!

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sea monstre is an art and design zine released through the design department at Cornish College of the Arts. All of the art submitted to this publication should be centered around the theme of sea monsters. If you would like to contribute some artwork, please email trevorbasset@gmail.com. Art work will be scaled down and printed on 3.5" x 5" black and white pages when everything is said and done.