Our first activity book now available!

It's here!

Adventures in Paying Rent, the first publication by DIY wizards Mechanical Mariner is now available for purchase. Chock full of games and revulsion, this handsome activity book is great for rainy days or when the power has been out for extensive periods. Also makes a great gift!

Please contact Chris Lyons (Saintcardboard@gmail.com) or Greg Holdsworth (Ursa23@gmail.com) to obtain a copy.

Looking forward to our next project!

Kyle Field

Writing Director

Chris Lyons
Art Director

P.S. You're probably wondering just what in the hell Mechanical Mariner is? It's our publication's company name. Awesome Factory and Gonzo System have been confined to their respective, and proper, corners.

Adventures in Paying Rent

My crack team of testers are feverishly pawing over every page, squeezing out my minefield of spelling and grammatical errors. The crayons are being molded by small children in China as we speak, just waiting to be flown to my front door. The presses are hot and eagerly awaiting my comic deposit. Why would I be telling you all of this?

Oh I'll feed you baby birds.

Because feast your eyes on this sample page of Adventures in Paying Rent!
Print it out.
Color it in.
Rock your fucking socks off.
Your welcome.

CEO of Pictures
Chris

Greetings from Gonzo System

Hey everyone,

Kyle Field here, President and Intern of Gonzo System.

As probably none of you are aware, GSP was founded in 2006 for the production of the 20 min. short film "Baby Wad" (which has yet to see the light of day). The past three years have been sleepy for this company (as in I haven't done jack shit), but lately the office has been bustling.

"Jeffy" has been the first project in collaboration with Awesome Factory, and so far all is looking great!

With the wheels turning again, more ideas are being crapped out each day. Why, just yesterday I made Chris spit coffee all over himself! A rare, but happy, moment for myself. Spit takes are always classic.

In the past, I've worked with Gary Holdsteady of the Minneapolis podcast Independent Stream (independentstream.podomatic.com) and intend to bring some of my work from that medium to Awesome Factory. I've had the pleasure of putting out over 7 editions of "Gov't Fun Facts" for Independent Stream, and am eager to continue working on it some more.

That's, uh, really all I have.

Vaya con queso,

Kyle Field

Jeffy!!

So I just got some of the pages for Jeffy the Terminally Ill Cupcake from Gonzo Systems, and it turning out better than I imagined it would. After putting our heads together we decided to put a couple of verses with some of the preliminary art work up on the blog.



Jeffy played baseball
at his neighborhood park.
Until one day a wild pitch
drew him in the dark.





His spirits were bright
as he sat on a bed.
The hospital nurses
had mended his head.










The doctor then entered
looking solemn and gray.
"Your armpits are swollen.
It's cancer, I say!"





There you go, I don't know about you; but the shit has been thoroughly knocked out of my ass. I'll be posting more awesomeness as it comes along.

CEO of Pictures
Chris

News!!

After months of nothing I've got a few big announcements to make:

First!
After months of just sitting around and not producing much, The Awesome Factory (Chris Lyons) and Gonzo Systems (Kyle Field) have teamed up to actually get work done! The most shocking thing is that work is actually getting done, crazy.

Second!
Adventures in Paying Rent is the official title of the activity book that I've been talking about for months. Once it gets back from my testers and the final touches are made its off the the printers and then into your hands by late November! There will be 35 pages of games, puzzles, and coloring fun all detailing just how sucky it is to be a grown up. It even comes complete with crayons, fuck yes!



Lastly!
Jeffy the Terminally Ill Cup Cake is the story of plucky young cup cake that is diagnosed with Non Hodgkin lymphoma. This is the first full collaboration between The Awesome factory and Gonzo Systems; it is currently in the writing phase and is slated to come out by late January or early February. It will come in a coloring book format and will include crayons with the final product.




I'll keep updating as I figure out more details.

-Chris

New blog location!!

So I'm getting all my ducks in a row and I've switch my blog location! I'll start posting progress on my new project and links to sales on etsy. Everything's coming up Chris!