Half Meme Press will have a table at STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo, on Saturday March 7th, at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, Texas. I'll be sharing a table with my wife Danielle's Cream Alien Games (site under construction). Her game, Kagematsu, is currently soliciting playtesting and feedback as an ashcan.

Come and see us at the show.

Will Terrell, who did My Life with Master's gorgeous cover illustration is a Texan, and he will have his own table at the show. If you already own My Life with Master, bring your copy for him to sign the cover art.

If you think you can come to the show, send me an email at:

paul (aatt) halfmeme.com

And if you're an indie RPG designer with a published game or an ashcan, consider doing a table. (But decide quickly. Chris Nicholas, one of the show's two coordinators, says there are fewer than a dozen tables left. And email me.)

Though STAPLE! has historically been primarily indie comics, they have also had a horror novelist, zine publishers, and always have a radical co-op bookstore. And Chris Nicholas is serious about his "independent media" tag line and about broadening the focus of the show beyond comics.

So I'm doing STAPLE! because I think the indie RPG community should be developing relationships and synergies with the indie comics guys. Have you seen my thoughts about how Gen Con could better support the creative dynamics of the indie community? The indie comics guys already know this. Tables at STAPLE! are an affordable $75 for a full 8' table or $40 for a half table (4'). Indie comics guys maintain their creative vitality by forming up into projects, splintering off into side projects, and doing special event projects. They recognize that a creative identity is about both independence and finding shared purposes. And their shows, and their fans support this with enthusiasm. We have a lot more in common with the indie comics guys than we do with the paradigms of freelancer-driven RPG publishing.