SAVANT is a weekly comics magazine with an activist bent, aimed at readers, retailers, and professionals of all stripes interested in the comics industry. We're here to make things better.

Welcome to the front lines.

 

 
TOOLBOX

Okay. This is the SAVANT Toolbox. It's where you can find all sorts of downloadable things to help spread the word, our word, the SAVANT word. This should be fun. MORE STUFF ADDED ALMOST WEEKLY.

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ACTIVISM TOOLS

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DAREDEVIL FLYER

For use in conjunction with the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Garner flick in theaters February 2003. Put your store stamp or sticker on it and go nuts!

WEBCOMICS FLYER

Pointers to the ever-growing wealth of webcomics available for free. Good for giving people a taste of things to come.

SAVANT RECOMMENDS

Books that everyone ought to be reading. Consider this a primer: 21st Century Comics 101.

BATMAN: THE MOVIE FLYER

For video store usage: stick this with BATMAN or any of its sequels, or hand it out to anyone renting a similarly-themed movie.

SPIDER-MAN MOVIE FLYER

For retailers and activists: a double-page handout to coincide with the Spider-man movie. Recommended reading for everyone. Print, copy, put your store stamp on 'em, pass 'em out.

ACTIVIST'S COOKBOOK

A collection of columns on what you, the individual, can do to help fix comics.

SAVANT CONVENTION SPECIAL 2001

A sort of "best of" collection, prepared for distribution at the 2001 San Diego Comic Con.

 

SAVANT PROMO STUFF

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SPECIAL GUEST MONKEY #1: CHARLES BURNS(108 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Acquired for us by Mr. James Lucas Jones IV, this startling and creepy... shaved monkey-mole? What the hell is it? Well, it's by Charles Burns. It's what he draws when asked to draw a monkey. Who cares what the hell it looks like? It looks fantastic. We love Charles Burns.

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PIGGYBACK FLIER(796 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Support SAVANT in the sneakest, freakiest way we know how. Download, duplicate, and divide these sweet babies, and then slip them into trade paperbacks at bookstores. Sneaky, fun. You might get caught, and get in trouble, in which case we wash our damn hands of you. Also could be printed onto sticker paper, and turned into stickers.

FLIER (632 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Keeping in mind SAVANT's commitment to maximizing page space, this two-for-one flyer will look proud in the window of YOUR local comic book shop. Tagline reads "Fixing Comics with our Bare Hands." Perfect for SAVANT-endorsed retailers, or Retail-endorsed SAVANT outlets.

STICKER FODDER- ROBOBOBO (96 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Standard Robobobo, waiting for you to print him on sticker sheets and go apeshit, pardon the pun.

STICKER FODDER- HOWLER (160 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Who doesn't like stickers of monkeys, shrieking? Fascists, that's who.

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T-SHIRT TRANSFERS

So what you want to do is go out and get some T-Shirt transer paper from an office supply store, and print these onto them, and then make your own SAVANT shirt. There are a number of varieties, design-wise, to chose from.

Also, when you see them, keep in mind that they are backwards, so you can make the transfer. Okay.

Feel free to mix, match, customize, redesign, remix, etc.

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T-SHIRT 1 (612 K) --- THUMBNAIL

These stunning black and white design offer the discriminating SAVANT a wide variety of potential T-Shirts. From the classic Howler Monkey to the Symbol Of Man's Progress that is Robobobo, this PDF leaves nothing to be desired. Also included are a large logo, a V, upside-down and in a circle, and several text tags-- a URL tag and some poppy little catch-phrases. A must-have for any SAVANT carpetbomber.

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TARGET (900 K) --- THUMBNAIL

Hey Ladies! And Gentlemen, too, we guess. This stunning color offering is the essential freeware fashion design of the new millennium. A Pop-Mod target-- like the kids in Deadenders wear!-- in glorious red, white and blue. But wait-- what's that in the center of the target? Why, it's Robobobo! Also has logo, URL, and text tags.

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ROBOREV (96 K) --- THUMBNAIL

This simple black-and-white design features your favorite angst-avatar Robobobo, just sorta chillin', like he does in our header graphic. A classic.

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HOWLREV (160 K) --- THUMBNAIL

What Roborev would be complete without a screeching howler monkey?

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COLORCRAP (1.6 MB)

Here is some stuff in color.

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