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Record label and publisher. Extra Final is the publishing practice of artist, musician and designer Jud Crandall.

Launched as a craft record label in 2016, Extra Final has since issued 15 single, EP, and album length releases on CD, cassette, digitally, and in print. In 2022, Extra Final will begin publishing Illegal Bodies, Jud’s first comic work, expanding the imprint to include small press. Jud Crandall is a graphic designer, illustrator, collagist, musician, sound maker, and organizer, exploring spatial a

nd narrative possibilities in analogue and digital media. He has worked in broadcasting, publishing, education, printing, event planning, promotions, with volunteers, and freelance, for over 20 years. As an independent musician and sound artist, Jud's work has ranged from award winning groups Wooden Wives and The Organizers, to more abstract sounds and collaborations as Usse. Since 2015, this has included audio installations with Third Space, AX Arts & Culture Center, and SappyFest. Jud holds a BEd from UNBSJ, and has taught Broadcast Arts at InterAction School of Performing Arts. He became a founding member of Local 107.3fm in 1998, wearing all manner of hats from volunteer to Station Manager, before retiring as Programming Director in 2015. With his partner Emily, Jud lives and works out of their home in Saint John, NB, near the Wolastoq River mouth.

10/28/2024

Humbled to have been invited to Heroes' Beacon's National Authors Day celebration, Friday, November 1, from 5-7pm! The gang will host a selection of local creators upstairs, for your meetin' and greetin' pleasure, to discuss, view and purchase their work. I'll have comics with me of course, including the few remaining copies my DCAF exclusive Art Edition preview of ILLEGAL BODIES upcoming Episode 06! Considering the intimate nature of the event, I may also bring some sketchbooks or art pages or something to that effect, but we shall see. Watch this space!

08/14/2024

Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival - DCAF was yet another rewarding, illuminating experience as a relatively new cartoonist. Thanks so much to Cal and DCAF for the welcoming opportunity to table. ILLEGAL BODIES was kindly received by folks, and I look forward already to returning with more new work prepared in the future.

No pics of yours truly as I was flying solo and conserving phone battery for e-transfers, but I did have an opportunity during a visit from Emily Saab to scoot around with Vincent for a quick once-or-twice through, and pick up some goodies for the library.

Will try to tag some of the folks pictured here later, as the afore mentioned Vincent awakes. Thanks again to all encountered and here's to the next!

08/10/2024

🧨HERE 'TIS: and Patreon Publisher Tier subscribers exclusive ILLEGAL BODIES Episode 06 BREAKDOWNS EDITION! Three inked pages with bluelines, breakdowns and thumbnails, including process notes and a new Editorial, in 20 numbered pieces.💥

08/09/2024

LHOOQ! I'm so happy to share that ILLEGAL BODIES Episode 06 BREAKDOWNS EDITION will be available exclusively in print at Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival - DCAF and to Publisher Tier subscribers on Patreon. You can read all about this limited numbered 20 piece run in a special Editorial included as well, but consider it both a preview of the finished Episode to come, as well as an epilogue to Episodes 01-05. See you Sunday true believers!

08/04/2024

ZOUNDS! In one week's time, the family hie we hither to Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival - DCAF, for another joyous occasion of comics musings and makings! Watch this space for word on a Very DCAF Exclusive, as we make haste through the coming weeeek's preparaaaaations. ⚡⚡⚡

02/28/2024

OUT NOW: Second Volume of ILLEGAL BODIES' Portfolio Edition process zine, presenting inked art pages and production materials, as featured in Third Space Gallery's Market Series V, November 10 through December 17, 2023. Presently only 30 copies of this 16 page edition published, featuring a vellum cover overleaf incorporating ink wash and digital effects into the inked cover art.

PDF available free to subscribers at patreon.com/extrafinal (link on bio). Publisher Tier Patrons receive print edition by mail free of charge.

Mailorder at usse.bandcamp.com/merch.

Download at usse.bandcamp.com.

Retail exclusively at Heroes' Beacon in Saint John.

02/02/2024

Guess what today is Bandcamp Friday! And thus the artists hosted therein get a lil' more dough. While ILLEGAL BODIES picks up speed through the Dad Gears, the IB bibliography is available for download, including the director's cut collection ANNUAL 01, with audio by Usse, on sale today only for the nice price of $5! You can even mailorder physical copies if you get excited! And of course there is also lots MORE audio and music.

VISIT: usse.bandcamp.com

PS Portfolio Edition 02 is in the final proofing stage and coming super sooon. Yowza!

12/31/2023

As we go into New Years 2024, dig this throwback to summer 2021! I had been reading Howard Chaykin's original American Flagg run, and it inspired this little helmet sequence that opens Episode 02. I initially penciled a dozen various panels on a sheet, and selected, cut out and taped these to the page for inking.

Great thanks to all who have supported my work in so many ways. I'm looking forward to carrying on everything built and learned thus far.

In addition to publishing PORTFOLIO ED 02 in the New Year, watch for introduction of a new Patreon.com/extrafinal subscription tier, wider distribution in the Maritimes, and most excitedly, the eventual release of ILLEGAL BODIES Episode 06!

12/22/2023

🎁 For all your weird bleak sci-fi holiday needs, consider ILLEGAL BODIES Annual 01, available at Heroes' Beacon in Saint John! Suitable for all ages and boring for small children, you can bag and board it to wrap, or roll it up in a stocking for that special somebody today!🎄

And hey PS, don't forget to watch for Portfolio Edition 02 (inks pictured) in the New Year. 🎉

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Guess what today is Bandcamp Friday! And thus the artists hosted therein get a lil' more dough. While ILLEGAL BODIES picks up speed through the Dad Gears, the IB bibliography is available for download, including the director's cut collection ANNUAL 01, with audio by Usse, on sale today only for the nice price of $5! You can even mailorder physical copies if you get excited! And of course there is also lots MORE audio and music. VISIT: usse.bandcamp.com PS Portfolio Edition 02 is in the final proofing stage and coming super sooon. Yowza!