FLUKE!

Saturday, January 17, 2026

FLUKE 2026: Who will be there?

Below is a list of all of the exhibitors at FLUKE 2026.

This list will be updated as exhibitors confirm. Card subject to change.

We asked people to send us a link to their website or social media when they sent payment for their exhibitor space. We told them that if they don't, their name will be linked to a YouTube video of Monster Trucks, as is FLUKE tradition.

The exhibitors at FLUKE 2026 are:

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

FLUKE 2026 Exhibitor Space Lottery Entries are available now!

The 23rd mostly-annual FLUKE small press / comix / 'zine fest will take place on March 28, 2026 from 10:00am - 5:00pm at Live Wire Athens (227 W. Dougherty Street) in downtown Athens, Georgia.

Lottery entries for Exhibitor Spaces at FLUKE 2026 are on sale now.

There's no need to hurry. They'll be on sale until Sunday January 11.

Remember, no matter how many entries we sell, we only have 60 exhibitor spaces available.

YOU CAN ONLY BUY ONE LOTTERY ENTRY. Orders of more than one entry will be cancelled. Please don't use trickery to buy more than one entry. We will eventually find out and that won't be fun for anyone.

You can buy lottery entries right now at flukeathens.bigcartel.com.

The drawing will be live-streamed on our official streaming partner JOKER JOKER TV on January 15.

If you enter the lottery, you will receive an email before the drawing which tells you your entry number. That's the number you want to see pulled out of the bucket on Joker Joker TV.

We really want you to watch the drawing, but if you can't, don't worry. We will email everyone within 48 hours of the drawing's conclusion and let them know whether or not they were selected.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

FLUKE 2026 UPDATE! READ THIS!

The 23rd mostly-annual* FLUKE 2026 will take place on March 28, 2026 from 10:00am - 5:00pm at Live Wire Athens (227 W. Dougherty Street) in downtown Athens, Georgia.

*We have to say "mostly-annual" because of the 2 years we skipped because of Covid. 2026 will be FLUKE's 25th year of existence (the first one was in 2002) but the 23rd time it has happened.

Yes, we are at a different location this year. It's because of scheduling issues. We do not have "street beef" with the good people at our previous venue.

Once again, we will be choosing 60 exhibitors via a lottery drawing. We anticipate that the drawing of these exhibitors will be live-streamed as it has been for the past couple of years. We're still working out the details.

This next bit is important so it is also in bold text:

Lottery entries for exhibitor spaces at FLUKE 2026 will go on sale on Sunday, January 4, 2026 and remain on sale for one week (the sales will end on Sunday, January 11).

Each potential exhibitor can only purchase one entry.

No matter how many lottery entries are sold, we will only choose 60 exhibitors.

Lottery entries cost one dollar and will be sold at flukeathens.bigcartel.com.

We don't have an exact date for the lottery drawing, but that's some of the information that will be contained in the email you get if you enter.

So, yeah, we hope to see you in Athens in March. We love making FLUKE happen and we love that you are a part of it.

You'll hear from us again on (or, more likely, slightly before) Sunday, January 4.

Happy New Year.

For Patrick, Forever

FLUKE

Saturday, November 22, 2025

official.fluke.2026.poster via @motivatedmanslayer

official.fluke.2026.poster via @motivatedmanslayer.

WE ARE MOVING

FLUKE is, as Herman Melville once said, a place that "is not down on any map; true places never are." Over the years FLUKE has existed in three different venues, first at Tasty World, then at Ciné, then at the 40 Watt. Starting in 2026, that number is growing to four. Consider this an OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

FLUKE 2026

Saturday, March 28, 2026 (10am - 5pm)

Live Wire Athens

227 W Dougherty St, Athens, GA 30601

We've loved making the 40 Watt our home since for the past 14 years, and there's no "street beef" involved in this move. They have some shows booked in March that require an early load-in for the performers and rather than cutting FLUKE short or moving it later in the year, we looked for an alternate venue. We may be back in the 40 Watt in the future. They're good people and we love working with them.

The new venue is still in downtown Athens and is about the same size (we may be able to fit 1 or 2 more tables into the new place). Here's a low-res MS Paint image we made to show you where the new place is.

Pre-registration for FLUKE 2026 exhibitor spaces will still be lottery-style, and lottery entries will still go on sale in January. Entries will still cost $1 and be limited to one per person. We are increasing the price of exhibitor spaces to $20 this year. it's our first price increase since, we think, 2014 and it doesn't feel great, but it is necessary. This isn't related to the move. We would have had the same increase at the 40 Watt, too. General admission for people attending FLUKE (non-exhibitors) will stay at $2

More information will be coming soon, and we'll also eventually get around to updating the header image on this website.

Thanks, everyone, for being a part of this. For Patrick, Forever.

FLUKE

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The FLUKE 2025 Playlist

Hello, friends.

Thanks for another excellent FLUKE.

Here is every song that was played during the pre-show setup, the show itself, and the post-show cleanup.

Artist	Title	Time played
Monkees, The	Circle Sky	9:09 AM
Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five	Beat Street Breakdown	9:16 AM
Coctails, The	Don't Got Time	9:18 AM
Starcher, Buddy	Wildwood Flower	9:21 AM
Moroder, Giorgio	I Wanna Rock You	9:27 AM
Numan, Gary	Tracks	9:30 AM
Ray, Eddie	You Got Me	9:33 AM
World Party	Put the Message in the Box	9:37 AM
Moorhouse, Alan	Some Other Time	9:40 AM
Sloan, P.F.	Halloween Mary	9:42 AM
Survivals, The	Play the Music	9:47 AM
Dynamic Batmen, The	Robin the Bird	9:49 AM
佐橋佳幸	Time Passes On	9:53 AM
Midniters, Thee	Jump, Jive & Harmonize	9:55 AM
Ступишина, Наталия	Милый Друг	10:00 AM
Joli, France	I Wanna Take A Chance on Love	10:07 AM
Dillon, Phyllis	It's Rocking Time (Rocksteady)	10:10 AM
Plaisance	Bikini Girls	10:14 AM
Hibbler, Al	Song of the Wanderer	10:16 AM
Square, The	Lewisham McDeez	10:20 AM
Stranger Cole	Crying Every Night	10:22 AM
Reigning Sound	The Bells	10:24 AM
Mangione, Chuck	Feels So Good	10:34 AM
Moroder, Giorgio	E = mc²	10:39 AM
Hill, Bunker	The Girl Can't Dance	10:41 AM
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies	Lon Chaney	10:43 AM
Black Oak Arkansas	Hot and Nasty	10:46 AM
Blue Öyster Cult	Burnin' For You	10:50 AM
Phoenix, The	Koisuru Ra Ra Ra	10:53 AM
彩恵津子	Fascination	10:56 AM
English Beat, The	Twist and Crawl	10:59 AM
Alphonso, Roland	Rolli Rollin'	11:01 AM
Upsetters, The	Haunted House	11:04 AM
Jones, George	No Money in this Deal	11:06 AM
Форум	Островок	11:10 AM
New York Dolls	Looking for a Kiss	11:13 AM
Boyce, Tommy & Bobby Hart	Out and About	11:16 AM
Buzzcocks, The	What Do I Get?	11:19 AM
Dolan, Jimmie	Tool Pusher on a Rotary Rig	11:21 AM
Ventures, The	Slaughter on Tenth Avenue	11:23 AM
Chan, Jackie	壯志在我胸	11:26 AM
Cletro, Eddie	Flying Saucer Boogie	11:28 AM
Lynn, Barbara	You Can't Buy My Love	11:30 AM
Mergia, Hailu	Hari Meru Meru	11:36 AM
White Kicks	Ai No Kotoba	11:39 AM
Stop the Violence Movement, The	Self Destruction	11:45 AM
Stone Roses, The	She Bangs the Drums	11:48 AM
Gilberto, Astrud	Agua De Beber	11:51 AM
Youngers, The	Do the Whip	11:53 AM
Cousins, The	The Robot	11:56 AM
Jackson, Stonewall	Picket Sign	11:58 AM
Tateishi, Takashi	Wood Man	11:59 AM
Gabriel, Peter	Solsbury Hill	12:04 PM
Ritual Veil	Wolf in the Night	12:07 PM
English Beat, The	Big Shot	12:09 PM
Ohashi, Junko	Dancin'	12:14 PM
Williams, Freddie	I've Got To Live While I Can	12:16 PM
Alan Parsons Project, The	Games People Play	12:20 PM
Five Blobs, The	Beware of the Blob	12:23 PM
Fire and Flame	Whole Lot of Love	12:29 PM
Sorcery	Talking to the Devil	12:33 PM
Signori della Galassia, I	Iceman	12:38 PM
Dutronc, Jacques	On nous cache tout, on nous dit rien	12:40 PM
Hey Fever!	The Sneezing Song	12:47 PM
Blackfoot	Pay My Dues	12:50 PM
Perrey, Jean-Jacques & Gershon Kingsley	Strangers in the Night	12:53 PM
Harpo, Slim & His King Bees	Little Liza Jane	12:56 PM
Depeche Mode	What's Your Name?	12:58 PM
DJ Format	3 Feet Deep	1:03 PM
ABC	Look of Love (Part 1)	1:07 PM
ラジ	ジャスト・イン・ザ・レイン	1:12 PM
Scorpions	The Sails of Charon	1:16 PM
Dead Milkmen, The	Plum Dumb	1:18 PM
Dayal, Benny, Vishal Dadlani, & Vishal-Shekhar	Jai Jai Shivshankar	1:24 PM
Tyketto	Forever Young	1:29 PM
Happy Accidents	Wait It Out	1:32 PM
Rudimentary Peni	The Cloud Song	1:34 PM
Alen, Terry	Cocktail Desperado	1:37 PM
Light, The	Back Up	1:40 PM
Nomi, Klaus	Lightning Strikes	1:43 PM
Bauhaus	Telegram Sam	1:45 PM
Interpretations	Blow Your Mind	1:49 PM
EPMD	Let the Funk Flow	1:54 PM
Ultra Vivid Scene	Staring at the Sun	1:56 PM
Monk, T.S.	Bon Bon Vie	2:02 PM
Dyke & The Blazers	Funky Broadway (Part 1)	2:04 PM
Spence, Skylar	Ridiculous!	2:08 PM
KUKL	Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free	2:10 PM
Alpert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass	Spanish Flea	2:13 PM
EPO	土曜の夜はパラダイス	2:17 PM
Holt, Jack	Moonshine Still	2:18 PM
Techniques, The	Day O (The Banana Boat Song)	2:21 PM
Crown Heights Affair	I Got Somethin' For You	2:26 PM
Sapphires, The	Baby You Got Me	2:26 PM
Bread & Butter	Pink Shadow	2:34 PM
Brooks, Garth	If Tomorrow Never Comes	2:37 PM
Camera Silens	Le bal des vauriens	2:41 PM
Bryant, Precious	Don't Mess Up A Good Thing	2:43 PM
Intelligence Dept.	Loneliness	2:50 PM
前川陽子	魔女っ子メグちゃん	2:52 PM
Gall, France	Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son	2:55 PM
Mr. Foundation	See Them A Come	2:58 PM
大江千里	Glory Days	3:02 PM
Perturbator	She is Young, She is Beautiful, She is Next	3:07 PM
Washington, Gino	Do You Have That Soul?	3:10 PM
Sting (1st Theme)	World Championship Wrestling	3:13 PM
Morricone, Ennio	Non Rimane Piu'Nessuno	3:16 PM
Shazam	Let's Get Together	3:19 PM
Elsa	Ecoutez	3:22 PM
Dio, Ronnie & The Prophets	Gonna Make It Alone	3:24 PM
Fleshtones, The	Hit Me!	3:26 PM
Pierce, Webb	In the Jailhouse Now	3:28 PM
Hills, Gillian	Tut Tut Tut Tut	3:30 PM
? And the Mysterians	96 Tears	3:33 PM
Double	The Captain of Her Heart	3:38 PM
Ovens	Same Shit Different Day	3:39 PM
Walles, Deborah	Sometimes in the Darkest Hour	3:41 PM
S U R F I N G	Hit The Spot	3:45 PM
V Kids, The	Botswana in 1986	3:50 PM
コンシャスTHOUGHTS	Sun, Sea and Surfing	3:53 PM
Nazareth	Hair of the Dog	3:56 PM
Osborne, Jeffrey	I Really Don't Need No Light	4:00 PM
45 Grave	Party Time	4:03 PM
Redding, Otis	Sweet Lorene	4:06 PM
Soul Sisters, The	Wreck A Buddy	4:08 PM
Henry, Virgil	I'll Be True	4:11 PM
Napoleon, The	Hikki Hikki	4:14 PM
Jones, Johnny & The King Casuals	Soul Poppin'	4:16 PM
Jimmy Eat World	A Praise Chorus	4:20 PM
Sparky Dee	throwdown	4:24 PM
Leslie, Charlotte	Les Filles c'est Fait (Pour Faire L'amour)	4:27 PM
Maymie and Robert	Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho Hum Hum	4:29 PM
Zoinks!	Joe vs. The Machine	4:32 PM
Boyce, Tommy & Bobby Hart	Teardrop City	4:34 PM
Proletariat, The	Westernization	4:37 PM
Franklin, Erma	Baby I Love You	4:40 PM
J Church	My Favorite Place	4:43 PM
Cybotron	Cosmic Raindance	4:47 PM
Stoneham, Harry	Let's See Action	4:49 PM
Lloyd & Glen	Girl You're Cold	4:51 PM
Arc Neon	I sopravvissuti della città morta	4:54 PM
Grey & Hanks	You Fooled Me	5:00 PM
Atom & His Package	I'm Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer	5:02 PM
佐藤奈々子	佐藤奈々子*– 週末のハイウェイ	5:06 PM
Jets, The	Crush on You	5:10 PM
Soulmates, The	The Hippies Are Back	5:13 PM
Charmers, Lloyd & The Hippy Boys	Shang Hai	5:15 PM
Johnny & The Hurricanes	The Beatnik Fly	5:17 PM
Cinderella	Shake Me	5:21 PM
Harding, John Wesley	Cathy's New Clown	5:26 PM
Oliver, Dorit und Das Orchester Charles Nowa	Oh Yes, Das Ist Musik (Oh, Marie)	5:28 PM

Friday, February 14, 2025

FLUKE 2025 - WHO WILL BE THERE?

Hello, friends.

Below is a list of the good people you can expect (as of this writing) to see in the 40 Watt Club at FLUKE 2025 on March 29 from 10:00am - 5:00pm.

First, let's acknowledge our sponsors!

As always and forever, FLUKE literally would not exist without the best comic book store in the entire world, Bizarro-Wuxtry.
We are incredibly excited to have Joey Weiser's new book The Littlest Fighter (published by Oni Press) as a sponsor this year. Joey has been a part of FLUKE for years, volunteering his time, art, and, most importantly, friendship. We love Joey!
Speaking of people we love, we're once again brought to you in part by our friends at the Sequential Artists Workshop. SAW is an incredible school and community resource and everyone who loves comics is lucky that they're around.
Remember the lottery drawing for exhibitor spaces? That happened because of the geniuses over at our official streaming partner JokerJoker TV, who bring you weird, wild, and wonderful video art, talk, music, and who knows what else on their weekly show. Tune in this Thursday, why don't you?

And now, here is a list of all of the exhibitors at FLUKE 2025. As is FLUKE's long-standing tradition, any exhibitor who did not send a link to their social media or online portfolio will have their name linked to a YouTube video of monster trucks.

Friendship House Books

Future Landfill Press

Jurassic & Dumbfuck Comicz

Our Resilient Community Students

The University of Georgia Hargrett Library

Aria Jordan Doldolea Villafranca

Drew Weing

Joey Weiser (obviously)