October 03 is 24 Hour Drawing Day @ Java Café!


Once a year, cartoonists around the world participate in 24 Hour Comics Day! Java Café & Gallery will host a Cambodian contingent joining cartoonists all over the planet who are attempting to draw 24 pages in 24 hours.

The 24 Hour Comic is a ‘free drawing’ exercise designed to unlock creativity. Our Books has been developing Project: 24 since October 2008 to gradually introduce Cambodian artists to this unique exercise and the global comics community.

This year marks the first time Cambodian comic artists will attempt to ‘go the distance’ for a full drawing day. Cambodian and overseas artists are welcome to join the drawing marathon at Java Café’s new downstairs space, beginning at 8am SHARP October 03.

Art supplies, paper and coffee will be provided until 8am the following morning. One-page efforts from 2008 will be posted as example and incentive for this year’s effort.

All artwork will be posted as it is finished on the walls of Java Café, to be exhibited for the following month. A live webcam linkup and Twitter feed will be accessible via http://www.javaarts.org . Staff from Cambodia’s comics nonprofit Our Books will be on hand to scan pages and assist overall documentation of the event.
• Artists: bring your ideas and enthusiasm, we will see who makes it to 8am the following morning!
• Amateurs: all nationalities are welcome, regardless of your skill level, please feel free to give it a try!
• Enthusiasts: enjoy reading comics? Check in on use in person or via the web to see art in action and cheer us on! We’ll need all the encouragement we can get!
• Pages will be on sale for $24 a page, at the discretion of the artist. (We request that they remain on display at Java for the following month’s display.)

As with the previous year, we offer participants a ‘Cambodian Variation’: One artist – one page – one hour of the day. Many Khmer artists have jobs, school, and family obligations, but all artists who have an hour to spare are welcome to join the exhibition!

‘Best of’ pages from 2008 and 2009 will be collected in a photocopied ‘zine’ collection and archived on the web as a ‘Who’s Who’ of contemporary Khmer comic art by Our Books, as well as sent to the permanent 24 Hour Comics archive.

Event Time: 8am – 8pm Saturday October 03 2009.
Event Location: Java Café & Gallery, 56e1 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120819675668&ref=nf
UStream Webcam Feed: http://www.ustream.tv/broadcaster/1590699

+855 (0)12 526 840 (John, Our Books)
+855 (0) 12 894 180 (Dana, Java Café)
info@javaarts.org
john@siewphewyeung.org.kh

For more information, updates and background, to follow shortly at http://www.javaarts.org !

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Tim Danko: me wifes a blogger

ooooo me missus cor blimey has a blog of her comic project ‘100 school demons’ here:

http://indiraneville.wordpress.com/

its good funny i always smile and then laugh she is up to 11 of a 100 doing three or so a week

go oats go trouble n’ strife

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Stranded exhibition

23 melbourne artists tackle the comic book medium on their own for no reason other than to be out there – some for the first time! Including framed artwork from: Kieran Mangan, Michael Fikaris, Nick Potter, Michael Hawkins, Tom O’Hern, Kirsty Madden, Stewart Cole, Sam Wallman, Aaron O’Donnell, Clint Cure, Pat Grant, Kirrilly Schell, Ted McKinlay, Rachel Torbett, Nick Paice, Richard Butler-Bowden, Cougar Flashy, Tristan Jalleh, Ben Hutchings, Karl Von Bamberger, DeathTron, Tim Molloy, Mike Makatron and James James (in no particular order) for three weeks only…

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So Close

Kirrily Schell, Australia:

A still from the oh-so-close-to-finished anim-current-project..


http://kirrilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/so-close.html

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The Shape Of Things To Come (My Destiny Comic)






This little comic took me almost a month to make. I’m sorry for getting so far behind with my posting. (Comic coming soon about all of that.) I decided that this comic was too important to me to have it rushed to be done in five days time.

For those of you who are living in or planning to visit Hobart, you can drop by Pocketspace and pick up one of my little sampler zine comics for $12. Get them while they’re hot. ‘Cause nobody likes a stale book of comics!

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“Fragment” – an unfinished pitch

[Ben Hutchings, Australia:] A while back, before I had two rockin’ regular comic jobs I was playing around with a couple of ideas. This is a page from an unfinished pitch for a teenage boy’s magazine. It doesn’t really show that the strip is a sci-fi action chase story, but it is nicely drawn I think!I was so excited about this, as it’s an idea I came up with in college 17 years ago, and it reflects the exact comic attitude and imagination I had at that age.

I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome this comic would be. My vision of the future is the best. Not a computer or holographic user interface in sight – just Australia as it is, but exaggerated by 250%, and with heavily armed postal vans, bus chases, destruction and flying eye-ball ships manned by renegade freak convicts from the moons of Jupiter. Maybe after Stinky 10 I will turn my attention to this. I really have to restrain myself from going on and on about it, and telling you why it’s so awesome. Why won’t you believe me.


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Festival STRASBULLES 2009

[From INSTITUT PACÔME:] Bonjour à tous,

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STRASBULLES 2009, le festival européen de la bande dessinée deuxième édition a ouvert ses portes lundi 22 juin. Durant toute la semaine, des rencontres en librairies, des expositions, des performances, des dédicaces sont au programme.
Détail du programme sur http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Programme
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Cette année, le parrain du festival est Émile BRAVO, auteur de “LES ÉPATANTES AVENTURES DE JULES”, de SPIROU, LE JOURNAL D’UN INGÉNU”, de “LES SEPT OURS NAINS”, et tant d’autres choses. La particularité de cet auteur est d’officier dans une bande dessinée qui se veut grand public, sans oublier de rester intelligente. Un véritable travail d’auteur qui représente bien l’objectif de notre tout jeune festival.
Quelques infos sur Émile Bravo http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Parrain
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Ce festival se veut un carrefour de toutes les Bandes Dessinées, Micro-Édition et Fanzine compris, ouvert sur la bande dessinée européenne. Un coup d’œil sur l’ensemble des auteurs présents au festival permet d’appréhender l’étendue de la bande dessinée actuelle (http://strasbulles.fr/index.php?section=Auteurs).
Pour la première édition, l’espace Micro-Édition proposait au public de découvrir cette face trop souvent ignorée de la création en bande dessinée contemporaine. L’espace était riche de 5 stands. En effet, les collectifs strasbourgeois organisateur de l’espace, à savoir LE COLLECTIF TROGLODYTE http://www.numo.fr et L’INSTITUT PACÔME accueillaient également MISMA, collectif toulousain, LES TAUPES DE L’ESPACE, rennais, et les collectifs Strasbourgeois.
Pour cette édition, l’espace Micro-Édition s’en trouve fort grandi. Car en plus de l’Institut Pacôme, Misma et Les Taupes de L’Espace, seront présents :
HOOCHIE COOCHIE, de Paris
HABEAS CORPUS, de Belgique
STRAPAZIN, PLUS -PLUS et TWO FAST COLOR, Allemagne et Suisse
-Ainsi que les collectifs strasbourgeois, dont ICINORI .
3 d’entre eux proposent des expositions :
-STRAPAZIN, une exposition rétrospective sur leur incroyable longévité.
-ICINORI, sur leur travail tout en sérigraphie et en finesse.
-HOOCHIE COOCHIE, une exposition mettant à l’honneur les “upside-down” de Gustav Verbeek, bande dessinée se lisant deux fois, une fois normalement, et une fois en retournant la planche le tête en bas.
Bref, Strasbulles se positionne bel et bien comme un festival mettant en avant la bande dessinée créative.
Infos espace Micro-Édition

L’espace Micro-Édition a initié l’an dernier LA GAZETTE DU FESTIVAL, qui pour des raisons techniques n’a pas pu voir le jour. cette année, celle-ci reprend du poil de la bête en proposant une gazette réalisée, reproduite et diffusée sur place, dans la bonne tradition du fanzinat. Au menu : Interview, dessins originaux, et bien des surprises.

PERFORMANCES :
-Jeudi, de 15h à 18h, Sketchcrawl. Parcours-croquis dans la ville de Strasbourg. Tout le monde est le bienvenu. Départ au guichet d’accueil STRASBULLES à la gare de Strasbourg.
-Vendredi, de 13h à 18h, Performance Créative. Les auteurs participants réaliseront en quelques heures une oeuvre originale de 2 ou 3 planches à partir d’un élément scénaristique ou graphique choisi en toute liberté dans une planche de l’œuvre d’EMILE BRAVO, parrain de STRASBULLES. Le ton et le style graphique restent au choix de chaque participant. Accès libre au public à partir de 15h00. Lieu : Médiathèque A. Malraux, 1, Presqu’île André Malraux, 67076 Strasbourg.
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CONCENTRÉ sur le week-end du 27 et 28 juin, les rencontres avec les auteurs se feront de manière conviviales. Lors du salon, venez faire un tour à l’espace enfant, adulte, détente, sans oublier les nombreuses expositions dans l’ensemble de la ville. N’oublions pas également l’espace Comics et l’espace Bouquiniste. On peut aussi se restaurer sur place, ce qui est bien pratique en cas de défaillance hypoglycémique !
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Toutes les informations sur http://strasbulles.fr/
Venez nombreux.

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Carousel Slideshow: Gabrielle Bell, Michael Kupperman, Robert Sikoryak


Robert Sikoryak: We’re playing with two awesome bands and Carousel, a multimedia cartoonists performance group. i know, i don’t really understand it either, but it sounds amazing.

The Walking Hellos @ Union Pool 6/24
with Pretendo (ex-/present Enon, Skeleton Key, Mono Puff, Morricone Youth) Gold Streets, and Carousel (live cartoon performance art featuring Gabrielle Bell (Cecil and Jordan); Michael Kupperman (Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim); R. Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics))

Wednesday, June 24, 8pm
Union Pool – Union Ave corner Meeker Ave
Subway: L Train (Lorimer St.) / G Train (Metropolitan Ave.)
cover: $8
http://www.myspace.com/unionpool

Pretendo http://myspace.com/pretendo – 8pm
The Walking Hellos http://myspace.com/walkinghellos – 9pm
Gold Streets http://myspace.com/goldstreets – 10pm
Carousel (emceeing between sets)

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The Precinct: now with *more* explosions & nudity


Just to let all Precinct officers know: the Precinct blog is actually being regularly updated at the moment with partially on-topic posts about the development of the Precinct animated series. Also some ranting, silly Photoshopping and drawings of various TV characters as squat cylinders.

http://nakedfella.com/blog/

I recently rejigged our pilot animation, adding more explosions and a bare arse.

http://www.theprecinctrocks.com/

Plus, our lead character, Sgt Ackersley, is now Twittering.

http://twitter.com/sgtackersley

I can’t guarantee he’ll do it for long, as he’s slightly technophobic and prefers spending his time punching sheets of corrugated iron and warming camel jerky over a bar heater.

Regards,
David Blumenstein
(angry lieutenant)
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English Translations – Comickaze Cambodia

Kong-monirath-English
Kong Monirath

Moeu-Diyadaravuth-English
Moeu Diyadaravuth

(Comic referenced is here: http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3113
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinfest)

Tuy-Chanthoeurn-English
Tuy Chanthoeurn

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