Homecooked Comics Mini-Market

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Homecooked Comics Mini-Market

12-5pm, Sunday 30th April, 309-311 Victoria St, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia

The Homecooked Comics Mini-Market is a new event brought to you by the team behind the Homecooked Comics Festival.

Sunday 30th of April will see 27 artists and publishers exhibiting graphic novels, comics and zines for sale across two studios in Brunswick. Squishface Comic Studio (309 Victoria St) and aHa studio (311 Victoria St).

New faces from both Victoria and interstate, as well as established local creators, will all be in attendance, all with new books. Pick up Laura Burroni’s The Fistman, an autobiographical book about life as an Italian migrant in Australia, Cristian Roux’s historical account of the life of Melbourne detective John Christie or Volume 2 of Fil Barlow’s influential book Zooniverse, just to name a few!

As always Homecooked Comics brings you the best of what the Australian comics scene has to offer.

Celebrate drawing and publishing at Australia’s home of comics-making, Squishface Comic Studio.

Sarah Howell
Festival Director
Homecooked Comics Festival
sarahhowellprojects@gmail.com
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Come down to buy new books from the following artists and publishers.
Fil Barlow and Helen Maier
Alex Smith
Dale Maccanti
Matthew Nicholls
Neale Blanden
Jo Waite
Katherine Sarpi
Laura Burroni
Andrew Fulton
Cristian Roux
Michael Fikaris
Silent Army
Sticky Institute
Marlo Mogensen
Squishface Studio Artists
Milk Shadow Books
Paper Tree Press and Pikitia Press
Sophia Parsons Cope
Amy Rolfe
Clea Chiller
Thomas Tung
Pete Correy
Steve Carter and Antoinette Ryder

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United Front: Portuguese Comic Party

nnFriday, May 5 at 7 PM – 11 PM WotStudios : Workshops, Studios & Art-Services 8 Weirs Lane,, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3051
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Join us for the fourth installment of the ‘united front’ of underground comic book publishers of the world. This month, there’s copies of 3 oversized anthologies from Clube do Inferno + some prints and books on display from Chilli Com Carne.nn

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International comics art show TONIGHT at Silent Army Storeroom in North Melbourne 7- 11pm w/ oversize anthologies from and Clube do Inferno and prints from http://chilicomcarne.blogspot.com.au/ out of Portugal. Live sounds from https://sargood.bandcamp.com/releases and BYO fun at the monthly open studio goodness of WotStudios : Workshops, Studios & Art-Services Come and say ola! and get some fine comics Melbourne friends!

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Silent Army: United Front Comic Book Party #3: German Artists

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nnTHE PUBLICATIONS:
Yin Yang Yong +
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nnTHE EVENING:
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nnTHE VENUE:
WOT studios: 8 Weirs Lane Nt Melbourne​​nn

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“L’année du lièvre” | Rencontre avec Tian (exposition)

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At French Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

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nnCambodian-French artist Keu Tian chronicles his family’s survival of the Khmer Rouge time, in a series of 3 graphic novels, “nnL’année du lièvrenn“. 

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An exposition opening will be held at Phnom Penh’s French Institute on International Human Rights Day, Thursday December 10th.nn

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“Tian was born three days after the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975. From his first years, he didn’t keep any precise memories , but he decided to collect the testimony of his father – a doctor by this time – in order to make a graphic novel. It has resulted in L’année du lièvre, a trilogy that tells his family’shistory: the escape attempts, the ordinary cruelty, and the indoctrination. While the third volume of L’année du lièvre will be released in France, the French Institute is presenting an exhibition tracing the artistic journey of Tian, from the very first sketches to the final plates.Besides this exhibition, a discussion with Tian will also be held on on Tuesday 15 December at 6.30pm. He will also take part in a series of workshops organized in partnership with Ngos Sipar and Phare Ponleu Selpak.Tian: L’année du lièvre. The making of a graphic novel.Launch on Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm.Exhibition in French, Khmer and English. Until 16 January 2015.Free entrance.  Discussion with Tian: Tuesday 15 December at 6.30pm.”   

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Please also visit: Tian’s blog

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Programme November December Exposition Tian

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Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/483534001847372/permalink/485852431615529/

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French Institute site / event profile: http://institutfrancais-cambodge.com/en/expo-tian-lannee-du-lievre/

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Homecooked Comics Mini-Market

nnMEDIA RELEASE

Homecooked Comics Mini-Market

12-5pm, Sunday 30th April, 309-311 Victoria St, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia

The Homecooked Comics Mini-Market is a new event brought to you by the team behind the Homecooked Comics Festival.

Sunday 30th of April will see 27 artists and publishers exhibiting graphic novels, comics and zines for sale across two studios in Brunswick. Squishface Comic Studio (309 Victoria St) and aHa studio (311 Victoria St).

New faces from both Victoria and interstate, as well as established local creators, will all be in attendance, all with new books. Pick up Laura Burroni’s The Fistman, an autobiographical book about life as an Italian migrant in Australia, Cristian Roux’s historical account of the life of Melbourne detective John Christie or Volume 2 of Fil Barlow’s influential book Zooniverse, just to name a few!

As always Homecooked Comics brings you the best of what the Australian comics scene has to offer.

Celebrate drawing and publishing at Australia’s home of comics-making, Squishface Comic Studio.

Sarah Howell
Festival Director
Homecooked Comics Festival
sarahhowellprojects@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/HomecookedComics/n

Come down to buy new books from the following artists and publishers.
Fil Barlow and Helen Maier
Alex Smith
Dale Maccanti
Matthew Nicholls
Neale Blanden
Jo Waite
Katherine Sarpi
Laura Burroni
Andrew Fulton
Cristian Roux
Michael Fikaris
Silent Army
Sticky Institute
Marlo Mogensen
Squishface Studio Artists
Milk Shadow Books
Paper Tree Press and Pikitia Press
Sophia Parsons Cope
Amy Rolfe
Clea Chiller
Thomas Tung
Pete Correy
Steve Carter and Antoinette Ryder

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Silent Army: United Front Comic Book Party #3: German Artists

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nnTHE PUBLICATIONS:
Yin Yang Yong +
Schnosel Mosel​nn

nnTHE EVENING:
w/ live music by Boganonn

nnTHE VENUE:
WOT studios: 8 Weirs Lane Nt Melbourne​​nn

https://www.facebook.com/events/2238413256383340/

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“L’année du lièvre” | Rencontre avec Tian (exposition)

At French Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

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nnCambodian-French artist Keu Tian chronicles his family’s survival of the Khmer Rouge time, in a series of 3 graphic novels, “nnL’année du lièvrenn“. 

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/khmer-rouge-stories-graphic-not-explicit-detail

An exposition opening will be held at Phnom Penh’s French Institute on International Human Rights Day, Thursday December 10th.nn

“Tian was born three days after the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975. From his first years, he didn’t keep any precise memories , but he decided to collect the testimony of his father – a doctor by this time – in order to make a graphic novel. It has resulted in L’année du lièvre, a trilogy that tells his family’shistory: the escape attempts, the ordinary cruelty, and the indoctrination. While the third volume of L’année du lièvre will be released in France, the French Institute is presenting an exhibition tracing the artistic journey of Tian, from the very first sketches to the final plates.Besides this exhibition, a discussion with Tian will also be held on on Tuesday 15 December at 6.30pm. He will also take part in a series of workshops organized in partnership with Ngos Sipar and Phare Ponleu Selpak.Tian: L’année du lièvre. The making of a graphic novel.Launch on Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm.Exhibition in French, Khmer and English. Until 16 January 2015.Free entrance.  Discussion with Tian: Tuesday 15 December at 6.30pm.”   

Please also visit: Tian’s blog

Programme November December Exposition Tian

Prog Nov Dec_Rencontre Tian

Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/483534001847372/permalink/485852431615529/

French Institute site / event profile: http://institutfrancais-cambodge.com/en/expo-tian-lannee-du-lievre/

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RIP Institut Pacome

After 15 years, famed Strasbourg purveyor of comic delights Institute Pacome is closing down its operations. (Draft translation from French:)

nn“After 15 years of existence, the institute songs, jewel precursor of the micro-Edition Strasbourg, famous research institute for illustrative purposes mycological, closes its doors after the death of his illustrious boss, the immenseProfessor Songs, knocked out in his sleep by the fall of comic stored on a shelf in small crates, attached to the wall above his bed.”

We celebrate this disappearance by a powerful and symbolic act during the
Central Lounge Steam 2015, devoted to drawing, the illustration and comics, in Strasbourg even, the city where the illustrious professor started this adventure in January 2000.

A proper eco-friendly ceremony (in order to recycle some of our creativity in an outburst of enjoying myself and grinning) which, to quote bobi nadsurprise “in these time villains, gets more and more desirable ( in English in the text )”.

The funeral ceremony will take place on Sunday 13 December at 14 pm at the hall of columns (10, rue du le hohwald, in front of the dairy), At the salon of independents (the weekend central steam reserved for the presence of micro-Publishers from France, but also of Switzerland, Italy or Belgium.)

We will bring the coffin in the contemplation and with the your great-garde who was the one of professor, this in the middle of all this merry band of avant-garde more or less young and more or less variegated. The coffin will go then join the depths, in a will of creative recycling.

A buffet from the coffin will follow a ceremony.
Thank you for coming.

Proper attire demanded.

Site of the central lounge steam: http://centralvapeur.org/site-festival/2015/
Herewith, the ex-voto inaugurating the series of tributes to the isb.
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Signed by: all the minions of the immense professor songs,
Of fire the institute of the same name.nn

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beatonna:nnMore Goreys! Shipping deadlines are coming on hard…

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Shipping deadlines are coming on hard for the Topatoco store, so get your orders in! 

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5 Questions with Reza Farazmand, creator of Poorly Drawn Lines

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What inspired you to startnPDL?

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Ingot into cartooning toward the end of high school when I discovered MattnGroening’s Life in Hell. I’d mainlynjust read the Sunday comics up until then, and Groening’s stuff was this othernside to the medium that I hadn’t seen before. It was edgy satire, and it feltnlike such a cool way to express ideas. A few months later in college I started PDL.

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nI’m partial to Mrs. Jones, but who is your favorite character? Are any of themnbased on real people?

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Inlike Kevin the blue duck. He’s naïve and trusting, but might secretly be thensmartest guy in the room. Or he might just be thinking about cake. His characternhas a lot of depth.

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Thenonly PDL character explicitly based on a real person is Jacques Cousteau, who’snbased on the French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. And also Small Cat, who isnbased on Neil Armstrong.

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I read that you only tooknon writing PDL full-time a year ago. Tell me more about your background, whatnwere you doing before?

I started writing PDLnfull time in March 2013. Before that I worked for a media company in LosnAngeles, mainly writing and editing for blogs. It was my first job out ofncollege, and I spent a lot of time there day-dreaming about being anprofessional cartoonist. After a couple years of drawing PDL on my lunchnbreaks, my audience was large enough that going full time became a real option.

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With so much great contentnto choose from, how do you choose what gets published? Is there a largernnarrative arc you try to convey in our book or is the idea to just print thenfunniest ones?

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Havingnmy work on the internet means I know exactly which comics have done well withnthe most people. So it was easy for me to put together the fan favorites, alongnwith my own personal favorites. A big chunk of the book is brand new material,nwhich keeps the same tone as the stuff from the website. There’s no narrativenarc, but the book is divided into sections based on topics like robots andnfriendship.

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It’s pretty incredible tonsee the success of PDL take off so quickly– you have an amazing followingnonline that manifests itself in the form of hilarious comments, and hello,nyour book is coming out in October from Plume!– what kinds of projects are younlooking forward to in the future?

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I’dnlike to do a longer form graphic novel or novella. I love writing short strips,nbut it would be a fun challenge to work on something with a story arc.  

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Bonus: What books have younread recently that you loved?

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The Great OutdoornFight by Chris Onstad, Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel by Tao Lin, Battling Boy by Paul Pope, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Poorly Drawn Lines: Good Ideas and Amazing Stories is available now, click here to buy! And follow @pdlcomics on tumblr immediately. 

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Interview with Strand Books. The PDL book is out now.

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