Writer Benny Walter and comics artist Leigh Rigozzi say:

Come along to the launch of “Below Tree Level,” our weird book! All welcome, and the sparkling domestic will be flowing.

Get in touch if you can’t make it but would like a copy. Also, the text and illustrations will be around the Circle Track on Mt. Wellington for the duration of the Mountain Festival if you’d like a walk and a read.

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 6:00pm – 7:35pm
Location: Fullers Bookshop
Street: 140 Collins Street
City/Town: Hobart, Australia

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8367256725

http://www.inscrutablepress.com/publications.html

http://tinyurl.com/33s5dr

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Tales from a One Eyed Girl:
The Comic Art of Mandy Ord

Opening Sat March 15
2pm to 4pm
Imp Gallery
145 Greville Street, Prahan
(Above Greville Street Bookstore)
(03) 9510 3531
From March 15 ’til April 6
Wed ’til Sun 12-5pm
Closed Good Friday

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Candy or Medicine is a quarterly mini-comic anthology that always seeks contributors of all skill levels for future volumes. Vol. 2, featuring mini-comic legend Matt Feazell, is on sale now for $1.50 postage page. Vol. 3 will be out April 15.

For more info, updates and submission guidelines, visit www.candyormedicine.com.

Thanks,

Josh

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A Comics Lifestyle correspondent checks in from Burma (whoops, Myanmar) and notes that there is not only a comics publishing world but also a rental industry. In a literate environment with limited interchange with the outside world, books and periodicals are recycled and re-read.

This 2004 book-sized comic by ‘Shawn Aung’ (lovingly re-bound by hand) sports a Bollywood-esque looking painted cover, but the black and white panel interiors would fit well in just about any Southeast Asian country. Subject matter: a mixed bag including banditry & doomed romance; the closest description might be cowboy kung-fu! The most interesting thing is the size: roughly 150 pages, 18.5 by 23.5 cm. Most Southeast Asian comics are A4 or A5, regardless of story length.

You know from Burmese comics? The Mighty Internet hasn’t dredged up much so far, except for hints they exist and are read widely. Drop us a line via info [via] comicslifestyle [dot] com.

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Anthony Woodward has a new project: 99 doodles, for sale on Etsy.

I guess it’s time that I should tell you about what this big surprise ending to the February Art Project is. I’ve been kind of reluctant to commit myself to it actually, but here goes…

The project will not end but in fact evolve into a new project called

‘99 Doodles’

That’s right, I’m going to go until I reach 99 drawings. As if I wasn’t nervous enough about finishing the month of February, but here I am launching myself into this new task of completing almost 100 drawings.

Thus far I feel really happy about the collection of drawings I have made and I’m keen to keep going on some of the themes I’ve hit upon like quilts and urban landscapes. This might be tough to complete the whole thing so I kindly ask you to come and visit often and leave a comment when you can.

Once again all drawings in the project will be for sale for only $20, this time though I’ll have to add $4 for postage to these newer pieces ($20+$4 postage anywhere in the world.) The will be the same dimensions and on the same fantastic Hemp and recycled art quality archival paper.

Here are some of his first samples, and he just completed a video of his working process too! http://awcomix.blogspot.com

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Above: Setting up…

Original pages from Em Satya’s ‘Flower of Battambang‘ are being shown at Siem Reap’s Arthouse gallery until the 3rd of February, as a part of the Spotlight Festival. After that, inquire with Arthouse staff or Our Books if you’d like to purchase a piece. www.thearthousesiemreap.com Below: Em Satya, the Arthouse crew, and children sharing the gallery with their own exhibition artwork derived from Spotlight workshops.

For Em Satya and family it was their first visit to Siem Reap. Next exhibition… Battambang?

Meanwhile, you can still see the graphic novel (10 pages weekly) at Expat-Advisory.com!

http://www.expat-advisory.com/cambodia/phnom-penh/buy-flower-of-battambang-book.php

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The Comics Journal and The Comics Reporter have started to register that there’s gobs of decent book length comics being published in Australia. Why, Melbourne’s just awash in comics.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/strongpublishingstrong-city-awash-with-homegrown-graphic-novels/2008/02/14/1202760489299.html

And not just print either: Keep up to date via these fine podcasts:

Nakedfella Productions Presents: Comic Book Funny

Stand-up comedy is lovely, but it’s got a Twilight Zone-style mirror
world which lives on paper and feeds on ink: the world of the
underground cartoonist.

Australia’s vigorous community of independent comic book makers spend
their days as clerks, shopgirls, students, teachers, ad artists,
animators and telemarketers. By night the spotlight drops onto their
drawing boards and their pens and brushes come out to play.

Their work is angry, scatological, satiric, whimsical and just plain funny.

Comic Book Funny is a series of free events presenting the often
hilarious, occasionally touching and always purchasable works of
Australia’s funniest comics auteurs the print analogue to the rest of
the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

http://www.nakedfella.com/blog/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12385360644

Drop by the Bella Union Bar at Trades Hall each Saturday at 4pm and
you’ll meet a few more talented cartoonists. See their wares! Ask them
questions! Drink with them! Admire their ink-stained fingers!

Featuring Australia’s best and funniest cartoonists:

Saturday March 22: Jo Waite, Dean Rankine, Pat Grant
Saturday March 29: Ben Hutchings, Glenn Smith, Ross Tesoriero
Saturday April 5: Bernard Caleo, Clint Cure, Neale Blanden
Saturday April 12: David Blumenstein, Nicki Greenberg, Andrew Weldon

David Blumenstein and Ben Hutchings will be podcasting local comics talk
and general silliness during the festival, at
http://www.nakedfella.com/blog/.

This show is part of Comedy @ Trades www.comedyattrades.com.au

Venue: Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Melb
Dates: Saturday Mar 22, Mar 29, Apr 5, Apr 12
Tickets: Free
Times: 16:00pm
Bookings: None

ARTIST CONTACT:
David Blumenstein, 0422 509 144, david via nakedfella.com

MEDIA CONTACT: Comedy @ Trades Publicists – Oh Traveller Publicity 03
9481 4155
Natalie Crupi: natalie via ohtraveller.com & Natasha Ludowyk tash via ohtraveller.com

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The ComicSpot has a theme song but no logo – yet. They welcome your submissions and suggestions; drop a comment on their blog if you have ideas.

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Séra has a new volume out: “Lendemains de Cendres” and it is a stunner. For those who are curious to see Cambodian history as expressed via comic art, this is a major publishing event, following his earlier ‘Impasse et Rouge’ and ‘Eau et la Terre’.
http://www.eurasie.net/webzine/L-eau-et-la-terre-Lendemains-de.html
http://www.chronicart.com/bd/chronique.php?id=10553
More news and reviews to follow.
In Cambodia? There is one copy left at Carnets d’ Asie, Phnom Penh.

meanwhile,

Siem Reap’s ArtHouse will be exhibiting art from the book as part of the upcoming Spotlight Festival – this Thursday the 21st!

And finally, StickyGum has been traveling through Cambodia and has webbed up some slice-of-life cartoons with the aid of a digital camera.

(cheers Damien!)

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Here are MPF’s minutes and pics:

t’was a hot n muggy day in campbell arcade
i was there at 12:05 chattin w/ luke over juice
Michael Hawkins(swordholder n pal from Tas) was there at 12:15

Clint was there soon after and I finished my panels(up now) at 12:45

Bernard,Alice, Cass,Clint, Michael and I were all drawing away by 1

photos by sticky and letter writing out front with visitors crowded us in=fun!

by 2 i was across mall at pals record shop and up at Hells kitchen by 3
on return there were too many questions about the project i couldnt answer…
(”can anyone draw” “why is it called rehab” “what will the zine be like?” etc)
missed a friend and got new providence comic anthology ‘dragomen’ and
was given a couple, in particular Tim Molloys newie ‘Under the bed’
(look for this one).
Tim and I then started some exquisite corpses and bernard and family left
as his buddy john continued to ask questions and take notes.
Nick Potter and I started some more ‘corpses’ and Carl Von Burger came
to collect my 6 page thread for his ‘choose yer adventure’ comic
anthology.
Jo Waite came along with her cousin, just as Cassandra left.
Alice left soon after and I realised we had forgotten the zine production…
I left at 4:30 and saw only a handful of images on the table (and 3
exquisite corpses)
so hopefully there are a few things for whoever is preppin up the ziney thing
otherwise – fun was had by all and the shop hung my posters for TRAILS
proudly in the window. yes.

http://www.stickyinstitute.com
http://comicrehab.wordpress.com

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In Italy, women creators are contributing to a community comics metablog. They’re calling themselves ‘The Pusciastova’ . Courtesy Google Translator, how the idea started:

Today I woke up with an unhealthy head; create a virtual lounge for me and my friends…female designers.

In short, we are many, scattered throughout Italy, sometimes we feel alone and misunderstood.

Other times we frullano in mind genialate and have no one to help us give some practical sense, and leave in a drawer.

Instead we could really do great things with moral support and a fair bit of temerity!

So why not join forces rather than stay to make the mold between a table and the other?

[Riuniamoci dummy] to our table and start to deal with all seriousness that joyful female!

What? Pusciastova. Why? And what does it mean?

Well, everything is born of a conversation chatting with Kat, a designer, who spoke the names of our cats. ^ _ ^

I came to a “flash” of a great Russian family where women are the pivot and none of them alone, just like a real, functional, affectionate family structure.

In Russia the women’s surname ends “ova”, the pun was done.

The Pusciastova, the large family of matrioshka, mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, friends.

So, who wants to be part of the family Pusciastova? Unique requirements: to be women and artiste.

Here you will find space for your work and your words.

http://pusciastova.blogspot.com

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