Institut Pacome: Hostile Takover?

Institut PacomeHello,

Since January first, 2008, a hostile tender offer is launched on Institut Pacôme . The whole of the team tries since to be contained, and hopes well to leave victorious this combat, thanks in particular to the tenacity of our expensive and rigid owner, Large Professor Pacôme, glory with him.

Armed with rifles and other guns with mushrooms of its invention, it hopes well to resist to the end, and us other authors – bound by blood to its person let us be well obliged to follow it in its resistance…

A tender offer on an association has surprised us, but we learned with our great stupor that the treaty of Lisbon (new European treaty approved without referendum) had registered black on white this possibility: to leave free course with competition, it will be from now on possible that a company can practise a tender offer on any other structure having an unspecified commercial goal (association, church, etc)

Yours sincerely, and soon of the news of our dear beautiful quite famous Institut! Sylvain-Moizie, Aide of famous Professor Pacôme

Institut Pacome

Bonjour,
Depuis le premier janvier 2008, une OPA hostile est lancée sur l’Institut Pacôme. L’ensemble de l’équipe tente depuis de se contenir, et compte bien sortir vainqueur de ce combat, grâce notamment à la ténacité de notre cher et rigide patron, le Grand Professeur Pacôme, gloire à lui. Armé de fusils et autres canons à champignons de son invention, il compte bien résister jusqu’au bout, et nous autres auteurs -liés par le sang à sa personne- sommes bien obligés de le suivre dans sa résistance…

Une OPA sur une association nous a surpris, mais nous avons appris à notre grande stupeur que le traité de Lisbonne (nouveau traité européen approuvé sans référendum) avait inscrit noir sur blanc cette possibilité : pour laisser libre cours à la concurrence, il sera désormais possible qu’une société puisse pratiquer une OPA sur n’importe quelle autre structure ayant un but commercial quelconque (association, église, etc)

Bien à vous, et bientôt des nouvelles de notre cher bel Institut bien fameux !

Sylvain-Moizie
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Aide à domicile de l’illustre Professeur Pacôme

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24 Hour Drawpocalypse

24 Hours to Save the World: David Chelsea of Portland, Oregon rips a page from the Jack Bauer playbook to save the universe by drawing a 24 page comic book in 24 hours.

April 5th
Cosmic Monkey Comics
5335 NE Sandy Blvd.
Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWilgB0SbWc

http://picturepoetry.wordpress.com/

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Lady Bugs


Jo Waite has webbed up a series of illustrations in the gallery – as has Casey Bug Creations!

(Some kind of theme happening here?) Check them both out!

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Don’t Be Shame, Be Game: Comic Book Funny #2

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BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN

http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode02.mp3

In this episode, we are sex-obsessed. We talk about the comics in free youth magazine STREETWIZE and how its spin-off, GAOLWIZE, helped inmates get laid safely, we discuss the least erotic comic book ever made in Australia and even many of Ben’s Tootleg Boy music tracks are about sex. Sexy!

Also, we plug our own stuff again, touch on the giant “Life: Be In It!” ball and classic Aussie cartoonists, there’s plenty of swearing and David impugns the reputation of a dead cartoonist. Plus an exclusive interview with William Shatner!

http://del.icio.us/comicslifestyle/comicbookfunny2

More comics podcasts?

Aussie Podcasts @ ComicSpot.blogspot.com, Adam Ford.

English language: Indy Spinner Rack, Inkstuds, and for the more mainstream crowd, Geek Speak and Fanboy Radio.


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‘Samnang’ Luke

Lucky Luke, the popular French cowboy comic character, makes his debut in Khmer:
Saturday 22 March at Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Bonjour,

Les Editions du Mékong/Cambodge Soir Hebdo vous invitent au vernissage – le samedi 22 mars à 16h00 au CCF – de la BD de Lucky Luke, “En remontant le Mississipi”, pour la première traduite en khmer.
Tres cordialement,


Emmanuelle Billier-Gauthier
Editions du Mékong
Directrice Gestion & Développement
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Directrice adjointe de la publication
Phnom Penh, Cambodge
00 855 (0)92 91 63 71
www.cambodgesoir.info

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Minty Fresh

From Ben Hutchings:

I did a series of coins for the Royal Australian Mint!

There will be 6 coins in all, each with a different character. This is Binny Bilby.

(The koala coin image isn’t quite how I drew it just in case you were wondering)

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Below Tree Level


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

Tales from a One Eyed Girl

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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Not So Bitter Pill

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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Cowboy Kung-Fu: A Glimpse Of Burmese Comics

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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.

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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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