Luminous

Posted on October 20, 2007

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Is perhaps one of the more appropriate terms for describing Naomi Nowak‘s painted comic art – the feelings of characters are quite literally reflected and illuminated, the reader can see them with transparent ease.

Influenced by manga as well as European bande dessineé, Publishers’ Weekly has an interview with the Swedish artist on her second graphic novel from NBM, House of Clay.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6491601.html?nid=2789

More? Try http://www.naomi.se/comics.html
http://komikamagasin.se/artikel/140/kortintervjun-naomi-nowak
http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/unholy/unholyhome.html
http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/details.php?id=583

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Yo it’s AWESOME

Posted on October 19, 2007

USA: Courtesy Liz Baille (My Brain Hurts):

THIS FRIDAY – OCT. 19th – AT ROCKETSHIP

Come one, come all, to the release party for the Awesome anthology, a fundraising antho to benefit Indie Spinner Rack and the Center for Cartoon Studies!

I am under the impression that there will be free beer, as always.

8pm – 208 Smith Street – Brooklyn, NY
718-797-1348

I’ll be there, along with a number of other contributors, such as Charlito & Mr. Phil, Nick Bertozzi, Dylan Babb, Fred Chao, Chris Duffy, Ryan Dunlavey, Alec Longstreth, Jesse Post, Michele Riganese, Neil Swaab, Jamie Tanner, GB Tran, Raina Telgemeier and Fred Van Lente.

Be there and be square!

[event flyer PDF]

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International 24 Hour Comics Drawing Day

Posted on October 18, 2007



http://www.24hourcomics.com

Soda Pop comics in Puerto Rico is one of many groups around the globe gearing up for the 24 hour comics drawing challenge coming this Saturday October 20th. Looking forward to this annual explosion of creativity!


(c) Soda Pop Comics Tags: comics

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Torment

Posted on October 17, 2007



Brazil: Click to read this story from Pulso Cortado.

(c) Mean Comics / Pulso Cortado
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This Is Not Art?

Posted on October 16, 2007

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Australia:Hayden Fryer (above) serves up some photos of the National Young Writers Festival/ This Is Not Art happenings.

Helen gives her concise take on events http://www.spycore.net/wordpress/?p=163
and some pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spycore/tags/tina/

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Lustre in Kluster

Posted on October 15, 2007

Luster in KlusterUSA/Australia: The good folks at Kluster Magazine present an interview with globe-trotting artist/cartoonist Miromi.
http://www.kluster.com.au/issueTwo/miromi.html

More comics and art at www.miromi.org.


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Rock the Casbah

Posted on October 14, 2007

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France: Pangolin is zipping around ‘a million festivals‘ to promote his new memoir. And not just your ordinary ‘carnets du voyage’ – this is straight from Afghanistan!

He has been road testing strips on his blog for ages; for a free preview check out
http://www.20six.fr/pangolin

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‘The Comics Show’ [NZ]

Posted on October 13, 2007

[Courtesy Dylan Horrocks:]
The writing and drawing of comic books in New Zealand is the subject of
a documentary at this year’s Film Festival. The Comics Show will
have two screenings at the Academy Cinema as part of the Auckland season
– on Saturday 14 July at 1pm, and on Monday 16 July at 1pm. (It is
combined, as a double feature, with Questions for Mr Reynolds, another
new documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks, about the artist John
Reynolds.)

In the Wellington Festival, the screenings are Wednesday 1st August at
12.15 and at 1.45 pm, in the NZ Film Archive’s theatre (84 Taranaki
St).

The Comics Show surveys the history of local comics (including Eric
Resetar, the 1950s anti-comic panic, and the arrival of Strips) then
focuses on a number of contemporary artists (including Barry Linton,
Karl Wills, Chris Knox, Jared Lane, Robyn Kenealy, Coco and Pretika,
Jason Brice, Tim Bollinger, Grace Campbell, and Cornelius Stone, among
others).

It visits comic shops (such as Cherry Bomb and Gotham), events
(such as Armageddon, Craftwork and the Eric Awards), and groups (such as
Funtime in Christchurch). It looks at comics’ links with animation
(such as Ant Sang and Bro’Town) and with music (from Flying Nun to
hip hop). It also takes a trip with Dylan Horrocks to the comic shops of
Paris, confirming that comics from New Zealand have a growing reputation
in the land of la bande dessinée.

The documentary derives its visual style from the camerawork of Craig
Wright and Leon Narbey (of Whale Rider), and from its lively use of the
visual conventions of comics. Shirley Horrocks is an award-winning
documentary director whose work has been screened in film festivals
around the world. She reports that she’s had fantastic cooperation
from the comics community for this project. She was hugely impressed by
the number and range of artists, and admits there are many more she
would have liked to feature. She hopes The Comics Show will help to turn
on lots of new people to the pleasures of reading and publishing comics
in New Zealand.

There are only a few screenings and they are likely to sell out fast, so
we advise anyone interested to book as soon as possible (the Festival
website is www.nzff.telecom.co.nz ).

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Mixed Signals

Posted on October 13, 2007


by KJM. (Australia)
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Telle est une Estelle

Posted on October 12, 2007

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What happens when young comics artists get a few years on them? Kids comics seem back on the agenda, from James Kochalka to Art Spiegelman.

The indefatigable Sylvain-Moizie of Institut Pacome and Atelier BD is ‘the most happy guy of France’, doting on his 15 month old daughter and doing some comics about family.

Telle est une Estelle is now available from Editions Delcourt. (And there is more on the way…)
http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/catalogue/bd/telle_est_une_estelle

(c) Sylvain-Moizie Tags: comics,france,BD

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