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
Tags: comics
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)
(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
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
come along to North Bazaar, 222 High Street Northcote, at 8pm this on
Friday night the 12th of October, for the final in a series of three
great Fridays celebrating the work of local comic book makers and
animators. All have been part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival
exhibition, ‘Aggressively Strange Fables: Melbourne Underground Comics
and Animation Art Exhibition’ (
‘The Great Australian Graphic Novel’
Nicki Greenberg’s graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic
‘The Great Gatsby’ was launched last month. Bruce Mutard’s tale of a
conscientious objector living in Melbourne during the Second World War
will be published in April 2008. Both these books are being published
by Allen & Unwin, and we are thrilled to present Nicki and Bruce in
conversation with their publisher, Erica Wagner.
Nicki and Bruce will be showing images from their work on the large
screen at North Bazaar.
The discussion will centre around how the publication of these books
has come about, and cast forward as to the future of the ‘big serious
comic book’ in Australia.
Time: 8 – 9pm
Place: North Bazaar, 222 High Street Northcote
Cost: Free, and it’s a good chance to check out the exhibition as
well, which officially finishes on Sunday 14 October.
Hope to see you there!
From Ben Hutchings:
SUPANOVA POP CULTURE EXPO THIS WEEKEND!
October 12-14, The Dome
Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney
I will be attending as usual, so stop by the artist’s alley and pick up a copy of You Stink & I Don’t, look through my sketches and tell me how Lesson Master changed your life! Glenjamin #3 will be back in print too and I shall be sharing a table with the mighty talented David Blumenstein. See you there, yo.
Why is Helen ecstatic? She’s been having a blast at the Penrith Zine Fair, in addition to ‘Zine Factory’, an exhibition of work by her and Leigh Rigozzi.
Full of motion and creativity, it seems a ‘kinetic factory’, as Ninety Nine would put it.
And this was a few weeks ago. So next up: news from the National Young Writers Festival / This Is Not Art Festival.
(Thx to tilda mindy n co for photo above.)
Tags: comics,zines
David Chelsea wields his palm pilot to capture some brief moments at the Stumptown Comics Festival [Portland, Oregon, USA]. About 600 more at the Festival’s Flickr Pool.
The music video for THE HAPPIEST BOY was directed by myself, and animated in Flash by myself, Kelly Lynagh and Michael Vandenhoven, who will be receiving pizza for their efforts.
The video was also released today, which means I’m hanging out to see it on RAGE pretty soon. Maybe elsewhere, too, depending on how broad the Philosopher’s appeal is among the target demo (MARKETING TALK, APPARENTLY). If he makes a Missy Higgins-style explosion into the mainstream we’re all set.
What I’m suggesting is that you watch the video on YouTube as soon as possible:
NAKEDFELLA COMICS #9 will be available shortly at shops which stock good independent comix. In the meantime, the FIRST THREE PEOPLE who send me a reply e-mail correctly identifying a ROOKIE FLASH ANIMATION MISTAKE I made in the HAPPIEST BOY video clip (we’re not counting my cheaty animation itself) will receive a copy free!
Regards,
David
