Dear friends,
You are cordially invited to the opening of the Melbourne Fringe Festival exhibition, ‘Aggressively Strange Fables: Melbourne Underground Comics and Animation Art’ .

At the opening on the 28 September, comic anthology ‘Tango7: Love and Sedition’ will be launched.

Also, Aaron Doty and Nicole Skeltys will be launching their comic book
‘Pigeon Coup’ on the same night.

Friday, September 28, 2007 at 8:00pm

Location: North Bazaar
Street: 222 High Street Northcote
City/Town: Melbourne, Australia

Map and more:Strange_Fables.pdf

www.strangefables.com
www.cardigancomics.com
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It took a few years, but perseverance pays off, as Nicki Greenberg lets loose her Great Gatsby adaptation on an unsuspecting world. (Good lord! Is it actually possible to make money from comics? Yes, if you keep your nib and brush working for six years straight.)

Nicki is now making the rounds with book signings, and talks at high schools, colleges and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival.

Hitting the stores early this month, the press is a-twitter here and here.

The graphic novel features some rather unique interpretations of the characters (above), but no one seems to be complaining. First printed by Allen & Unwin in Australia, it will be published in Canada in 2008. The States will have to wait a few more years due to legal wrangling. Their loss.

More news at www.nickigreenberg.com and http://nickigreenberg.blogspot.com

(Cheers for permission to use pix!)
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By popular demand we are instituting a new semi-regular category:
photos of spunky comics folks.

Leading off are Miss Helen (Fly Away Bird) and Leigh Rigozzi(Trevally of the Shadow of Death) at Penrith Zine Fair. Saddle Up!

(Show report to follow.)

below: bonus feature: Beer and Croquet with Matt Hyunh (Stikman)


Photos courtesy tilda mindy n co , paradisekingswood
Send in your nominations and pix (any gender, any orientation) to
comics [dot] lifestyle [via] gmail [dot] com.

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Will be happening 29 September including Lisa Mandel, and Jeffrey Lewis.

http://www.crea-kingersheim.com
Click for Full info in English (machine translation) or French.

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The Stumptown Comics Fest will be held Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 – 30, from 10 AM – 6 PM, at the Lloyd Center Doubletree in Portland, Oregon. Admission is $5 at the door.

The special guests for this year’s Stumptown Comics Fest:

– Matt Wagner will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of his influential creation, Grendel;
– Carol Lay, justly lauded for her long-running weekly strip, ‘Story Minute’;
– Pete Bagge, who created Buddy Bradley, one of the seminal comics characters of the ’90s;
– Webcartoonist Shaenon Garrity, who recently wrapped up her beloved daily strip, Narbonic;
– Mike & Laura Allred, whose joyous pop-inflected cartooning (including “Madman”) is a favorite of both independent and mainstream fans;
– Sarah Oleksyk, known as much for her gorgeously designed prints as her dream-inflected comics;
– and Ted Rall, famous and infamous for his political cartoons and comics journalism.

Exhibitor tables are still available, at $110 for a full table and $70 for a half table, through August 24th.

[Thanks to Steve Lieber for tipoff]
www.periscopestudio.com / http://mercurystudio.blogspot.com

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