DaveBradbury [via] pictozine [dot] co [dot] nz
Last Tuesday evening of every month, in Melbourne at FOREPAW.
[cheers to Melbournecomics.com for tipoff]
Tags: comics
Khmer language teacher Frank Smith has just finished his 92 megabyte podcast of interviews from Cambodian comics nonprofit “Our Books“. If you have a fast office connection give it a go.
Discussion at Asia Finest: http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=92490
Discussion at Khmer Connection: http://khmer.cc/community/t.c?b=1&t=2747
Tags: comics
ho ho! bam! big ass mini book debuted at spx this last weekend and the first opinion hits the chattery message board of the comics jounies… and four out of the six people in his top category are australian! thats gold gold gold for australia! nice to know that your stuff actually works on some level, for somebody. cheers.
click here to read the whole review
“Instead of running through the book in order, I’m going to divide it into four categories and address the work in each.
1) Work that I would have published, were I the editor. This is, sadly, the slimmest category. But there are some real gems in this book! It is a great pleasure to see Art Baxter in print again – his SPUD was an excellent book and his two stories in BAM! are lovely. Tim Danko is a truly original new voice in comics, and his HOLES is excellent. My story is good but I should have scanned it better and it looks weird on the page, that’s life. Glenn Smith’s “Ding,” which closes the book, is quite well drawn. And a long Mandy Ord story is always welcome. I found Ben Hutchings’ gags quite funny. Les McClaine can do better work but this is fine for a quick bit. So that’s 55 pages, or a little over 1/10 of the book’s length, that I would have paid to publish. “
reviewed on the comics journal message board by k thor jensen.
Some frends of comic comunity in Bandung and Surabaya also did the same activities. We were exciting to do it, because it was a lot of fun and the togetherness feeling between us was high.
Dear Folks,
hello and welcome to the latest scene in my story ‘I Knew Him’, which
is a long story in comic book form published on the web. When you
click on the link below, it’ll take you directly to the first page
(page 20) of the most recent scene I’ve put up. If you click on
‘index’, you’ll be able to go back in the story. Also in ‘index’, you
can register yourself on the mailing list and find out each time a
Scene (or, alternatively, a longer Act, is published).
http://www.cardigancomics.com./iknewhim/comic.php?page=20
This scene was pencilled and inked up in Cairns on a recent family
holiday (August: so long ago now!), and on the originals, the ink leaked
into the paper a whole lot more than on previous pages, giving little
spider-lines running into the weave of the paper from the main drawn
lines, particularly towards the bottom of the page where the paper has
absorbed more sweat from my hands. Doesn’t really seem to be such a
problem in the reduced size web versions.
The scene is set in a great little cafe that used to be on Rathdowne
Street, La Casa del Caffe. It was one of my favourites, mainly
because of the amazing bamboo ‘cage’ that stood inside the shop. This
was the place I used to ride my bike to after picking up a fresh batch
of comics from Marty Trengove at ‘Dawg Gone Comics’. I’d sit under
that cage and read the latest ‘Cerebus’. It was there that I read the
infamous issue #186, sitting and reading open-mouthed that anyone
would have the gall to say what Dave Sim was writing. My reaction was
not so much condemnation, more amazement that he would DARE. That you
could.
La Casa got a makeover, a ‘spiffing-up’ in the late 90s or so, the
cage got the boot, and I transferred my affections to Brunetti, on
Faraday Street. It was here that I burst out loud laughing at a
sequence later in the ‘Cerebus’ series, but that’s another story…
My thanks in this scene lie with Susan for her close pre-publication
reading and advice, and John Retallick for the gen on PNG references.
Next scene: our three heroes finally meet up and are faced with a
voice from beyond the grave.
Thanks for reading,
Bernard Caleo
Proprietor
Cardigan Comics
www.cardigancomics.com
