http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/exhibitions/kmg/2006/heroes/heroes_villains.html

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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

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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.

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

Tags: comics hi hi everyone…. looks like the print on demand big arse mini go go goes ahead and will be available at this years SPX in USA (coupla days away?) many of the australasian – assasins responded to the call of rampant self interest and prudent thriftiness by sending them their pages (no really, its all about the comic medium…) and so there is a large antipodean representation.

I think the editor david recine at one point exclaimed “we could have a whole new zealand / australian section!”, so in all seriousness good effort everyone, thank you for making it look like the zombo still knows people.

heres the people from here i know that are in it, there maybe others i don’t know on the list.

Ben Hutchings Clint Cure Dave Bradbury Glen Smith Indira Neville Jeremy Woods Jess Johnson Mandy Ord Nick Potter Tim Danko Tim Molloy

congrats to glenn smith for scoring the back cover!!! cher !!

click here for some comics journal latest news about it, or here for the blog about the project.

rah rah the flag!

The Pox Girls (Susan Butcher and Carol Wood) get a spot in Artillery, a Los Angeles art magazine. (Should be published on 14th October.)

And Pox 3 is to be featured in an exhibition at the State Library of Victoria that runs from 20th October to 26th February.

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Regal Beast 3 anthology, Froth 19, Froth 13 reprints, Pure Evil 5 reprints.

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New from Ben Hutchings, president, CEO and only member of Geeen Comix comes

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next issue of this choice publication features a whole stack of drawins and comics by melbournes own mikal p fikaris – on the streets of melbourne ‘n sydney next month. check their site for more info www.isnotmagazine.org