OzComics 24-Hour Challenge 2006

This Queens Birthday weekend (June 10-12) artists, animators, designers and illustrators from around Australia and the World will aim to produce a 24 page comic in 24 hours. That’s plotting, scripting, layouts, pencilling and lettering, in 24 hours, work that usually takes a month

Event Organiser Mark Selan commented “This event is open to everyone with a passion for the medium of comics or for just telling stories in interesting ways… and because it is a web based event anyone from rural or remote Australia will have the same opportunity as the metro areas to participate and in doing so show their talents to a wide audience”

The 24 Hour Challenge is Coordinated from an online HQ at http://www.ozcomics24.com/ participants will report on their progress in dedicated forums, posting work live to the web as it happens. Some participants will gather in small groups while some will choose to work alone. They will labour in a concentrated burst of creativity and productivity that is unique to this event.

For more information, contact:

Jacen Carpenter

Phone: (07) 4658 3311 (work)

E-mail: jacen_c@hotmail.com

Click for full press release

A night for stars, awards and amazement. Gallery showing, jam strips, talks, interviews and the yearly Eric Awards!

Darren tries to contain his enthusiasm.	Dylan talks on his travels in Cornucopia.	Tim interviews pioneering comic artist Eric Resetar!

http://isaac.freeman.org.nz/blog/archives/2006/05/new_zealand_com.html
courtesy Isaac Freeman. Pictures here, and review here.

Click for downloadable comic in PDF (& other formats) on copyright and ‘fair use’.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html

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Palm Pilot comic from David Chelsea.

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(For New Zealand Comics published 2004 and 2005)

Best Comic:
JaredLane, Progress #5

Best Anthology:
FuntimeComics, Unau Prolepsis

Best Short Piece:
SophieMacMillan, Speed is Fast, Sound is Loud

Best Strip:
JamesSquire, Fishing for Orphans

Best Web-Comic:
GrantBuist, Jitterati

Best Debut:
Samuel Kileen-Chance

Best Art:
ClaytonNoone and StefanNeville, WinTanesBra

Best Writing:
TimothyKidd, CameTheDawn

Best Comics Related Website:
http://www.comics.org.nz

Best Distribution:
Moon Rocket

more at:

http://comics.org.nz/wiki/index.php?EricAwards

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Nina Paley, ‘America’s Best Loved Unknown Cartoonist, has just gotten a Guggenheim fellowship for her inspired take on the ‘Ramayana’ story, the ‘Sitayana’ (Sita Sings the Blues). Way to go!

She is now hard at work on new episodes.
http://www.ninapaley.com/2006/04/wow.html

At Kinokuniya in Jakarta, a lively discussion (‘diskusi’) of the Indonesian
translation of Dragonslippers (by Rosalind B Penfold )

http://dragonslippers.com
http://surjorimba.blogs.friendster.com/machine_messiah/2006/04/dragonslippers_.html
(English writeup)
http://www.pragatcomic.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=19&?topic=106.msg236
(Indonesian writeup)