Comics Australia reviews Neale Blanden‘s opus: Dumpster! Life, death and beyond.
Tom Pomplun says ‘thumbs up’.
$3.00 Australian, best to toss in some extra dosh if you’re mailing international.
Get your copy from
P.O. Box 1173 Huntingdale Victoria 3166 Australia
nealeb [via] holmsglen [dot] vic [dot] edu [dot] au
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Hey everyone,
Sorry for the form mail but I needed to get this info out quickly :>)
Vibewire’s is putting on an e-festival (an online festival) and they want to promote a section of the festival on comics. It’s open to any age group, country, sex, religion etc. The only requirement is that you’re interested in reading and or making comics and you’d like to contribute your thoughts and ideas to forums and discussions.
Send me an e-mail and let me know if you interested in participating. awcomix (@) yahoo.com
See details below
Best regards Anthony
www.vibewire.net/efestival
Mark it in your diary now, ‘cos you’re invited to the second annual e-Festival
of Ideas – a conference with a virtual, democratic twist.
It’s free, it’s on 24 hours a day, and you can join in from anywhere in the
world!
It’s an opportunity for everyone – expert and non-expert – to share
perspectives and insights on issues that matter to you, from global
poverty to climate change to identity, the media, art and travel. These nine
lively panels will feature guests including –
Peter Garrett – Federal MP & musician
Courtney Gibson – Head of Entertainment, ABC TV
Sean Williams – bestselling author
Tom Doig – editor, Voiceworks
Ryan Heath – Author, ‘Please Just F* Off, It’s Our Turn Now’
Megan Spencer – Resident film geek, jjj
Erin Free – editor, Filmink
The panels, supported by articles, blogs and short films cater for any taste, including;
Written Word: getting inspired, funded and published
Visual Arts: comics, anime & beyond
Film: consuming, critiquing and creating
Global Poverty: I can’t achieve anything, so why bother?
The Environment: Does anyone care anymore?
Identity: Who do you think YOU are?!
Technology: Life in the New Millennium
Entertainment: Local Content, Local Space?
Travel: It’s not just the destination…
So come along, join the discussions and tell us what you think!
www.vibewire.net/efestival
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Malta Joe hits the land of the long white cloud:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00195.htm
[courtesy ‘Big D’]
Michael Fikaris finds famous nth. american comic artists almost as interesting as his peers in australia and New Zealand at
Speak: 9 CARTOONISTS w/ IVAN BRUNETTI, CHARLES BURNS
DANIEL CLOWES,ROBERT CRUMB, JAIME HERNANDEZ, GARY
PANTER, SETH, ART SPIEGELMAN and CHRIS WARE.
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Renee French, Levon Jihanian, Andy Kehoe, Kathleen Lolley, Tom Neely, Scot Nobles, Lark Pien, Jesse Reklaw, Billy Reynolds, Zack Soto, Gin Stevens, Scott Teplin and Matthew Thurber.
Tom Neely, Curator
David Jones, Gallery Director
Opening March 10th, 8-10 pm
Harmony Gallery
5911 1/2 Franklin Ave
Hollywood, CA 90028
with Music by D.J. Algonquin
http://counterpointrecordsandbooks.com/events.html
[courtesy
http://iwilldestroyyounews.blogspot.com/2006/03/survival-of-fittest-13-artists-at.html]
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ntn/joe_sacco
[courtesy Darren Schroeder]
Alice and Martina would like to invite you to the launch of:
The Wave Collapses
– comic book adventure game
The book will be launched at the 2006 Next Wave Festival Opening night
Tuesday 14 March, 7pm
Next Wave’s Containers Village, Shed 14, Docklands, Melbourne
Stickers can then be found at selected Next Wave Festival sites
(books are also available at Bus Gallery, Loop, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space and Sticky).
Finish Line Party…2 April, 3pm at LOOP, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne
The Wave Collapses is an interactive comic book adventure game happening in Melbourne during the 2006 Next Wave Festival. The story follows two friends as they explore the city, scratching the surface to reveal the entangled physics of urban interactions.
Starting with a comic book laden with clues and maps you construct the narrative by collecting stickers of the missing images and dialogue. What happens depends on where you go, what you find, and how you complete the story.
The Wave Collapses is the second collaborative work from sister team Alice + Martina Mrongovius following Singularity, a comic book about convenience stores versus quantum physics published by Banditfox in 2002.
Alice: alice[at]banditfox[dot]com
Martina: martina[at]holographics[dot]com[dot]au
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