Palm pilot comic from David Chelsea.

Latest Going Down Swinging features proud papaTim Danko (.NZ) and Kirrily Schell (.au).
The latter also is featuring some updated comics and animation at
http://kirrilyblog.blogspot.com

A certain unnamed Indonesian comicist may be getting out of jail soon with lots of source material for a new comic. Hang in there dude.

The Collected You Stink And I Don’t

now available from Mr. Ben Hutchings.
http://www.effect.net.au/geeen/

‘Grotesque’ features Glenn Smith! And publisher Express Media is looking for a literary festival coordinator. (Comics folks are elegible.)

And you had better be there!

http://www.secretfriendsociety.com

This site, which serializes comics from myself and Kean Soo (http://www.keaner.net), is where all my love and energy has been going for the last couple months. Please check it out and help spread the word!

–Hope

Artist Gregory Mackay launched his intermediate comics anthology ‘transtion papers’ at Amsterdams famous comics store Lambiek at the new year. The special EU and scandinavian edition of the comic was well recieved by the two proprieters of the store.

From Silent Army Encampment, Melbourne:

Well hello there good people.

This is a note of interest to any and all who want to hang – out at personal

proximity as comic artists, together, in public.

Plus – the last call fer True Fantasy submissions!

A last call fer RSVP’s on TRAILS .bring ya sketchies!

‘N hey – let’s start a JAM aswell – that’ll keep us goin fer a while!

Shit shootin and loose tootin from 7pm Saturday At Jeromes – New Caladonia

Lane in the City – we’ll be down the back in the basement, past the loo. ( there’s some little band called the avalanches playin that night too, so if it gets just a lil too public we can move it on out to somewhere less cavalcading, ok? )

well, until then – DRAW MORE!

Love ‘n wisses,

Mikal and Kieran.

From Kieran Mangan:

here are some pics from the tranzit show silent army was a part of

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more: http://www.comicslifestyle.com/archives/2005_01_27_tranz-it.htm

Australian comics are fiercely local reworkings of an international form.

They terrify the natives and befuddle overseas observers.

http://www.cardigancomics.com/manifesto.php