Mandy Ord gets namechecked at able2Know.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/about34542-90.html

Kieran Mangan: the man, the myth: appreciation at Dreadnought.

http://johnheard.blogspot.com/2004/11/kieran-mangan-ii-more-viking-tunes.html

i was in the best comic shop i ever seen the other day. called Bries in antwerp:

they publish stuff too buts they only got small independant press up to the giants like fantagraphics, but heaps of small handmade brain spew silk screen, fingerprints and glue stuff, theres a nice scene for that stuff in belgium it seems

look at www.jellecrama.tk and www.dennistyfus.tk i hadda spend hours in there.

run as a non profit labour of love by a woman called ria. and they had that new JIMBO IN PURGATORY book. fuckin thing wouldnt even fit in my backpack but it looks incredible. the only nz stuff in the shop was the MAUI graphic novel, some tatty anal attrocities and the new FRED THE CLOWN book. i never knew there was one must be real new huh? went to this comics museum but 1. i was exhausted and grumpy and 2. it seemed a bit rubbish. no original herge art or nothing. just heaps of shit figurines and keyrings. got that ron rege jr YEIST HOIST book tho. what a doozy.

also in bries was a copy of mangens URGH! he has no idea how it got there and also a copy of that one from hobart about a salmon fisherman? by ben someone? i forget its title but i think ive seen that particular comic in more unexpected corners of the world than any other. im not even surpriesed to see it any more.



finished 40 pages of win tanes bra. the city of tales novel. theres still a few more

to go.

shit.

stefan.

http://quartier21.mqw.at/kuenstlerstudios/stipendiaten.php?Id=60&BackTo=liste-stipendiaten.php&BackToType=List

http://blogs.iloha.net/gregory/

After doing a round of back breaking illustration work I decided to construct myself a drawing board. I bought a piece of MDF board for $8, got it cut to size. Nailed a piece of square doweling into the front of the desk then just leaned the board up against this and the wall. Voila! Instant drawing board at a fraction of the cost. So you could say one of my new years resolutions would be to spend more time making comics on my new drawing board.

-Anthony Woodward.

If you can speak Indonesian, there’s a benefit Komik on the way for Aceh.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mki/

Nominations for the inaugural annual Ledger Awards include Mandy Ord, Dillon Naylor, Ben Hutchings, Leigh Rigozzi, Ryan Vella.

http://litterartsy.info/ledgerawards/

Commentary on the awards: http://saveded.blogspot.com/

Also informal awards for “shits and giggles” at Pulpfaction.net.

http://forums.pulpfaction.net/viewtopic.php?t=48

Ryan Vella audio interview

http://www.abc.net.au/tropic/stories/s1196279.htm

His final graphic novel ‘The Plot’ is out later this year.

www.willeisner.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48718-2005Jan4.html

http://www.cnn.com//2005/SHOWBIZ/books/01/04/obit.eisner.ap/index.html

palm pilot comic by David Chelsea.

Kansas City Comics Creators create a Tsunami Relief comic for the Red Cross, in league with Ronin Studios. I’ve never heard of either, but this sounds like a good effort.

Contact Rob Schamberger wia this thread at the CCN Message Board:

http://p206.ezboard.com/fthekcccnmessageboardfrm1.showMessage?topicID=426.topic



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