Che Gilson (resolving to get professional work last year) is hard at work on Dark Moon Diary for Tokyopop, with Michael Vega.

“MY New Year’s Resolution is to work harder to make money!”

Last year’s resolutions? Still working on Cambodia comic. Managed to do an exhibition of Khmer comics, and another’s on the way. Pox Girls site didn’t happen but they are game to do one, am going to ask them to start filing away stuff.

Also managed to visit the States and share comics and cheer with friends I haven’t seen in years.

2005 Resolutions: Try to find a balance between curating and creating.

1. Get that Weeksy Cambodia Comic off.

2. Exposition V.2 with Indonesian exchange.

3. ComicsLifestyle.com continues to feature artists no one else dares to or cares to.

4. Make some damn money.

5. If item #4 permits, go to Australia and do Pox site.

6. Write more postcards, emails and letters.

There’s more, but that’ll do for now.

And you?

Silent Army’s Kieran Mangan is doing anthology, so is Michael Fikaris and Lachlan Conn. (At this rate, who’s next?)

Delete the animal and insert standard net punctuation to email:

kjmangan mongoose at iinet.net.au

Top Shelf gets a shipment of comics impounded for “Richie Bush” – a comic originally printed years ago in “World War 3 Illustrated“, which most USA readers could purchase in Borders bookshop.

Now it’s banned? The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is getting in on the act.

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/city_beat.php

(Courtesy Poopsheet)

Prinsens (above)

I’ve managed to have a few meetings with the local underground comics

guys and they are all pretty good. We drank beers in the local 200 year

old bar, swapped comics and traded strories about the comics scene in

australia and in scandinavia. I am selling my comics at the local comics

shop for 49 kroners each and trying to draw everyday. Norwegians like

most europeans LOVE comics so I am having a good time collecting weird

norwegian comics.

Photocopies are expensive here ( like everything else)

and the comics are nearly always printed in denmark or maybe sweden and

zines are uncommon. The standard is high here and there are varying

grades of popular type comics everywhere ..( all in norwegian)

Unfortunatly I am leaving soon and am reconciling not having done more

work largley because of the tourist factor the fatigue of a cold weather

climate (it was a mild minus 7 today) and the fact that I painfully

almost broke my arm on the ice (wear spikes!)

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

K Thor Jensen Interview

http://www.comixpedia.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1977&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

More from Aaron O’Donnell’s ‘All Drunk Comics’.

In addition to featuring Kirrily Schell as a cover artist, the Webcomics Review now has a huge list of recommendations for Best Webcomic of 2004, almost all free!

http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/issue041213/top2004.html

palm pilot comic by David Chelsea.

LiveJournal has somehow ‘syndicated’ Comics Lifestyle, automatically.

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=comicslifestyle

If you’re one of their users you can add it to your daisy chain.