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
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
http://homepage.mac.com/sparrowsfall/iblog/B2087645656/C1548588669/E2144054770/
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!)
