Extra Classic

Citylights in association with Multiplex and WorldSquare present

OUTSIDE THE SQUAREEXTRA CLASSICAMAC ::: ASHTEK ::: BONSAI ::: RICHARD BUTLER-BOWDON ::: CIVIL ::: LACHLAN CONN JAMES DODD ::: FERS ::: MICHEAL FIKARIS ::: HAHA ::: LTMP ::: KIERAN MANGAN MARCSTA ::: MONKEE ::: NUROK ::: PHIBZ ::: REKA ::: RONE ::: AL STARKLIVE WALL WORK ::: WORLD SQUARE HOARDINGS

CORNER OF GEORGE AND GOULBURN ST SYDNEY ::: AUSTRALIA

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 TO SUNDAY AUGUST 22::: 2004

On view until December 2005

DIRECTION AND CURATION ::: ANDREW MACPRODUCTION ::: KEIRAN MANGAN

PRODUCTION ::: DEVEN MARRINER

DOCUMENTATION AND VIDEO ::: SHYAM GANJU

WEB DESIGN AND PRODUCER ::: WENDY COOPER :::

WWW.STANDARD13.COMON SITE WEB PRODUCTION ::: DAVID CAMPBELL::: SUPPORTED BY :::MULTIPLEX ::: WORLD SQUARE ::: BELTON-MOLOTOW ::: GLOBEhttp://www.citylightsproject.com

CITYLIGHTS – ALWAYS OPEN! – SINCE 1996!

ABOUT EXTRA CLASSIC

More than 18 artists collaborate on Australia’s largest street art project at World Square in Sydney. Corner of George and Goulburn St.AUGUST 18 to 22. This Wednesday August 18, Citylights, Multiplex and World Square will present an unprecedented collaborative public art project on the hoardings of the World Square site in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. OUTSIDE THE SQUARE-EXTRA CLASSIC will feature stencils, painting and graffiti on over 170 metres of panels, by 18 artists working with the Citylights Project out of Melbourne. Coordinated by artist Andrew Mac, director of Citylights, EXTRA CLASSIC includes artists Amac, Ashtek, Bonsai, Richard Butler-Bowdon, Civil, Lachlan Conn, James Dodd, Fers, Micheal Fikaris, HaHa, LTMP, Kieran Mangan, Marcsta, Monkee, Nurok, Phibz, Reka, Rone, Al Stark and special guests. Over 5 days the artists will live opposite the site and collaborate on this massive wall work, displaying an exceptional range of styles and technique in full view of the public.The citylightsproject.com website is receiving will feature daily updates on EXTRA CLASSIC progress.

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Sound Proof Room

http://www.silentarmy.com/td_cv/spf_room.pdf

Soundproofed? Well here’s a ‘thump’.

http://www.silentarmy.com/td_cv/thump.htm



Courtesy Tim Danko.

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Global Hobo!

Global Hobo, handmade comics distributor, will attend Comic-Con International 2004, sharing a booth with Sparkplug Comic Books, Alternative Comics, and I Will Destroy You.





Global Hobo will display a wealth of handmade comics, including the new Monster Boxes by Lark Pien and Thien Pham, Seafood by Josh Frankel, Midnight Creep by Fredo, a new mini by Graham Annable, and a Slow Wave mini by Jesse Reklaw.

Alternative Comics will debut the new Rosetta Volume 2, with work by Michael Kupperman, Lat, Craig Thompson, and others. I Will Destroy You will debut two new silkscreened posters designed by Tom Neely. We also present 8 new T-shirt designs by: Andrice Arp, Kathleen Lolley, Tom Neely, Lark Pien, Joe Sayers, and Gene Yang. Many of the artists will be scheduled to sign books, show original art, preview their new projects, and do small sketches.

Find us at Comic-Con International, July 22-25, in booth 1620, right next to Last Gasp.

Sparkplug Comic Books

Alternative Comics

I Will Destroy You

Global Hobo

courtesy Poopsheet.

See more of Jesse

and Lark at

at

East Bay Express
.

More of Global Hobo at

http://www.tcj.com/messboard/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002989.html

http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000270.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Global+Hobo%22+%2B+%22San+Diego%22

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LimeWire



Palm Pilot comic from David Chelsea.

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The Eagle Has Landed

Tracy White writes re: San Diego Comic-Con:

Watch for Tranquility Base (booth #1230) where I’ve teamed up with four of my all-time favorite webcomics artists (Patrick Farley, Jenn Manley Lee, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Tracy White) to showcase our work and, well… have a place to sit! You can find us right across from the Image Comics pavillion, featuring the Flight Anthology booth (including Pants Press) and Scott Kurtz; and right next to Dumbrella and Keenspot. Y’think San Diego’s getting a handle on this web thing? Sure looks like it. [This just in: You can also find Lea Hernandez at 1429!]

R. Stevens has dubbed our neighborhood on the floor as “Sexy Lagoon.” Here’s a map:





also be on a panel: “Friday: 12:00-1:00 24 Hour Comics. Why would a cartoonist try to create a 24-page story in 24 straight hours? Concept creator Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics ), 24 Hour Comics Day founder Nat Gertler, comics shop owner Atom! Freeman, and cartoonists Christian Gossett of The Red Star, Josh Howard of Dead@17, and Ryan Browne of 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2004 talk about their 24 hour comics experiences. Room 1B.”

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PJ Update

News from artist, musician, archivist and renaissance man Peter Jetnikoff:

I’m currently working on two graphic novels, The Island and The Coast, one a kind of sequel to the other. Both vaguely in the horror genre but more like recent Japanese films like Ringu or Kairo that anything Gothic or Hollywood.

They have their origin in a short story I wrote a long time ago which I was going to recycle as clean waste paper about two years ago. I took a second look at the old arch file I kept the story in and thought: well, I’m on holidays anyway, read it again.

It was a self-conscious bore but for the setting and the characters so I started thinking of it visually and realised that all that time I’d spent years ago had persistently left out a face-slappingly obvious element: sea monsters. So, I now had a comic that needed doing.

The Island is set the week after the end of school 1979 on Magnetic Island, North Queensland where two school friends prepare to make their farewells to adolescence, what innocence remains within them, the provincial city they grew up in, and, finally, each other, before they fight lots and lots of seamonsters.

With The Coast, I decided to take the two characters who were leaving town in the first one and plonk them on the Gold Coast for Schoolies Week 1980 where the loss of innocence happens on an epidemic scale, hearts are torn, minds lost, and spirits vaccumed out of each last partying soul, before the entire place is invaded by insane numbers of sea monsters. (Ok, the last bit there doesn’t happen, but I thought, consistency and all.)

Apart from that I’m continuing on my voyage of discovery through the realm of short film scoring, having just handed one in to SBS TV and now getting through another with great promises of increased funding (which will probably just end up being a pot of beer and a packet of twisties at the pub but we must start somewhere).

Apart from that the Rouge Homme Pinot Noir has plummeted in quality since its magnificent 1998 vintage and … Oh, crikey, who am I kidding, I work, I play, I do my laundry.

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Thinkin’, Inkin’.



 

Courtesy Aaron of ComicsAustralia:

64 pages, mini, B&W, $7.00. You can pick up a copy at www.PhaseTwoComics.com, CD Centre in Launceston, and ASAP in Kings Comics, Minotaur and other select comic stores.

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Son of Origins

More from Aaron O’Donnell’s upcoming ‘Mickey Mouse Spider’. You saw it here first.

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Back to Work



 

Back in action, Tom Hart’s Xeric Award-winning classic Hutch Owen’s Working Hard is now online!

If you haven’t read this, sit back and treat yourself.

(Thanks to Bugpowder blog for this.)

 

More fun at http://www.newhatstories.com/

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Odds and ends



Boing Boing blog notes a Spanish site featuring trademarked characters with HIV. 

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/15/wonder_woman_superma.html

 

Undergrowth #3 “”Tales of the Simulacrum” is looking for contributions.

http://lists.octapod.org/archives/nywf/2004-July/000081.html

New article on newfangled ‘Graphic Novels’, from New York Times.

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