The Lecture

New From Q-Ray:

http://www.geocities.com/thelecture/

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Melbourne: Next Wave Forum ++Publishing Limits++

Publishing Limits

-What can and can’t (or will and won’t) get published in Australia?

-What’s profitable?

-What do audiences want?

-How can a writer find their audience?

-What if your work’s too small, too niche or too out there for the publishers?

-Where or what are the alternatives?

Details are below:

Next Wave ‘Critical Culture’ forum.

Publishing Limits

Featuring:

ALEX BURNS, editor of ëDisinformationí – www.disinfo.com.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS, editorial advisor at Text Publishing.

KIRRILY SCHELL, comic-book creator and artist involved

with the small press, Silent Army.

ALEX KEEBLE from Ocean Press.

FRIDAY 28th MAY

5pm Publishing Limits

VENUE ó Next Wave Festival Club

Level 3, 96 Flinders St

Melbourne 3000.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/20/1084917664554.html

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Harvey Pekar hits the rainy city

…and Silent Army is there.

http://www.nextwave.org.au/cgi-bin/2004/shows2.cgi?action=details&id=102

Background on the founding father of modern autobio comics –

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224570868.html

Next Wave Writeup

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/28/1085641705629.html

Age Article…

And here’s his family’s blog. Yep.

http://www.harveypekar.com

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Indie Indonesia



http://indiecomic.endonesa.net/asset/magazine.htm

For say two dollars it could be yours.

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She was Tokyo when Tokyo wasn’t pop

I am Che’s new job.

Hello everyone,

I have an announcement which I was going to keep under my hat for awhile but word is spreading and by Comicon everyone will know, so here goes. I have recently signed with Tokyo Pop. The project is super secret for now and won’t even be out til next year. But when promotion time comes around I will give everyone more details.

Che Gilson

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Sparkin’



Man, that Silent Army, they’re not so silent!

New anthology – if you’re under 30 and Australian, check it out.

http://www.silentarmy.com/sparks/index.html

Silent Army site currently undergoing rejig courtesy Lachlan Conn.

Aaron O’Donnell spits and polishes a new record release from Tim Rogers.

And Poopsheet kicks in with a review of ‘Pure Evil 6’.

Pure Evil review

http://poopsheetreviews.blogspot.com/2004_05_09_poopsheetreviews_archive.html

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Many Army folks in

Inside Out Show archive:

http://www.westspace.org.au/archive/projects/insideout/insideout.htm

and many are carried by MOON ROCKET DISTRO.

interview with proprietor Moira Clunie:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/smallpress/96209488210223.htm

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Bush Dream

A palm pilot strip from David Chelsea. While he’s having fun with computers and comics, he finds the web reminsicent of public access cable. Wayne’s World, anyone?

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HERMAN, THE LEGAL LABRADOR

HERMAN, THE LEGAL LABRADOR premiere screenings



Boys and girls!

After more than TWO YEARS in the making, it’s FINALLY (!) time for the

unveiling of a truly epic independent animated film. Yes, you and anybody

else who can be stuffed are invited to the long-awaited premiere of…

HERMAN, THE LEGAL LABRADOR

It was a comic about a doggie who’s a lawyer. Now it’s a cartoon about much

the same thing. The difference? You get to see the doggie WALK AROUND AND

BARK AT PEOPLE! YAY!

Starring the voices of SHAUN MICALLEF, ADAM WAJNBERG, KATRINA MATHERS, BRIAN

MILLERSHIP, LOC HUU NGHE, SANTO CILAURO, ADRIAN CALEAR, DUFF, THOMAS PULLAR

and more!

Featuring the cutting edge in JERKY FLASH ANIMATION and PHOTOSHOP LENS

FLARES!

Produced by mega-bucks star-power business maven JEREMY PARKER!

And written, directed and animated by yers truly, DICKHEA– I mean, DAVID

BLUMENSTEIN!



THE DETAILS

Premiere night is THURSDAY, MAY 20 at the FORMER MAGISTRATES COURT, corner

LA TROBE and RUSSELL STs, CITY (the city being Melbourne).

Screenings will take place at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30pm. They’re free, so

there’s no advance booking — tickets at the door.

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Let’s hear it for Pipis

from Stefan Neville in Auckland:

didja hear about me and clayton getting a award for pipis? we got best nz anthology 2003 tho im not sure why it qualifies as an anthology….im poised to release the new pumice cd raft in two weeks. doing a little tour and even talking to magazines and radio. jeez.

NZ ‘Erics’ Awards

http://www.littleprojecta.com/BRD/NZcomics2004.html

City of Tales

http://www.cityoftales.co.nz/

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exerted excerpted

Michael Fikaris on the move:

here is the lowdown on my comics lifestyle….my man, i am still (furthering

thee local culture) making those comics & kicking back all the while for miles

on miles…..

Just finished –

colour comic for ‘Demented by excess’, one of 12 cards being handed out at this

years NextWave festival.

· Hand drawn posters for ‘Goo’ show at Early Gallery with over 30 others

· Digital reprinting of froth 16 contents for web-zine www.undergrowth.net.au

Coming Soon –

· The Empty Show , Fitzroy : April 18th….

· NUCA! Australias 50 most uncollectable artists card set www.uncollectables.net

· BLENDER Swatch book of ‘blending’ artists for a studio show in this years

NextWave festival (look at thenext wave web site soon for more here).

· 67% say they were misled… exhibition catalogue (and a poster in the show) to

be opened in Melbourne and Dublin simultaneously on May 4th

· A workshop on April 24th for the MAUS show at Jewish museum

Coming up –

· OUTLANDISH –
[you’ll have to wait for this one…]

· STEPCHILD to be included in local radio station cd and booklet in May…

Mikal, easter Sunday 2004.

RIP Braddock:

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