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Linklog
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- BICOF – John Weeks Silent (mostly) comic of 2009 BICOF visit. Some small revisions will be added prior to printing.
- BICOF – Tomas (Korean)
- partment 3-G – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Phong BICOF (Korean)
- Why I Suck So Bad #10 : Hamlet, Prince of Suck What if Hamlet was a cartoonist?
- Why I Suck So Bad #11
- Why I Suck So Bad #12 Humongous title
- Why I Suck So Bad #13 Featuring SlugDog and special guest star.
- Why I Suck So Bad #14 Kinokuniya, Singapore
- Why I Suck So Bad #15 Visual inspiration.
Charge Forward
hi all
i have a new website…finally. thank you john weeks for kick-starting me…like 3 years ago!!! anyhoo, it’s at http://www.larkpien.com big thanks to sean o’connor for making this possible.
will be attending APE this year which is from feb 21 and 22 in san francisco. i’ve pulled the talents of 20 people together, some artists, some cartoonists, some just comic book readers, (but man they write well!) to produce a comiker’s guide to san francisco.
there hasn’t been a decent guide for visitors of the comic-ilk, and we’re trying to make everyone’s stay a bit more pleasant…if not more adventurous. it will have a full color cover with fold out maps and house 84 pages of eateries, shops, galleries, music venues, toy stores, art supply stores…you get the picture. it’s a big project. i’m going to be baking LOTS of cookies and pouring lots of milk for all the contributors come release party time.
also working on Stories from the Ward #5…bats. plenty of bats.
thanks john,
lp
Froth is Back
“the last volume of froth is now back in circulation w/ reprints of froth16 now including an audio cassette of the stepchild manifesto (originally on minidisc) and reprints of froth17 now including the froth/pumice single on cdr (originally on 7″polycarbonate record)” $11 Australian from P.O. Box 348 Flemington Victoria 3031 Australia.
Mikal notes a flurry of exhibition battles, gigs, parties and possible visit to ‘Pox Ranch’. Yee Haw Comics Lifestyle!
http://www.silentarmy.com
Can’t ward off the Awards
Possible Aeotearoan awards courtesy Darren Schroder and Black River Digital.
Meanwhile, Mandy Ord, Bruce Mutard, and Ben Hutchings are up for OzComics 2003 Awards.http://forums.ozcomics.com/showthread.php?s=6465a2c8567a1c50673fd09494cee772&threadid=2465
FAST BOOKS PRIZE
A prize of $500 is being awarded to the best book self-published
between 1 September 2003 and 30 August 2004 by an Australian writer in each of
the following categories: fiction; poetry; autobiography/memoir/family
history; children’s/young adult; non-fiction general; and history/local history.
Each prize-winner will receive $500 and a trophy containing their book,
framed in acrylic. Contact 02 9555 9757, www.booksandwriters.com.au
The Surface is a new Oz pdf magazine accepting all manner of submissions.
www.thesurface.net
[last two items courtesy NYWF list]
Green Amber
My New Years Resolutions:
1. To be a better greenie – ie, empty the compost bucket more often, keep my wormies alive and tear the little plastic windows from the envelope before I throw them in the recycling.
2. To write more letters. Actually, *any* letters would be an improvement.
3. To get on a plane. Scary thought. Really scary thought but I haven’t made it on to one since 1999 so I reckon it’s time to conquer that particular neurosis.
4. Try not to bring home any more injured/sick pigeons – shall endeavour to look the other way. Is this a good thing? I don’t know…
5. Start a not-for-profit org! More on this later…
Comics-wise, this year I’m planning to do a comic for Knee Pockets #3. David Tang has written the story and has asked me to draw it… a pretty amazing scenario given I can’t actually draw but hey, I’m gonna give it a shot! Also I’m going to try to put out a mini-comic – after all these years of aspiring to fancy schmancy books and full colour compendiums I have decided that I need to return to my roots (so to speak) and do a little photocopied mini-comic that I’ll sell for a dollar or trade. Maybe it’ll be called Big Smoke 9 – maybe not. It’ll probably be full of boring baby stories that no-one wants to read. I’d also love to contribute to a couple of anthology type things so (silent army folks, others?) but I reckon no-one will ask me cause I’ve been so slack in the past. Go on, ask me, ple-ee-ase?
Amber Carvan – Bored Housewife
ambercarvan@iprimus.com.au
(www.ellaberry.com for baby pics)
Tim Danko Shock Split
Tim Danko of Dead Xerox press is moving to New Zealand. Here he does his famed ‘discursive dematerialization’ trick, stepping out of the narrative.
Old P.O. Box is good through March.
tim danko / dead xerox press
P.O. box 68518
Newton
Auckland, New Zealand
Sequential Art Conference, HOWLfest
SEQUENTIAL ART STUDIES CONFERENCE, SYDNEY, 2004
[We all know this is a way of dressing up comics, putting them out in public and convincing people it’s respectable.]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
3RD SEQUENTIAL ART STUDIES CONFERENCE, SYDNEY, 2004
The Interdisciplinary Studies Unit of the Department of Design, UTS(University of Technology, Sydney) announces a Visual Culture event-a mini-conference on mini-comics, and other themes, at UTS on Saturday 22 May, 2004. The unit is again hosting this scholarly conference that will be held during the same week as the 2004 Sydney Writers’ Festival. The inaugural event in 2002 attracted a small but stimulating range of papers from local academics and postgraduate students. In 2003, as a new development, selected local artists participated in the conference along with academics. This approach will be continued in 2004.
Scholars are invited to submit 200 word proposals which address any of the following panels to the appropriate Panel Chair. The conference will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and so welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines and also from cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of comics.
MINICOMICS
This panel aims to investigate the realm of D.I.Y. and low cost yet highly creative examples of hand-made comics featuring innovative use of graphic art and design, personal expression, experimental approaches to storytelling and alternative distribution methods. Papers that deal with aspects such as self-publishing, the production of limited edition minicomics by individuals, rather than teams, with hand-painted and silk-screened covers, the use of recycled papers and boards, shonky staples and hand-sewn binding techniques, manual typography and grass roots production values as well as the notion of minicomics as vehicles of creative expression and visual communication on any subject or theme, will be welcome.
(Panel Chair, Michael Hill: Michael.Hill@uts.edu.au)
SHAPE SHIFTING MANGA
This manga panel will investigate the importance of shape-shifting bodies such as the machine/human forms in mecha (manga featuring mechanical objects such as giant robots and cyborgs) or androgynous male characters of yaoi (manga that depict bishounen [beautiful boy] characters). We will explore how these bodies offer spaces within which to contemplate issues including gender, identity, and cultural difference.
(Panel Chair, Craig Norris: c.norris@uws.edu.au)
COMICS INTO FILM
Following the recent spate of film adaptions of comics this panel will consider the challenges and problems of designing transitions of graphic material from print to screen including the re-design of characters, and the restructuring of narratives, page layouts, scenarios and settings for the cinema.
(Panel Chair, Michael Hill: Michael.Hill@uts.edu.au)
OPEN PANEL
This panel will accommodate papers about comics on themes other than those covered in the above panels.
(Panel Chair, Spiros Xenos: spirosxenos@bigpond.com)
Send proposals (by email only) to the relevant Panel Chair by Sunday 29 February 2004. Conference enquiries may be directed to either of the conference covenors (also by email only):
Michael Hill email: Michael.Hill@uts.edu.au
Craig Norris email: c.norris@uws.edu.au
thanx to ComicsAustralia.com for that. and on the animation front:
From: “lisa ronneberg”
Sent: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 05:01:50 +1000
Subject: [octapod] HOWLfest – films wanted
Hi
We are looking for films, made by women, to screen at HOWLfest 2004.
Any type – short, long, doco’s, comedy, drama, activist, whatever….
Will be screened on Wednesday 28th January 2004. Need to be on VHS format
If you are interested you can send us your tape, with blurb, photo, contact details etc to:
HOWLfest
PO Box 1055
Newcastle 2300
[New South Wales, Australia]
Thanks
Lisa
The latest HOWLfest program is online: www.angelfire.com/oz/howlfest
Oh yeah, and literary Journal Meanjin is still looking for comics for their ‘Asia Issue’.
http://lists.octapod.org/archives/nywf/2004-January/000015.html
DRAWER SPEAKS
[from Kieran Mangan]: As Kieran the “Comic Book Drawer” there are some contradictory points to be
made about 2003 – I did not put pen to paper all the long while, not really
even once, except when I did some drawings of rabbits and bears for a 5 year
old and also later for a 3.5 year old. So it was that I instead (of comic book
creating that is) wrote a film script about a girl who cannot differentiate
between reality and fiction. I also made some music which may or may not be
available one day and also worked an extremely dull job in a windowless
office.
BUT I’m back on the Braddock Band Wagon this year with the upcoming Love &
Hate Extravaganza Explosion at Early Gallery in Collingwood, along with many
other Silent Army Ranking Officials. Though more on this later. With this as a
start, I will hopefully be executing a whole lot of pen and ink nonsense this
year, though time always shows if the fruit is ripe enough to fall from the
tree.
I will be talking at the Make It Up Day thingo at the Melbourne Town Hall on
the 24th of January, for anyone who is interested in hearing half thought out
concepts regarding autobiographical comics. Other than all this, keep checking
www.silentarmy.com for updates on all our literary philandering.
And remember, it’s the Year of the Monkey, and that’s just gotta be good.
Sleazon’s Greasings
In the spirit of the New Year, and much beer…. Aaron O’Donnell presents
Colour cover, BW inside. All drawn while so under the influence it’s surprising I could hold a pen. An experiment delving into the artistic side of the mind of a retarted
alcoholic three year old. 24 pages.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/noraa22/default.htm
France to Cambodia
Lisa Mandel of Libellus Association:
is pitching a proposal for Cambodia comics teaching August 2004, hoping to have enough $ to bring another comics teacher.