from everyone’s favorite goth, Che Gilson

This year I resolve to get rich and famous, submit more scripts to comic book companies. (I finished and sent the one to Dark Horse and if I don’t hear back from them in a few months I’m sending it to AP.)

I resolve to do SOMETHING with my art. Although I’m not sure what. I should resolve to learn more about the computer. And it’s application for art. (I’ve picked up a little already!)

I resolve to educate myself. Read more classic literature and books on science and history.

Submit short stories to magazines and maybe even start work on THAT novel.

I think I have more but I forgot. I probably should have written it down.

I also resolve to acquire a gothic/lolita wardrobe and WEAR IT IN PUBLIC!

Okay…I think that about does it.

Maybe if I feel really ambitious, I’ll buy some language tapes.

That’s IT for Che Gilson

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from Greg MacKay:

I have been working on the much anticipated sequal to arachnodactyly to be named dichloestomaenia which details the slow death of an artist at war in the shed. I am also working on a novel sized comic adaptation of several historical memoirs, tentatlively titled ‘The Little Boy’ In between painting drawing and drinking.

Gregory

from Kirrily Schell:

Comix projects:

There you go, a light sprinkle of my comix endeavours for the New Year.

winxaplenty,

Kirrily

Win Tane’s Bra

hi john its me stefan and heres my turn.

2004 for stefan.

ill see in the new year camping in flowerdale and for the immediate future remain homeless and on the run in australia till i can decide where i want to live,

…work is continuing on WIN TANE’S BRA

the longest city of tales story. (40 page murder mystery)

clayton noone has finished his part and now i gotta do my mine, 6 pages finished so far and

when i can find somewhere to stay with a table i will get stuck in.

musically there is stuff to do.

Pumice is working out a deal with US label last visible dog to release

the new album RAFT. also gigs in melbourne (8th jan. with ON and ARCHAIC FORMS at planet cafe), adelaide (hopefully 18th jan. with ON and CHRIS SMITH but still being finalised) and brisbane (7th feb. as part of the what is music festival) another possibility is a new zealand tour with chris knox but yet to be confirmed….sometime this year i will get a

dog of my own but i wanna see more of the world too…..jeez.

-stefan

Froth/Pumice

from MPF:

hey jimmy

those pix look awrite awrite and here’s some details on ’em if you dare care…

These are some of the 333 photos taken at the closing party for ‘the hands of braddock’ show, which was the launch of froth/pumice split comic book/record and 4 new posters by aaron.

The opening show also had a stall manned by nat ‘n ali and a live show from pumice.

those shots are coming soon…

1)18 drummers by stefan

2) froth corner w/ nick potter’s head

3) l-r elron (lcd), stepchild and the butcher (jihad against america)

4) l-r aaron,paul (panel of judges) and stepchild gettin’ hasty

5) devilshark plays fer the kids (the idea was to go buy a pack of smokes from the milk bar, but the extension chord was a bit short) with a chain mail vest, ruined strings and LOUD backpack amp.

6) some of the ‘jams’ from a slide projector that was on the wall fer people to use and abuse.

7) froth/pumice jam piece from previous day w/ tim’s new comic to the left.

2004 for froth will become more evident after the first month, but tentatively,now workin in a print room, i have big plans to print BIG BOOKS, namely proan/urgh and a new pure evil anthology by the end of the year.

Already, intact fer shows is the next silent army groop show at early gallery, (february 20th) with over 30 comicists(currently being curated with lachlan, kieran and aaron) and the dark woods exhibition which kicks off in Hobart on the 13th of feb.

And, yes, the new silentarmy collection, still in progress, will be finished in the first half of 2004.

yer

happy new year arsehole. xxxx

DevilShark outside 7th Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

Also, sadly the departure of Tim Danko for New Zealand. Could signal a new era though for trans-Tasman collaboration.

click for pix

My New Years’ Resolution:

Do a 20-30 page comic in Khmer to be printed and sold on newsstands in Cambodia. Show the look, feel, taste and smell of life there.

Translate into French and English.

All else beyond that is Gravy.

Maybe apply for Xeric Grant. Do a site for the Pox Girls. Travel to Australia, if $ allows it. Learn some French, beef up my Khmer.

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‘Resolution’ is a piss-poor term to describe plans, goals, ideas, but I guess it’s the term that sticks. What’s your comix plans, dreams, threats, manifesto? Where are you at, where are you going?

Email it to me and I’ll whack them all online for New Year. Pictures are good, we like them.

In the States until the 4th. If you want one, I’ve got copies of Indonesian QuickDraw #5 and other goodies.

http://www.qdcomic.com/indonesia

– J Platypus Punkrock

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