Come back to the five and dime, Timmy Dee, Timmy Dee

Damn right Tim Danko's happy. He's exploring a different angle of antipodal comics as he now calls Auckland his home. (As eyes tear over in Melbourne...)

Catch him at this weekend's Auckland meeting of Black River Digital.

Unfamiliar with the Danko ouvre? He's got some of his comics webbed up as Adobe PDF files.


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

Flying at you

is Benda Terbang (Flying Objects)/Selamat Pagi Urbaz (Hello City People) from Beng Rahadian, printed by Terrantbooks (What's the ISBN?. International Serial Book Number)



Benda Terbang dan Selamat Pagi Urbaz karya Beng Rahadian akan berada di pasaran Indonesia pada July ini.

Bandito Ben Hutchings

is getting animation gigs - here's an article on what he's been up to. And he's webbed up hisGlenjamin launch at RockApe.


http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/tribesvengeance/preview_6100124.html

More at http://www.effect.net.au/geeen/

Reunion

palm pilot comic from David Chelsea

Dharma Developments

Ant Sang's 8 issue self-published Dharma Punks is in development for filming.



DPunk page
http://www.antsang.co.nz/dharma.htm
Review
http://www.ybfree.com/26PUNKS1.html
Film Fun
http://www.haynesfilm.co.nz/

He's also got some online comics up, check them out!
www.antsang.co.nz

Makes Your Throat Go Tight

Chris Ware edits the latest issue of McSweeney's.


http://www.mcsweeneys.net

This could be fun.

The Writing on the Wall

Those Silent Army kids, always on the go. Here they are defacing the National Gallery of Victoria. Somehow they got in the exhibition book too.

More pix

24 Hours in Portland

From David Chelsea:



My 24 -hour Comic experience went better than I had any right to expect. I wrapped mine up at 6 am, three hours short of deadline- I then went back and added some blacks and extra details, but I was basically done by 7. I'm not quite sure what I did right, but working over perspective grids did give me something of a head start, the ghostly suggestion of a scene rather than a terrifying blank page. I was also the only one in the room to follow McCloud's recommendation of taking it one page at a time- two other artists tried tackling all their pencils first and ran out of time.

The square columns of my perspective grids suggested the girders of a building, and Harold Lloyd has always been a favorite of mine (hence the glasses), so I decided to basically remake ''Safety Last", stealing all the gags I could half-remember. Random pieces of reference pulled from a sack hourly helped keep the story from being too slavishly derivative (I did reject three pieces outright- an explicit cunnilingus scene which would have thrown off my resolve to not work blue for once, a Ground Zero image I considered too loaded, and a John Byrne drawing of Wonder Woman, since I couldn't think of a way to use it that wouldn't look like either sucking up to or gratuitously twitting the mainstream).

The end result is goofy and insubstantial but not more so than "Welcome To The Zone". I would definitely do it again - after having been mired for years in perfectionist constipation over the Storefront project I found this a welcome way to rack up pages without thinking too hard about it.


http://www.pdxcomic.com/

Comic about 24 hours @ Chez Chelsea:
http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044/C1162162177/index.html

Comics Competitiveness, cheap thrills, Undergrowth

COMIC ILLUSTRATION DESIGN COMPETITION 2004

http://www.sayembara-festival-award.com/

Harvey Pekar frenzy continues.

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

also, new issue of Undergrowth is out. 2004_06_17_Undergrowth2.htm

Love that Logo

Comics Liberation Front.
http://p078.ezboard.com/fcomicsaustraliaannounce.showMessage?topicID=665.topic

All for you

The Traveling Zinemobile wants your books and comics for a tour of USA and Canada. Francais OK!



And www.minicomixcoop.org is looking for your comics to globally swap.

Zine World needs your comics for review -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zine_world/

- and Mopy Strawfellow gets a review via Poopsheet.
http://poopsheetreviews.blogspot.com/2004_05_23_poopsheetreviews_archive.html

Over at ModernTales, (which has the foresight to publish Mandy Ord)
Joey Manley is creating a hosting package for web comics.
http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/viewtopic.php?t=16275

Froth / Pumice

hello.

letting yous know ive just reissued the froth/pumice comic/record i made with michael fikaris last year. this time its a cd and comic, the 7" version is long gone....anyway theys $10pp each from me at po box 68518, newton, auckland.

as michael said comic book pages which conjure mystery, doubt, sentimental rubbish and the EXPLOSION!

stefan

Stefan also is touring NZ for the new Pumice CD on Last Visible Dog records, and says there's a fine view at the top of Mt. Vic in Wellington.

KBOO

Palm Pilot strip from David Chelsea.

www.kboo.org