India, Indonesia

The entire Indian Ramayana (in comic form, English) is now online.

The comic adaptation of this was in part an effort to interest India's youth with their heritage... an interesting strategy.
Read the full story at
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/25/indian_epic_ramayana.html
Most Asian countries within India's cultural reach have their own regional variation on the story.

also site Komik Indonesia (Indo mainstream site) now has a Yahoo Group.

http://www.komikindonesia.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/komik_indonesia/

Swing When You're Swimming

Q-Ray's short and sharp 'Batmania', all too real alternate Tasmania featured in Going Down Swinging.

http://mccart.blogspot.com/
Tasmania gallery blog, Silent Army show in the works.

Glutton for punishment and comics down south, Aaron Burgess:
I'll be opening a business in a few weeks, and want to stock a range of zines, mini-comix, and pins. If you publish/make any of these, and would like me to carry them, please send one sample of each item for consideration to PLAY by WIRE, attn: Aaron, PO Box 193, Kings Meadows, TAS 7249

I am more than happy to display promo material for the stock I carry, including flyers, posters, postcards, whatever!

I'm currently looking to stock only Aussie stuff at present, but will look at taking submissions from overseas people down the track (making overseas payments can be a real bitch).

If you would like your submission copies returned please include a S.S.A.E.

With your submission, you will need to include the shelf price(s) (rrp), your postal, and email addy (if you have one).

Like all things, I'd love to buy up front, but as this is a new business starting out, I can only deal via consignment. Thankfully for you I'm only asking for 20% of the shelf price.

Aaron
aaron @ comicsaustralia.com

[Maybe it's something in the water?)

Feed the Machine, web the blog.

Residencies, we got residencies.Stefan Neville in Vienna:

im living in the museumsquartier where theres untold museums and galleries,and fine art but found one room with comics on exhibit, have to track down those responsible

also found this great little comics dispensing machine, for two euro you get a little colour comic in a box. beauty



Stefan also recommends you check out www.comicforum.at



And Gregory MacKay's in Trondheim, Norway, for a comics residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder.
http://blogs.iloha.net/gregory/

Oz Comics Roundup

Michael Fikaris doing some 'extra classic' work.


Kirrily Schell's got some new animation up at Inkwinks dot com.
http://www.inkwinks.com/ks_musk_1.swf

Silent Army is getting together an anthology of all Melbourne Cartoonists.
http://www.silentarmy.com Trouper MPF recommends giving http://www.awcomix.blogspot.com/ a squizz

Mandy Ord has two new comics out, "Dirty Little Creep" and "Sensitive Creatures", at 40 pages each!

More info at Comics Australia (where the image above was stolen from). Discussion at http://forums.ozcomics.com/showthread.php?t=4638

Bruce Mutard has gotten a 'developing writers' grant for a graphic novel to be published in 2006. http://forums.ozcomics.com/showthread.php?t=4685

And Poopsheet reviews Aaron Burgess' anthology 'The Ink'. Sound like a lotta comics action going on down in Tassie...





Zines and comics: Australian Zine Resources
http://www.geocities.com/flickering_reminder/
Sticky is doing some stalls and fundraisers in December. And now they're open on Saturdays!