Will Sell Comics 4 Food

Leigh Rizozzi gets by, Zine Fair 2006 Sydney


It really wasn't too bad. Report from SpyCore:
http://www.spycore.net/wordpress/?p=59#more-59

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NYC Punk Rock Comics Show February 11th

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Making it to Belgium might be hard for some people but making it to the Bowery Poetry Club is easier. This is a flyer for a comics show being organized by the folks in World War IX:




Keep checking the World War IX website for details:

http://www.worldwarix.com/

7 Pages Digest Subscription

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A SUBSCRIPTION TO '7 PAGES DIGEST'?
This year I’ll be frequently putting out my 7 pages Digest zine, of
which I’ll be offering a subscription service.
The Digest comprises of 14 pages of sketchbook material
reproduced in an A6 booklet, which will be coming
out every six weeks. The first three issues have already
come out and the next five will be coming out over
the next six months.

In Australia:
-Be sent the first three issues =$2.00 (AUD)
-Or start a subscription (5 issues) =$5.00 (AUD)

Rest of the world:
-Be sent the first three issues =$3.50
-Or start a subscription (5 issues)=$12.50
-Alternatively get all five issues at once which
saves on postage (5 issues)=$4.50


Send cheque, money order, paypal or well concealed cash to:
A.W Comix, POBOX 174W, Ballarat, VIC. 3350.
awcomix@yahoo.com ~ www.awcomix.blogspot.com
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Backflap Mutants

Cutman and Stitchgirl have a nice story to share with you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13319506@N00/sets/1539100/




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Glenn Smith Phone Home Part II

Glenn Smith has been located.
God help us all.
http://glennoart.com/

Stay tooned for Aussie zinester/toonist 'Where are they now?' feature.

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Streaming and Steaming: Real Portland comics

  Five Northwest [USA] cartoonists, five different styles of non-fiction comics, on the January "Words & Pictures" program.  The Oregonian's  Mike Russell -- of http://www.culturepulp.com -- introduces a  free-wheeling panel discussion he hosted last October at the Stumptown Comics Fest, about bringing a documentary style to the comix form.  
      Guests include "Real Stuff" creator Dennis Eichhorn; Portland historian/cartoonist Khris Soden; Willamette Week's Ryan Alexander-Tanner; and Portland Monthly's David Chelsea.
      It happens this Tuesday morning, 9:30 to 10am, on KBOO radio -- 90.7 on the FM band, or streaming on the web at  http://www.kboo.fm/listen.php

[Courtesy anonymous NorthWest Cartoonist]

New York Breakfast

Palm Pilot comic by David Chelsea

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Glenn Smith Phone Home

Spycore is looking for you.
http://www.spycore.net/wordpress/?p=62

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Ledger Round Two

Click on the image above to cast your vote.
Matt Hyunh and Trudy Cooper seem to be the big favorites.
Not your cup of tea? Lots more awards to be had/made/invented.

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Press Release #2: The Sky Falls this Saturday!

The sky is falling!

An exhibition of art by ten comickers:
Patrick Alexander
Queenie Chan
Matt Huynh
Libbie
Komala Singh
Nathan Soehardi
Sofia
David Tang
Yasinta Widjojo
Sally Woellner

+ OFFICIAL LAUNCH +

Saturday 21 January 2006 2pm-4pm
Gallery Space (upstairs), Mars Hill Café: http://www.marshillcafe.com.au/
331 Church Street, Parramatta – opposite Riverbank Shopping Centre

Finger food including vegetarian options will be served
and all guests are entitled to a free small coffee or cold drink.

(Mega apologies for the short notice; any comic artists are welcome to bring their wares to the launch, including flyers!)

+ EXHIBITION +

The exhibition runs in the downstairs space of Mars Hill Cafe until 18 March 2006.
The café has fantastic coffee and free wireless internet to boot!

Press Release #1 MOOMIN: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC

Drawn & Quarterly will publish the

first of a five-volume series of

MOOMIN: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP
in September 2006, it was announced today by
Chris Oliveros, President & Publisher of the
Montreal-based graphic novel and arts publishing
house. This is the first time the strip will be
published in any form in North America and
will deservedly place cartoonist and author Tove
Jansson among the international cartooning greats
of the last century.

"All of us at D+Q are huge fans of Jansson's
Moomin children's books, especially the editor
of the series, Tom Devlin, who brought the Moomin
comic strips to our attention," said Oliveros.

"The quality and quantity of what Tove created
in the MOOMIN comic strip is nothing short of
astounding."

"To comic strip fans, there are few surprises
or unknown strips outthere that have yet to
be published in  North America,"  said Tom
Devlin, Editor and Production Designer. "To
be the editor of a five-volume series that
will bring the comic strip of one the most
internationally renowned children's authors
nd her creation to a whole new audience is
thrilling. Comic strip fans as well as fans
of the MOOMIN chapter books will be fascinated
by the caliber of Tove's cartooning skills."

Jansson is revered around the world as one of
the foremost children's authors of the twentieth
century for her illustrated chapter books
regarding the magical worlds of her creation,
the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms
but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the
pages of world's largest newspaper the London
Evening News, in 1954.

The strip was syndicated in newspapers around
the world with millions of readers in 40
countries.  MOOMIN: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON
COMIC STRIP; BOOK ONE is the first volume of
Drawn & Quarterly  publishing plan to reprint
the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she
handed over the reigns to her brother Lars
in 1960.

The Moomins are a tight-knit family - hippo-
shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous
outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and
precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits
of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or
rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic
roots. The comic strip reached out to adults
with its gentle and droll sense of humor.
Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's
observations of everyday life, including
guests who overstay their welcome, modern art,
movie stars, and high society, easily caught the
attention of an international audience and still
resonate today.

Tove Jannson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary
Finnish children's book author/artist and
creator of the Moomins, who came to life in
children's books, comic strips, theater,
opera, film,  radio, theme parks, and TV.

For more information, visit
www.drawnandquarterly.com

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Dylan Horrocks on Tove Jansson
http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Tove%20Jansson%20tribute.htm

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Bands/music Named after Tove Jansson characters:
The Hattifatteners
Little My
Baby Snufkin
The Hemulen - Ray Rumors

DIY Comix show

Punk Rock comics show coming up in New York City, Saturday, February 11th.

No, you won't be screened at the door for your knowledge of bands, just come!

More info can be had via http://www.worldwarix.com/

(also check out http://worldwarix.com/comics/comics.html)

[tipoff courtesy JennyDevilDoll] Tags: comics,punk

Stripped Books

Comics about books - and comics about comics!
Try this one - Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti and Seth.

http://www.strippedbooks.com/comics/stripped07/comics-01.html

Histoires de fantomes qu'on rencontre la nuit

is full color comic in French and Khmer by the students from Phare Art School, is now available at Fantastic Planet and other fine bookshops in Phnom Penh. (Edited and printed at 3D Graphics with support from 'Rim Kin' publishing program.)

Lisa 'Savage Pony' Mandel oversaw the workshop with help from Srey Bandol in her fourth visit to Cambodia, in coordination with Libellus Association.

Want a copy? Unofficial arrangements can be made via email. Also, click for travelogue/workshop visit: One, Two, Three and Four.

tags: comics, cambodia

Collective Comics

Sky Noise from Melbourne points our way to the Wooster Collective:

"Late last year we invited a group of our favorite artists to try their hand at creating a series of narratives featuring their characters and street iconography. Many of the artists had never tried adapting their work into a storyline, so the project became equal parts challenging, exciting, and - ultimately - extremely creative and rewarding.

The results of this experiment have just been published in our first "Wooster Comix" The book features a group of over 35 artists from around the world.

http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/01/wooster_comix_1_now_available.html

They include:

Dr. D, Goin, Lobster Roll, Travis Millard, Adam Neate, Bob Krobbauer, Allison Cole, Vinnie Ray, Mel Kadel, Jon Burgerman, Isoe, Justin Kees, Lennard, The Killer Gerbil, MCA, Diego Bergia, Cody Hudson, 0190ren, Matthew Rodriguez, Urban Medium, Pash, Zonenkinder, Ryan Browne, TVboy, Tofer, Rekal, Judith Supine, Numskull, Rafael Badilla, Tihm, Pure Evil, Anthony Lister, Drawwer, Caliper Boy, Eric Orr, Mike Clark"

[Note that aforementioned Pure Evil is not the Australian 'Pure Evil'.]

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Bang, Zoom

To the moon: six year veteran distro (New Zealand's Moon Rocket) calls it a day.
Most small press distros last two to three years, this is a rarity. Kudos to Moira for outgrowing her original intent:

11/01/2006:

dear everyone,

this is getting ridiculous.

i started moon rocket when i was a university student. i had a flexible schedule and a big space of my own for projects. i was busy but it was easy to make time for creative projects, which was what i considered moon rocket to be.

six years later, i am working fulltime at a job i love, which takes a lot of my time and mental energy. [more at http://www.moonrocket.co.nz/]

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Operation Funnybone is 'Go'

What do

Aaron O'Donnell Adrian Ceroni Alex Major Alice Mrongrovius Amanda Jane Penrose Andie Tong Anthony Woodward Arran McKenna Avi Bernshaw Ben Constantine Bernard Caleo Bernard Nagle Brendan Boyd Brendan Tolley Brendon Kirk Brian Jordan & Darren Jordan Chris Lassig Colin Wells & Tony Newton Daniel Cox Daniel Reed Daniel VanderWerff & Daniel Quinney Darren Close Darren Moore Dave Hodson David Blumenstein David Follett

David Kerr David Li Dean Humphries Dean Rankine Dillon Naylor Doug Holgate Gary Lau Gary Wong Gavin Thomson Glenn Smith Hayden Fryer Henry Popienia Holly ShorlandIan C. Thomas Jase Harper Jason Badower Jason Chatfield Jason Frazer Jo Waite Jules Faber Justin Tan Kenneth Chan Kirrilly Schell Lee Hislop & Robert Forrest Leigh Rigozzi Lindsay Arnold Mandy Ord

Marc Schmidt Maria Francisca Matt Bayliss Matthew Huynh Michael Li Mike Delight Nic Drury Nikki Greenberg Owen Heitman Owen Nichols & Tanya Nichols Peta Hewitt Peter Jetnikoff Rachel Wasilejko Rob O'Connor Robert De Graauw Robert Forrest Shane Foley Stewart Mckenny & Annette Kwok Sud Abbas Talitha Nonvellier Tee Hamilton Tonia Walden Troy Kealley Trudy Cooper Wen Chee Zeldz Magnoonis Zeno Sworder

have in common? They're all in 'Operation Funnybone', a compilation comic raising money for Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. It's an strong team effort by a variety of Aussie cartoonists and organizations. http://www.funnybone.org.au/

Goss at http://ianthomasgraphics.blogspot.com
[Cheers for artist list and Funnybone image.]

Artists, if you're on the rather impressive list, you may want to log on to the site and register where you're at and what you're doing!

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Bonne année 2006

et tous mes voeux de réussite et de bonheur.
A bientôt! Daphné Collignon
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The Last Post

brrrrt brt brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
(or whatever the text equivalent is to a feeble bugler tweeting as the sun sets) yes its the last zombo post, and what to leave you with? the wounded and scared turn from cessation of battle for some weary sleep and hopeful relief.... but noooooo, tim has finished the translating (under expert guidance by your Zombo) of the 'Council of Three' manifesto on kimok production of 1922 'Kimok Riot-Cycle!!' and a 'BETA' version is now up on the world wide web, essentially the text is all there, but there are still some illustrations to fill out the doubt (tim assures me that they will be there in the next week).

So if you wish to have a sneak peek, it is there to be seen at http://www.deadxeroxpress.com/riot_cyc/

so yeah.... its been 'real' as the young people are keen to say, wish there had been more N.Z. news but Zombo is never truly gone, and may show with more....

....later.

The Manly Art has no Mistress

ah yes... it is a manly art form the comic art form. What looks like an amazing exhibition is on now in L.A. la la land, "Masters of American Comics" and from the fifteen artists selected,—Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, and Charles M. Schulz at the Hammer Museum, and Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware at MOCA— it would seem that there are no female masters.... surely one could have scraped in? Julie Doucet? Pox girls? Melinda Gebbie? Mandy Ord? Dale Messick? Ramona Fradon?

(gruff sea-faring voice) ...arrrrrh comics, she be a harsh mistress!!


Masters of American Comics is co-curated by scholars John Carlin and Brian Walker, and is coordinated by Hammer Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Director of the Grunwald Center Cynthia Burlingham and MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling.


November 20, 2005 - March 12, 2006 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

National Exhibition Tour

Milwaukee Art Museum
April 27 – August 13, 2006

The Jewish Museum, NY, and
Newark Museum, NJ
September 15, 2006 – January 28, 2007

November 20, 2005 - March 12, 2006

Beginning of the Manifesto of 1922

... its a small thing, early steps. Baby steps! But it is the beginning that matters. A poem from the start of the 'Council of Three' 1922 Manifesto. A call to arms? Maybe... possibly a lament, possibly drawing a line through the past. Some things do get lost in translation.

Click here to see and read....




your Zombo.

Noone & Neville Webbin' the Web City

ey. in our ever tangled website representation me and clayton have a new city of tales website at http://fink.net.nz/cityoftales
our comic books are as ever available from po box 68518, newton, auckland.

carry on.

stfn

Smooth move

Palm pilot comic by David Chelsea.



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Kimok Riot-Cycle Resolution

RESOLUTION ON THE KIMOK-FRONT: CONSIDER NOT IN FAVOUR. FIRST PRODUCTIONS SHOWN US, AS EXPECTED, ARE REMINISCENT OF THE OLD 'ARTISTIC' MODELS IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE N.E.P.- MEN REMIND US OF THE OLD BOURGEOISIE. PROJECTED PRODUCTIONS SCHEDULES FOR THE SUMMER, HERE AND OVERSEAS, INSPIRE NO CONFIDENCE. POSSIBILITIES OF WIDE EXPERIMENTAL WORK ARE IN THE BACKGROUND. ALL EFFORTS, ALL SIGHS, TEARS AND HOPES, ALL PRAYERS ARE TO HER - THE FULL LENGTH GRAFFIK NOVELLE.

Further transmissions from the 'Council of Three', click here to view the full resolution.

your Zombo.

Malta Joe comes to Kiwi-land

In the grand tradition of writer festivals being nice to comic arteestes, the N.Z. writers/arts festival is bringing Joe Sacco to these shores. Rumour has it that tickets are $150 ( a little out of my league) and most of the Joe action seems to be occuring in Wellington. Dylan Horrocks and Tim Bollinger will be sharing a panel or two (lucky ducks!!) with the Joe man... heres the official bio:
Delivering “one of the most creative and unique visions in the arts today” (Time Magazine), Joe Sacco’s comic journalism powerfully brings the Middle East and Bosnia to life. With writers as diverse as Edward Said, Art Spiegelman and Christopher Hitchens in his fan club, Sacco’s reportorial art is powerful and effective, exhibiting a remarkable ability to distil the essence of place and event through pictures and words. It’s a subversive medium and one that the Maltese born, Australia/US-raised Sacco has made his own, establishing himself as both an exceptional journalist and a revered comics artist.

Cornucopian Politics Update

courtesy Dylan Horrocks:

If anyone is curious to know more about the current political situation in Cornucopia, look out for issue 2 of 'Atlas' , to be published in January.
http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Atlas.htm

Some time in the New Year, we also hope to launch a comprehensive guide to
Cornucopia at www.hicksville.co.nz.

Council of Three Manifesto Excerpt

A small taste of the recovered and translated text from 'The Council of Three' manifesto "Komik Riot-Cycle" as more rumbles towards inevitable publication:

"Watching the comiks which came from the West and from Amerika, taking into account the information which we have on the work and

searchings abroad here –

I come to the following conclusion:

Verdict of death, decreed by Kimoks in 1919, to all comiks without exception,

is in effect to this day."

More soon, it is snowing in the Russian homeland.

Your glorious Zombo.

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Captain Caleo Shows it to The Crowd

Sunday, 11 December 2005. Before a packed house at 'Wesley Anne - House of Assembly' on High Street in Northcote in Melbourne in Australia, the proud proprietor of Cardigan Comics, Bernard Caleo, made the speech which launched the sixth issue of the giant romance comics anthology into its public life. 146 pages. 50 contributors. 41 stories. All of them wrapped around love and sex. Caleo explained to the querelous crowd that Tango6 was not a comic book, not a comic book at all, but a bed, and invited all of them to turn aside the covers and climb on in. "It is a bed," he reiterated "and beds mean sex like rain means snails."

As much bemused as amused, the assembled crowd applauded politely before leaving the launch, each with a mulberry-coloured covered book tucked under their arm, each with a fire lit in their eye. They had research to do, and it wasn't going to take place in broad daylight. 'Tango6: Love and Sex' will cost you twenty Australian dollars, and a little extra for postage - contact Bernard Caleo via his site http://www.cardigancomics.com/ to find out how money and comics can change hands.

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new bloggin year!!

Blog blog bloggity blog! It is a new year and new lifestyles on the horizon! The shadowy 'World Council of Three' has unilaterally declared 2006 the "...international year of the Kimok-lifestyle" (?!?) and we here at dead xerox press have been frantically translating from the original russian one of the Councils earliest manifestos to usher in this new Kimok year. Tim is slow but Zombo drives a hard whip, hopefully the results will be up on the web in the next few days. Watch the skies! we have a secret bone to share with you...

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