Not Ghost Rider

...but the skulls, they laugh.



courtesy Michael Fikaris

*BOOK LAUNCH*
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1st
6-9pm at FOREPAW -
275 High street Northcote
Melbourne Australia.

LIMITED EDITION of 100 only w/ IN ORDER of APPEARANCE:
Mandy Ord, Michael Hawkins, Anthony Lister, Paicey, Oliver, Tai Snaith, Anthony Woodward, Leigh Rigozzi, Keg, Carol Wood, Cecilia Fogelberg, Deven Marriner, Vexta, Pandarosa, James Dodd, Al Stark, Braddock, nelio, Daniel Fikaris, Zoe Churchill, Katy Robinson, Ness Flett, Samm Ella Curtis, Tom Civil, Texta Queen, silent army, MoMo, Empire, PoPo, Josh2000,EvE, Miso & Ghostpatrol, Psalm, Cut, Susan Butcher, Tim Molloy, Pip Stafford, Kerry Allemand, Marc Martin, Wesley Denick, Alice Mrongovious, ghost patrol, Nick Potter, Laura Tanner, Aaron O'donnell, Kieran Mangan, Boon, Deviant, Sean Claney, Tres, xero, Jason Heller, Lucrecia Quintanilla, Lachlan Conn, Michael Fikaris, Tim Danko.

Tags: comics

Flower of Battambang

Sotha aspires to marry his sweetheart Phalla, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. But a street altercation casts suspicion and blame on him, and he leaves home to seek a better fortune in Phnom Penh. While Phalla tries to forget Sotha, and consents to an arranged marriage, doubt remains in her heart that this is the correct choice…

Our Books and Meta-House invite you to an exhibition of comic art by Em Satya, on November 6th, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Em Satya is an artist who has worked in nearly every field of illustration. Most foreigners have seen his cartoons as ‘Nono’ in Cambodge Soir, and many Khmer readers have enjoyed his comic adaptations of classics such as Sopaset and Sovannasam.
Now, he presents his first comic in graphic novel format, funded with the help of literary aid project VALEASE.

‘Flower of Battambang’ is a graphic novel set in Battambang and Phnom Penh, shelved when the market for local comics experienced a downturn. Nearly two decades later, Em Satya has taken up his pen and finished the story, which has been assembled into one volume.

The Exhibition will open on November 6th (original art and signed prints will be on sale).

The graphic novel (in Khmer, French and English) will premiere on November 20th.

Can I has maple syrup?

"A cartoonist, a pirate radio station, and the lost letters of a schizophrenic"



Dream cartoonist Jesse Reklaw (the syndicated “Slow Wave”) finds himself within the eye of a tempest when his latest comic depicts the World Trade Center rebuilt as an IHOP staffed by Afghan refugees.

Downstairs, his roommate Fausto keeps to himself by creating lush soundscapes for his weekly pirate radio show and immersing himself in a second-hand photo album containing the lost letters of a schizophrenic. But Fausto’s quiet days are numbered as attention surrounding the cartoon threatens to bring his underground operation into the limelight.

www.compoundeyemovie.com

Hat tip to Shannon Wheeler for info.
Image Copyright © 2007 John Balquist Productions. All Rights Reserved.
Used for promotional purposes.

Tags: comics,cinema

The Fortress

A short story from Brazil's Pulso Cortado.
http://www.myspace.com/pulso_cortado

comics

First Thursday

More here, or FloatingWorld.com.
Tags: comics

Comics Rehabilitation

[from Amber Carvan:]
Are you a comic artist in need of rehabilitation? If not, perhaps you
know one?

I'm looking for people to join me for a stint in:

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COMIC ARTIST REHAB
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Four artists who haven't been as busy as they should commit to
drawing four panels every four days for four weeks.

Yes sirree, that's 28 days of comic artist rehab!

The fine print

1. Artists in rehab must commit to completing the program - this
involves drawing four panels every four days. The comics can be stand-
alone or can be part of a longer story.

2. Artists in rehab will have to scan and upload their own comics to
the rehab blog. Participants will be given an upload schedule and
will have to adhere to it.

3. Comic artist rehab encourages the family and friends of artists
undergoing treatment to drop by to offer encouragement and support. A
comments facility will be available.

4. The program only allows for four participants at one time. If
further artists require rehab, future rounds can easily be arranged.

5. If, it works we can publish the comics in a book/zine. Whaddaya
reckon?

Email me if you're interested or if you'd like to arrange for an
intervention for someone you know!

More info, URL etc, coming soon. Please circulate this notice to your
friends/networks.

Thanks,

Amber 'I so need to go to rehab' Carvan
amber [via] carvan [dot] org
http://comicrehab.wordpress.com/

Art, Activism

It may be that 'The Truth Isn't Sexy' when it comes to trafficking, but the efforts of these artists are certainly admirable.

A wide range of creators participating in this campaign include comicians Dame Darcy and Jacky Fleming, who will be exhibited in OK Comics (Leeds) prior to the main exhibition.

Dame Darcy USA

www.damedarcy.com

One piece to be exhibited

Sam Thorp USA

www.graphicanatomy.com

Two pieces to be exhibited

Elke Donders The Netherlands

www.elkedonders.blogspot.com

One piece to be exhibited

Millicent UK

www.myspace.com/millicent_clown

One piece to be exhibited

Bec Winnell Australia

www.mycharliegirl.com

Three pieces to be exhibited

Michelle Souter UK

www.myspace.com/lazylinepainterbelle

One piece to be exhibited

Nicole Steen Canada

www.thetartgallery.com

One piece to be exhibited

Alison Hedley UK

www.alisonhedley.co.uk

Three pieces to be exhibited

Elena Stoehr Germany

www.myspace.com/itsnotjustboysfun

Many pieces to be exhibited

Jacky Fleming UK

www.jackyfleming.co.uk

Two pieces to be exhibited

Kathryn Cooper UK

www.coopersmarket.com

One piece to be exhibited

Heather Williams UK

www.mynameisheather.co.uk

Two pieces to be exhibited

Sarah Maple UK

www.sarahmaple.com

Three pieces to be exhibited

Rebekah Shirley UK

www.rebekahshirley.co.uk

Four pieces to be exhibited

Kathy Dobash USA

www.beautyflowerpoem.etsy.com

One piece to be exhibited

Karin Soderquist Sweden

www.myspace.com/noliontamer

One piece to be exhibited

Albertin Vanhainen Sweden

One piece to be exhibited

Eliza Lazy UK

www.elizalazy.com

Two pieces to be exhibited

Victoria Lem UK

www.victorialem.com

One piece to be exhibited

Sarah Cullen UK

One piece to be exhibited

Work is also due from:

Amy The Cross Bitch (www.myspace.com/thecrossbitch)

Joy C-Bloxx (www.myspace.com/cinderwhisky)

Jennifer CK (www.myspace.com/vampirecandy)

More: here

Tags: comics

P.A.N.I.C. October 27th

USA: J.Melkmann writes: "This Saturday Oct. 27 from 7:30p.m.-12:00a.m. it's P.A.N.I.C.!! (punk & independent comics) the third annual ALL AGES Punk Rock/Comic Book show at The Bowery Poetry Club! (308 Bowery 212-614-0505) Over 20 underground comic book artists, and three bands!! It's a Halloween Show too, so be sure to dust off your Dr. Doom costume and come on down to buy comix & hear punk rock!

7 bucks American gets ya all this:

The Sheckies (NJ) 8:30 ,World War IX (NYC) 9:30, Chesty Malone & The Slice 'em Ups (NYC) 10:30

Artists include.....
John Holmstrom, Barf, Avi Spivak, Abby Denson, Cheese/House Of 12, Fly, Jenny Gonzales, Paul Benincasa, Tony Arena, Brandon Zamora, Charlie Fetherolf, Dave Fox, Liz Baillie, Luke Pulermo, Matt Loux, Amy Chase, Ripley/Trauma Team, Matty Stumbler, Robin Enrico, Crazy Glenn Wernig,Tom Hart, Justin Melkmann, Amye Austin

See ya there!"

Commentary: http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=3014

Wherefore art thou Emo

France: Zombirondelle demonstrates just how fast a term can spread.

Tags: comics

24 Hours in Bandung

Indonesia: Tita points out I'd mistaken 2006's Jakarta page for 2007. (My bad).
And updates us in Indonesian and English: there's a huge selection facilitated at SPACE 59 in Bandung.
http://esduren.multiply.com/journal/item/212/24HCD_Yang_Tercecer_dan_Yang_Berikutnya
http://esduren.multiply.com/journal/item/211/Another_24_pages_within_24_hours_
http://space59bandung.multiply.com
Go, look, enjoy.

Tags: comics

Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream

USA: Laura Park has a new mini-comic out, and if you're nice, you could get one.

No central site; likely she's too busy drawing up tasty treats. You can contact via MySpace or Flickr, or comicians 'in the know'.

Not familiar? Let's just do a quick Google. Hmm... here's an article. And another. And another.
http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=77
http://drawn.ca/2005/06/29/laura-park-aka-featherbed/
http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2007/07/23/cross-hatch-dispatch-7232007/
Postscript: http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/comics/do-not-disturb-my-waking-dream

Tags: comics

No Sleep, No Food

Indonesia: 24 Hour Comics Day has come and gone, during the month of Ramadan.*

Last year saw an additional challenge: fasting while drawing!

Beng Rahadian and Lulu Ratna hosted a gathering in Jakarta.
Click for report and galleries in English and Indonesian.
http://komik24jam.multiply.com

above: (c)Reza

2007's global reports are continuing to filter in:
http://www.24hourcomics.com/blog/
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/collective_memory_24hcd_2007/


*Post revised October 23 2007. Thanks to the 24 hour Comics Blog for setting the record straight. You'd think the post date would have tipped me off...
Tags: comics

easy to BEAR

Francis Bear, that is.
Australia:
Gregory Mackay has posted a handful of new cartoons, and hints that a compliation may be on the way!



Tags: comics

Luminous

Is perhaps one of the more appropriate terms for describing Naomi Nowak's painted comic art - the feelings of characters are quite literally reflected and illuminated, the reader can see them with transparent ease.

Influenced by manga as well as European bande dessineé, Publishers' Weekly has an interview with the Swedish artist on her second graphic novel from NBM, House of Clay.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6491601.html?nid=2789

More? Try http://www.naomi.se/comics.html
http://komikamagasin.se/artikel/140/kortintervjun-naomi-nowak
http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/unholy/unholyhome.html
http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/details.php?id=583


Tags: comics

Yo it's AWESOME

USA: Courtesy Liz Baille (My Brain Hurts):

THIS FRIDAY - OCT. 19th - AT ROCKETSHIP



Come one, come all, to the release party for the Awesome anthology, a fundraising antho to benefit Indie Spinner Rack and the Center for Cartoon Studies!

I am under the impression that there will be free beer, as always.

8pm - 208 Smith Street - Brooklyn, NY
718-797-1348

I'll be there, along with a number of other contributors, such as Charlito & Mr. Phil, Nick Bertozzi, Dylan Babb, Fred Chao, Chris Duffy, Ryan Dunlavey, Alec Longstreth, Jesse Post, Michele Riganese, Neil Swaab, Jamie Tanner, GB Tran, Raina Telgemeier and Fred Van Lente.

Be there and be square!

[event flyer PDF]

Tags: comics

International 24 Hour Comics Drawing Day

http://www.24hourcomics.com

Soda Pop comics in Puerto Rico is one of many groups around the globe gearing up for the 24 hour comics drawing challenge coming this Saturday October 20th. Looking forward to this annual explosion of creativity!




(c) Soda Pop Comics Tags: comics

Torment

Brazil: Click to read this story from Pulso Cortado.

(c) Mean Comics / Pulso Cortado
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This Is Not Art?

Australia:Hayden Fryer (above) serves up some photos of the National Young Writers Festival/ This Is Not Art happenings.

Helen gives her concise take on events http://www.spycore.net/wordpress/?p=163
and some pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spycore/tags/tina/


Tags: comics

Lustre in Kluster

USA/Australia: The good folks at Kluster Magazine present an interview with globe-trotting artist/cartoonist Miromi.
http://www.kluster.com.au/issueTwo/miromi.html

More comics and art at www.miromi.org.


Tags: comics

Rock the Casbah

France: Pangolin is zipping around 'a million festivals' to promote his new memoir. And not just your ordinary 'carnets du voyage' - this is straight from Afghanistan!

He has been road testing strips on his blog for ages; for a free preview check out
http://www.20six.fr/pangolin

Tags: comics

'The Comics Show' [NZ]

[Courtesy Dylan Horrocks:]

The writing and drawing of comic books in New Zealand is the subject of
a documentary at this year's Film Festival. The Comics Show will
have two screenings at the Academy Cinema as part of the Auckland season
– on Saturday 14 July at 1pm, and on Monday 16 July at 1pm. (It is
combined, as a double feature, with Questions for Mr Reynolds, another
new documentary directed by Shirley Horrocks, about the artist John
Reynolds.)

In the Wellington Festival, the screenings are Wednesday 1st August at
12.15 and at 1.45 pm, in the NZ Film Archive's theatre (84 Taranaki
St).

The Comics Show surveys the history of local comics (including Eric
Resetar, the 1950s anti-comic panic, and the arrival of Strips) then
focuses on a number of contemporary artists (including Barry Linton,
Karl Wills, Chris Knox, Jared Lane, Robyn Kenealy, Coco and Pretika,
Jason Brice, Tim Bollinger, Grace Campbell, and Cornelius Stone, among
others).

It visits comic shops (such as Cherry Bomb and Gotham), events
(such as Armageddon, Craftwork and the Eric Awards), and groups (such as
Funtime in Christchurch). It looks at comics' links with animation
(such as Ant Sang and Bro'Town) and with music (from Flying Nun to
hip hop). It also takes a trip with Dylan Horrocks to the comic shops of
Paris, confirming that comics from New Zealand have a growing reputation
in the land of la bande dessinée.

The documentary derives its visual style from the camerawork of Craig
Wright and Leon Narbey (of Whale Rider), and from its lively use of the
visual conventions of comics. Shirley Horrocks is an award-winning
documentary director whose work has been screened in film festivals
around the world. She reports that she's had fantastic cooperation
from the comics community for this project. She was hugely impressed by
the number and range of artists, and admits there are many more she
would have liked to feature. She hopes The Comics Show will help to turn
on lots of new people to the pleasures of reading and publishing comics
in New Zealand.

There are only a few screenings and they are likely to sell out fast, so
we advise anyone interested to book as soon as possible (the Festival
website is www.nzff.telecom.co.nz ).

http://www.pointofview.co.nz/index.htm

http://www.comics.org.nz/wiki/index.php/Current_events#The_Comics_Show_.282007-07.29

Mixed Signals

by KJM. (Australia)
Tags: comics

Telle est une Estelle

What happens when young comics artists get a few years on them? Kids comics seem back on the agenda, from James Kochalka to Art Spiegelman.

The indefatigable Sylvain-Moizie of Institut Pacome and Atelier BD is 'the most happy guy of France', doting on his 15 month old daughter and doing some comics about family.

Telle est une Estelle is now available from Editions Delcourt. (And there is more on the way...)
http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/catalogue/bd/telle_est_une_estelle

(c) Sylvain-Moizie Tags: comics,france,BD

The Great Australian Graphic Novel

[from Bernard Caleo] Hey there,

come along to North Bazaar, 222 High Street Northcote, at 8pm this on 
Friday night the 12th of October, for the final in a series of three 
great Fridays celebrating the work of local comic book makers and 
animators.  All have been part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 
exhibition, 'Aggressively Strange Fables: Melbourne Underground Comics 
and Animation Art Exhibition' (www.strangefables.com), and this 
Friday's event is:

'The Great Australian Graphic Novel'

Nicki Greenberg's graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 
'The Great Gatsby' was launched last month.  Bruce Mutard's tale of a 
conscientious objector living in Melbourne during the Second World War 
will be published in April 2008.  Both these books are being published 
by Allen & Unwin, and we are thrilled to present Nicki and Bruce in 
conversation with their publisher, Erica Wagner.

Nicki and Bruce will be showing images from their work on the large 
screen at North Bazaar.

The discussion will centre around how the publication of these books 
has come about, and cast forward as to the future of the 'big serious 
comic book' in Australia.

Time: 8 - 9pm

Place: North Bazaar, 222 High Street Northcote

Cost: Free, and it's a good chance to check out the exhibition as 
well, which officially finishes on Sunday 14 October.

Hope to see you there!

You Stink but He Don't

From Ben Hutchings:

SUPANOVA POP CULTURE EXPO THIS WEEKEND!
October 12-14, The Dome
Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney
I will be attending as usual, so stop by the artist's alley and pick up a copy of You Stink & I Don't, look through my sketches and tell me how Lesson Master changed your life! Glenjamin #3 will be back in print too and I shall be sharing a table with the mighty talented David Blumenstein. See you there, yo.

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

Illustration Friday Open Gallery Show

In Long Beach, California. Open to all who want to submit.

More information at: http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=528

Kinetic Factory

Why is Helen ecstatic? She's been having a blast at the Penrith Zine Fair, in addition to 'Zine Factory', an exhibition of work by her and Leigh Rigozzi.
Full of motion and creativity, it seems a 'kinetic factory', as Ninety Nine would put it.


And this was a few weeks ago. So next up: news from the National Young Writers Festival / This Is Not Art Festival.

(Thx to tilda mindy n co for photo above.)
Tags: comics,zines

Stumptown Snaps

David Chelsea wields his palm pilot to capture some brief moments at the Stumptown Comics Festival [Portland, Oregon, USA]. About 600 more at the Festival's Flickr Pool.

Tags: comics,stumptown

[Hype] The Happiest Boy

Hi there!
You may or may not know, depending on who you are, that Nakedfella Productions (aka -- David) has been working on a rather nice new MUSIC VIDEO for comedy star/musical act/Tripod support THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER.
His upcoming album, BROWN & ORANGE, should be something of a musical triumph given the amount of synthesizer action to be found upon it.
A particular highlight will be the first single from the album, released today on iTunes: THE HAPPIEST BOY. A genteel song involving alien kidnapping, a flying Valiant and Ailsa from Home & Away, I'm suggesting it's going to be pretty successful given Bedroom's (I call him by his first name) adorably rabid fanbase, and the fact that his 2005 single I'M SO POSTMODERN made the Triple J Hottest 100.

The music video for THE HAPPIEST BOY was directed by myself, and animated in Flash by myself, Kelly Lynagh and Michael Vandenhoven, who will be receiving pizza for their efforts.

The video was also released today, which means I'm hanging out to see it on RAGE pretty soon. Maybe elsewhere, too, depending on how broad the Philosopher's appeal is among the target demo (MARKETING TALK, APPARENTLY). If he makes a Missy Higgins-style explosion into the mainstream we're all set.
What I'm suggesting is that you watch the video on YouTube as soon as possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS72OAsYxI8
Comments are appreciated too, but it's mostly just important you watch: if we get 1000 YouTube views by next Monday, Justin's manager has promised to buy me a lot of Phoenix cola.
Also, you'll be pleased (scared? revolted?) to know that the brand new issue of NAKEDFELLA COMICS was launched in Newcastle over the weekend to a few hundred whooping festivalgoers, some of whom reacted negatively to my assertion that POLICE ACADEMY 4 is superior to the original POLICE ACADEMY.

NAKEDFELLA COMICS #9 will be available shortly at shops which stock good independent comix. In the meantime, the FIRST THREE PEOPLE who send me a reply e-mail correctly identifying a ROOKIE FLASH ANIMATION MISTAKE I made in the HAPPIEST BOY video clip (we're not counting my cheaty animation itself) will receive a copy free!

Regards,
David

Mandy Ord has a blog...

...and she knows how to use it.
http://mandyord.blogspot.com



(blog + ord = 'blorg'?)
profile:
http://hayase.net.au/wiki/index.php?title=Mandy_Ord
animation: Perfectly All Right, Suit Yourself
more: http://tinyurl.com/32ucb7

Tags: comics,animation