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Chat with Cat

France has a stronger career track for comic artists; if you try hard enough, it's possible to make a living drawing things besides superheroes.

This results in an impressive work ethic. For an entertaining overview of Francophone comic blogs, give Penelope's site a look. Even while she's off vacationing in Thailand, her cat steps in hosts interviews with an impressive roster of professional and aspiring creators.

So far:

Shyle (interview / site), Cha (interview / site), PoiPoi Panda (interview / site), Melaka (interview / site), Paka (interview / site), Aki (interview / site), Maliki (interview / site), Cathy (interview / site), Raphael B (interview / site), Paprika (interview / site) -- and stay 'tooned for more!

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Instantaneous II

An Art Exhibition
Opening 7pm Tuesday 4th December at the Grace Emily Hotel
Auction of pieces starts at 8pm
Exhibition runs to the 21st December 2007

The second INSTANTANEOUS art exhibition, celebrating original comic book panels taken out of their context, is opening at 7pm on December 4th at the Grace Emily Hotel, 232 Waymouth St, Adelaide.

Instantaneous showcases the talents of South Australian comic book creators. Each piece in the exhibition highlights a single panel from the comic book medium taken out of its original story context.

"The idea is to get people thinking about what has occurred before and what will occur after the instant depicted in each piece- in other words, the power of a single panel," says Peter Moore, co-curator of the Instantaneous Art Exhibitions.

All 42 pieces will be professionally auctioned off on the opening night, with all proceeds going to the Vincentian Centre and Magdalene Centre kitchens. Pieces will then reside in the gallery until December 21st.

”The inaugural Instantaneous held in May managed to raise over $1800 for the kitchens, which was a fantastic effort. This time we aim to better that. The auction will be a unique chance to own a piece of original Adelaidean artwork while making a donation to grass roots charities,” hopes Peter.

Acoustic legends Athletic Teenage Joggers will be playing at the venue for the opening, supported by the musical heiress Domunique.

All inquiries please contact Peter on 8231 3433 or visit
http://www.pulpfictioncomics.com.au/aussie.htm

The 2nd INSTANTANEOUS Art Exhibition
Opening Tuesday 4th December 7pm
The Grace Emily Hotel 232 Waymouth St Adelaide, Australia

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C'est minimal

And entirely appropriate for Spline, a flash webcomic in French and English. http://www.spline.ws/english.html

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Festivals Wrapup Part 2

Long awaited, here it is.

Jeez, NYWF even has a Wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Young_Writers'_Festival



Art by Jo Waite and Matt Hyunh.



thanks to Hayden Fryer for photos.

National Young Writers Festival Bloggery:
Nicki Greenberg
http://nickigreenberg.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-is-not-art-newcastle-rocks-out.html
Sarah Howell
http://barleyhush.blogspot.com/2007/10/festival-club.html
Matt Hyunh
http://stikmancomics.livejournal.com/94195.html

Armageddon
Hayden Fryer
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=144404636&blogID=319842543
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=144404636&blogID=320745978

Small Press Expo Photos and Blogs:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/collective_memory_spx_20071/

Supanova Photos
courtesy Pirochan:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pirochan/sets/72157602412411372/

Got more to share? Send an email.

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Small Miracle

From Kirrily Schell:

"The Machine Translations song 'Need a Miracle' film clip can now be seen online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPgaHmx1KUM

The film clip is created by yours truly (an edit of my film Toots + some extra animated bits)"



More? www.inkwinks.com


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Scribbler on the Roof

"Finlay Lloyd Publishers invites you to celebrate the launch of their new book, Rooftops a graphic novel by Mandy Ord, to be launched by Steve Grimwade."

Saturday, December 1, 2007
2:00pm - 4:00pm, Brunswick Bound, 361 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Australia

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7190406721

http://mandyord.blogspot.com

Sneak peek at November's edition of http://www.chewie.org/

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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now

France: A peek in at Lucie Albon's site reveals some collaborations with comics collective Café Creed, many (as above) online due to the webbery of Pat Cab.
http://www.cafe-creed.com
http://luciealbon.net/bd.htm
http://luciealbon.net/bd_collectifs.htm
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Creed

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Molloy Ahoy

New Zealand:


13th-20th November 2007
Tim, Matt, and Sean Molloy present:
MOLLOY AHOY!

For the first time in their illustrious careers, the three Molloy
brothers will be conducting a show together, in the environs of Cross
Street Studios. Though each has pursued his own unique path towards
artistic satisfaction and invention and all work in different
mediums, the three are united by a love of the bizarre and share
influences such as surrealism, horror, street art, science fiction
and comic books. They also all work in froms that extend beyond
traditional fine arts practices and look to reach a wider audience.
The three Molloy brothers are all also musicians, and a selection of
various recordings will be available for listening and purchase at
the show.
Tim, currently residing in Melbourne, will be travelling back to New
Zealand specifically for the exhibition.

Opening: Tuesday 13th November, 7pm.
Daily: 14th-20th November. 10am till 6pm

Hi there y'all, for those of you who need reminding, the 'Molloy Ahoy' show is on this Tuesday the 13th at 7pm. Cross St Studios, 27 Cross St, Newton. Be there or be square! We've been lucky enough to get sponsorship from Villa Maria wines, and hopefully there'll be some beers too, but I would advise all those truly dedicated boozehounds out there to bring some of your own too. x

More info? Contact Tim.
http://www.comicslifestyle.com/profile/Timmolloy
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NaBloPoMo - say it three times fast

November is "National Blog Posting Month".
The object is to write one post a day for the whole month.
If you're blogging up comics stuff, I've set up a little group on their networking site.
http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/comicsbloggers


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Your Puerto Rico Comics Update

Soda Pop Comics recently participated in the 24 hour comics drawing day, (comic by Rosa Colon) and has an anthology on the way: "check out the cover for the Soda Pop Anthology. We have 5 really talented girls who wrote and drew amazing stories for us. Both comics premiere at Kaisen, November 11."




"This is the cover for our new short story "$19.95". In this story Bianca has to earn money in order to buy a comic book her mother won't buy for her."

http://www.myspace.com/sodapopcomics
http://www.comicspace.com/sodapopcomics/







Meanwhile, pop culture mavens @rtificium have just taken part in

The 1st Annual Cartoon & Comics Encounter @ Plaza Carolina, Puerto Rico
"In the activity, the following artists & artists groups participated:

Alvaro Cortés
Artificium
Arturo Yepéz
BlackRose Comics
Carlos Alvarez “Cadmius”
DreamGrafix
Dave Alvarez Studios
El Antillano
Ernesto E. Cruz “Vego”
Martin Gaudier
Scorp 22 Studios
Unity Artists Groups
& many others"

more info & pictures

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