Drawing Room

Exhibition “Drawing Room”
Opening- 6pm, 1 February 2008, Rubies Wine Bar
Corner of Streets 19 and 240, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Artists: Panca Evenblij, Sopheap Pich, Piteak, Ali Sanderson,
Kong Vollak and John Weeks.

Drawings may be representational, depicting objects, living beings, or scenes which the artist views, remembers, or imagines. They may be realistic to the point of lifelike resemblance (e.g. traditional portraits), architectural drawing or looser approximations of reality (e.g. sketches), and highly stylized (e.g. cartoons, caricatures), or abstract (e.g. automatic drawing, entoptic graphomania)……
…..and that’s what the show is.

For more info please email pancaevenblij [via] gmail [dot] com

Postscript: Review:
http://www.expat-advisory.com/cambodia/phnom-penh/drawing-room.php

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'Annus Mirabilis'

for Australian Comics, "which means not 'wonderful bottom' but 'miraculous year'" Bernard Caleo is quick to point out in his intro at the launch of Rooftops.



Hello folks,

if you missed the launch of 'Rooftops', Mandy Ord's assured and
assuredly beautiful graphic novel (or 'book comic' as they are fast
becoming known) the good folks at Finlay Lloyd, the publishers, have
put up photos and the text of the launch speech here:





www.chewie.org


The book is available at 'Brunswick Bound', the very fine bookshop
where it was launched. 361 Sydney Road Brunswick. At $25, it is what
is known in the trade as 'a steal'.
As I understand it, 'Rooftops'
will become more widely available (comic book shops, book book shops)
in February.

Yours,

Bernard

Bernard Caleo
Cardigan Comics
www.cardigancomics.com



(Props to Chewie for picture sharing!) More: http://del.icio.us/comicslifestyle/Rooftops

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Tintin et la Grande Poo Mysterie

Courtesy Ben Hutchings. Also check out his Blog for a new 'Lesson Master'!

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Radio Comics

(Nicki Greenberg, Bruce Mutard, Bernard Caleo, Erica Wagner from 'Aggressively Strange Fables' presentation - photo (c) Bernard Caleo)


Dear All,

a very happy and excellent new year to you!

The presentiment that 2008 might well be an excellent year for
Australian comic books is given an extra psychic boost by dint of the
year beginning with a 6 part series aired (and streamed) by your
friendly community radio station, 3CR (855 AM in Melbourne).
Wednesdays from 9am to 10am. Hosted by comic correspondent John
Retallick, comic maker extraordinaire Jo Waite, and yours trewely.

Issue #2 airs tomorrow, 2 January 2008, and features an interview with
the remarkable Nicki Greenberg, whose graphic adaptation of 'The Great
Gatsby' was published by Allen and Unwin in 2007, and who is currently
working on a version/interpretation of 'Hamlet'.

John, who is the prime mover behind the program, has splendid plans
for the six issues/episodes, which includes eventually podcasting the
lot of them, but in the meantime, please tune or stream into 'The
Comic Spot', which features a simmering theme song by me and my
ukulele (thanks, Tolley and John Murphy) and, of course, scintillating
repartee.

But what of the mysterious M.C.B.M*?

Hopefully see you in the year,

Bernard

Bernard Caleo
Cardigan Comics
www.cardigancomics.com

*Melbourne Comic Book Museum


(Nicki Greenberg, Bernard Caleo - photo (c) Bernard Caleo)
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