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Best Loved, less Unknown

Nina Paley, ‘America’s Best Loved Unknown Cartoonist, has just gotten a Guggenheim fellowship for her inspired take on the ‘Ramayana’ story, the ‘Sitayana’ (Sita Sings the Blues). Way to go! She is now hard at work on new episodes.http://www.ninapaley.com/2006/04/wow.html

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‘Diskusi’: Dragonslippers Bahasa Indonesia

At Kinokuniya in Jakarta, a lively discussion (‘diskusi’) of the Indonesiantranslation of Dragonslippers (by Rosalind B Penfold ) http://dragonslippers.comhttp://surjorimba.blogs.friendster.com/machine_messiah/2006/04/dragonslippers_.html (English writeup)http://www.pragatcomic.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=19&?topic=106.msg236(Indonesian writeup)

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Mini-Comics: the Hip New Collectible

For sale: Tim Bollinger, Kirrily Schell, and Ian Eddy. Rick Bradford (of ‘Poopsheet‘) writes these are spare copies, he treasures the originals too much. • http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6624673121&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT • http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6624930507&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT• http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6624931582&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT Will there be a bidding war? Tim Danko’s early efforts fetched … Continue reading

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Comics in Corsica

Cambodian comic artists got their day in the (Mediterranean) sun, as part of exhibition BD À BASTIA.: March 30, 31, April 1 and 2. Samples from Séra‘s 2005 workshop were exhibited as a part of the event. (Participants included Tek … Continue reading

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"Comics & Punk Rock.Perfect Together"

Jenny Gonzalez - http://www.toonegative.com  – profiles the ‘World War IX’ Punk Rock Comics show:   People who probably never set foot in a comic book store, but who looked at what we cartoonists were offering on our tables and going, “Oh, … Continue reading

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