“As he [Kochalka] describes it, his role as the author has nothing to do with plot; all he’s doing is creating an environment and a situation, into which he places characters like a scientist putting rats into a maze. His primary task isn’t building a story; it’s building a world.”
Dylan Horrocks on creating comics and worlds, from a seminar on creative writing:
http://www.hicksville.co.nz/PerfectPlanet.htm
“I enjoy rock ’n’ roll. It certainly is a unique and incredible phenomenon. Remember that 40 or 50 years ago, musicians didn’t make any money. They played to very small audiences in night clubs and road houses. Also, they had no protection on their records. I’m always asking rock ’n’ roll people if they know who Petrillo is, and none of them do. Well, they wouldn’t have a dime if it weren’t for Petrillo because he organized the Musicians’ Union way back at the end of the ‘30s. And that is why they make money on their records. There wouldn’t be any white Rolls Royces or anything like that.”
http://www.creemmagazine.com/BeatGoesOn/WilliamSBurroughs/CreemInterviews.html
William Burroughs on how rock music became such an 800 pound gorilla/Rock Ape:
they got organized. Where’s my white stretch limo?
(Link courtesy Boing Boing)
Ben Hutchings has launched his new comic at ROCK APE, and we ain’t talkin’ no Barbary macaques here.
Said comic is ‘Glenjamin’ and you can see more at GEEEN Comix. (Ben, send us yr pix!)
Greg MacKay will be exhibiting at SZTUKA FABRYKA Gallery, Belgium:
* [03] * . – . * Independent Publications & comics * . – . *
* Reading corner with zines and comics from: Jed Alexander (U.S.A.) – Rick
Bradford (U.S.A.) – Image Comics (U.S.A.) – Pencil Fight (U.S.A.) – Shaenon
K. Garrity (U.S.A.) – Epoxy Press (U.S.A.) – Gregory Mackay (Australia) -
Josh Neufeld (U.S.A.) – Joel Orff (U.S.A.) – Filip Remkes (the
Netherlands) – Bryan Talbot (U.K.) – Sara Varon (U.S.A.)
a traveling exhibition featuring Mandy Ord, Tim Danko, Michael Fikaris, Kieran Mangan, Leigh Rigozzi and more.
“A handful of silent army veterans are part of a new exhibition, the dark woods, which will be travelling around Awstralia this year. It opens 12 February at the Carnegie Gallery, 16 Argyle street, Hobart at 6pm.”
Contact: Leigh Rigozzi: lethargylad via hotmail dot com
(thanks to ComicsAustralia for info.)
What Beng Rahadian draws and does:
our friends in Solo (Bengkel Qomik studio) launch for their first comics edition (Street Soccer, 72 pages Full Colour, published by self),
Im in Jakarta now, I just finished being a tutor at comics workshop in Indonesia University (3 days, 9-11th March), it’s amazing to see their spirit for make a comics, but sadly when they start with manga style.
I said “come on, make your own style! be proud, express your self! and bla bla bla…”
They said, this is our style, we make a manga modification!
hahaha…
