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