is a collaborative comic based in Dublin.
Following several characters in their journeys around the city, portions of the original script is given to painters, illustrators, designers, and interested souls who don’t even consider themselves ‘artists’ to respond with their own interpretation. The various work is then reassembled, creating a kaleidoscopic experiment in storytelling and artistic interaction.
Each issue skips between the various characters, but follows one character predominantly, giving us access to their dreams and letting their wanderings shape the city.
Issue 1 was launched in February 2005 featuring 12 artists, who introduced us to novel postman Jimmy and his silent interaction with the walls of Dublin.
Issue 2, released July 2005, had 18 artists depicting the soundings of radio pirate Declan.
Now the unpublished issue 3 is available online! This issue is shaped by the compulsive postmaster Raymond, and his encounter with the infamous Engineer. Unlike the first two issues, where narrative and artwork are structured around each page, issue 3 is a sort of chronological timeline, with each character occupying a concurrent space on the page: Raymond occupies the top line of every page, while we trade between Declan, the Engineer, (floating crown), Jimmy and his mates in their simultaneous goings-on.
The website features all three issues available for download, as well as the original scripts, original artwork and alternative pages.
http://www.growgnome.com
Artists featured in issue 3: Eoin An, Paula Banks, Jagu Bhomra, Bea Brennan, Leo Boyd, graf artists Choc and Trader, Nick Cassidy, Emma Fite-Wassilak, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Ruth Lyons, Janto McMullin, Steve McDevitt, Rob Mirolo, Eavan O’Sullivan, Eva Plazewska, Henry Place, Catherine Ryan, and cartoonist for UK publication the Liberal Ed Scott
For more info contact Dublinthiswayup at yahoo.ie
And for those of you interested in Irish comics, check out the growing Irish Online Comic Creators Challenge:
http://fysh.comicgenesis.com/IC-Entries.htm
More soon,
chrisFW
Hello there peoples!
This is your cordial invitation to the closing reception of “No Straight Lines: Queer Culture and the Comics” at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum (http://www.cartoonart.org) on this Thursday, June 22nd, from 7-9pm. This is the world’s first museum show devoted soley to the works of LGBT cartoonists, so come check it out! The reception is an Official Pride Week event, and is co-sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center (http://www.queerculturalcenter.org) and the GLBT Historical Society (http://www.glbthistory.org).
Special guests at the reception include several of the exhibition artists such as myself, Paige Braddock, and Ariel Schrag, along with entertainment by local celebrity drag queens Anna Conda, Kiddie, Downie Soft, Frieda Laye, Hoku Mama, and Glamamore. Come join this motley San Francisco crowd of cartoonists, messy queens, porn stars, and drunks to drag a museum into the cultural abyss! It’s free, and there are door prizes and booze!
Feel the love!
Justin Hall
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Finally a fair just for self published comics in Melbourne, Doujicon.
From the site:
“Doujicon (pronounced Doh-OO-gee-Con) is a place where local cartoonists and animators can sell their works without the worries of other Zine Fairs, Pop-Culture Expos and Comic Conventions.
At Doujicon, it’s all about the comics, and the artists that create them! We know how little there is encouraging new artists to spring up and create their own work. We’re aware that it’s impossible to get people to pay attention to locally made stuff when Yu-Gi-Oh and Spider Man are competing for your audience’s attention and money. And we know all too well that there’s no way in hell you’re going to turn a profit when you’ve got to pay $100 or more for a table as well as the production costs of your comics.
Been there… Done that…
Upon registering, artists and animators will be given a table for no cost other than
that of entry… That’s right, you get a table to sell your wares to the public for
only $5!
Doujicon is going to be all about the people that made the cartoon & comic
industry what it is today: The people that did it, and continue to do it,
themselves.
What’s more, we’re going to show you that you can do it to.”
I’m going to really try hard to make it to this with some new gear. Hopefully the next issue of 7 pages digest (which just so happens to be a special comics issue)
Check out the site for more details, Cheers Anthony Woodward
