brrrrt brt brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……
(or whatever the text equivalent is to a feeble bugler tweeting as the sun sets) yes its the last zombo post, and what to leave you with? the wounded and scared turn from cessation of battle for some weary sleep and hopeful relief…. but noooooo, tim has finished the translating (under expert guidance by your Zombo) of the ‘Council of Three’ manifesto on kimok production of 1922 ‘Kimok Riot-Cycle!!’ and a ‘BETA’ version is now up on the world wide web, essentially the text is all there, but there are still some illustrations to fill out the doubt (tim assures me that they will be there in the next week).

So if you wish to have a sneak peek, it is there to be seen at http://www.deadxeroxpress.com/riot_cyc/

so yeah…. its been ‘real’ as the young people are keen to say, wish there had been more N.Z. news but Zombo is never truly gone, and may show with more….

….later.

ah yes… it is a manly art form the comic art form. What looks like an amazing exhibition is on now in L.A. la la land, “Masters of American Comics” and from the fifteen artists selected,—Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, and Charles M. Schulz at the Hammer Museum, and Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware at MOCA— it would seem that there are no female masters…. surely one could have scraped in? Julie Doucet? Pox girls? Melinda Gebbie? Mandy Ord? Dale Messick? Ramona Fradon?

(gruff sea-faring voice) …arrrrrh comics, she be a harsh mistress!!

Masters of American Comics is co-curated by scholars John Carlin and Brian Walker, and is coordinated by Hammer Museum Deputy Director of Collections and Director of the Grunwald Center Cynthia Burlingham and MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling.

November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

National Exhibition Tour

Milwaukee Art Museum
April 27 – August 13, 2006

The Jewish Museum, NY, and
Newark Museum, NJ
September 15, 2006 – January 28, 2007

November 20, 2005 – March 12, 2006

… its a small thing, early steps. Baby steps! But it is the beginning that matters. A poem from the start of the ‘Council of Three’ 1922 Manifesto. A call to arms? Maybe… possibly a lament, possibly drawing a line through the past. Some things do get lost in translation.

Click here to see and read….

your Zombo.

ey. in our ever tangled website representation me and clayton have a new city of tales website at http://fink.net.nz/cityoftales
our comic books are as ever available from po box 68518, newton, auckland.

carry on.

stfn

Palm pilot comic by David Chelsea.

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