In the grand tradition of writer festivals being nice to comic arteestes, the N.Z. writers/arts festival is bringing Joe Sacco to these shores. Rumour has it that tickets are $150 ( a little out of my league) and most of the Joe action seems to be occuring in Wellington. Dylan Horrocks and Tim Bollinger will be sharing a panel or two (lucky ducks!!) with the Joe man… heres the official bio:
Delivering “one of the most creative and unique visions in the arts today” (Time Magazine), Joe Sacco’s comic journalism powerfully brings the Middle East and Bosnia to life. With writers as diverse as Edward Said, Art Spiegelman and Christopher Hitchens in his fan club, Sacco’s reportorial art is powerful and effective, exhibiting a remarkable ability to distil the essence of place and event through pictures and words. It’s a subversive medium and one that the Maltese born, Australia/US-raised Sacco has made his own, establishing himself as both an exceptional journalist and a revered comics artist.
courtesy Dylan Horrocks:
If anyone is curious to know more about the current political situation in Cornucopia, look out for issue 2 of ‘Atlas‘ , to be published in January.
http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Atlas.htm
Some time in the New Year, we also hope to launch a comprehensive guide to
Cornucopia at www.hicksville.co.nz.
A small taste of the recovered and translated text from ‘The Council of Three’ manifesto “Komik Riot-Cycle” as more rumbles towards inevitable publication:
“Watching the comiks which came from the West and from Amerika, taking into account the information which we have on the work and
searchings abroad here –
I come to the following conclusion:
Verdict of death, decreed by Kimoks in 1919, to all comiks without exception,
is in effect to this day.”
More soon, it is snowing in the Russian homeland.
Your glorious Zombo.
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Sunday, 11 December 2005. Before a packed house at ‘Wesley Anne – House of Assembly’ on High Street in Northcote in Melbourne in Australia, the proud proprietor of Cardigan Comics, Bernard Caleo, made the speech which launched the sixth issue of the giant romance comics anthology into its public life. 146 pages. 50 contributors. 41 stories. All of them wrapped around love and sex. Caleo explained to the querelous crowd that Tango6 was not a comic book, not a comic book at all, but a bed, and invited all of them to turn aside the covers and climb on in. “It is a bed,” he reiterated “and beds mean sex like rain means snails.”
As much bemused as amused, the assembled crowd applauded politely before leaving the launch, each with a mulberry-coloured covered book tucked under their arm, each with a fire lit in their eye. They had research to do, and it wasn’t going to take place in broad daylight. ‘Tango6: Love and Sex’ will cost you twenty Australian dollars, and a little extra for postage – contact Bernard Caleo via his site http://www.cardigancomics.com/ to find out how money and comics can change hands.
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