Additional orange/black band stickers not part of original art. Initially I was annoyed, but on closer inspection they had the cheek(respect?) to place the stickers in the line of vision of the characters on the two occassions they look off into the distance, a very awkward attempt to make like the stickers were part of the story.
It maybe that right this moment one of my comics is up on the side of The Corner hotel, Swan St, Richmond, Victoria, Australia.
It was supposed to go up anytime between 29 May and 5 June, so it should be up now.
It will be up there for 3 weeks.
Check-it-out! 1.3 x 4 m of goodness!
More info at: http://www.stripbillboard.com/
Here is a recording of me talking at the Tasmania Book Prize forums back in the beginning of April.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/04/03/2534114.htm
I had trouble getting the audio file to play, so leave me a comment if you have any luck!
This Will Eisner looks great, I wonder if it is an original featured in the exhibition, I hope so.
03 May – 30 August 2009
Jewish Museum of Australia
26 Alma Rd, St Kilda Victoria 3182
The exhibition features reproduction and original works by Joe Shuster and
Jerry Siegel (Superman), Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (Fantastic Four and X-Men), Will Eisner (The Spirit and A Contract With God), Harvey Kurtzman (MAD) and Art Spiegelman (Maus).
Also included are original never-before-seen works by local Australian Jewish comic artists: Nicki Greenberg, Bernard Caleo, Andrew Weldon, David Blumenstein and John Kron.
Kid’s Program ($5 Museum entry, plus $5 for materials):
Sun 7th June – Andrew Weldon
Sun 5 July – Sarah Howell
Sun 2 August – Mitch Vane
My betrothed, Mr David Blumenstein, is once again organising Comic Book Funny as part of the free program of Melbourne Comedy Festival events at Trades Hall. I will be contributing artwork to the calendar mentioned below.
Dates and times:
5pm – 6.15pm Every Saturday in April
Week 1: a genteel exhibition launch and informal comics salon, directed by Mme Josephine Waite. All welcome.
We expect also that lady comic artists will be on hand to sketch attractive male comic artists for the upcoming art-calendar, THE SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS 2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR. Twelve steamy months of hot cartoonist man-meat, as depicted by women who share their comics passion.
Watch the ladies draw, or do some drawing yourself.
Week 2: a very special Intimate Conversation between long-awaited interstate guest Gerard Ashworth (Modern Murder, Electric Ferret) and local comics broadcaster John Retallick (http://thecomicspot.blogspot.com/).
Week 3: join two of the funniest, filthiest cartoonists in Australia for a chat about why poos, wees, farts, boinks, taints and scrotes are really, really funny.
Week 4: the unexpected launch of THE SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS 2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR! Your host is the dashing Bernard Caleo.
Where: Bella Union bar, Trades Hall
Corner Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton, Melbourne.
Back in September the Comic Spot, Melbourne’s 3CR radio’s Australian comics culture show did a feature on the Tasmanian Comics scene.
John Retallick interviews Chris Downes, Matt Coyle and myself.
The podcast is now available on The Comic Spot Blog.
I’m appearing as part of the program of events surrounding the 2009 Tasmania Book Prizes which will be taking place as part of Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania’s international arts festival.
The panel I’m talking on is titled
“Publishing and New Technologies: What is the future of publishing in Tasmania in an online world?”
Wednesday 1 April, 1pm – 1:45pm
Commissariat Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery , Hobart
(entry via car park off Davey St)
I’m hoping we can provide some specific visioning of what the Tasmanian Literature and Publishing scene will be like in 10 years time.
(The above image is from Penny-arcade.com and was brought to my attention by Aden Rolfe, one of the directors of the Critical Animals festival).
Here I am enjoying the exciting world of the film industry!
Completely out of the blue I was offered work as production assistant on an international co-production for launceston based Brown Bread and Butter productions.
The work was intense and fast paced, it has been awhile since I had worked under that kind of immediate pressure and it was good to know I could still handle it, though apparently i was looking worryingly pale on this day pictured.
