Great. Thai-Cambodian relations just took a nosedive. More on the other blog.
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Word from Lark Pien:
TRYPTICH - a play!!
jason shiga, thien pham, and i will be exhibiting some comic work january 24th and 25th with Summi Kaipa's play. goto http://www.hoardmag.com/tryp.htm for all the juicy info. it is advertised in the Guardian too.
SHE DRAWS COMICS - an exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum! it travelled to austria and spain and now it's here! i will have a few
pieces in this show which runs from January 25th to June 8th.
goto http://www.cartoonart.org/please come and support the museum - just right downtown!
EAT WITH ME, LONG TAIL KITTY! - book release!
i will have a NEW book of family recipes with LTK and friends on my
table at APE this year.
goto http://www.comic-con.org/pages/APE2003.html it is very nearby me abode.
i will also have other LTK books and Finger Puppets which you can take
home in a TO GO box. after this i'd really really like to get back to my
stories from the ward projects, they've been sitting on the wayside TOO long.
for those of you who are out of town, you can peek in and see what i've
been up to at http://www.usscatastrophe.com/store/index.html, my books are listed under my name. you can click on the pictures. otherwise, if you're in
town, hope to see you soon!
(click on above for bigger image)
Friday, January 24, 2003
Latest on Hush Hush Exhibition - click for flash invitation!
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fcomicsaustraliaannounce.showMessage?topicID=437.topic
Okay, I'll be a spoilsport. I'm not a big fan of BugPowder's new design. I liked the news up front. But still, whatta resource! Hours of fun to be had there.
Also from BugPowder, Comics Journal, and many other places: CafePress soon to offer print-on-demand. Which would include small press comics. All you gotta do is scan and upload.
Sound good to be true? Well, they do rake a high percentage off on sales...so you're still workin' for The Man.
Thursday, January 23, 2003
The LA Weekly's annual comics issue. (Thanks to BugPowder)
‘Reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite’ William Gibson has a new book on the way, set in the present. “ I regard my being me, ultimately, as a sort of cosmic accident.”
It's called 'Pattern Recognition', which curiously enough, is the name of an
album by the Sea Scouts.
William Gibson
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/index.asp
http://www.nomaps.com/
Sea Scouts
"Rating : the best 7" of 1999"
http://www.collective-zine.co.uk/reviews/archive/december299.html
http://www.zumonline.com/seascouts.html
http://www.messfest.8m.net/Templates/Artists.html#Scouts
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~adraino/scouts/
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
BRICK DOG AND OTHER STORIES
by Amber Carvan and Mandy Ord
Review by Jeff LeVine, courtesy 'Poopsheet' (thanks Ricko!)
This little 60-page book features short comics that were created in a notebook that the two friends sent back and forth to each other every couple of weeks. The stories seem to play off each other, flowing into each other, inspired by the new comics one sent to the other. Sometimes the pages seem so much like a letter, that it feels a little weird to be a third person reading 'em, but it always feels good. Each cartoonist brings a unique,lively, mostly light-hearted voice to their pieces. There's a nice contrast created between their two different drawing styles, as Ord's strips seemed drenched in deep blacks, while Carvan lets the white of the page dominate.
Animals, especially pets, and, er... road kill, seem to be the theme of most of the stories, but there are also noteworthy strips about stars, comets and dancing. A fun collection, nicely printed, and worth tracking down if you like your comics with a touch of the human. Try
http://www.plutoaustralia.com/catalogue/display.php?item=232
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Bruce Mutard is about to hit the US Market with 'The Bunker'. Congrats Bruce!
Hush Hush Gallery January 23: Comic Book Lifestyle.
display includes seven improvised comic strips done over seven saturday "jam sessions" with various contributors from the melbourne contingency of comic book artists and
visitors to our sessions from as far as new zealand.done with uni-posca pens onto paper that was taped to a piece of the wall atcitylights centre place location in melbourne's central busyness district.
those who contributed:
michael fikaris _ kieran mangan _ tim danko _ gregory mackay _ lachlan conn _ mandy ord _leigh rigozzi_ alice mrongovious _aaron o'donnell_ jo waite_ carol wood _ neale blanden _ kirrily schell _ angelo madrid _ bernard caleo _ toby morris_ susan butcher _ peter jetnikoff _ nick potter _peter savieri and the un-disputed forefather of the underground aust.small press gerard ashworth...
all of this and of course too much more, including free stickers for those present on opening night, general satisfaction of sound with the titilating tunes of royalchord
(australias premiere femme-penned-cow-slingin-sixties-sweethearts) doing a set of original songs and a set of familiar greats. Click below for:
another_invite.jpg
Friday, January 17, 2003
If you like playing with form and structure, you should check out Oubapo America.
As a teenager, I cut my teeth on stuff like Hilbert Schenck's 'Geometry of Narrative' . As I got older I glommed on to Borges. What surprises me is how little formal experimentation there's been in comics theory.
Village Voice Best of NYC 2002
Best Art Movement, Comics Division- OUBAPO AMERICA
The first-rate art-comics publisher Highwater Books recently relocated to Brooklyn, and there's an energetic comics community to keep it company there-notably the artists associated with OUBAPO AMERICA. Tom Hart, Jason Little, and Matt Madden were inspired by a French comics movement that branched off from the Oulipo literary group; their early experiments with radical constraints, like creating an entire story using only four images drawn by Madden, can be seen at oubapo-america.com. The Oubapo circle also overlaps with the people behind Comix Decode, an ongoing series of comics discussions and readings.
On that same note:
Random Poetry Engines. Hmm...
http://x42.com/active/queneau.html?p=56036632814532&l=en&n=New+Poem
http://develop.www.umich.edu/luriea-bin/queneau
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Some new comics fun up at 'Arthur', which you can download as a PDF.
(Big file). http://www.arthurmag.com/arthur_1.pdf
'Get Your War On' is now out as a book.
http://www.artbomb.net/detail.jsp?tid=354
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CALL FOR PAPERS
May 23, 2003: 2nd Sequential Art Studies Conference in Sydney.
The Interdisciplinary Studies Unit of the Faculty of Design,
Architecture and Building at UTS(University of Technology, Sydney)
http://www.uts.edu.au
will again host this new scholarly conference that will be held during
the same week as the 2003 Sydney Writers'Festival. The inaugural event
in 2002 attracted a small but stimulating range of papers from local
academics and postgraduate students and it is hoped that this year's
event will build on that basis. As a new development, selected local
artists will be invited to participate in this year's conference.
Scholars are invited to submit 250 word proposals which address
alternative approaches to comics, whether local or global, recent or
historical, online or offline, artistic or commercial. The conference
will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and so welcomes papers from a
wide range of areas.
Send enquiries and proposals, by email only, to either of the
conference coordinators by Friday February 28, 2003:
Michael Hill: Michael.Hill@uts.edu.au
Spiros.Tsaousis: Spiros.Tsaousis@bigpond.com
comix@mail.indra.com
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
KELVIN - NORTHCOTE MELBOURNE VICTORIA
OPENING ON THURSDAY NIGHT
ARTISTS: ANDREW MAY AND GREGORY MACKAY
RECENT PAINTINGS
ALL WELCOME
Click on link for flyer.
http://www.qdcomic.com/blog/jan08kelvinflyer.jpg
Been meeting a few Portland people lately which takes me back...used to live there back in the early Nineties.
Saturday AM: get a bagel, wander over to Powell’s Books, (smell of beer factory nearby in the air), wrap my stomach around a slice of Rocco’s Pizza as I read my new findings. Drift over to Ozone to see what used records I could snap up. Maybe wander down to Saturday Market, or see what matinee's on at Cinema 21.
Now near Powell’s there’s also zine shop Reading Frenzy, and I’ve been told they’re closely associated with the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Must check that out sometime.
Recently sorting through stacks of comix, from San Diego 2001:
Thien Pham's heartfelt "Words and Pictures" is the sort of comic that not many people could get away with, but he does, it’s direct and simple.
Site http://www.e-zcheese.com
Interview
http://www.youthoutlook.org/stories/2000/12/01/an.interview.wi.html
Review
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com/85ass.html
Keep an eye on this guy. There’ll be more from him.
And gratuitous linkage:
Lachlan Musicman
http://autobahn.nomasters.org/rooms/musicmancontents.htm
http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~musicman/
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
MOOMIN IS HERE!
MOOMIN SINGS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE!
http://www.moominvoices.com/
Comic Book Artist - all fairly mainstream stuff, but I like hearing about how artists choose their
tools and go about their work.
http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/index.html
One alternative paradigm for comics - if the newsstand is hostile to indy
comics, why not reconfigure yourself as a magazine? http://www.tmcm.com/(Of course, my Australian friends are taking the other tack - 'we're not
zinesters, dammit!'
But a proper magazine?? World War III Illustrated and
Heavy Metal are both _magazines_ ...
Link Frenzy:
David Nichols review from Optical Sloth. I like this site.
http://www.opticalsloth.com/authors/david_nichols.htm
Purchase Pien Products.
http://www.usscatastrophe.com/store/long.tail.kitty.html
Saturday, January 11, 2003
From our Rick Bradford:
POOPSHEET Press Release
Website Relaunch
http://www.angelfire.com/zine/poopsheet
2003 Jan 6
I'm pleased to announce that I am relaunching the Poopsheet website.
A couple of changes come with this relaunching. First, the Reviews section will now be produced as a blog. Also, for those unaware, the News page is now here. The beauty of these two changes is that the News and Reviews sections can be updated on a more regular basis (which is to say, as often as possible). So check those pages frequently for updates. Also, anybody who so desires has the freedom to add their news to the News page whenever they wish. Simply fill in the blanks and it's done (registration isn't necessary).
This means there will no more formal "issues" of Poopsheet. Rather, it's become a continuously-updated entity. These changes are intended to both make Poopsheet more time-efficient for myself and encourage more interactivity from the readers. I urge you to begin posting your news at your convenience. I'm happy to do it, of course, but you do have that option. Also: Read any interesting zines or comix lately? Want to write a review? I'd like to encourage you to do so and I'll post it to the new Reviews blog.
More changes: For those interested in what has gone before, there is now a Past Reviews page that will be used to archive reviews from previous issues. Also, the Features page will now be archiving articles from past issues as well. And, finally, the Links page has been beefed up a little and will continue to be improved upon.
Speaking of Features, check out Get the Word Out, a list of other places that review zines and/or comics.
In all sincerity, I would very much like to hear your feedback regarding =
Poopsheet. Any comments, suggestions or questions are most welcome and =
appreciated. Let me know what works and what doesn't. The site needs you =
to be a success.
cheers,
--Ricko
Rick Bradford / PO Box 2235 / Fredericksburg, TX / 78624 USA
> Poopsheet: http://www.angelfire.com/zine/poopsheet > Poopsheet News: http://azure.bbboy.net/poopsheetnews
> Poopsheet Reviews: http://poopsheet.blogspot.com
Thursday, January 09, 2003
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