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:

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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

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

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

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-old/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/

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