Ketai Comics

http://www.clickwheel.net/ has a nifty new application for portable digital comics on Ipods.
[courtesy Boing Boing]

IPods, fine; but when you have comics for mobile phones that’s when things will really take off. In the developing world ringtones and phones are king, and are rapidly becoming internet enabled. Hmm, I should think about that… I’ve always tried to be an ‘early adopter‘.
I think Kelvin of Forbidden Galaxy had originally attempted something like that…

Getting ready for the Nou Hach Journal meeting.

And also some plans on archiving of old style Khmer comics. Many of these old comics had glossy painted covers which are not given justice by the cheap printing techniques of today.

True Cambodia Tales

A package arrived this last week from Justin Hall of ‘True Travel Tales’ fame chronicling his trip through Southeast Asia, including his minicomic, ‘Tsunami’!
Thanks Justin! Here’s hoping you can do some teaching next trip!
See more of his work at ‘All Thumbs Press’.
http://www.allthumbspress.com

(BTW, on the theme of Tsunami, a gripping travel tale I heard recently from ‘Kampuchea Crossings':
http://kampucheacrossings.blogspot.com/2005/01/departure-bay-phuket.html)

Tonite at the Empress
Good to see David Nichols is still doing his gig art.

Sunday June 12, 8pm
Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy
Guy Blackman, Mia Schoen, Tracey Read

Go, go ’cause I said so! and check out the Chapter Music site.

I have horrible taste in music but if you’re really curious, try my music blog.

http://www.qdcomic.com/music/

I may eventually collapse all these into one big metablog; I don’t know.