Comics Cambodge

Working on a Comics Exhibition for Phnom Penh, this October.

(Of course, I will offload much of the real work to my hardworking assistant Piseth.)

Digging up some amazing art and information. Most comics artists are paid very little, and rarely get back their original art. Copyright is virtually nonexistent.

The comic below is from the late 80’s, when the Vietnamese still occupied Cambodia.

I was amazed to get a copy, no one is archiving or saving these! The artist (Ao Yuthea) was kind enough to lend me a copy to scan.

More at http://jinja.apsara.org/cambocomix

New issue of Comics Interpreter is on the way.

Yrs truly interviews Keu Tian, Lisa Mandel, Lucie Albon, and Sylvain Moizie-Rondet.

http://tci.homestead.com

Okay, I admit it, I’m a sucker for this kinda stuff.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html

When I was a kid I heard some sounds caused by electromagnetic fields, broadcast from Voyager. This sounds a bit different, but it’s the music of the spheres.

http://www.nasa.gov/61424main_sat-rot-wav.wav

A Japanese guy wakes up to find himself in a prison in Cambodia.

This is the opening of PIP, currently running in ‘Weekly Comic Bunch’, published in Japan.

Half-Year, Half Life

Well, it’s halfway through the year. As per my New Years Resolution, I haven’t published my Cambodia comic yet, haven’t been doing a lot of drawing in fact.

But I did get a quote, it’s $300 for 1000 copies of a comic. That’s not bad.

And haven’t done that Pox Girls site either.

Looks like I’ll be putting a lot of effort into a Cambodian Comics Exposition, to happen in October.

Watch this space for more.

Dunno. I seem to be putting larger and larger amounts of effort into more and more abstract expressions of comic art that are ever more distant from my personal life. Part of me has always been about spruiking comics. But if I’m not drawing them, I’m simply a fanboy… abeit one living in the world’s most undocumented comix communities.

Sure, I think these things are worth doing, but there are ways of letting things evolve and then …pushing. Maybe I should be pushing myself on my own efforts.