Froth / Pumice Comic & Record

Coming soon: Stefan Neville (City of Tales, Pumice) /Michael Fikaris (Froth, ProActiv) Art Exhibition & Record launch!

Remember kids, Pumice is volcanic Froth. Brought to you by Silent Army.

non-hierarchical community building

Alohas!

This is a submissions call to creative types far and wide of a new type of

publication looking for writers and artists. UNDERGROWTH is a non-profit,

open-source collective putting together an ongoing anthology of Australian

writing for publication in a digital, downloadable magazine. We’re looking

for solid writing of a speculative/ science fiction edge that comments on a

consciousness/ spirituality, psychedelic perspective and how that relates to

the rapidly changing world around us now. We embrace street culture that

comments on socio-political alternatives, technology, green ecology, Gaian

consciousness, magick, the Archaic Revival, ethnobotany, psychedelic and

doof counterculture, New Paradigm themes and writing that helps point the

way to a sustainable future.

We are drawing on the enthusiasm and verve of a youth culture that embraces

collective collaboration, network building, new media, new ways of

expression and the fire in the belly that refuses to be extinguished by the

forces of corporate-military-industrial-infotainment Spectacle! Another

world is possible and indeed, happening all around! We hope to show that by

drawing on the techno-cultural possibilities of the present, a multiplicity

of positive futures is also possible.

We would love you to be part of our evolving network and are seeking short

fiction (500 – 6000 words), non-fiction, (up to 3000 words) poetry and art

(web sized jpegs please) , as well as people wanting to be involved in

production behind the scenes. We are attempting to do all this in an

‘open-source’, transparent model on-line, uniting creators through the Net

and encouraging discussion and non-hierarchical community building. So

please forward this call to interested parties and check us out @

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/undergrowthdigizine/ or email us @

infoundergrowth at yahoogroups.com.au for further info.

{we live not underground, but in the undergrowth

courtesy Natasha Cho:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – MEANJIN: ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN ISSUE

along with chris raja, i am guest co-editing an issue of meanjin with

an

asian-australian theme. we are looking for a variety of work – fiction,

poetry, essays and other non-fiction, scripts, zines, comics, visual

art

and anything else you might want to suggest. innovation is encouraged

and in fact we might get excited by it

you don’t have to be asian-australian to submit and you don’t

necessarily have to submit work that’s specifically about

asian-australian identity, cos it’s a funny old thing, this identity

stuff. surprise us

you also don’t have to be widely-published or a ‘big name’ to submit

and

you don’t necessarily have to submit work that’s specifically about you

being widely-published or a ‘big name’, cos it’s a funny old thing,

this

prestige stuff. surprise us

(note: due to australia council funding guidelines, only a limited

amount of work from overseas contributors can be accepted)

if you’re interested in submitting work or if you have any queries,

please contact me asap at natasha@diadic.com

the meanjin website is at www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au/

Journalista!

Using RSS feeds and wire services Journalista (the Comics Journal’s weblog) beats most antipodal comics news sources to the punch on a regular basis.

Australian newspaper The Age checks in with cartoonist Michael Leunig at his home in the northeastern Victorian countryside. The results are thoroughly mockable to conservative Aussie journalist and weblogger Tim Blair.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/22/1069027379121.html

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005167.php

Anti-drug comic from the Herald-Scum:

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8035984%255E662,00.html

And a new online academic journal about comics. Paging Laine Berman, John Lent, Michael Hill!

http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/

Something not on Journalista, at least: Nakedfella’s Newie Fest pix.

Straight Outta Brisbane

comes a comix lova that’ll smotha your motha

and make your sista think I lov her

dangerous, motha fukking raising hell

and if i get caught, I make bail

(sorry, NWA flashback there…)

Zine festival in Brissie with comix component:

http://www.straightoutofbrisbane.com/writing/

Where have all the comix gone?

2:30PM – 4:00PM :: Visible Ink, Upstairs

Is Brisbane’s ever growing community of zinerz leaving their comix counterparts behind? Or are comix creators actually just livin’ it up on their turf around Briz-Vegas? And just what is happening on their side of the world full stop? Come meet some of Brisbane’s finest comix writers talk about their creations, their community, Brisbane’s comics publishing history, and possible futures for comix within the Brisbane independent publishing scene as a whole. This will be a flow-on discussion panel from the ‘Bedroom Hermits Unite’ roundtable.

With: Phatsville Comix, Luke Webber, Jules Faber of Sporadic Comix, Brad Daniels of Groovy Gravy and Glen Manders of Stripsearch Press and Comix etc.

Facilitated by Sean Taylor

(thanks to Comics Australia for info)