Auckland!

From MoonRocket.co.nz:

SMALL PRINT, a self-publishing conference/fest/event will happen next month in Auckland. Saturday 11 october at grey lynn community hall (474 great north road, next to the library).

the website for the event is at http://www.moonrocket.co.nz/zinefest & there’s a mailing list you can join if you want to be kept up to date & to get a copy of the programme before the day.

Battambang!

What are Lisa Mandel

Srey Bandol

Vuthy

and Sylvain Moizie-Rondet



up to at Phare art school?

Teaching comics, that’s what. More news to follow in a week.

Bangkok

In Bangkok on notorious Khao San Road. It’s like a gigantic singles bar where backpackers can buy all the ‘asian’ accoutrements they need. Still, I can’t be too harsh, just so long as they get OUT of this tourist ghetto down the line.

(Would document this circus but perhaps _after_ I’ve sorted the Indonesian fun, that comes first. )

Had my first falafel in a year. Next off to Battambang to meet Lisa Mandel, who is doing a comix workshop with PHARE art school. Gonna have to motor down to Phnom Penh after that.

News @ Haram Jedah, fresh comix on front page, and more’s a-comin’!

From 555 records - a new book of cartoons from David Nichols??

3) The Grey Tapes – Making Your Mind Up

Not the classic Bucks Fizz track, but one of the debut solo offerings from David Nichols, (Huon/Cannanes/Crabstick/Blairmailer etc). At the time of this recording David was going to call his solo project “The Powerful Owl”, but changed the name. I still think I prefer The Powerful Owl, which is maybe why DN changed the band name. Anyways, I make no secret of the fact David is one of my favourite living heroes and I hold his music and art in high regard, (so he can call his band what he wants of course). There will be a full length CD of the Grey Tapes, complete with a big book of cartoons from David later in the year. This track may or may not be on the CD. You just don’t know with David…

Unfortunately, the goss has it the distro may have gone belly up. We will see. David needs to collect his comics someday…

Also a good interview with the Donjon folks, at

http://www.bdparadisio.com/intervw/donjon/donjsfar.htm

You can translate this via http://babel.altavista.com

From the National Young Writer’s Festival:

Comics and Beer

Attention all comic makers and beer drinkers… This year the National Young Writers Festival is thinking about expanding it’s strong zine component by getting more festival-goers to read more comics. To do this we require two components: Beer and comics. We’ve got the beer aspect covered, but we need comicicians(you) to send us your comics. The idea goes that when a person buys a beer from the Festival Club (This Is Not Art main hangout) for a dollar more they receive a comic to read. This means more distribution, more comic exposure during the festival and more people reading your comics! So please send us your comics, they can be recent comics you’ve just finished making or old copies of comics you’d just like to get rid of. They can be any size with any kind of content. Or just anything that would distract a beer drinking festival-goer from spending the whole day staring into a rapidly emptying bottle. (please note that we can only pay you a $1 percomic, as the deal goes $3 for beer, $4 for beer and a comic, and let’s face it-no one buys comics! right! infact this letter actually had the word ‘zine’ in it twenty times-not even ‘comic’, which has no place in the aussie race.) Please send your zines to Sam at Octapod 3/231 King Street Newcastle NSW 2300 or e-mail:

youreye@octapod.com

http://www.youngwritersfestival.org