Thursday, February 28, 2002Posted by Andrew Luke For those of you haven't caught the shameless plugging on the Bugpowder Yahoo Group, Toby Tripp has been spending the last week putting together eleven new Flash animations. Well worth your time, even if your connection is as slow as mine. The work of Toby Tripp, ladies and gentlemen. 5:53 AM | Wednesday, February 27, 2002Posted by Pete Quick note. The UK small press comics convention Caption 2002 has been confirmed for Sat 17 and Sun 18 August. More details to follow... 4:04 PM | Tuesday, February 26, 2002Posted by Pete
5:13 PM | Sunday, February 24, 2002Posted by Pete From the Vertigo mailing list, Owen Erasmus informs of Tom Hart's 24 hour comic Maria which is online as a flash file. And it's very good. More about 24 hour comics. Do one today! 2:08 PM | Wednesday, February 20, 2002Posted by Pete Some 'advice' I put to the Comics 2002 mailing list has made it onto this site which some of you might find useful should be you be in the portfolio-hawking stage of your career. (Part of John Freeman's Down The Tubes site) 3:57 PM | Posted by Pete From the Sequential Tart site (which I confess I don't look at as often as I should - must do better!) Gary Groth interviewed, a comparatively rare event and well worth a look. from LMG) 3:52 PM | Posted by kookymojo Odd Jobs is worth a look. Stylish black-and-white artwork and a noir atmosphere. The first book is available in its entirety. (The second one has started, but Tim Broderick is shifting it over to the subscription-based site that Pete mentioned below.) 6:48 AM | Tuesday, February 19, 2002Posted by Pete I was drawn to this by Tom Hart's involvement, but Modern Tales does look pretty interesting. It's a subscription based online anthology at the decent price of $2 a month done on a collective basis. Check out their manifesto. 3:04 PM | Monday, February 18, 2002Posted by Pete Steve Ince writes to say he likes BugPowder and to plug his online strip Juniper Crescent which is updated Wednesdays and Sundays. 12:52 PM | Posted by Pete Simon Bowland writes to inform that the relauch issue of Nucomix is out on Feb 26th. Details on the site. 12:48 PM | Posted by Andrew Luke The other eve I got to check out demian.5's 'When I am King', a scroll-long 'based on hieroglyphics' piece some of you may already have seen. Or may not have known just how zesting this webcomic be, and delightful. 4:36 AM | Friday, February 15, 2002Posted by Pete From The Comics Journal press dept.: CHARLES SCHULZ SPEAKS! 4:44 PM | Posted by Pete Long time small press, etc geezer Garen Ewing has updated his site somewhat. 10:05 AM | Thursday, February 14, 2002Posted by Andrew Luke Laura Wotton written to tell me of a small group of manga-pressers who have gathered online at Sweatdrop Studios. They've got a forum and a number of comics for sale (I didn't realise the UK had such active manga artists!), and PayPal. plus money order systems in operation at th' retail. Active. 5:38 PM | Posted by kookymojo "The Girly Comic is a new comic strip anthology aiming to launch at the Comics 2002 Festival in the UK. After witnessing the sight of so many comics widows being dragged around by their partners at Comics 2001, I decided that it was about time that someone attempted to fill that niche market! While by no means restricted just to women readers, the plan is to produce something a little more woman-friendly than a lot of mainstream comic titles out there, with a diversity of material, at an affordable price."One to look out for in May, I think. 4:58 AM | Wednesday, February 13, 2002Posted by Pete
3:23 PM | Posted by Pete The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick is an 8 page story by Robert Crumb from Weirdo #17 that's available to read on philipkdick.com. (from LMG) 11:42 AM | Tuesday, February 12, 2002Posted by Pete Been re-reading Jef Czekaj's article in TCJ 238, Fuck Other Forms Of Art, and toying with ideas, so I thought it worth sharing here so you might toy with ideas. Look around you. You're surrounded by crappy art. From the devil girl paintings in the coffee shop, to the faux-Kerouacian poetry jams Monday night at the local rock club, to the local writers "workshop" at the library, we are constantly bombarded with passionless, unimaginative, derivative art. And look at the fine print: many of these pursuits are funded at least partly by grant money. Someone is paying that woman to hang doll heads on the wall and call it "transgressive." That "chapbook," (no, no, it's not a zine) is funded by the local Arts Council. Why don't comic artists get this money? 4:42 PM | Posted by Pete
Question posed on MetaFilter: has the internet killed off this kind of zine? Have the potential zinesters of today gone over to the net? And, more pertinently for comics, could you run a really good community fanzine in this day and age? Answers to the mailing list, I guess. (Subscribe here) 10:31 AM | Monday, February 11, 2002Posted by Andy (Konky Kru)
As I'll be in London in March-May I've updated my 'Exhibitions in London' page. Nothing to do with comics, but also about visual art, so maybe of some interest to you lot as well. Let me know if anything desperately important is missing.
10:47 AM | Posted by kookymojo
Reasons to love the Xeric Foundation part 1:
Issues #7-12 of Amy Unbounded are being collected in a trade paperback. Creator Rachel Hartman recently said that she hopes to collect the first six issues someday, but in the mean time, if you're interested, you can order them here. Reasons to love the Xeric Foundation part 2: New stuff from Brian Ralph and Jordan Crane. Whoo! 8:12 AM | Posted by Andrew Luke Zograf's work has of course appeared on Alexander Uginof's highly acclaimed 'Nambanga', deservedly so. Alex writes of an interesting project for mobile pho-wners "A beta version of a site enabling this I hope to have ready by November. However, the extent to which it can be developed and marketed (principally in Japan) depends entirely on the sales from Nambanga Vol 1. The site http://keitai-comics.com , gives you a taste. 3,4 panel gags are first on the list of desired submissions. Quirkily and bizarrely cute and ugly shorts are preferred."Alex and Kelvin (Lee) also add, "Just the ticket for the independent, tired comix-loving punters lugging around their Palmtop computers and handheld compatibles"Quite worth checking, I would reckon. 6:28 AM | Sunday, February 10, 2002Posted by Pete
Ex-Yu lexicon is a collection of short reminiscences on life and culture of ex-Yugoslavia, written by people from different parts of this now non-existent country. I wrote a note about two comedians (Mija & Ckalja). In Serbo - Croat.
A most recent interview with Aleksandar Zograf. In Italian.
I interviewed this great Texan cartoonist Mack White, and the Italian translation of this article is available.
A review of my Spanish books, posted on a web site from Portugal. In Portuguese. (hit the button with genitalia)
2:06 PM | Wednesday, February 06, 2002Posted by Pete Tom Tomorrow's site has a weblog, and it looks to be a good read. (via Haughey) 3:13 PM | Sunday, February 03, 2002Posted by Pete I'm rather proud to present the following on BugPowder:
Joe Sacco is one of the cartoonists who shaped the comics scene in the 90s. 5:19 PM | Friday, February 01, 2002Posted by Pete Knew I'd miss one! Rick Bradford writes: A new edition of Poopsheet is now up. This is, in fact, the final issue for an as-yet-undetermined period of time. Over 100 independent projects are covered in this new issue. More information regarding the hiatus may be found at the site. 2:59 PM | Posted by Pete Loads of people have mailed me with links to their sites recently. So, from the top: Colometer Davis: A crime fighting leprechaun private detective working in the increasingly turbulent seedy underworld of small town Ireland. Full 31 page colour comic. Another really promising talent coming out of Ireland. Looks pretty neat! You should know it by now, but Jim McGee seems to think Square Eyed Stories needs a plug, and why not! Liverpool-a-go-go. Toby Tripp keeps sending me disturbing jpegs. Which is nice. Bren from Toenail Clippings is back from Angoleme. They didn't win but... "WOW the festival is crazy, I mean I had an idea how huge it might be but it was way beyond that, it was so well organised and well attended. We met so many great people, and the work available is so incredible. We didn't win any award but felt both humble and proud to be nominated alongside some of the other nominees. 3 of the judges came to speak to me and it was extremely encouraging to hear what they had to say especially about the role we are playing in introducing the world(?!!) to Irish comics, anyway thought id fill you in. Shane Rivett writes to say his new comic, Sinmakers, is available from SmallZone. Now this was a surprise. Optical Sloth is a HUGH site with creator profiles and reviews of hundreds of key books and creators. An incredible amount of work (some might say of Konky proportions) that looks like it could well function as a reference point for anyone looking to know about the good stuff. The usual suspects are her but also loads of zine-names I didn't know about. Keen-O! Good work Mr Kevin Bramer! Finally, Sasa Rakezic, AKA Aleksander Zograf, has written an article in a catalogue for a Joe Sacco exhibition in Italy "as seen by somebody coming from the Balkans". Look for it on this site soon! 2:55 PM | |
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