Additional orange/black band stickers not part of original art. Initially I was annoyed, but on closer inspection they had the cheek(respect?) to place the stickers in the line of vision of the characters on the two occassions they look off into the distance, a very awkward attempt to make like the stickers were part of the story.
My betrothed, Mr David Blumenstein, is once again organising Comic Book Funny as part of the free program of Melbourne Comedy Festival events at Trades Hall. I will be contributing artwork to the calendar mentioned below.
Dates and times: 5pm - 6.15pm Every Saturday in April
Week 1: a genteel exhibition launch and informal comics salon, directed by Mme Josephine Waite. All welcome.
We expect also that lady comic artists will be on hand to sketch attractive male comic artists for the upcoming art-calendar, THE SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS 2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR. Twelve steamy months of hot cartoonist man-meat, as depicted by women who share their comics passion.
Watch the ladies draw, or do some drawing yourself.
Week 2: a very special Intimate Conversation between long-awaited interstate guest Gerard Ashworth (Modern Murder, Electric Ferret) and local comics broadcaster John Retallick (http://thecomicspot.blogspot.com/).
Week 3: join two of the funniest, filthiest cartoonists in Australia for a chat about why poos, wees, farts, boinks, taints and scrotes are really, really funny.
Week 4: the unexpected launch of THE SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS 2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR! Your host is the dashing Bernard Caleo.
Where: Bella Union bar, Trades Hall Corner Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton, Melbourne.
The other exhibition that happened in my absence was Ugly, Drunk and Stupid at the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Curated by Jo Waite and Bernard Caleo the exhibition was part of the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
The format for the show was a portrait of an "Ugly, Drunk, and/or Stupid" character and a landscape format comic featuring this character.
I decided to use as the starting point the caricature of Paris Hilton I drew during one the Zine Cloud word game exercises back in June where I ended up with the words "Paris Hilton, "Smoking" and "Sword".
The resulting comic is the first I've done in a long time that aims to be funny and has a lot of words. Overall I was pretty happy with it.
Broken windows aside the opening apparently went well with a fine collection of secondhand sherry glasses provided by Jo.
"Pat’s favourite comic: A tie between Sarah Howell’s silent comic and Tim Molloy’s Mr Unpronounceable."
- from curator Pat Grant's wrap up email (this email totally made my day).
Images 1. single panel detail. Image 2. installation shot of exhibition, mine is the very white three page comic sandwiched between Ben Constantine's 12 page work and Mandy Ord's 4 pages.
An interview with me about the Team Up experience is now on the Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery blog, followed by one with my partnered artist Alix Halpern. http://www.townhallgallery.blogspot.com/
23 – 27 June I co-ordinated 4 teams of zine creators and art teachers to deliver a statewide (Tasmania) program of workshops called Zine Cloud, the results of which will be available during the 2008 Tasmanian Living Writers' Week, 15 August - 7 September.
In a week we produced over 60 zine publications.
I had the pleasure of being one of the South Eastern team's artists along with Nicole Robson and Felicity Copeland-Brown.
Other artist teams where: North West: Pat Grant, Karlee Foster, and Michelle Best North: Jo Waite, Ingrid Reynolds, and Lisa Drinkwater South:Leigh Rigozzi, Sarah Badcock, and Peter Young.
The resounding feedback from everyone, artists, teachers, and students alike, has been that the week was intense but highly rewarding. We were all kind of buzzing for about a week afterwards.
The Zine Cloud project is a partnership between arts@work and the Tasmanian Department of Education.
Thank you to everyone who was involved in this project, it was amazing!
Photo of North West team's zine creations was taken by Karlee Foster.
I am in rehab for the following dates: January 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 (two posts already up)
Check out my simple little story of a girl who finds a magic wand and a boy who won't move.
Myself and others who are in Comic Artist Rehab would appreciate your comments on our work!
"Comic Artist Rehab is where four comic artists (who haven’t been as busy as they should) commit to drawing four panels every four days for four weeks."
This is the only page I have on file that has the dialogue laid over the top. Click on the image to see a slightly bigger version if you can't read the text.
This is the last finished page, after this point the collaboration process between Greg and I started to fall over.
I particularly enjoyed drawing the backgrounds on this page, I also felt it was the most successful in terms of overall page layout.
So yes, these scripted pages had dialogue once upon a time layered on top with photoshop, but now I only have the original artwork. Basically the nasty guy that attacked the main character is actually her friend and was teaching her a lesson to be on her guard more, strangely enough she is annoyed by this.
The monster in the background that eats the seagull is to casually reinforce the threatening environment.
So here is the second page. I dreamt up the first page as a cover for a zine/anthology I was putting together with my friends at the time. Greg Gerrand liked the first image so much he wrote a script for a story, this second page is the first scripted page.
Today I was scanning in old artwork, so I thought I would post some here. This is the first page of four I did way back in my early years of reading comics,1999. It was a good distraction from the jewellery design studies I was doing at the time.
