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Monday, December 16, 2013

2013 in Review: Grant Buist


What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2013?

The Wellington arts newspaper Capital Times folded after 39 years in print, but luckily my regular cartoon Jitterati was picked up a few weeks later by lifestyle magazine FishHead, so now It’s printed on glossy paper and read by upwardly mobile Millennials. Which is nice. For my own perverse amusement, I’ve been adapting Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for the comic generation site Pixton. There’s over 130 episodes so far, and it’s confusing the hell out of everyone. It was also the twentieth anniversary of my cartoon Brunswick, but I forgot to do anything to mark it.

What are some of the comics/cartoonists you've enjoyed in 2013?

I’m 70km away from the nearest comics store or decent library graphic novel collection, so it’s all webcomics for me. Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona has been receiving a lot of deserved attention, as has Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne’s spectacularly NSFW Oglaf. I also follow Jamie Smart’s Corporate Skull, Madeleine Flores’ Help Us! Great Warrior and Andrew Hussie’s epic Homestuck, which I started reading because it was described as "the Ulysses of the Internet”, presumably by someone who’s never actually read Ulysses. Nothing too obscure there, but it’s all good stuff. 

What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2013?

I’ve taken great pleasure this year in scratching large pigs with sticks. Few things are as rewarding as using a stick to raise a cloud of dried skin and mud from the stomach of a happily grunting piggy. 

What are you looking forward to in 2014?

I was commissioned to write a radio series based on a musical I wrote a few years ago based on Brunswick, so I’m looking forward to hearing how that turns out. I’m also looking forward to putting out the first chapters of my 14th graphic novel, which I’ve been promising for years now - life kept getting in the way, but now I live in Otaki Beach that isn’t such a problem.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Paper Trail


Rory Hewson writes about F.J. Nealie's Rotorua cartoons. Preview here. Further commentary here.



JAMES JAMES!


Bob Temuka writes about focusing on individual panels from comics.

 Kelly Sheehan's idea of a perfect panel: This moment from Tim Kidd's Came The Dawn

Chromacon have Boosted and Pledgeme campaigns running to help finance their festival.




Renowned political cartoonist Malcolm Evans paints a live billboard drawing in central Wellington.



Tim Molloy shares album art for Cash Savage and the Last Drinks.



Sam Orchard shares a page from a submission to the Anything That Loves anthology.



 
This is Moonbeard.


Kiwigame's NZ advertising Flickr set.


Another Kiwigame Vintage NZ Advertising set. I used to buy and use these tattoos!

 
It can't hurt to link to more DIE POPULAR.



Tane William's illustrations for Steve Braunias.



Ele Jenkins tumblr.


Grant Buist recently wrote about concluding his twelve year run on strip Jitterati for Wellington paper Capital Times which has ceased publication. A recent post on Buist's site indicates he has found a new home for Jitteratti.


Capital Times' last issue came out this month after 38 years of publication. The issue below featured Mat Tait's illustration from Pictozine #2.


Melbourne Comics festival on in Northcote this weekend. More details here.


Ive Sorocuk shares a detail of the cover created in collaboration with Alex Clark for his forthcoming Comics Face collection.


Kevin Patrick writes about the discovery of  Terry Trowell paintings in Western Australia.


Popeye.com interview Roger Langridge.




Paul Mason writes about an Australian soldier character in Timely/Marvel Comics.


Anthony Woodward offers 4 issues of Sketchbook Comix through a pay what you want model.


Anthony is preparing a third Chugnut Comics free comic book day comic. Read Chugnut #1.


 Simon Hanselmann features in the latest issue of ลก! #13 'Life Is Live'.



Gavin Aung Than tackles super heroes via Jack London at Zen Pencils.
 

Daniel Best writes about his forthcoming book about Australian comics publisher Newton Comics. Best has also established a Newton Comics facebook group.



Joshua Santospirito features on The Comic Spot.