Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor - ComicOZ

Comicoz have released an excerpt from their first volume of John Dixon's Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor via Issuu. This first collection features five complete Air Hawk stories, an interview with creator John Dixon, and a wealth of background and biographical information.

Comicoz publisher Nat Karmichael has commenced work on a second volume of Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor whilst the first 200 page collection published in 2010 is still available on order from Comicoz.

 

 Read an excerpt of Air Hawk from The Sun Herald here.

 Eddie Campbell cover for Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor Vol One.

Air Hawk and The Flying Doctor © 2013 John Dixon

English Comics Daily Diversion: Playbox No's 1070, 1071

Kath King - Memory For Faces

Kath King adventure comic from the December 1952 issue Cavalcade. Illustrated by Phil Belbin, written by Sydney Ockenden.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read Belbin's adaption of RKO Movie Out of the Past here.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.

 

Images © 2013 Estate of Phil Belbin

English Comics Daily Diversion: Playbox Oct 7th 1950

Pikitia Press Publishing Update

All Pikitia Press comics have free shipping to anywhere in the world during the month of March.

The Pikitia Press Store

Moa #1, a new edition of the first adventure of James Davidson's uniquely New Zealand comic, is now available for pre-order shipping on 29 March. Moa #1 was originally independently published as a black and white ashcan. Pikitia Press are proud to present a full size, full colour edition of the debut adventures of Possum Von Tempsky and Kiwi Pukupuku.

 

The third volume of Ballantyne: the Flaw in the Jewel by Peter Foster and James H Kemsley and recent mini-comic Adversaries by M.Emery are also now available from the Pikitia Press store.

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tip Top March 26th 1949

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tip Top March 12th 1949

Happy 30th Birthday, Rebecca Clements

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tip Top Feb 26th 1949

Paper Trail

 

Elliot Francis Stewart Tumblr.

Sarah Laing's colouring comics.

   
David C. Mahler tumblr.

Waitangi Day drawings gallery by Susan Te Kahurangi King (via facebook).

Brent Willis' reviews David Tulloch's Utterly Rucked. Read Utterly Rucked online here.

Gavin Aung Than's Seneca: Sympathy For The Devil at Zen Pencils.

Simon Hanselmann has a launch for his Floating World broadsheet St Owl's Day at the Silent Army Storeroom on 27th March at 110 Franklin St, Melbourne. "TRUTH ZONE" EXHIBITION: the sixty nine 2012 episodes of the COMICS WORKBOOK "comics criticism comic" will be on display for perusal and buying. Facebook it.

  
Brandon Graham shares an upcoming Prophet cover by Helen Maier.

Ben Stenbeck Blog.

Dan Best writes about the effects of Frederic Wertham's work on the Australian comics industry.

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tip Top Jan 29th 1949

Jim Dexter - Picture News 1940

Picture News was first published on Nov 4th 1939. Les Such, William Heaslip, M. Roberts, R M Younger and Alex Gurney all featured in the pages of Picture News. Gurney's signature wartime cartoon Bluey and Curly debuted in Picture News in 1939. Bluey and Curley outlasted Gurney's death in 1955 with Howard Norman Rice succeeding Gurney on art chores until his untimely death in a car accident on new years Eve 1956. Les Dixon took over Bluey and Curley in 1957, drawing the strip until 1975.

 Alan Marshall and John Elliot

The September 1st 1940 Issue of Picture News previewed a new 'All Australian Comic Strip Jim Dexter', which would be debuting the following week. Below is the first installment of Jim Dexter and a profile of creators, writer Alan Marshall and artist John Elliot.

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Places To put Your Money

Dylan Horrocks has commenced producing daily water colours working with a weekly theme, this week being portraits of cartoonists. Dylan will be offering them for sale through his site. Get in quick folks, pages of Hicksville offered last week were snapped up in minutes.

The second volume of  Australian anthology Blood and Thunder produced by Leigh Rigozzi and Kernow Craig features a fine line up of Australian and New Zealand cartoonists including Michael Fikaris, Tim Danko, Kieran Mangan, Gregory Mackay, Mandy Ord, Jo Waite, Neale Blanden, Trevor Dickinson, James Flaxman, Andrew Fulton, Michael Hawkins, Sam Wallman, and others.

A Pozible campaign functioning as a pre-order is available here.

Sign up for the Blood and Thunder newsletter here.
 
Blood & Thunder on Facebook.

Roger Langridge has a Big Cartel store here. Original art from recent projects and sketches from Langridge's daily blog are available at BARGAIN prices. Buy up while you can!

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tip Top Feb 11th 1949

Places to Put Your Money

In it's last few days, the Space Pyrates Pozible campaign offers a variety of levels and rewards to raise funds for a collected edition of the Space Pyrates webcomic produced by Matthew Hoddy and Caitlin Major.

Support Space Pyrates here.

Read Space Pyrates here.

 
Longtime friend and publisher of Steve Ditko's work, Robin Snyder has a Kickstarter campaign here to produce a reprinted edition of The Ditko Public Service Package. Whilst many books have being produced in recent years from a variety of publishers featuring Ditko's work, this book presents Ditko's most personal work and money raised from it's publication directly benefits the artist himself.

Bob H's Ditko Weblog is the best source of Ditko news here.