Paper Trail

 Sarah Laing shares commissioned portraits of New Zealand artists and writers.

 
Roger Langridge has digitally released a previously unpublished 70 page comic created in the 90's, The Thirteenth Floor. Read about it here, available as a PDF and CBZ.

 
Langridge is also featuring in upcoming volumes of UK digital anthology Aces Weekly with The Fez Eldritch Detective.

Neil Sanders animation and illustration tumblr.

Jase Harper's Guh!

151 Capture Creatures by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson.

Frank and Becky hourly comics. 

15 Comic Books are launching in Melbourne on March 2nd at this years BA3. Previews are going up daily on facebook and tumblr.

Endless Karma by Dan Cross and M. P. Fikaris.

Josh Santospirito writes about his recent performance with Christopher Downes of the Shipwright & the Banshee.


The Shipwright and The Banshee: MONA FOMA Performance from Chris Downes on Vimeo.

Just Be Honest For Now tumblr.

"Aftermath", objects & drawings by Leigh Rigozzi & Lachlan Conn.  Opening Friday February 8th, 6-8pm. Open Thursday - Saturday 12-5pm until Feb 24. Facebook it here.

  
Paul Mason writes about his cover design process for The Soldier Legacy's Strange Tales one-shot from Blackhouse Comics.

Hannah Nolan at Sensory Ghost

Tom Scott 2013 editorial cartoons.

Recently passed New Zealand broadcaster Paul Holmes portrayed by various cartoonists in The New Zealand Herald.

 Paul Holmes transition to Prime TV by Trace Hodgson

Rachel Fenton's Escape Behaviours.

Steve Saville on comics in the classroom and creativity part one and part two.

Aggressive Comics interview with Milk Shadow Publisher James Andre.

  Photo by Bobby N.

From the Pikitia Press WIP folder:

Keeping busy cleaning up scans for a book on New Zealand comics by Geoff Harrison. Here's some scans of New Zealand editions of Simon and Kirby's horror anthology series Black Magic, originally published by Prize Comics in the 1950's.

Russian Cartooning/Illustration Diversion: Огонёк 1955

I previously wrote about Soviet social-political and literary weekly magazine Oгонёк (Spark) here.

The following illustrations and cartoons come from the 43rd edition published in 1955.

Book Preview: Classic Australian Comics 1855 - 2000 - Vane Lindesay

Keeping busy cleaning up scans for a book by Vane Lindesay, Classic Australian Comics 1855 - 2000. Here's a couple gems from The Comic Australian, 1911, by Hugh McCrae.

 

Noel Cook - Gag Cartoons

Noel Cook (1896-1981) Produced the following gag cartoons for the Australian Woman's Weekly during the late thirties and early forties. Cook was simultaneously producing painted illustrations for serials and adventure comics during this period. Cook's gag cartoons shared page space with his fellow expatriate Edward Brodie-Mack.

Noel Cook's Deed's That Thrilled Australia!

Noel Cook Pulp Illustrations.

Noel Cook biography and comic Adrift in Space.

Source: http://trove.nla.gov.au

Phil Belbin

One of Australia's finest adventure comic illustrators, Phillip Bertram Johstone Belbin (1925-1993) produced a prolific output of work across K. G. Murray's stable of magazines and comics through the forties to the seventies. A quantity of Belbin's early work went unsigned (in particular paperback covers) and he was also known to use pseudonyms which included Humph, Fillini, Pittsburgh and Duke as well as his own name.

Read Belbin's Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.

Following illustrations and cartoons are from Man Junior magazine from 1950's - 1970's.

 

Source: http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/pbelbin.html, ACE biographical portraits : the artists behind the comic book characters : the Australian comic book exhibition, Melbourne State Library.