Philp Belbin Film Adaption - Out Of The Past

For a brief period during 1948 and 1949 Phil Belbin produced comic adaptions of RKO Radio pictures for Murray magazine Cavalcade. Adaptions included Return of the Badman, Fort Apache, Magic Town, Night Song, Rachel and the Stranger, The Bishop's Wife,The Velvet Touch, If You Knew Suzie, The Miracle of the Bells and Out of the Past. The film adaptions were replaced in late 1949 with original comics featuring Flash Cain, Private Detective, illustrated by Belbin and written by Ray Heath. These were subsequently replaced by Kath King of Kismet Cove, the adventures of a female reporter, illustrated by Belbin and scripted by Sydney Ockenden.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.

  

 

Graphic Novels @ Fed Square

Happening: Federation Square Book Fair
When: Tomorrow ( 16 February 2013)
Where: The Atrium, Federation Square Melbourne.
Time: 11am - 5 pm

Graphic Novels @ Fed Square is a recent initative from Second Shore Publisher Phil Bentley and Melbourne cartoonist Bruce Mutard, once a month they will be tabling at the Fed Square Book Fair alongside numerous book dealers and other authors. Bruce will have a selection of his back catalogue, The Sacrifice, Stripshow, The Silence and his last few copies of The Bunker as well as a selection of prints. Phil will have a selection of Second Shore publications and assorted works by local cartoonists. Phil and Bruce expect to rotate in other publishers and cartoonists in forthcoming months with Hidden Author Mirranda Burton in attendance tomorrow with copies of her book and prints.

Nga Pakiwaituhi: New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels Exhibition

New Zealand cartoonists are represented in the Auckland Arts Festival during March 2013 with an exhibition, Nga Pakiwaituhi: New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels. Nga Pakiwaituhi is curated by Dylan Horrocks and will be displayed in Gallery Two from 1 March - 12 March at The St Paul Street Gallery, 40 Paul St, Auckland City. 

Artist's featured: Akira Atsushi, Tim Bollinger, Greg Broadmore, Andrew Burdan, Tim Danko, Rufus Dayglo, Draw, Richard Fairgray, Chris Grosz, Dylan Horrocks, Mat Hunkin, Robyn Kenealy, Timothy Kidd, Adrian Kinnaird, Sarah Laing, Jared Lane, Roger Langridge, Barry Linton, Tim Molloy, Toby Morris, Stefan Neville & Clayton Noone, Sam Orchard, Ant Sang, Darren & Kelly Sheehan, Chris Slane, Ben Stenbeck, Mat Tait, Karl Wills, Colin Wilson. Curated by Dylan Horrocks.

 

Running concurrently with the Nga Pakiwaituhi  exhibition, St Pauls Gallery two will feature Comics, Manga & Co – Germany's New Comic Culture.

From St Paul's Gallery,

Conceived by Matthias Schneider, a Berlin based curator and comic expert and the Goethe-Institut, this travelling exhibition presents two generations of German comics artists: the 1990s post reunification avant-garde that paved the way for the emergence of an independent culture of German comics, and a generation of younger comics artists, whose work embraces a newer aesthetic and narrative aspect.

Artists include: Arne Bellstorf, Martin Tom Dieck, Anke Feuchtenberger, Flix, Jens Harder, Sascha Hommer, Line Hoven, Ulf K., Reinhard Kleist, Isabel Kreitz, Mawil, Christina Plaka, Henning Wagenbreth.

The St PAUL St Gallery in conjunction with the School of Art and Design, and the Goethe-Institut New Zealand will also host two free workshops with visiting artists Line Hoven and Mawil during the Auckland Arts festival.
 
Thursday 7 March 9:30 am - 4 pm Line Hoven will be running a scraperboard workshop where she will share her techniques.

Friday 8 March 9:30 am - 4 pm Mawil will introduce the basics of storytelling through comic strips. Both workshops are aimed at participants who have skill and experience in drawing.

Further information here.

Nga Pakiwaituhi and Comics, Manga & Co – Germany's New Comic Culture are presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival 2013 and the Goethe-Institut New Zealand.

http://www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/

http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/events/nga-pakiwaituhi-new-zealand-comics.aspx

Maude Farrugia Mini Comics

 
I'll be stocking up the Pikitia Press store over the next few days. First up are a couple of mini-comics from Melbourne cartoonist Maude Farrugia. Maude seems to surface from her country dwelling every once and a while with new work at annual zine fairs. Maude's comics feature an array of cute bendy people, autobio comics, and occasional depictions of some of the worst aspects of Australian culture. Her personal interests like eco-concerns and protest movements also feature.

Maude Farrugia's blog.

Rags and Spirit Fingers are available now in the PP Store.

Sticky Zine Fair Melbourne 2013

Like a fool I tested my new camera on a bunch of comic folk at the 2013 Sticky Zine Fair in Melbourne and ended up with a bunch of pics taken with a low light setting. Please excuse the fuzziness and lack of focus, here's a bunch of comic folk snapped at the zine fair yesterday.

Andrew Fulton

 Simon Hanselmann

 Peader Thomas

Brent Willis

Frank Candiloro

Grant Gronewold

Sarah Howell

Mirranda Burton and Bruce Mutard

 David Blumenstein

 David C Mahler

Ive Sorocuk, Marta Tesoro and Patrick "Melting Nazi Face" Alexander

Melting Nazi Face

Milk Shadow Books' James Andre and Incredible Hulk Scholar Larry Boxshall

 Michael Hawkins

 M P Fikaris

Anthony Woodward

Sacha Bryning

 Marc Pearson and Elliot Lamb

Ben Hutchings

 

Phil Bentley

I picked up a sweet haul from the fair.

  

 

Contact/Tintin Mashup print from A Woodward and a hand-drawn Simon Hanselmann T-Shirt!

Sticky Institute Zine Fair: Victoria Drug Scene

 
Simon Hanselmann's "Australian" anthology, Victoria Drug Scene issue one.

From Girl Mountain:

VICTORIA DRUG SCENE issue one. officially launching this Sunday, the 10th, in the Melbourne city hall, at the zine fair therein. I made an “Australian” anthology. highlights include: 9 pages of new megg and mogg, a 12 page html flowers epic, new work from lashna tuschewski, michael hawkins, marc pearson + many more awesome people + special international guest josie mairead king edwards (who, if this were a reality television contest and not a zine, would have won). 76 pages. cheap xerox. 200 copies. numbered. (available soon for online international orders through www.silentarmyshop.bigcartel.com).

Hanselmann will have a fine selection of offerings at the Zine fair this Sunday, previews here.

..and geez louise get your hands on a beautiful Hanselmann broadsheet courtesy of Floating World Comics.

  

Sticky Institute Paper City 2013 Zine Fair

This Sunday 10 Feb at the Melbourne town hall, The Sticky Institute host their annual zine fair. The town hall will be packed with zines and comics from the small presses of Melbourne.

Silent Army will be launching the third issue of their comics broadsheet Dailies including a New Zealand cartoonist section edited by Tim Danko.

Order Dailies and other Silent Army comics from the Silent Army online store.