Sunday, March 17, 2013

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

Saturday, March 16, 2013

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.




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.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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.