Monday, December 2, 2013

Paper Trail


Boy's Own adventure by Tony Thorne in Demons.


WIP: Jase Harper's Awk Wood.


Preview of Roger Langridge's L'il Ernie.



Preview for new comic from Katie Parrish.


A lengthy post on T.C. Denne’s soft drink and ice cream business by Darian Zam.

Recreation of a mid-1960s hand screen-printed poster for the Peter Pan Dazzle, by Bob Godfrey.

Philip Bentley has released a his comics memoirs A Life in Comics available from Second Shore.  Phil has been involved for much of the past 50 years with the Australian comics scene through fandom, retailing, writing and publishing. More info on A Life in Comics – a personal history of comics in Australia 1960-1990 here.

  
Phil also recently announced the end of his Australian comics publication Word Balloons.

"With the release of A Life in Comics it seems an appropriate time to draw a line under the publication of Word Balloons. It was not my intention from the outset to conclude its run here, but anyone who has been following the magazine’s trajectory will have seen that its frequency has slowed over the years. This is just the natural consequence of producing an work as labour of love. Eventually enthusiasm will run out. I had thought that perhaps at the end of producing the book I would feel energised and be enthusiastic about getting back into WB, but the opposite has been true, so I very much feel it is time to move on"

Back issues of Word Balloons can be purchased from Second Shore.



Emmet O'Cuana reviews Home Brew Vampire Bullets #0.



Eleri Mai Harris made a beautiful comic for the 2013 Caravan of Comics TCAF excursion.


Gallery of New Zealand reprint comics at The Library of American Comics Blog.


The Dominion Post profiles Murray Webb.



Simon Hanselmann's 2013 CAB report.


Daniel Best announces a Keith Chatto ebook biography.



Neale Blanden diagrams the Melbourne Comics Community.


Jem Yoshioka writes about the recent Women's Cartoon colloquium in Wellington.




Sarah Laing's commentary on the Women's Cartoon colloquium.

  
David Mahler writes about Marc Pearson.

Have you ordered your SAVAGE BITCH?


 Stephen A. Russell profiles Art Spiegelman for The Age prior to his recent Australian visit.


Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Armageddon Melbourne 2013

Some of comic folk at Armageddon Melbourne 2013.

All Star Comics

Colin Wilson and Tom Taylor

Colin Wilson sketches Star Wars


Fil Barlow and Helen Maier

Richard Fairgray

Craig Bruyn

Dean Rankine

Matt Kyme, Matthew Nicholls and Ross Stewart


Brent Anderson

Sorab Del Rio

Steve Sparke

Neville Howard and BMB

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Ross Gore - Levins 1841 - 1941

New Zealand artist Ross Gore's history of the first hundred years of Levin and Company LTD was published as a handsome hardcover book in 1956 by Levin and Co and printed by printer/publishers Whitcombe & Tombs in Wellington. Comprehensively researched from archival sources at the Alexander Turnbull Library, the company itself, and other Wellington institutions, Gore used his artistic talents to provide chapter illustrations from the various eras of the company.

Ross Gore's background and connections with the 'Baby Face Artist' behind comics Patsy Kane, Victory Comics and Meteor Comics feature on this previous post. I'm now convinced Gore was an associate of the unidentified 'Baby Face Artist' and confident some further research will reveal their connection.

Dick Hudson's Adventures, a back up story in Victory comics circa late 1944, appears to be the uncredited work of Gore.

 Victory Comics featured a cover story by the 'Baby face artist'.

Samples of Ross Gore's newspaper strip It happened in New Zealand here.


Photos from Ross Gore's wedding to Barbara Standish appeared in the Evening Post, 10 February 1939.(Gore second from left).


Gallery of Ross Gore Illustrations from Levins 1841 - 1941
















Victory Comic scan provided by Allan Kemp, Ross Gore wedding photo from paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Illustrations copyright 2013 estate of Ross Gore.