Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Paper Trail



The Lifted Brow 7th Anniversary party tomorrow in Melbourne.

 
Ben Juers Comics.


Brighten up your day at DIE POPULAR.


Matt Huynh Comic Book Launch and Exhibition for MA in Sydney, Wed 5th Feb.
 


Kiwiman Comics.

 
Sarah Laing's Radio part 3 and part 4.


Salary Man Comics.



Tricky Walsh's Hoppers.




Nicola Scott Profile.


Daniel Best writes about arguably Australia's first comic Vumps.



Nat Karmichael on production of Monty Wedd's Ned Kelly and Rob Feldman's Cartoons, Cars and Cows in Cars.

  
 Free Download: Home Brew Vampire Bullets #0



Emmet O'Cuana and Ryan Huff discuss a selection of Australian comics from 2013.



Comics masterclass interview Karen Beilharz.



The Phantom Podcast interviews Bradley Peach discussing the forthcoming exhibition of his Phantom collection in Aulbry, NSW.

  
Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Monday, January 13, 2014

John Santry Illustrations



John Santry (1910-1990) featured in a previous post for his collaboration with Betty Roland during the 1940's on The Sydney Morning Herald daily strip The Conways. The following Santry Illustrations featured in The Australian Woman's Weekly during the early 1940's.













 





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

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sunday Gem: Advice Comics

 

 




 


Need advice? Consult some of Melbourne's top advice columnists via the wonderful medium of comics. 
 
http://www.advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/sally

Sally is due to start high school next year, her mum’s boyfriend often refers to her as an ‘old soul’ as she feels deeply and completely for all things. If asked, she identifies as a ‘professional empathe’ which her grandma feels is very mature. Her two all time favourite things are dogs and the colour blue.


Dr. Entrails, Ph.D. specializes in pediatrics, neurosurgery and trepanation. He is also the host of the children’s saturday morning television program, Dr. Entrails and Friends.


http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/mulbert
Mulbert was abandoned mere seconds after his birth. His parents had been expecting a girl, not a moose, and this would not be the last time he would disappoint a group of strangers. To quote his doctor, Mulbert’s life has been “medically regrettable”. He spent his first few years of orphanhood squatting sleeplessly inside a Time Crisis II arcade machine, his tiny hooves perpetually up in bewildered surrender. For a while he tried masquerading as a hypertrichotic Vietnam veteran named ‘Gubers’, but his pension never came through. His roommate recently got him a job at Cosmo’s Deli, which was cool of him, but still Mulbert wakes up most days acheing, sore from modest dreams, wondering how to get from point A to point B if you never learned to spell.

http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/mr.-ray
Mr. Ray is one of the most influential and important names in contemporary Australian poetry. His long-awaited new book Aghh, I Don’t Know If I Can Do This Again Vol. 2 is out this Christmas through Mouthwhisp & Whimperman. Ray Lives in Melbourne, Australia with his dog. 

http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/boyfriend
Because of what he is, Boyfriend brings a perspective external to general human experience. But don’t think he can’t empathize with you or he doesn’t care. The events of your life mean more to him than anything.