Some of the cartoonists in attendance at this years Armageddon convention in Melbourne.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Treviso Comic Book Festival Roundup
Dylan Horrocks' promotional illustration for Treviso Comic Book Festival 2012
New Zealand cartoonists congregate at Treviso. (photo courtesy Roger Langridge)
Sketching at Treviso, Greg Broadmore (Beard) Colin Wilson (Hat) Roger Langridge (Glasses). (Photo - Dylan Horrocks)
New Zealand comics exhibition (photos courtesy Roger Langridge)
Left To right: Rufus Dayglo, Alberto Corradi (Curator) Roger Langridge, Ben Stenbeck, Chris Slane, Dylan Horrocks, Greg Broadmore, Colin Wilson.(Photo - Treviso Comic Book Festival Facebook)
The New Zealand comics exhibition is featured in Treviso Comic Book Festival Facebook Galleries here and here.
Irish cartoonist and one-time Wellington resident Rufus Dayglo blogged about Treviso here and here.
Tank Girl sketch by Rufus Dayglo
New Zealand comics panel (Photo - Black Velvet Editice)
Greg Broadmore
Greg Broadmore writes about New Zealand comics for Bookfair blog here. (Chris at the last remaining Mark One store in the land in Hamilton is a very nice man just perhaps a bit cautious, comics retail ain't an easy business these days.)
Dylan Horrocks' 100 page guide to contemporary New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels is being distributed at Treviso and Frankfurt and is available for download here.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Pussy Willow - Kam Taverner
Pussy Willow was a full page comic serial featured on the back page of Australian sex paper, Ribald, during the seventies. Scant information is available about these comics other than a copyright notice on one credited to Kam Taverner. The inclusion of a 'Modesty Blaise-esque' character and London setting would indicate these originated in England with Kam Taverner possibly being a pseudonym. Amazon UK has listings for three out of print Pussy Willow collections by Taverner, Pussy Willow and Doctor Libido, Pussy Willow on Lesbos, and Pussy Willow: Night of the Rats. (click pics to enlargen)
Ribald #35 March 2nd 1973
Ribald #53 July 11 1973
Ribald #30 Jan 26 1973
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Virgil Reilly Film Illustrations
Virgil Reilly 1964
Amongst the prolific illustration work produced by Virgil Reilly during the twentieth century were film posters for newspaper advertising. The following Reilly illustrations featured in the Sydney Evening Standard during 1920.
Kevin Patrick wrote of Virgil Reilly's career in comics here.
Wartime illustrations by Virgil Reilly here.
Gallery of Reilly's painted illustrations for the Australian Woman's Weekly here.
Sample of Reilly's sequential work in Rocket Squadron #3 (Red Circle Press, 1952)
Sources: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/, Drawing From life - Vane Lindesay (State Library of New South Wales,1994)
Friday, September 14, 2012
English Comics Diversion: More Men Only
Another gallery of Men Only Covers from the late forties - early fifties. All featuring distinctive caricature covers produced by Irish cartoonist Edward Sylvester Hynes (1872 - 1982).
Previous Men Only cover gallery here.
Selection of Ian Dickson's Men Only cartoons here.
Previous Men Only cover gallery here.
Selection of Ian Dickson's Men Only cartoons here.
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