Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Mini Paper Trail


Mat Tait adapts Wagner's The Flying Dutchman for the Goethe-Institut New Zealand.

Mat Tait: 
It's presented a number of interesting challenges, the main one being the question of how to turn a stage production with limited settings and relatively static action into an engaging comic. I decided that rather than do a complete transformation of one form into another, I would try to play on the fact that the original material was made for the stage, and create large comics panels which would act as an analogue for stage sets through which the characters could move, interspersed with panels that work in a way more familiar to comics.
 

A light moment of Dredd from Colin Wilson.


Fikaris art on tumblr.


The Dunedin comic collective Dud are opening a comic shop.


 
Renee Liang interviews Chromacon Organiser Allan Xia. Contribute to the Chromacon Pledgeme campaign here.


Sam Orchard is drawing political cartoons for express magazine.
 

echarta interviews Lee Taylor.


Tim Gibson interviewed on The Comixologist.



Dylan Horrocks on Nga Pakiwaituhi: New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels.

 Tim Bollinger page exhibited at Nga Pakiwaituhi

I believe the secret behind Steve Rogers prolificy creating his auto-bio comics at American Captain stems from a work ethic cultivated whilst growing up during the Great Depression.


Paul Mason on the resurrection of The Human Fly.


 Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Heiress To Tangurau Part One







Heiress to Tangurau was a twenty part New Zealand based story serialised weekly in English girls comic Princess. Illustrated by English artist Leslie Otway the first installment appeared in the May 12th 1962 issue. Heiress tells the tale of orphaned Tina Rogers who inherits a sheep farm in New Zealand. The story flirts with stereotypes, Tina presumes her new guardian Te Ariki Maru, a 'Maori witch doctor', will be a grass skirt wearing native but Heiress is actually very accurate in its depictions of New Zealand of the time and featured elements of Maori folklore. The story would indicate the writer was very familiar with New Zealand and possibly an ex-pat. My first guess is it may have been the work of Noel Cook, a direct descendant of Te Rauparaha, who was working on Fleet Street at that time.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Paper Trail



I have a dickload of things to do this week so will try posting daily mini Paper Trails to offload my rapidly overflowing link pile.

Excerpt of  HTMLflowers’ comics from  š! #13 ‘Life Is Live’.



Dylan Horrocks talks Australian Comics with Bryan Crump on Radio New Zealand's Nights.




Jason Chatfield recaps and follows up on his horrific taxi experience from 2011.


New Squishfacers.
 


Roger Langridge interviewed on Where Monsters Dwell.



Tane Williams on tumblr.


Simon Hanselmann's Truth Zone is back at Comics Workbook and taking no prisoners. New installments #70, #71, #72, #73.

 
I made a new mini comic (Not for Young Folk). You can buy it from some place at some point.


Karl Wills has teased a Connie Radar short film currently in production. Shot from a script by Wills and Timothy Kidd.



Hey, here's a Connie Radar animation test from a little while back.



 Oh Gosh, it's the Connie Radar Dailies blog from a couple years back.


Have you ever thought about buying a Connie Radar t-shirt?

  
Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Confessions Of A Rookie Film Maker & Comic Book Virus



Clint Cure launches the first three issues of Confessions of a Rookie Film Maker this Friday at the Silent Army Storeroom,110 Franklin Street, Melbourne City. Cure will be screening three of his short films: The Lecture, Retribution and Hanging at Picnic Rock, an '80s B-Grade action take on an Aussie classic featuring zombies and lesbian bikers.

Facebook it.


All six parts of Clint Cure's Comic Book Virus documentaries about Melbourne comic book artists made in collaboration with Garry Donnellan, Dave Rhodes and Craig Rideout are now online at youtube. Comic Book Virus was originally aired on Optus Local Vision in 1997. Cartoonists featured include: Fred Negro, Aaron O'Donnel, Michael Fikaris, James Dunlevie, Tim Danko, Neale Blanden, Gregory MacKaye, Gerald Carr, Bruce Mutard, Greg Gates, Sal Lima, Scott Stuart, Phil Wlodarczyk, Ian Gunn, Edo Fuijshot, John Petropoulos, John Weeks, Athonk, Amber Carvan, Mick Wilson. Dillon Naylor, Wyin Law, Jason Badower, Alice Mrongrovious, Nicola Hardy and Peter Savieri.















Sunday, April 21, 2013

Paper Trail


Rory Hewson writes about F.J. Nealie's Rotorua cartoons. Preview here. Further commentary here.



JAMES JAMES!


Bob Temuka writes about focusing on individual panels from comics.

 Kelly Sheehan's idea of a perfect panel: This moment from Tim Kidd's Came The Dawn

Chromacon have Boosted and Pledgeme campaigns running to help finance their festival.




Renowned political cartoonist Malcolm Evans paints a live billboard drawing in central Wellington.



Tim Molloy shares album art for Cash Savage and the Last Drinks.



Sam Orchard shares a page from a submission to the Anything That Loves anthology.



 
This is Moonbeard.


Kiwigame's NZ advertising Flickr set.


Another Kiwigame Vintage NZ Advertising set. I used to buy and use these tattoos!

 
It can't hurt to link to more DIE POPULAR.



Tane William's illustrations for Steve Braunias.



Ele Jenkins tumblr.


Grant Buist recently wrote about concluding his twelve year run on strip Jitterati for Wellington paper Capital Times which has ceased publication. A recent post on Buist's site indicates he has found a new home for Jitteratti.


Capital Times' last issue came out this month after 38 years of publication. The issue below featured Mat Tait's illustration from Pictozine #2.


Melbourne Comics festival on in Northcote this weekend. More details here.


Ive Sorocuk shares a detail of the cover created in collaboration with Alex Clark for his forthcoming Comics Face collection.


Kevin Patrick writes about the discovery of  Terry Trowell paintings in Western Australia.


Popeye.com interview Roger Langridge.




Paul Mason writes about an Australian soldier character in Timely/Marvel Comics.


Anthony Woodward offers 4 issues of Sketchbook Comix through a pay what you want model.


Anthony is preparing a third Chugnut Comics free comic book day comic. Read Chugnut #1.


 Simon Hanselmann features in the latest issue of š! #13 'Life Is Live'.



Gavin Aung Than tackles super heroes via Jack London at Zen Pencils.
 

Daniel Best writes about his forthcoming book about Australian comics publisher Newton Comics. Best has also established a Newton Comics facebook group.



Joshua Santospirito features on The Comic Spot.