Papers are piling up around literally and digitally so I'll be trying to make sense of them over the next week with a series of catch up posts.
A couple months back I manned a Pikitia Press table at the Homecooked Comics Festival in the Northcote, Melbourne. Homecooked drew a decent size crowd to the town hall who were more comics receptive than your typical con audience around these parts. Bernard Caleo conducted interviews and live drawing sessions on the main stage and the open 'roomy' layout of tables in the town hall made for a pleasant easy going atmosphere.
I had a lot of fun on the day, got to meet cartoonist Andrew Weldon, talk to a Turkish exchange student from Istanbul about modern and golden age Turkish comics, catch up with The Mars Volta and Paul Bedford, and scored a copy of Hard Evidence You're a Loser from J. Leigh Head. A wonderfully bizarre fully formed colour comic, from a cartoonist I was completely unaware of. I believe only available in a print on demand small run so far, but hopefully available more widely sometime in the future.
Ersin Karabulut, one of the modern Turkish cartoonists recommended to me.
Bernard Caleo and Scarlette Baccini
Patrick Alexander and Bernard Caleo
Andrew Weldon
The Mars Volta swung by with these sweet home made t-shirts
Some excerpts from J Leigh Head's Hard Evidence you're a Loser.
Mirranda Burton and Gregory Mackay
Scarlette Baccini and Dan Hayward
David Blumenstein and Bruce Mutard
Laura Renfrew
Paul Bedford
Olive Oyl
