Andrew Fulton's Smaller Comics have a pay what you want sale on here.
Chromacon is a new Illustration and Comics Art convention in New Zealand launching on 12 May at the old Armageddon stomping grounds, the Aotea Centre. A fine line up of illustrators and cartoonists have already been announced on their site and unlike other conventions down this way entrance to Chromacon is free. More information here.
Jason Franks writes about crowdfunding.
Art by Jan Scherpenhuizen and story by Jason Franks from Sixsmiths vol. 2
Toby Morris has a tumblr!
What if money was no object - Alan Watts at Zen Pencils.
Hamilton comics alert: www.cakeburger.com
(I once saw Mr Cakeburger walk into a comic shop, swipe an issue of Gaiman/Romita Jr's Eternals off the shelf, pay for it and then roll it up and shove it in his back pocket. Cakeburger ain't precious about his comics, I like that in a comics creator.)
The Beardy and the Geek podcast interview T-Rex Jones.
The latest issue of The Lifted Brow #15 is available and continues their run of featuring fine cartoonists from Australasia and around the world. Cartoonists featured int he latest issue are, Ben Sea, Blaise Larmee, Noel Freibert, Tin Can Forest, Ben Juers & Bailey Sharp, Simon Hanselmann.
The Melbourne comics scene documentary Graphic Novels! Melbourne! film makers Daniel Hayward and Bernard Caleo have announced a screening at the 2013 Angouleme Comics Festival in France (French article here), with screenings in Berlin, Hamburg and London to follow. Focusing on the work of Pat Grant, Mandy Ord, Nicki
Greenberg, Bruce Mutard, Graphic Novels! Melbourne! also features Scott McCloud, Dylan Horrocks, Paul Gravett and
Shaun Tan amongst others.
Pat Grant's poster for Graphic Novels! Melbourne!
Another screening in Melbourne will be at Cinema Nova (380 Lygon Street Carlton) on Wednesday 23 January at
6.30pm, with a Q & A afterwards.
Photos from the Carlton Readings laneway premiere are here.
