Showing posts with label stuart mcmillen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stuart mcmillen. Show all posts
Saturday, December 28, 2013
E noho rā 2013
Big thanks to all the New Zealand & Australian cartoonists and comic makers who contributed to the 2013 in Reviews. I'm signing off for a few days and will back with some galleries and interview posts on Jan 1st 2014.
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2013 in Review survey index:
Gregory Mackay bit.ly/190OERO
Brendan Boughen bit.ly/JTJaic
Cory Mathis bit.ly/18T5bnx
Matthew Hoddy bit.ly/IUnEK2
Andrew Fullton bit.ly/1jgoC3G
David Blumenstein bit.ly/ITI7i9
Justin Randall bit.ly/J1s6Gm
David C Mahler bit.ly/1cNhdDC
Grant Buist http://bit.ly/1gAZEtX
Jen Breach bit.ly/Jx2xhz
Ben Michael Byrne http://bit.ly/INu0uO
Brendan Halyday bit.ly/18PvQVv
Toby Morris bit.ly/1hmGBRw
Bruce Mutard bit.ly/1dvAYhu
Stuart McMillen bit.ly/1c034Ek
Joshua Santospirito bit.ly/18Gnek2
Frank Candiloro bit.ly/IQTJSh
Richard Fairgray bit.ly/19DaLdX
Colin Wilson bit.ly/IPOyCn
Jason Franks bit.ly/IEKkhl
Matt Kyme bit.ly/18vb8qB
Anthony Woodward bit.ly/1kqIz36
Caitlin Major bit.ly/1d4l5xN
Sarah Laing bit.ly/1fh9ptS
Sam Orchard bit.ly/1f3kvC3
Gavin Aung Than bit.ly/J95ipc
Scarlette Baccini bit.ly/18BiyMe
David Follett bit.ly/1gYFZRT
Simon Hanselmann bit.ly/1dbhuyu
Michel Mulipola bit.ly/1aDPPD9
Li Chen bit.ly/18cmLb6
Ryan K Lindsay bit.ly/19itb3v
Christopher Downes bit.ly/1hzFxMU
Dean Rankine bit.ly/18k8YKi
Alisha Jade bit.ly/1bFijT3
Theo Macdonald bit.ly/1dOK4u7
Paul Mason bit.ly/ILOFzC
James Davidson bit.ly/1bFmVZp
Tim Molloy bit.ly/1cYKoBi
Jason Chatfield bit.ly/1bIyCP1
Friday, December 13, 2013
2013 in Review: Stuart McMillen
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2013?
My personal highlight was definitely publishing Rat Park. Wrapping up that science experiment into a 40 pages comic, and then sharing it with the world was a great feeling.
Bruce Alexander, the psychologist featured in Rat Park has
told me that my comic led to a renewed interest into his 1970s drug
addiction experiments. He was pleased to learn that he was the star of a
comic book!
The audience response to Rat Park was
almost 100% positive. Gratifyingly, many ex-addicts contacted me and
mentioned that they had an emotional reaction to the final page of my
comic. They thanked me for creating a sympathetic story which explained
to others the emotional dead-end which led them to addiction.
What are some of the comics/cartoonists you've enjoyed in 2013?
New stuff:
Pat Grant - Toormina Video
Hyperbole and a Half - Depression Part 2
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco - Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (which is half comics and half prose)
Symbolia magazine (a new quarterly electronic comics-journalism publication)
Old stuff:
Chris Guest - Floating Horizon
Drew Weing - Pup Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe
Rick Vodicka - An Illustrated History of Scientology
Marjane Satrapi - The Complete Persepolis
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2013?
I'm a huge music fan, so here are some of my favourite albums of 2013:
The Drones - I See Seaweed
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
TV Colours - Purple Skies, Toxic River
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
The best book I read during 2013 was Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding
by George Monbiot. It's about the concept of 'rewilding' nature: what
this means for the ecosystems themselves, as well as what it means for
us as humans living near the ecosystems.
What are you looking forward to in 2014?
Rat Park was my 40-page highlight of 2013. In 2014 I will be drawing a 400 page comic story. That's an extra zero on the end.
In 2014 I will be moving away from the 'drugs' topic I covered with War on Drugs and Rat Park,
and drawing non-fiction comics about ecological and environmental
topics. Things like Peak Oil, energy dependence and post-growth
economics.
Trust me, it will be more interesting than it sounds! Join my email list for updates.
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