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Featuring Kieran Mangan, Michael Pee Fikaris, Gregory Mackay, Amber Carvan, Mandy Ord, Peter Savieri, Nicki Greenberg, Peter Jetnikoff, Nick Potter, Stefan Neville, Aaron O'Donnell, Tim Danko, and more more more! Only 500 copies available, get yours now! ($20.00 US for foreign orders.)

email: silentarmy@comic.com .

Friday, July 26, 2002

Hi Gang. Why not get out of the comics ghetto and send in some of your stuff?
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NEW CATEGORIES IN DIY BOOK FEST!

7/24/2002
The 2002 DIY Book Festival will honor the top comic book, 'zine, and fan fiction as part of its overall awards ceremony on Nov. 2, 2002 in New York City.

The annual program will be held at the New York Hilton Hotel as part of the DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books and the 22nd annual CMJ Music Marathon.

Celebrating the success of the independent authors and publishers of the world, The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's books, how-to, e-books, 'zines, fan fiction and comic books released after Jan. 1, 2000.

All entries must be in English and have been self-published or issued by an independent house that has published less than 75 works since the entry cut-off point.

Grand Prize for the DIYBF Author of the Year is a flight to New York, hotel accommodations, plus $1000 cash (or, if a New York resident, a trip to the Los Angeles DIY Convention in 2003 with similar accommodations and cash).

Other prizes include $500 cash to genre category winners and software from Palm Digital Media, makers of e-book software, and Final Draft, makers of leading screenplay software, plus a library of books from leading independent publisher Soft Skull Press.

Submitted works will be judged by a panel of industry experts using the following criteria:

1) General excellence and the author's passion for telling a good story;

and

2) The unique use of DIY resources to create a compelling book experience.

ENTRIES:

Please classify your book and enter it in the following categories. Multiple entries must be accompanied by a separate fee for each book.

1) Non-fiction

2) Fiction

3) Children's books

4) How-to

5) E-books (word or .pdf file acceptable)

6) Comic books/'zines

In addition to honoring the top selections in the above categories, The DIY Book Festival will award the following chosen from submissions:

1) DIY Author of the Year -- Honors the outstanding book in fiction and non-fiction

2) DIY Book Design of the Year --- Honors outstanding and innovative design

3) DIY Independent Publisher of the Year -- Honors the outstanding publisher based on general innovation in editorial, marketing and promotion during the selection period.

4) Outstanding Fan Fiction -- Awarded to the online author of the best new fictional work based on existing characters in film, tv, books or other popular entertainment (word or .pdf file acceptable)

FESTIVAL RULES:

DIY Book Festival submissions cannot be returned. You must submit the official entry form, including providing your e-mail address and contact telephone number, with each entry. All shipping and handling costs must be borne by entrants. Prizes will be awarded to the person entering the contest unless otherwise designated prior to the contest deadline.

NOTIFICATION AND DEADLINES:

We will notify each entry of the receipt of their package via e-mail and will announce the winning entries on our web site (www.diybookfestival.com) on Oct. 25th. Because of the anticipated high volume of entries, we can only respond to e-mail inquiries.

Deadline for submission in each category is Oct. 1, 2002. Winners in each category will be notified by Oct. 15, 2002.

TO ENTER:

Entry forms are available online at www.diybookfestival.com. Applications must be accompanied by a non-refundable entry fee via check, money order or PayPal online payment of $50 in U.S. dollars for each submission. Multiple submissions are permitted but each entry must be accompanied by a separate form and entry fee.

AWARDS:

Winners of the 2002 DIY Book Festival will be honored at a gala ceremony held Sat. Nov. 2nd in New York City at the New York Hilton Hotel during the DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books, held during the CMJ Music Marathon. You do not need to be present to accept your award or accompanying prizes. DIY Book Festival winners in each category and their approved guests will be admitted free to the entire DIY Convention.

Entry forms are available online at www.DIYBookFestival.com. Applications must be accompanied by a non-refundable fee of $50 in U.S. dollars, payable online at www.DIYBookFestival.com via PayPal or by mailing a check or money order to the address below. Checks and money order entries must be received by Sept. 15, 2002 to allow time for bank processing.

Multiple submissions are permitted but each entry must be a separate piece of media and must be accompanied by a separate entry form and fee.

The DIY Book Festival selection committee reserves the right to determine the eligibility of any project. Submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail within 72 hours of receipt at DIY Book Festival offices.

Checks for entry fees should be made payable to JM Northern Media LLC. We're sorry, but entries must be mailed and cannot be delivered in person or by messenger services to the JM Northern Media offices.

Entries should be mailed to:
JM Northern Media LLC
attn: DIY Book Festival
7095 Hollywood Boulevard
Suite 864
Hollywood, CA 90028-8903
Phone: 323-860-9076

The 2002 DIY Book Festival is part of the DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books, which also produces the DIY Film Festival and the DIY Music Festival. To join our mailing list, visit www.DIYReporter.com.

Friday, July 26, 2002

Pepe Le Pew's top ten pick-up lines

10.Sweetheart, if I follow you home will you keep me?
9.Not only am I good-looking, babydoll, I'm rich. Interested?
8.You have a map, yes? I would like to use it since I keep getting lost in your eyes.
7.I hope you know CPR, my darling, because you take my breath away.
6.If I could arrange the alphabet I would put U and I together.
5.Pardon me ma cheri, I seem to have lost my phone number, May I borrow yours?
4.Thee must be something wrong with my eyes, no?!I cannot seem to take them off of you.
3.Coffee? Tea? Me?!
2.You legs must be tired, because you've been running through my mind all day
1.Do you believe in love at first site, or should I walk by again?

Thursday, July 25, 2002

Interview with Aaron Burgess, of Comics Australia.
http://www.orcafresh.net/interview/in70802.html
Plus his new reviewzine Inception is out now! Congrats.

Monday, July 22, 2002

A recipe from Elizabeth:

> Happy Pancakes with Happy Sauce
>
> *Start this dish 24 hours before you get hungry for it
>
> Batter:
> soak 250 g. mung beans for 24 hours, drain
>
> Put equal parts of rice flour/soaked mung beans in blender with 1 tin
of
> coconut cream
> 1 tsp. turmeric
> 1 tsp. salt
> 1 tsp sugar (optional)
> 2 dried chili peppers
> Blend till pureed, then add 2 eggs, whisk.
>
> Filling 1:
> Fry shallots and garlic add 200 g. minced pork, and maybe some
shrimps
> (depending on budget)
> season with fish sauce to taste
>
> OR
>
> Filling 2:
> Fry shallots, garlic, tofu, mushrooms, season with salt and pepper to
taste.
> Drain excess moisture (mixture should look dry)
>
> **
>
> Make pancakes:
> pour batter in oiled skillet or wok, swirl to make thin pancake
>
> Place filling on cooking pancake:
> 1 T. raw bean sprouts
> 1 T. filling
>
> Cover pan and cook for 30 seconds
>
> Fold in half with spatula, creating a half-moon shape
>
> Cover pancake with pan lid, and cook for 30 more seconds or until it
looks
done
>
> Use spatula to remove from pan, place on heatproof platter,
> keep warm in oven while the rest are being cooked
>
> Serve with Happy Sauce:
>
> Fry shallots, garlic, peppers, add yellow bean sauce, soy sauce,
sugar,
> tamarind water, water or stock, ground peanuts, toasted sesame seeds:
blend
> and simmer
>
> Serving suggestion:
> Put Happy Pancakes on plates with Happy Sauce & garnish with lettuce,
> basil, mint
>
> Enjoy

Saturday, July 20, 2002

Comics, they're the hip new thing! Everyone's doing them.

Here's some new ones by Sean Healy.
http://www.octapod.org.au/s/comix/comix.html

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

There's a new contest up at ViridianDesign.org. Design what a less Microsoft dependent computer environment would look like.
http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00320_global_civil_society.html

Sydney comix bad boy Stratu is starting a blog for his new project, Atomizer.

http://atomiser.blogspot.com/

And Michael Pee Fikaris gets featured at SBS! You'll need Flash for this.
http://www.sbs.com.au/whatever2/artiste/artiste.html

Monday, July 15, 2002

Apparently Kirrily Schell's 'Cheese Party' went well, complete with Tim Danko wearing a homemade cheese tie. Like Aaron O' Donnell's meat shirt, the new trend for comics cognoscenti seems to be edible clothing.

Weeksy finds comic fun for YOU:

US cartoonists under pressure to follow the patriotic line
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=308068

Vanessa Sowerine's site http://www.netspace.net.au/~van
Cassandra Tytler's new site http://www.netspace.net.au/~ctytler/

and always a good source of info: http://www.bugpowder.com

Monday, July 15, 2002

Hi all.

A site referral by Tim Danko: www.koor.org/stuff/fun/movies/swf/go.swf

Also, Jared Lane has a new site!

Sunday, July 14, 2002

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