MEDIA RELEASE: GREGORY MACKAY
presents
RECENT PAINTINGS
SPLEEN
41 Bourke st. Melbourne City
THROUGHOUT April and May2003
Opening 3rd of April and May 2003
A show of recent paintings by Wyndham Award Winning artist Gregory Mackay, encompassing autobiographical and observational subject matter, sculpture, painting and comics
Comic book artist Gregory Mackay paints from reality. Reinventing childhood ephemera, modern fixtures and objects; he paints in an observational style through the filters of a dedication to comic art.
Available on the night are comics and printed material drawn and created by the artist
For further information contact:
Gregory Mackay: gamackay@ihug.com.au
Monday, March 31, 2003
Comix Travel: Apotik Komik will be in the USA this August.
Pete Ashton of BugPowder is going rural.
Comics comics comics: Also from BugPowder: From Japan Electric Gubulla, wishing cultural exchange through comics. If you liked Nambanga you might like this.
Jen Feinberg gets some well-deserved press.
http://www.comicreaders.com/smallpressfeatures_littlescrowlie.shtml
http://www.comicreaders.com/smallpressreviews_littlescrowlie.shtml
Dylan Horrocks' intriguing analysis of 'Tintin in Tibet', one of my favorite comics.
http://www.tcj.com/messboard/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001456.html Perhaps not the favorite comic for the Chinese government, however.
War War War:
Ambiguous 'Duck and Cover' type emergency signs. http://www.uspoliticsforum.com/emergency/
The real price we pay for the war.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpbroder23032303mar23,0,6710044.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines
Some really immature fun courtesy of the T'Nator.
Zines zines zines: Portland Zine Emporium.
http://www.pdxzines.com
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
A few days earlier, I'd mentioned giving back the Statue of Liberty. As a JOKE.
http://www.giveitback.net/
Oh dear me.
What's running through Australian PM John Howard's mind? From an 'anonymous' cartoonist in country Victoria:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/
Good to see people getting out and marching. They're blocked the central business district in Melbourne for 3 days.
Provocative discussion on Coffee.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=43356&group=webcast
Long Beach Area Peace Network
http://www.lbapn.net/index.asp
Saturday, March 22, 2003
North Korean Cuisine: 
Full writeup on the other blog.
Saturday, March 22, 2003
Two bucks at the Russian Market in Phnom Penh: Rambo III. Anyone remember this film? At the time, it was one of the most expensive films ever made, featuring Rambo and the heroic Mujahideen.
http://www.thestudentunderground.org/article.php3?Issue=34&ArticleID=135
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Operation Oily Residue is underway.
20 ways you can oppose the war: http://www.michaelmoore.com
Activist news:
http://www.indymedia.org
Protests coming soon to a neighborhood near you:
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
Stateside residents, your member of Congress is just an email away. (Paper letters count more though in their tally of public opinion.)
http://www.congressmerge.com/
War Profiteering by Bush & Co.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0312/mondo1.php
Patching up the differences with the French: what next will the USA do, give back the Statue of Liberty?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/5398886.htm
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Amber Carvan (Big Smoke, BrickDog) is now a proud Mum! Those in the know will want to email her for news and baby pix.
Galerie Ziggourat in Belgium wants Australian Comics. Hit the Silent Army Newswire for more details.
Also:
Some hilarious detourned posters by Micah Wright.
Going Down Swinging Lauds Silent Army.
http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au/editorial_20.htm#
Jo Waite comic: http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au/talking%20to%20plants.PDF
Salgood Sam digs Silent Army.
http://www.grenadinerecords.com/jam/artists/2003_02_09_salgood_archive.html#89020961
Stefan Neville Interview
http://www.comicreaders.com/smallpressfeatures_spxstefanneville.shtml
Sunday, March 16, 2003
QUEEN OF POP: Kirrily Schell voted 'Most Popular' in Cornerfold.
http://www8.sbs.com.au/cornerfold/collab.php?itemid=47&type=pixel&issueid=3
Couldn't this have happened in High School?
NZ comics group Black River Digital takes the ball and runs with Tim Danko's comicism essay. You'll have to register to see it though. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brd/
MELBOURNE MIRROR-WORLD is William Gibson's current blog posting, based on a message board thread.
Dennis Potter, not Harry Potter
I gather that Robert Downey Jr. is starring in a film remake of British TV screenwriting guru Dennis Potter's miniseries 'The Singing Detective'. This gives me mixed feelings... Guess I'll wait and check the film out. Given the subject matter the casting may be spot on.
Friday, March 14, 2003
Comic like me:
"...we come into the studio and you're always reading... and readings good, Zombo ...but you're always reading comics." ...the head of Zombos' first art school explains the difference between 'real' reading and... some other kind of thing. (1983)
Read on, (last post on the Cornerfold Message Board) for Tim Danko's articulate and thoughtful definition of what a comic is and just what it takes to be a comician in today's environment. This arises out of discussion of Tim's latest work, Anamnesis Osculation.
http://www8.sbs.com.au/cornerfold/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13
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Also, word has it he and Michael Fikaris (of Silent Army NZ recon contingent) will be heading out for Auckland's Armageddon Expo.
Official Site http://www.pulpexpo.com
Yrs Truly @ Armageddon http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Comics/Conventions/New%20Zealand/
Funtime @ Armagedddon http://funtime.comics.org.nz/armsep2001.html
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Reading: Joann Sfar, 'Grand Vampire'. (Check out her English language page, it's hilarious!)
http://www.pastis.org/joann/
Also at the Japanese restaurant, Shojo Manga. Told you I'll read anything. You didn't believe me.
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
I've always followed OuLiPo / OuBaPo with a curious eye. I love the exploration, the gleeful experimentation, the opening of doors, puzzles, the quest of the challenge.
But.
We cannot subsist on mathematics, on wordplay alone. Numbers and geometry have no disposition to kindness. It is a way of looking at the world. It does not always strike me as compassionate.
It's funny - the CCF people are tireless supporters of the local arts. The staff in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap are bright lights in a country where there is little time or money for culture.
Yet as an institution, CCF is a remnant of the old colonial system, which from an intellectual standpoint gives pause for thought.
What's next, the US Embassy having a cultural night celebrating the cut-ups of Burroughs and Byron Gysin?
The Cubans having a symposium on Borges and Cortazar? (Here the Cuban embassy apparently represents a number of Latin American countries, which is another interesting story to chase down.)
As I write this war looms over us. What is the appropriate response for artists to take? Paper-based hypertext is over half a century old, punk is over thirty. While a bit younger, hip-hop utilizes a lot of the same cut and paste principles.
Cut-ups and hypertextual experimentation were born in the counterculture. True, the most important doors they were supposed to break down were one's own personal expectations and inhibitions.
But if these tools are not imposing to the structures and institutions that they were conceived outside of, maybe it's time to look for a different approach. (Or maybe just present different 'imposed' words.)
(Postscript - I'm just thinking aloud here. Please, CCF, don't ban me from coming in to read your excellent collection of comic books!)
March 20 is the day of the Francophone celebration –
We will honor linguistic, cultural and friendly ties that French creates between many peoples with a presentation with the wordplay of Jacques Prévert.
During which poems will be read, and one day of plays and youngest songs, by a contest of Potential Literature which invites you to to write small a text, a poem, a history starting from ten imposed words.
Jacques Prévert Thursday March 20 20h00
Prévert- evening short reading of texts and exposure.
Afterwards? French-speaking midday
Result of the contest of the francophonie Activitiés, plays, songs.
Coordinated by Mrs Ria So Saturday March 22 starting from 15h00
Centre Cuturel French Annexes of Siem reap
No 366 Pram pi Makara Siem Reap
Straight across the bridge from of the old market. The French Arts centre is 100 meters further. Telephone & Telefax: 063 963 265
Ccf.rep@bigpond.com.kh
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Le 20 mars est la journée de la francophonie. Le lien linguistique, culturel et amical que crée le français entre de nombreux peoples est donc à l’honneur et nous le fêterons dignement, par une exposition consacrée à Jacques Prévert – joueur de mots – Durant laquelle ses poèmes seront lus, par une journée de jeux et chansons poru les plus jeunes, par un concours d’ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle qui vous invite touir à prende vos plumes anfin de rédiger un petit texted, un poème, une histoire à partir de dix mots imposés.
Jacques Prévert Jeudi Mars a 20h00
Soirée Prévert- courte lecture de texts et exposition
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Après – midi Francophone
Résultat du concours décriture de la francophonie
Activitiés, jeux, chants, coordonnés par Madame Ria So
Samedi 22 mars à partir de 15h00
Centre Cuturel Francais
Annexe de Siem reap
No. 366 Pram Pi Makara Siem Reap
Traverser le point du vieux marché, aller tout droit. Le Centre culturel français est sur votre droite à 100 mètres.
Telephone & Telecopie: 063 963 265
Ccf.rep@bigpond.com.kh
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Via Journalista: Graham Annable.
http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000730
http://www.grickle.net
Text to Weblog
Now this is intriguing - considering some of my friends are only reachable via text message. Hmm...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001161/stories/2003/02/26/mobileBloggingHowtoGuide.html
Monday, March 03, 2003
Hey kids! Skip school to protest! (Who could resist?)
Saturday, March 01, 2003
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