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Late again! My computer is in the shop. Will update the latest strip in a few days.

Other news:

Lisa Mandel (who participated in Lakhorn Kou a while back)



will be teaching at Phare art school in Battambang in August.

And here’s a sign by Lucie Albon and Keu Tian of the same project, spotted on Route 6.



‘For the smile of a Child’ nonprofit.

Rajana.org is looking for a logo for their Khmer student Arts group.

Karl Wills notes:

The new Jessica of the Schoolyard book “Jessica Vs. Megapotamus” has

just been printed and is in the Auckland stores as of tomorrow. Very

limited print run, the 3-D viewing specs have to be imported from the

US. $9.00 for 8 panels, is that a new record?

Should be also available in Graphic(Wellington) and Comics Compulsion

(Christchurch) in a week or so.

comicbookfactory@hotmail.com

http://www.comicbookfactory.net

Persistent German theme of late:

My parents are traveling in the northern part of Germany and catching up with some relatives.

My Cambodia-centric weblog has been linked to by

http://www.van-vanity.de/blog/, http://www.revirement.de/weblog/linklist.php

and cited as Rithy Panh reference in http://www.perlentaucher.de/magazinrundschau/2003-05-26.html.

Plus everyone’s favorite faux Germans Pink Steel are getting famous. http://www.kittenpants.org/26_skins/psteel.asp

I would like to do a comic on German proverbs I’ve learned in Cambodia. I’ve already received a few, but I could do with some more.

If you’d like to help drop me an email.

Food Poisioning, Barry Manilow

Sorry folks, recovering from a bout of food poisoning. New comic up soon. But don’t worry about my pain; Barry Manilow has broken his nose.

Above: spotted in Phnom Penh.

After uploading the last comic I needed to give my brain a rest. What to my wondering eyes should appear but a bootleg DVD of ‘The Matrix Reloaded’? That’s hard to find in Siem Reap, so close after the release date. It was the only copy in the store so I snapped it up.

For $4 you get what you pay for. The last segment didn’t play, so I didn’t see the end. And it was bad quality video, obviously filmed by a videocamera in a theatre. Ouch. No, I don’t think bootlegging is as huge a threat as the major media companies think it is. There will always be a demand for quality.

Big marketing blitz this time too. Free your mind. With fine Matrix (TM) products.

Ethan Persoff:Has dug up a fascinating and creepy comic: The Atomic Revolution Comic Book

Artbomb.net gives you tidbits of online comics as well as reviews of book sized comics. (I’d say graphic novels, but some of these are clearly not.) Of note: New strips by D’Israeli and Lauren McCubbin.

The latter, ‘Harvest Gypsy’ captures the ambiance of zipping through Central California perfectly. As a college student in Santa Cruz, I traveled the same route many times.

Artbomb though – sexy for westerners… “it’ll blow your mind!” Would that name appeal to an Iranian or Cambodian? In a ‘post-conflict’ society, there isn’t a lot of intrigue in ordnance, just pathos. Hmm, may have to do a comic on that.

Finally, an interesting piece by some guy named Tenzin Gyatso.