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Okay, I’ll be a spoilsport. I’m not a big fan of BugPowder’s new design. I liked the news up front. But still, whatta resource! Hours of fun to be had there.

Also from BugPowder, Comics Journal, and many other places: CafePress soon to offer print-on-demand. Which would include small press comics. All you gotta do is scan and upload.

Sound good to be true? Well, they do rake a high percentage off on sales…so you’re still workin’ for The Man.

The LA Weekly’s annual comics issue. (Thanks to BugPowder)

‘Reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite’ William Gibson has a new book on the way, set in the present. “ I regard my being me, ultimately, as a sort of cosmic accident.”

It’s called ‘Pattern Recognition’, which curiously enough, is the name of an

album by the Sea Scouts.

William Gibson

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/index.asp

http://www.nomaps.com/

Sea Scouts

“Rating : the best 7″ of 1999″

http://www.collective-zine.co.uk/reviews/archive/december299.html

http://www.zumonline.com/seascouts.html

http://www.messfest.8m.net/Templates/Artists.html#Scouts

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~adraino/scouts/

BRICK DOG AND OTHER STORIES

by Amber Carvan and Mandy Ord

Review by Jeff LeVine, courtesy ‘Poopsheet’ (thanks Ricko!)

This little 60-page book features short comics that were created in a notebook that the two friends sent back and forth to each other every couple of weeks. The stories seem to play off each other, flowing into each other, inspired by the new comics one sent to the other. Sometimes the pages seem so much like a letter, that it feels a little weird to be a third person reading ‘em, but it always feels good. Each cartoonist brings a unique,lively, mostly light-hearted voice to their pieces. There’s a nice contrast created between their two different drawing styles, as Ord’s strips seemed drenched in deep blacks, while Carvan lets the white of the page dominate.

Animals, especially pets, and, er… road kill, seem to be the theme of most of the stories, but there are also noteworthy strips about stars, comets and dancing. A fun collection, nicely printed, and worth tracking down if you like your comics with a touch of the human. Try

http://www.plutoaustralia.com/catalogue/display.php?item=232

Bruce Mutard is about to hit the US Market with ‘The Bunker’. Congrats Bruce!

Hush Hush Gallery January 23: Comic Book Lifestyle.

display includes seven improvised comic strips done over seven saturday “jam sessions” with various contributors from the melbourne contingency of comic book artists and

visitors to our sessions from as far as new zealand.done with uni-posca pens onto paper that was taped to a piece of the wall atcitylights centre place location in melbourne’s central busyness district.

those who contributed:

michael fikaris _ kieran mangan _ tim danko _ gregory mackay _ lachlan conn _ mandy ord _leigh rigozzi_ alice mrongovious _aaron o’donnell_ jo waite_ carol wood _ neale blanden _ kirrily schell _ angelo madrid _ bernard caleo _ toby morris_ susan butcher _ peter jetnikoff _ nick potter _peter savieri and the un-disputed forefather of the underground aust.small press gerard ashworth…

all of this and of course too much more, including free stickers for those present on opening night, general satisfaction of sound with the titilating tunes of royalchord

(australias premiere femme-penned-cow-slingin-sixties-sweethearts) doing a set of original songs and a set of familiar greats. Click below for:

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If you like playing with form and structure, you should check out Oubapo America.

As a teenager, I cut my teeth on stuff like Hilbert Schenck’s ‘Geometry of Narrative’ . As I got older I glommed on to Borges. What surprises me is how little formal experimentation there’s been in comics theory.

Village Voice Best of NYC 2002

Best Art Movement, Comics Division- OUBAPO AMERICA

The first-rate art-comics publisher Highwater Books recently relocated to Brooklyn, and there’s an energetic comics community to keep it company there-notably the artists associated with OUBAPO AMERICA. Tom Hart, Jason Little, and Matt Madden were inspired by a French comics movement that branched off from the Oulipo literary group; their early experiments with radical constraints, like creating an entire story using only four images drawn by Madden, can be seen at oubapo-america.com. The Oubapo circle also overlaps with the people behind Comix Decode, an ongoing series of comics discussions and readings.

On that same note:

Random Poetry Engines. Hmm…

http://x42.com/active/queneau.html?p=56036632814532&l=en&n=New+Poem

http://develop.www.umich.edu/luriea-bin/queneau