Archive for 2003

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

Some new comics fun up at ‘Arthur’, which you can download as a PDF.

(Big file). http://www.arthurmag.com/arthur_1.pdf

‘Get Your War On’ is now out as a book.

http://www.artbomb.net/detail.jsp?tid=354

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CALL FOR PAPERS

May 23, 2003: 2nd Sequential Art Studies Conference in Sydney.

The Interdisciplinary Studies Unit of the Faculty of Design,

Architecture and Building at UTS(University of Technology, Sydney)

http://www.uts.edu.au

will again host this new scholarly conference that will be held during

the same week as the 2003 Sydney Writers’Festival. The inaugural event

in 2002 attracted a small but stimulating range of papers from local

academics and postgraduate students and it is hoped that this year’s

event will build on that basis. As a new development, selected local

artists will be invited to participate in this year’s conference.

Scholars are invited to submit 250 word proposals which address

alternative approaches to comics, whether local or global, recent or

historical, online or offline, artistic or commercial. The conference

will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and so welcomes papers from a

wide range of areas.

Send enquiries and proposals, by email only, to either of the

conference coordinators by Friday February 28, 2003:

Michael Hill: Michael.Hill@uts.edu.au

Spiros.Tsaousis: Spiros.Tsaousis@bigpond.com

comix@mail.indra.com

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Tuesday, January 14th, 2003

KELVIN - NORTHCOTE MELBOURNE VICTORIA

OPENING ON THURSDAY NIGHT

ARTISTS: ANDREW MAY AND GREGORY MACKAY

RECENT PAINTINGS

ALL WELCOME

Click on link for flyer.

http://www.qdcomic.com/blog-old/jan08kelvinflyer.jpg

Been meeting a few Portland people lately which takes me back…used to live there back in the early Nineties.

Saturday AM: get a bagel, wander over to Powell’s Books, (smell of beer factory nearby in the air), wrap my stomach around a slice of Rocco’s Pizza as I read my new findings. Drift over to Ozone to see what used records I could snap up. Maybe wander down to Saturday Market, or see what matinee’s on at Cinema 21.

Now near Powell’s there’s also zine shop Reading Frenzy, and I’ve been told they’re closely associated with the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Must check that out sometime.

Recently sorting through stacks of comix, from San Diego 2001:

Thien Pham’s heartfelt “Words and Pictures” is the sort of comic that not many people could get away with, but he does, it’s direct and simple.

Site http://www.e-zcheese.com

Interview

http://www.youthoutlook.org/stories/2000/12/01/an.interview.wi.html

Review

http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com/85ass.html

Keep an eye on this guy. There’ll be more from him.

And gratuitous linkage:

Lachlan Musicman

http://autobahn.nomasters.org/rooms/musicmancontents.htm

http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~musicman/

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Sunday, January 12th, 2003

MOOMIN IS HERE!

MOOMIN SINGS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE!








http://www.moominvoices.com/

Comic Book Artist - all fairly mainstream stuff, but I like hearing about how artists choose their

tools and go about their work.

http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/index.html

One alternative paradigm for comics – if the newsstand is hostile to indy

comics, why not reconfigure yourself as a magazine? http://www.tmcm.com/(Of course, my Australian friends are taking the other tack – ‘we’re not

zinesters, dammit!’

But a proper magazine?? World War III Illustrated and

Heavy Metal are both _magazines_ …

Link Frenzy:

David Nichols review from Optical Sloth. I like this site.

http://www.opticalsloth.com/authors/david_nichols.htm

Purchase Pien Products.

http://www.usscatastrophe.com/store/long.tail.kitty.html

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Thursday, January 9th, 2003

From our Rick Bradford:

POOPSHEET Press Release

Website Relaunch

http://www.angelfire.com/zine/poopsheet

2003 Jan 6

I’m pleased to announce that I am relaunching the Poopsheet website.

A couple of changes come with this relaunching. First, the Reviews section will now be produced as a blog. Also, for those unaware, the News page is now here. The beauty of these two changes is that the News and Reviews sections can be updated on a more regular basis (which is to say, as often as possible). So check those pages frequently for updates. Also, anybody who so desires has the freedom to add their news to the News page whenever they wish. Simply fill in the blanks and it’s done (registration isn’t necessary).

This means there will no more formal “issues” of Poopsheet. Rather, it’s become a continuously-updated entity. These changes are intended to both make Poopsheet more time-efficient for myself and encourage more interactivity from the readers. I urge you to begin posting your news at your convenience. I’m happy to do it, of course, but you do have that option. Also: Read any interesting zines or comix lately? Want to write a review? I’d like to encourage you to do so and I’ll post it to the new Reviews blog.

More changes: For those interested in what has gone before, there is now a Past Reviews page that will be used to archive reviews from previous issues. Also, the Features page will now be archiving articles from past issues as well. And, finally, the Links page has been beefed up a little and will continue to be improved upon.

Speaking of Features, check out Get the Word Out, a list of other places that review zines and/or comics.

In all sincerity, I would very much like to hear your feedback regarding =

Poopsheet. Any comments, suggestions or questions are most welcome and =

appreciated. Let me know what works and what doesn’t. The site needs you =

to be a success.

cheers,

–Ricko

Rick Bradford / PO Box 2235 / Fredericksburg, TX / 78624 USA

> Poopsheet: http://www.angelfire.com/zine/poopsheet > Poopsheet News: http://azure.bbboy.net/poopsheetnews

> Poopsheet Reviews: http://poopsheet.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, January 1st, 2003

Tim ‘hippy fuck’ Danko is now a highly sought after collectible artist. I’ve heard he does a zine or something.

Also, you can now see Alice Mrongovious, Mandy Ord, and Greg MacKay all in SBS Network’s new web thinger, ‘Cornerfold’.

“Go mad for it”. Okay.



from Private MacKay:

Sources indicate that PURE EVIL and SILENT ARMY are both causing heavy losses in central Melbourne Central Business District. Weekly sorties into CITYLIGHTS held territory are used to distribute comics and related art every Saturday from 11 to 3 until January 23rd.

January 23rd( to be precise) Marks the occasion of the end of the Citylights/Silent Army Represents.. Offensive and the opening of a new campaign at Hush Hush Gallery. Features include Royalchord and 8 Melbourne artists creating mutlimedia comics weirdness… to move and seemingly come to life before your very eyes..

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