Korean Festival
Sharing information on a few artists for the Bucheon International Comics Festival in Korea. (October 17th). Joelle Kim is working hard to get a good representation of global comics, sounds good!
Hope this is the springboard for more exchange in the future. (Hey, we’re already on the Exhibitor index!)
http://www.bicof.com/eindex.html
http://eng.kcomics.net/BCIC/BCICGuide.aspx?strCurrentMenuCode=0700000
Manga & Makiko
Art from Ms. Makiko, who draws manga for Japanese magazine Nyoyum. She comes twice yearly to get her Cambodia time. She’s done two books already about her Cambodian experiences!
Interview yesterday with local illustrator and teacher Y Lida.
Also, click for miscellaneous comics tibits.
Kami-Shibai in Battambang
What are these people doing?
‘Kami-Shibai’ at Phare Ponleu Salapak Art School.
More details
http://www.qdcomic.com/battambang/kami-shibai/
Hello all:
SCHEDULE CHANGE
Exposition: October 24 – November 01
Children’s Workshop: To be announced (October)
Symposium: To be announced (October)
More time to plan and prepare!
Here’s a picture by Soeung Makara, who is doing storyboards and animation.
Yesterday, a meeting with Damrey Saa, a nonprofit children’s book publisher.
Some interesting stories, some translated into French, Japanese and English.
Today, some new art from Ms. Phyrun, a self-publisher from the 1980s.
Grit, Comics, Crises, Thumbs, Golems
Running around town, meeting artists and publishers. The biggest publishers of new comics nowadays are nonprofits, I’m starting to conclude.
Two job offers in the last two days. While I hit crunch time for the Exhibition I expect the Law of Irony to be in full effect, providing both distractions good and bad.
Uth Roeun has provided us with samples of his two unpublished stories. One grittily realistic, the other a legend fable that has great style and pacing.
Awed and envious, what skill!
“Comics aren’t just for kids” department: officemate Jane Martin provides a new comic by Cambodian Women’s Crisis Centre.
(Below). It focuses on the exploitation of economically vulnerable young women, and foreigners seem to be the bad guys in all the cases. This is the fourth CWCC comic I’ve seen so far.
Email from States – Justin from All Thumbs press may be in Phnom Penh around Christmas time. http://www.allthumbspress.com.
Also on the comics front, have finished the Pulitzer prizewinning “Adventures of Kavalier and Clay“. Holy Golems! A fine read.
http://www.sugarbombs.com/kavalier/interviews.html
Meanwhile, back in Oz, Laura Anne Seabrook is creating a zines/comics database.
http://lists.octapod.org/archives/zines/2004-September/000308.html
And on a much more serious note: Sudan – ways to help. Please check this one out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3793577.stm
