Caravan of Comics recap, part 1
MEET THE CARAVAN Do you know what the Caravan of Comics is? It is (or was) a three week cartoonist tour of the north-eastern bit of the USA, with a swing through Toronto. It said, “Hello, Americas! We do comics, and we kick bottom.” And it was a fantastic trip to be on. [...]
Scatterbrain
Leadership Lately I’d been thinking about all the work I’ve been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It’s kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used to this level of activity! I’ve been wondering what kind of [...]
The Precinct: live on stage
A couple weeks ago we put on what we called a “VERY SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT” for a small audience at Glitch. What this turned out to be was a live reading of one of our Precinct scripts — “Episode 6: Last Drinks”, otherwise known as “the ’80s flashback episode”, in which a young Sarge, Sandhurst [...]
Precinct ep 06: Blam!
I stopped working on the animatic for the John Farnham episode because I’m doing something special this weekend: myself, Adam and two of our Precinct voice-maestros, Thomas Pullar and Adrian Calear, are going to perform a reading of the episode 6 script for a select audience at a secret location. SO MYSTERIOUS We’ll be assisted [...]
Me, on the radio
As I’m featured in the very nice Superheroes & Schlemiels exhibition currently at the Jewish Museum here in Melbourne, they’ve kindly given me the opportunity to appear on ABC 774 this Sunday with the Museum’s Helen Light to talk about… comic books and Jews, probably. We’ll be on around 10:30am, speaking with Alan Brough, which [...]
Comic Book Funny: recap
We did another four sessions of COMIC BOOK FUNNY. In week one, Jo Waite, Sarah Howell and our audience enjoyed a bit of low key chat, tea and cucumber sandwiches while they drew pictures of sexy comics men Neale Blanden, Pat Grant and David Blumenstein (me). Photo by Peter Jetnikoff In week two, our very [...]
Comic Book Funny session 2
A reminder that tomorrow’s edition of Comic Book Funny (“comics writing people, live and in person, in a bar where they can drink and hang with you, the consumer”) features Mr John Retallick in discussion with Gerard Ashworth, of “Modern Murder” and “Weird Stress Kittens” infamy. Be there if you can, Gerard’s coming all the [...]
Comic Book Funny starts tomorrow
Thanks very much to Amid at Cartoon Brew and Aaron at Cold Hard Flash for featuring our Comic Book Funny animation on their sites! Tomorrow at the first COMIC BOOK FUNNY this season, your host, Jo Waite will be surrounded by her favourite teapots and a generous pile of cucumber sandwiches. Male models PAT GRANT, [...]
Comic Book Funny 2009
We’re doing the live sessions again!… If you live in Melbourne, Australia and you like funny comic books, consider showing up to COMIC BOOK FUNNY, a series of sessions celebrating Australia’s independent comics makers. It’s on every Saturday during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival; 5pm, Bella Union bar at Trades Hall (corner Lygon and Victoria [...]
A little more about MIPCOM why not?
I’m currently in Toronto, the city with many nicknames. They call it T.O. They call it T-Dawg. They call it T-Ball. I just call it “the city with delicious hot dogs on every street corner”, and bless them for that. Would probably be better to wait til I can get some pics up or whatever, [...]