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…
Rock the vote
These fellows at bigfish.tv make silly cartoons. So do I. That’s why I sent them one of mine (“Badlands”) for their Flash contest. They picked it for the final five. Five silly cartoons. If you go to their site, you can watch all five silly cartoons (it’ll take under five minutes), then if you register…
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…
I like comedy
The other night we saw Matthew Keneally and Josie Long at the Comedy Festival. They were both fun, but Josie Long gets the edge over, being that she’s COMPLETELY ADORABLE, made us laugh ’til it hurt AND she makes her own zines and hands them out to audience members. A friend of mine told me…
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,…