Curious piece of spam/not-spam/not-sure came through today which I thought I'd share wirth you. Blurb from curious brain follows:
What we know as "animation" and "comic arts" usually comes pre-packaged from
production companies that have defined the stereotypical archetype.
Typically all that's understood to be in the animation and comic genre is
Disney, Pokemon (and Pokemon knock-offs or vice versa) -- the list can go on
and on. Even comics that are adapted to the animation format fall victim to
a kind of pasteurization so that it can fit its target market.
What we often fail to see is how animation and comic arts are one of the
most expressive forms of art as a creative statement. Not quite your typical
Saturday morning Super-friends, there is a whole other side of animation
and comics that is personal, bold and mesmerizing.
This showcase is dedicated to those who take animation and comic arts
seriously -- even those dedicated to humor. To those who use comics and
animation as a creative outlet and to those who know how to appreciate them.
Deadline for submissions in November 5th. Email for more info.
Gerald Scarfe - World famous political cartoonist
D'Israeli - Drawing Board
Fabian Nicieza - part 1 of the BIG interview
Ian Richardson - Young Gun
Mike Carey - Lucifer's man Interviewed
Ziraldo - Brazil's top cartoonist and satirist
Al Davison - Spiralling down a new Path
Steve Lightle - talking Lunatiks
Milo Manara - fondly remembering Gullivera
German comics festivals
Dreddcon 2002 report
Kia Asamiya appreciated
Superhero comics your girlfriend might read
Positive Exposure - Humanoids Publishing dabbles in Euro Manga!
Arabic and Islamic comics
Plus the usual:
Phil Hall whinging
Martin Shipp whooping
Sarah Littlehales gets animated
Tom Lennon goes mad
Carol Close gets mad
Chev causes controversy
Rich Johnston gets edited
Miffy by Wiley & Kermode
Comics 2040 - Ultimate Fat Marvel - Paul Rainey *will* make you laugh
And even more in-depth and far reaching coverage in The Verdict - already
one of *the* most popular Reviews sections in comics!
If there isn't anything up there that floats your boat then you're in the
wrong business!
Phil Hall,
Editor
In case it wasn't clear, despite my break from Borderline over the last couple of months I still remain firmly behind this project and hope to be fully involved again as soon as is practicable. Especially given recent developments which may or may not be made public. Suffice to say they've recharged my batteries! So, if you want to write about comics and actually make a fucking difference, get writing for Borderline. That's my tip.
I think I've lost some email to the BugPowder address. None was coming through on Sunday night from 2.00pm until about 9.30pm, including a test I sent myself, so if you sent something on Sunday, chances are I didn't get it. Send again!
Wandered into Gosh comics shop today and saw a nice big pile of Fred The Clown comics published by the good Roger Langridge. And very fine they are too.
The Black Light is a home of the works of compelling and disturbing and challenging and punchy works of tradesman John Robbins. In addition to three text pieces, three Robert stories are now available on monitor and they are just as worthy high (higher evens) as ever I did tell so. If resonance is your fancy this evening then I'd recommend this. Yeah! Go! Go! Go! Yeah!
Got sent a comic called All-Weather (vol 2 of the Zak Meadow Collection) by Marc Ngui. Liked it quite a lot so looked up the URL printed therein bumblenut.com. A mad wee flash animation & some lovely bizarro posters to print out...
As well as a link to an archive of the Zak Strips... yeah...
Appears the rather good Too Much Coffee Man comic has transmogriphied into a magazine with features, commentary, interviews, et al. I'm overy intrigued.
The Shane Chebsey Corporation with it's holdings in UK undergound comics distribution, retail and publishing now announces the arrival of the Smallzone Message Board. Just how many fingers and pies does Shane have? Go visit this Smallzone link for details, input, output.
The news right now is that from here on in, there will from now on be a new page every week on the Hutch Owen site.
Starting three weeks ago, with the first page of my four page 9-11 comic (it sounds so simplistic and crass), it will be followed by a four page Blotch-homage story next month, then another small piece and shortly thereafter possibly the new grand Hutch Owen epic will begin, one page at a time for a week until I get sick of it.
Occasional archives of not previously on-line stuff will be added now and then too. For instance, MARIA, the best of my three 24 hour comics is now up in a fun Flash format with a soundtrack and everything.
Also, I invite you all to the reader's and ranting pages, where my friend Justin from Seattle who was in the WTO riots has been posting a bit. I'm trying to set up a very simple forum to respond to as well. And the reading list continues to be as updated as I often as I can make it. Feel free to write in with your own suggestions.
Related link: report from the SPXiles emergency convention on September 16th, replacing the cancelled SPX / ICAF events. "Make comics, not war".
Some new stuff and some old stuff over on silver bullets.com including daily reviews, press releases including feature articles by the like of Regie Rigby, Simon, Riche Johnson and me!
(I'm such a slut!)
Also, five times a week service has been resumed over at The Review SubSite2, for Some of your UK underground needs!
The next Bishi Bashi event for small press/indie comics will be held in the Black Swan venue bar, Newcastle on the 1st of December 2001. Anyone wishing to sell or promote their comic should e-mail There goes Tokyo... at tgtokyo@animail.net as soon as possible. Admission to the event is free so we'd encourage anyone who is interested to come along.