Archive for July, 2009
New page: The Magic Pen
Thursday, July 30th, 2009New page: The Magic Pen
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009New page: The American Dream
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009New page: The American Dream
Monday, July 27th, 2009On the radio…
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Asian Report, a show on New Zealand’s National Radio, recently played a two-part documentary (made by Sapna Samant) about anime and manga. The first part focuses on the cult of Hello Kitty, while the second looks at the growing influence of anime and manga here in New Zealand. I get to chime in, along with various much more interesting people, and it’s a great little doco. You can listen to it by clicking these links:
Asian Report part 1
Asian Report part 2
Or you can download it:
Library Week 2009: Please continue my comic…
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
As part of this year’s Library Week celebrations, I was asked to come up with the first four panels of a brand new comic. Now we’re inviting YOU to continue the story. There are prizes to be won…
* The competition runs for 4 weeks, from Monday 20th July and will close on Friday 14th August.
* Each week you can read the frames already published on the site, decide what you think should happen next and illustrate the next 4 frames
* Upload your images to the Library Week website.
* A winner will be chosen weekly and their strip will be made a permanent part of the story.
* There are two age categories for this competition, 13 – 18 yrs and 19 yrs +.
Find out more here.
New page: The American Dream
Friday, July 17th, 2009New story: Three Tijuana Bibles (ADULTS ONLY!)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009I hesitated a while before uploading this, but in the end I decided you’re all mature enough to handle it. It’s a short trio of Tijuana Bibles, drawn in July 2000 for Fantagraphics’ Dirty Stories volume 2.
Please be warned: this story contains explicit sexual images and is ADULTS ONLY and Not Safe For Work. If for any reason you should not be looking at such things, please don’t do so.
‘The Journey’ – a new comic by me for Waitakere City
Monday, July 13th, 2009Here’s one of the reasons I’ve been busy lately – a 16-page comic by me, commissioned by Waitakere City Council. ‘The Journey‘ gives a little history of the city, including how it became New Zealand’s first eco city. Waitakere have made the comic available for download from here.
I spent much of my childhood in Waitakere and have been impressed by its evolution into a genuinely environmentally-concerned eco city. It’s a damn shame that the government seems hell-bent on making Waitakere disappear into its planned ‘super city‘ – and I can only hope all the hard work on eco-friendly development doesn’t disappear along with the city’s name and identity.
Update: I’ve just noticed the pdf is in printing order, rather than reading order. It’s possible we’ll get that fixed; in the meantime, you’ll just have to look for the page numbers… 🙂
Update 2: Actually, it’s only the larger pdf (of the whole comic) that’s in printing order. If you download it in sections (using the smaller files), those are in the correct reading order.
Summer/Winter reading list
Monday, July 6th, 2009The fine Canadian comics blog Sequential is posting Summer Reading Lists by various comics folks, and my one is here. Of course, it’s winter down here in New Zealand, but then I actually read most of my picks over the summer anyway, so whatever.