Pikitia Press are proud to present New Zealand's funniest comic, Moonbeard, in paper form!
Snasnakes - a Moonbeard sampler by Squires available now from the Pikitia Press Store.
Read our January interview with Moonbeard Maestro James Squires.
Pikitia Press are proud to present New Zealand's funniest comic, Moonbeard, in paper form!
Snasnakes - a Moonbeard sampler by Squires available now from the Pikitia Press Store.
Read our January interview with Moonbeard Maestro James Squires.
Pikitia Press are proud to present Barry Linton’s Lucky Aki in The New Stone Age.
Lucky Aki in the New Stone Age is the first volume in a series chronicling teenage explorer Lucky Aki’s adventures through the islands and cultures of a re-imagined past.
From Barry Linton’s afterword:
"What if there was a time, now out of mind, when there were many more islands of all sizes, and few or no continents, with busy island groups, trading, fishing, herding, farming and lots of seasonal voyaging, eh?"
"A youth might dream of a life sailing the myriad island trade ways, exploring the unknown fertile shores, and a youth might get lucky, then as now."
To The I-Land - The Comics of Barry Linton by Dylan Horrocks
Barry Linton bio by Dylan Horrocks
Barry Linton has been drawing comics since the early 1970s and was a key figure in the influential New Zealand comics anthology Strips. His comics and drawings have been published in books, magazines and literary journals and on posters and album covers.
Barry’s early comics detail the lives and loves of a group of characters living in a familiar South Pacific city, with plenty of music, sex, politics and drugs. Over the years his characters wrestled with broken relationships, parenthood, criminal gangs and crooked lawyers. In one story the cartoonist Spud is kidnapped and chained to a drawing board, forced to churn out pornographic comics by his gun-toting captors. In recent years Barry has worked on a series of graphic novels set in a fictionalised neolithic Oceania, Lucky Aki, and comics exploring ancient history, UFOs and the future of humanity.
AVAILABLE FROM THE PIKITIA PRESS STORE NOW.
Australian writer Betty Roland was born today in 1903. A playwright and novelist, Roland also wrote for magazines, children's books and comics in Australia and England.
Biographical notes and samples of Newspaper strip The Conways and Angela and the Runaway Heiress for Girl Annual 1962.
Angela Air Hostess and Vicky and the Crested Dragon
The Purple Pagoda
The Rajah's Secret
Vicky and the Painted Emperor