I'll be talking about Aus/NZ comics with host Sonja H on a segment of Sci Fi and Squeam on Joy 94.4 tonight at 10pm. Available as a podcast sometime later in the future.
Pic by Chris Gooch.
Summer Publishing: Thrust Justice
New Zealand's hardest working cartoonist Brent Willis teams up with co-writer Clive Townsend for their first Pikitia comics joint THRUST JUSTICE! Brent and Clive's new jam is a story of hard men up against criminal forces and each other in the pursuit of justice and strong butt muscles. 36 pages of thrusting colour and violent man on man action! Available Oct/Nov 2014. NOT FOR YOUNG FOLK!
Paper Trail
I like these portraits by Jem Yoshioka using The National Library’s heritage palette collection.
A Comic Bastard reviews Andrez Bergen and Matt Kyme's Tales to Astonish #3.
Caitlin Major at Hopscotch Friday.
Pre-order Maralinga Book One - available in September.
Roger Langridge and Michael Faber ask "What would happen if David Cameron and Barack Obama met at a comics shop?"
It's two years old but I hadn't seen this interview with Dave de Vries before.
Paper Trail masthead by Toby Morris.
WW1 100 years ago today: Australian Cartoons
Syd Nicholls frontpage for Sydney newspaper Direct Action, 10 August, 1914.
