2014 in Review: David Tulloch

December 3, 2014

What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Reaching 100 pages of the webcomic I'm drawing (All Unicorns to Battle Stations) was a big milestone. Ending a 1200 page run on a daily Playmobil comic was a highlight too.

What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
I was great to finally read all of Ant Sang's Dharma Punks. I'd only ever got my hands on a couple of issues back in the olden days. I also really enjoyed the Wellington Zinefest, having never gone to one before, where I picked up many great titles.

What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
Reading. I made more time for reading this year, forcing myself to spend some quality time with a book each day. Otherwise it's the usual family and friends stuff.

What are you looking forward to in 2015?
I have a 100 page comic planned to do with Playmobil, which requires a few props to be made before it can be done. Looking forward to that. I have a couple of nearly finished scripts I need to find time for. Hoping to find more people to collaborate with.

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2014 in Review: Sam Wallman

December 3, 2014

What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Being part of the Overland editorial crew has been an honour, and this Walkley nod me and the Global Mail crew got is pretty ridic. Working on cartoons for the union movement has been really nice. Fumbling with how cartoons and graphic art can be used as part of broader social movements feels good, albeit inherently limited.

What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
Nicky Minus's work is heaps brave and funny. Seeing a bunch of people try on kinda political cartooning styles for Fluid Prejudice was great. I dunno, Patrick Kyle, Lee Lai, Murtaza Ali Jafari, Safdar Ahmed. The Refugee Art Project zines taught me a lot.

What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
Kayaking, my partner, all this rising political anger, dicks.

What are you looking forward to in 2015?
Setting up an activist artists studio in the tower of Trades Hall. Putting together this class anthology to follow on from Fluid Prejudice, and taking it to Toronto Comics and Arts Festival along with the Advice Comics crew and their new book. Exploring the comics-journalism form, hopefully along with other cartoonists, and watching a strong movement of staunch, funny political cartoonists emerge from the quagmire of apathy that is contemporary Ashtraya!! ;-P

At Work inside our Detention Centres: A Guard's Tale.

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2014 In Review: Mary Tamblyn

December 2, 2014

It's end of the year time again, where I conduct brief surveys with a selection of active New Zealand and Australian cartoonists and comics makers.

First up is Christchurch writer/artist Mary Tamblyn.

What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Successfully funding the Nothing Fits Kickstarter and having real life printed copies of the comic. Can't really top that.

What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
New Emily Carroll webcomic as well as the ones in her book, she makes some very, very well made comics. I've read some of Paranatural which is very good, I'm yet to read the rest.
The Sheehan Brothers' 'Into the Dark Woods'. A number of different Ralphi comics I came across at Armageddon expos...Those are some of the ones I can remember.

What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
Whole Auckland Armageddon weekend was pretty good, comics aside, hanging with good friends, making new friends. Buying too many books and pens. Also really enjoyed our unofficial sculpture camp we had, where a group of us from uni went away to Rangitata, and we all sat around learning to needle felt and found lots of cool bones on the beach. Those were the best bits.

What are you looking forward to in 2015?
Hopefully starting some new comics, 'Rosetta Phone' and 'I went for a Swim', being the main two. Also I am really looking forward to seeing how the 3 Words anthology turns out!

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