What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
"new york times best seller list / joining the international velvet rope club".
What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
"arsene schrauwen / everything breakdown press published."
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
"getting married to my beautiful wife / yung lean"
What are you looking forward to in 2015?
"angouleme / madrid / new book."
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Having three issues of, Itty Bitty Bunnies in Rainbow Pixie Candy Land printed on paper and in comic book shops was a definite highlight, Continuing to do stuff for Simpsons Comics, Being a guest at conventions and being nominated for a Ledger and Stanley awards was cool too!
What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
Saga, Sex Criminals and I've catching up on some older comics; iZombie and Gotham Central.
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
What do you mean 'non-comic'? I don't understand the question ;)
What are you looking forward to in 2015?
I've been really happy with the work I've been producing. I'm hoping to keep improving throughout 2015.
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Having Let Me Be Frank #5 published, of course! Being invited over to London to talk about comics at the Australian NZ literary festival. Also, drawing 150 final draft pages of my graphic novel - it’s taking me forever but I’m on the home straight now.
What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
Locally, it’s been super exciting being involved in the Three Words project and getting to read amazing comics by New Zealand women. There is so much talent here! I also loved reading Ant Sang’s Dharma Punks, Sam Orchard’s Family Portraits, Dylan Horrocks’ two new books, Mary Tamblyn and Alex McCrone’s Nothing Fits and Brent Willis’ Thrust Justice - he is hilarious. Internationally, I was pleased to get my hands on Gabrielle Bell’s Truth is Fragmentary, Eleanor Davis’ How to be Happy and AK Summers’ Pregnant Butch.
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
Sneaking off to Paris when I was in London was pretty cool. I went on a bit of a TV binge this year, gobbling up Orange is the New Black, Broad City and True Detective. I compulsively listened to Serial (it’s over! sob!) and I read quite a few books without pictures. I just finished The Wilds, Julia Elliott’s southern gothic-meets Sci-fi, which reminded me of Nic Lowe’s Arms Race. I was moved by NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows. I loved Tracy Farr’s The Lives and Loves of Lena Gaunt and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. Now I’m wondering what to read next...
What are you looking forward to in 2015?
The Three Words book being published, of course! I’ve got a job making comics out of Italian WW1 poems in translation, which I will draw in a shipping container made out like a western front trench. I can’t wait to read the other comics in the Faction climate change issue (I have one in there) and also I’m looking forward to being an honorary Australian in the latest issue of Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Releasing the 3rd volume of Blastosaurus in print. It's the first standalone story and it's about a haunted house so that combination hit a lot of buttons for me. Also releasing a spinoff series about Blasto doing really boring stuff like playing with trains and ordering shoes, it's the kind of storytelling I don't get to do much of in the main title so having a forum for that was really satisfying.
We also made a huge change to the rules of I Fight Crime this year by having the characters vanish from their universe and end up living in our world. It sounds silly but it's really cool being able to play with the format of something that seems so limited like a 4 panel strip.
What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
The Deep by Tom Taylor, Exo Comics vol. 3 and (most excitingly) getting to read the Roddy's Film Companion graphic novel that almost no-one has even seen.
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
I've been listening to a lot of podcasts this year. I'm way behind on this sort of thing so until the beginning of this year I really didn't know what a podcast was (like I sort of knew, but in the way that your grandma knows, like that it's sort of like the radio). The one I'm enjoying the most is Go Bayside, it's where April Richardson watches and breaks down every episode of Saved By The Bell. I love it because I watched that show obsessively as a kid, it was on ALL the time when I was growing up so I know every episode, it's just weird watching them again and hearing other people talk about them 20 years later.
What are you looking forward to in 2015?
I've got my first picture book coming out worldwide in April, in October I'll be finished on the Funny Books project with Theo so I won't have to be stressed about the whole weekly comic thing every spare second, I'm working on a bunch of new projects with a lot of really cool people and I'm hoping to start finding ways to bring those to the world at large.
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2014?
Working on the collected edition of The Dharma Punks with my awesome mates at Earth's End has been a real highlight this year. From the nerve-wracking experience of launching our Kickstarter campaign, the excitement of hitting our target in five days, and launching the beautifully produced book on an amazing, jam-packed launch night at Heroes For Sale.
Travelling to the wonderful and exotic Ubud Writers & Readers Festival where I did my first Pecha Kucha and talked faster than I ever have in my life, about my work and ten things I've learnt during my twenty years of making comics; hung out with comic pals I haven't seen in years and met a heap of other inspiring creative folk.
Spending a week in Long Bay as part of the NZ/Taiwan graphic novelist exchange - getting to know Rae, Tim and the Taiwanese artists and planning our collaborative graphic novel.
Tutoring a nine week Comics course at Studio One - a great group of people in the class and a chance for me to re-learn a lot of comics-process stuff.
What are some of the comics you've enjoyed in 2014?
Dylan Horrocks' Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, Paul Pope's Battling Boy, and loving the artwork of James Harren, Becky Cloonan and Toby Cyprus.
What is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2014?
I've been working on some film projects - an animated short film, and co-writing a feature film.
Hanging out with wonderful, inspiring people and being constantly amazed by my daughters.
What are you looking forward to in 2015?
I'm developing a couple of collaborative comics projects which I'm really excited about.
Travelling to Taipei for the Taipei Book Fair and the second part of the graphic novel exchange.
New Zealand comics: Three Words comics anthology, Faction climate change issue
Movies: Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road.
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