New Pikitia Press Comic: #takedown by David Blumenstein
Late this month Pikitia Press will be dropping our first comic of 2015, #takedown - My evening on a pier with pick up artists and protesters by David Blumenstein. Details of a big hullabaloo launch party coming soon.
What are pick-up artists really like?
Cartoonist David Blumenstein wanted to know. In signing up for a free seminar with International Pick-up artist(PUA) Instructor Julien Blanc, David found himself witness to one of the most successful anti-PUA campaigns launched by the feminist community, a campaign that rallied behind the catch-cry #takedownjulienblanc.
This playfully drawn true account of one evening introduces you to the people on both sides of the protest line.
David Blumenstein is an award-winning cartoonist who has drawn comics for Guardian Australia, Crikey, Junkee and Australian MAD Magazine. He and his cartoonist wife, Sarah, are co-founders of Squishface Studio, an open comic artists' studio in Brunswick, Victoria which you can visit most days of the week, and which holds events and classes for kids and adults.
Tonight: Squishface Studio
Marc Brody Cover Gallery Three
Another selection of Australian crime thrillers, Marc Brody covers.
Will Mahoney (Francis William Mahoney) (11 March 1905 - 1989)
Australian cartoonist Will Mahoney was possibly born today in 1905 (Sometimes attributed to 1906 and 1907). Mahoney worked during the mid 20th century as a Sydney cartoonist, illustrator, commercial artist and printmaker. Mahoney was sacked from the Daily Telegraph in 1945 after refusing to draw a certain political cartoon demanded by the editor. His replacement George Finey also left the position soon after.
