Bristling with comics goodness!
The first issue of the Wellington New Zealand comics Anthology Bristle is out and I’m in it! Its Quarterly! Issue One is 32 pages long with a Fantastic cover by Tim Bollinger. The contributor list includes; Brent Willis, Dick Whyte, Ned Wenlocke, Robyn E Kenealy, Helen Cropp, Carlos Wedde, R B Stewart, [...]
The Second issue of Wellington’s comic anthology has made it to print. With a glorious cover by Claire Harris!
contributor list for this issue includes; Grant Buist, Helen Cropp, me Draw, Matt Emery, Ari Freeman, Ed Lynden-Bell, Steve Saville, Ned Wenlocke, Dick Whyte, Brent Willis, Jason Winter and Lorenzo Van Der Lingen.
It is $5.00 [...]
For a few months now the New Zealand comics scene has had a blog devoted to it.
From Earth’s End is by Adrian Kinnaird with an eye to report new releases, events and the various goings on in the community. Oh and he will cover pop culture generally but really we’re only interested in NZ [...]
Adrian Kinnaird from New Zealand’s premier Comics and pop culture blog wanted to know more about Abstract comics so we did an interview via email, you can see it here.
extract:
AK: How did you become involved in the project?
DRAW: Well I started posting Abstract Comics on my website during May of last year and In August [...]
Last week I was walking home and I decided to look at some of the galleries on the way. I walked into Solander Gallery and was taken aback by the powerful large scale woodcuts hanging on the wall.
Cover Their Eyes by Sam Harrison
I found the pieces remarkable; sometimes ambivalent, sometimes gritty, always beautiful and intensely [...]
Yes Bristle issue Three is out! (well since October 16)
I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake, this time Adrian bet me to it. Still Bristle is a New Zealand Comic that actually delivers on the promise of having a regular publishing schedule!
Front cover by Ned Wenlocke, back by Jason Winter
contributor list for this issue [...]
A new issue of Bristle for the New Year! With a great front cover by Brent Willis and the back cover by me Draw
Contributor list for this issue includes; Chris Cudby, Ari Freeman, Claire Harris, Robyn E Kenealy, Renee Lyons, Steve Saville, Clive Townsend, Ned Wenlocke, Dick Whyte, and Brent Willis.
It is $5.00 NZD [...]
Right! I’ve finally got round to posting some photos of the Silent Pictures Exhibition at the James Gallery of the Graduate Center of CUNY
James Gallery Entrance
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Silent Pictures entry & Small Zines by Robert Breer
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lots of people
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a bookshelf of Anthologies
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Silent Pictures Programme booklet
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Art Spiegelman’s collection of wordless comics
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A History of Composition in Abstract Comic Covers, 2001 [...]
For the 2010 Black River Digital New Zealand Comics Awards or the Eric’s named after NZ comics Legend Eric Resitar.
Nominations for:
Best Comic - The Tangled Garden
Best Writing - The Tangled Garden
Best webcomic - Drawingsilence.com
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Bristle has been nominated for best Anthology
This is so exciting! Thank you so much to everyone who nominated me. In the next [...]
I have recently come across an old article Robyn E Kenealy wrote about Brent Willis.
Check it out here:
FetusBoy Adventures: Brent Willis and the Sacred Cow or How to become a Subversive Artist in Eleven Easy Issues
Furthermore, those of you who are not fans should become so at once. Fetus Boy Adventures is the South Park [...]
