October and November 09 episodes in the archive. Spread the word.

TheComicSpot 200912 - Ben Hutchings, TiNA, Reviews, news. Oct09

John Retallick and Jo Waite are joined by Ben Hutchings (hutcho.net) to talk about the recent TiNA (This is Not Art) festival and then they go through a whole swag of books that they have read and recommend.

Follow the linkage.

TiNa festival - thisisnotart.org
 Digested #2 by Bobby N
Dicks #7 by Tom Bonin
Dark Detective - Blackhouse Comics.
Everything ends in tears - Matt Emery
 Garbage Truck Failures - James Andre et al
Graphic Narrative - Brendan Hallyday
Kagemono - Jason Franks
The time you were in Paris - Vanessa Berry and Leigh Rigozzi
Noodle and Rose - The Fetus
Navigating by our own stars - Christopher Downes
Torpedo Vol 6, the all graphics issue
Word Balloons #10 - Phil Bentley
Gangland - Melbourne Ganglands Killings Colouring Book!
Herding Kites - Affirm Press. National Young Writers Festival.

Also featuring comics events news.
 
TheComicSpot200913 - Oslo Davis, Tim Molloy, events&news Nov09

Two great cartoonists, Oslo Davis and Tim Molloy, join TheComicSpot to discuss their works and latest exhibitions 'This Annoying Life' and 'Saturn Returns'. Oslo Davis is best known for his 'Overheard' cartoons in The Age and Tim Molloy creates worlds, languages and states of mind with his comics that leave you spellbound.

Ever wondered how you recontextualise comics to walls in a gallery? Do you dream of making comics about UFOs in the Amazonian jungle? Then listen in and find out more in this laughter packed episode.

Oslo Davis
Tim Molloy
Lamington Drive gallery
Tango9
Australian Society of Authors - info on page rates for catoonists and graphic novelists.
Stanley Awards - Australian Cartoonists Association awards.



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Bernard's Yartz reviews on YouTube.

TheComicSpot co-host Bernard Caleo is a man of many talents. When not rasing a family, loving a wife, using theatre in Museums, making comics, speaking on the radio or publishing anthologies he sometimes is a contributor to the Yartz program on Channel 31.

After sniffing around the interwebs for a bit i thought i'd showcase a selection of his reviews and reports here.

Huzzah!

 

Bernard visits the Jewish Museum to look at Superheroes and Schlemeils. 2 parts.

Review of Mandy Ord's 'Rooftops' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbYE6uWg_10
Review of Illya Milstein's 'Happy Times' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TygIwVOXuHk
Reveiw of The Satirical Eye exhibition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJkU1ydedc

TheComicSpot goes weekly for summer - your favouties for 09?

Starting with a special NYE edition on the 31st Dec at 5pm TheComicSpot will be going weekly for the duration of January 2010.

That means 5 shows in the next 6 weeks!

For the NYE show Jo, Bernard and myself will be looking back over the last year and will be talking about our favourite comics and comics culture moments.

We'll be asking ourselves...

Who've been our favourite Australian cartoonists of 09?
What've been our favourite Australian comics of 09?
Who have we discovered in 09?
Most memorable comics related event in 09?
Looking forward to in 2010?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this as well so i can include them in the show. (comment below)

Then throughout Jan i will be speaking to a range of comickers including Rebecca Clements, Patrick Alexander, J Marc Schmidt and Christopher Downes. More details of other guests as we get closer to the shows.

I'm looking forward to this month ahead and hope you listen live on air on 3CR if you're in Melbourne or online at 3cr.org.au wherever you are.

5pm every Thursday!

TheComicSpot archive adds 2 more episodes. Comics talk and The Professionals.

TheComicSpot 200910 - Comics Talk, Reviews and Round ups. Aug09

Sometimes it's as simple as sitting in the studio talking comics with John, Jo and Bernard.

First we started talking about the 3cr Calendar and the Paper Lifeboat exhibition with Jo before Bernard discusses working with the Allen & Unwin editorial process with The Tango Collection and seeking submissions for Tango9.

Works discussed in this episode.
-Phatsville Comix - issues 12 and 13.
-The Devil You Know – Leonie Norrington, comics sections from Michael Camilleri.
-The Silence – Bruce Mutard.
-Captain Congo and The Crocodile King – Ruth Starke & Greg Holfeld. Working Title press.



TheComicSpot 200911 - The Professionals! Colin Wilson, Tom Taylor, Aug 09

So what's it like being a comic professional in Australia?

Colin Wilson and Tom Taylor join John to talk about their roads to full time comics work and talk about some of the material they've been working on. They talk about their comic from Gestalt 'The Example' and working together on Star Wars!

Colin's blog.
Tom's blog

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New Yorker speaks to Nicki Greenberg.

From Melbhattan to Manhatten. It had to happen eventually.

The New Yorker speaks to Nicki Greenberg here.

Yay!

Mini-Comic of the Month club

Join now. Limited numbers. I have!

$20 = 12 minicomics sent to your door.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Awwww shucks comics... you make me feel a little bit better about the world everyday. :)

Bruce Mutard interview and Word Balloons at Second Shore

The grand uncle of Melbourne comics - Philip Bentley -  has posted an interview with Bruce Mutard up at the Second Shore blog. It's an addendum to a feature length interview Phil did with Bruce some time back in the first issue of Word Balloons. It gives an update on where Bruce is with his work and some of the processes he's gone through in working with Allen & Unwin. There's also mention of some interesting sounding books coming out through Macmillan next year.

Under his Second Shore moniker Phil produces the fantastic self published magazine 'Words Balloons' twice yearly. Always featuring long interviews with Australian comic folk, recollections of his life as a comics stalwart, as well as reviews of new releases.


If you don't have Word Balloons on your shelf you should go buy some.

Issue 10 of Word Balloons.

Paint a Uke!

From lovely cartoonist Maude Farrugia's blog. For a limited time only and for a limited number of Ukes. Do some comic art on a Uke and have it featured in an art show.

TheComicSpot 200909 - A tale of two Tangos.(web only episode)

Another episode online at thecomicspot.podomatic.com

A casual converstaion behind the scenes in the house of Tango.

Bernard Caleo and Susan Bamford Caleo discuss the two Tango antholgies released in 2009. The first is this year's edition of the Cardigan Comics anthology Tango 9 - Love and War, and then the Allen and Unwin published Tango Collection - featuring highlights from the previous 8 editions of Tango that have been published in the last decade.

Just what happens behind the scenes during the year when two editions of this comic book tome enter the world? A frank discussion of the ins and ous, ups and downs, highlights and lowlights of self publishing an anthology of Australian comics.

Thanks to Bernard, Susan (and neighbour Karen) for taking the time out to let me ask some questions in their living room.

I've not edited this peice a great deal. Just put it online as a record of events for this year's two Tangos.

BUY - Tango 9 - Love and War. cardigancomics.com 350 pages, 80 creators - and only $25!!
or The Tango Collection. Allen and Unwin. In all good book stores.

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