montañas

Lately, I've been dreaming of the land of the long-white-cloud - reading too much Janet Frame and listening to way too many of N's old records. So cause we cancelled our trip there I'm all blue skys, and cumulus clouds and mountains doing suitable high altitude things (wearing scarves, feeling lonely).

Nano-test!

Can you make a better comic than me? I bet you can! Friends of the Earth will be releasing a super new report on the hygiene-gone-mad "silver nano" technology, and are looking for someone to do a bit of light comic relief. If you're keen the deadline is Monday at the latest- email me and I will send on a fact sheet on the serious issues you can convert into comedy gold... I mean silver!

**Update** Deadline is now Tuesday!

he's behind you

It's the last day of summer and how happy I am that it is a little chilly and I can already feel autumn coming on! The last week of summer (as in last week) was a busy one for me and my new HP Laserjet 1600. Together we achieved the creation of a total of almost 90 zines, most of which have found their way to Sticky with a small portion being posted off to Format in Adelaide, my first foray into that westerly state. Alongside a re-print of Flora there was a batch of Happy Crap, Sooky Cloud and Evil Mushroom as well as a new comic Dreamwalker, which has wasted most of my black toner. Props to Friends of the Earth for letting me use their super guillotine too!

try again!

Though I have been known to willingly (perhaps over-willingly) participate in Valentine's Day festivities in the past, this year I wish to commemorate the date with That Hurt!, a new zine of tattoo ideas for the broken hearted. Prototypes of TH sold out at Saturday's mega-zine fest, and this week I will be printing up a fresh new bunch which will promptly be available at Sticky for those in need of some needy-needled nymphs to cheer them up post-V's D.

In other exciting news, last week Hairy Bloke got its first review, it was so nice it made me blush.

shitty day

No I didn't stand in a poo, but today has been a really shitty day! Sticky Zine Fair is in less than one week and the (supposedly super) HP LaserJet 1600 my uncle gifted me has given me nothing but troubles. Halfway through printing a ream of Happy Crap and Sooky Cloud zines it has, ironically, decided to give up on life. Shitty printer = sooky girl.

feliz navidad!

Who are the coolest zine distributors in the whole of the Toowoomba region? Why Smells Like Zines of course! This very super distro stock copies of my zines Hairy Bloke and Defend Your Tweedom as well as an awesome array of QLD only zines that are otherwise unavailable down south. The Smells are offering free postage for all zine orders placed before Christmas, which again = coolest! feliz navidad y una oferta muy cool!

Regardez Moi!

Anna Brown has been running round Australia, taking snaps of 'Strayan comics people for almost a year! (Well, not the whole time, but she has been doing her project over the year, so props to her for sticking to it for so long!) She is going to be collating them into some kind of an exhibition-form-thingie at some point in the future, juxtaposing each artist's image with a drawn self-portrait. What a cool idea. The above is the result of my attempt at drawing myself, and below, one of the photographs Anna took. Unfortunately she took the pictures after my ill-fate fringe adventures, about which I had almost forgotten (as you will see by my drawing, I am now sporting an awesome side-fringe most emo-kidz would be jealous of).

dreamwalker

I painted this for my friend Isabelle (aged 2 and a "halp") for her new "big girl room" (she's been turfed out due to a newly arrived little brother). I thought it was a little bit too scary, but when presented with it she wasn't scared at all. In fact she laughed at it. Kids. Huh.

have you ever spent some quality time with a duck?

Today I got a leaflet in the mail from the wonderful folk at the Coalition Against Duck Shooting. They're asking all Melbournians (the real ones, who live in the actual city) to vote Green this election in as a protest against the Brumby Government's inaction on the issue of duck hunting. Go duck people!!
Anyway, the flyer reminded me of a comic idea I had been playing around with a while back entitled Duck Season. It's basically a story about spending quality time with a duck. Duck's are really cool animals. Have you spent some time with one lately? Do it. You'll be rewarded in feathers.

Au Revoir!

Today, due to my fear of flying, I am boarding a train to Brisbane. The journey will take two days, but once I arrive I will be lucky enough to be a participant in the QWC/Allen and Unwin Children's Manuscript Development Program. Yay! My shortlisted story is entitled "The Girl Who Lived In a Suitcase" and I have been working hard on some inky illustrations to go with the text. The program runs for 5 days. The return train trip runs for 4!

floral

It's spring! I keep forgetting because it's been so cold, and I've had the sniffles and as such have been spending quite an amount of time in front of the heater. But, in front of the heater is the best place for making zines, and I have concocted a new one! It's about flowers and love, and all things springly, with a little rain and mellow sadness thrown in for good measure. It's called Flora and available at Sticky from now!

hairy bloke

buoyed by sales ($18) of tweedom i have re-jigged and re-printed an old zine idea - "Hairy Bloke Magazine" - and will be heading down to sticky-town today to set it free.

twee-sale

the lovely folk at sticky are doing my work for me and selling the last reprints of "Defend Your Tweedom"- the slightly autobiographical story of Melbourne's quasi-twee musical happenings also known as a "scene". This original is a pretty hap-hazard, time-limited comic story, but has formed the basis for a larger work which I am working on right now. Yes, it is literally sitting on the couch right beside me. It will look way prettier. The story-arcs will be more developed. Some characters will be completely merged into one-another in the event I am sued for libel.