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July 22, 2010
New page: The Magic Pen
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I'll be at Doujin Overload this Saturday!
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Doujin Overload is Auckland's annual doujinshi festival - a celebration of manga and anime and a chance for local artists to show off (and sell) their work. It's been going for 5 years, but every time I've tried to go, something would come up and scuttle my plans. This year, however, I will definitely be there, as an invited exhibitor!
There's a huge list of artists and exhibitors, displays of Dolfies and figures, an art competition, a Cosplay Cafe and plenty of stuff to buy. I'll have...
July 20, 2010
New page: The Magic Pen
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New pages every Wednesday and Friday (9am New Zealand time)!
July 19, 2010
Seduction of the Innocent
This is my contribution to Seduction of the Innocent, a new collection of pin-ups by various artists of pretty girls reading comics. Other contributors include Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Sam Henderson, Dave Kiersh, Peter Kuper, Johnny Ryan and many more, and the drawings range from the sleazy to the hilarious. You can see more sample pages and/or buy the book on publisher Kettle Drummer Books' website.
July 15, 2010
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This is the beginning of chapter three and the first of the never-previously-published brand new pages. Yay!
New pages every Wednesday and Friday.
July 13, 2010
More Horrocks film news: Dad wins in Amsterdam
Yesterday I mentioned my sister's new feature film, After the Waterfall, which premieres at the New Zealand Film Festival tonight. And now, continuing with the "My family is awesome" theme, my father's short film about Len Lye, Art That Moves, has just won a prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival.
Roger Horrocks (that's my Dad) has written various books about New Zealand-born artist and film-maker Len Lye, including the definitive biography. For his latest book, a study of Len's work as an...
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Harvey Pekar, RIP
As well as having an enormous influence on the development of serious, honest, personal comics, Harvey Pekar was also a genuine working-class intellectual, who worked hard to bring some real politics to America's anemic public discourse.
Watch this great clip from 1987, when Harvey went on Late Night with David Letterman and tried to talk about the corporate crimes of General Electric (the owners of Letterman's network NBC). Chaos ensued - and, however briefly, the veil was torn away to...
My sister's movie, 'After the Waterfall' is out!
My very cool sister Simone Horrocks's new feature film has its New Zealand premiere tomorrow (July 14), at the NZ Film Festival. After the Waterfall is Simone's first feature, but her short films have done very well, including winning a prestigious prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Adapted from Stephen Blanchard's novel Paraffin Child, After the Waterfall is about a man whose young daughter goes missing; itfollows his descent into darkness and slow climb back into daylight. There are many g...
July 8, 2010
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A nice clean page at last (totally safe for work). Phew!
Well, apart from the swearing, that is…
