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March 26, 2009
New page: Magic Pen
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March 25, 2009
How to make me happy UPDATE: find me some pens!
For the past few years, I’ve drawn almost everything with two particularly lovely Japanese marker pens, the Tombow ‘Fudenosuke’ GCD-111 and GCD-112. There’s one shop in New Zealand that sells the things, and I buy them in bulk. However, supplies are patchy, and for some time they’ve not had them at all. Hopefully, that’ll change, but it prompted me to put out a call to the all-knowing interweb, in case anyone can help.
Here is information about the pens on Tombow’s website (in English), and here
Floating Worlds
Out this month from Victoria University Press:
Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary NZ Fiction
Anna Jackson & Jane Stafford (eds)
The ground-breaking New Zealand fiction of the last fifteen years has not attracted critical commentary beyond initial reviews, despite its success with readers both local and international, and despite its attracting major awards both local and international. Floating Worlds contains stimulating and insightful essays on eight of the best novels of recent years.
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More music I like: Bonnie Prince Billy DJs on NPR
This is a lovely show: All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen sits and chats with Bonnie Prince Billy (aka Will Oldham), and they play some tracks from Oldham’s record collection and a few from his new album, Beware. The highlights (for me) are the first two tracks: ‘Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat’ (by Paul Evans) - which Oldham describes as an “erotic ballad” - and ‘The Girl in Me’ (by Bonnie Prince Billy & Cheyenne Mize). One of the (many) things I love about Oldham’s music is his a
Music I like: Weird Weeds
Weird Weeds from Austin, Texas, make some pretty interesting sounds, and even sell a t-shirt drawn by the legendary Mark Beyer. What more could you want?
New page: The Magic Pen
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March 23, 2009
Western Park: Timothy Kidd’s comics online!
Best news I’ve had in ages: Timothy Kidd (one of my all-time favouritest cartoonists ever) has been quietly putting new comics work online. Do yourself a favour and go look. If you’re familiar with Tim’s work, you’ve probably already stopped reading this and are happily over at Western Park devouring the beautiful drawings and quietly brilliant stories. If not, trust me; you’re in for quite a treat.
You can buy some of Tim’s minicomics over at the Comic Book Factory.
March 21, 2009
I Wish I am Fish
Yesterday, I had one of the strangest experiences I’ve had in a while. I was recently asked by a friend at Auckland Art Gallery if I would do an illustration for the invitation to a one day sculpture event they were arranging. The work was called ‘I wish I am fish,’ and I was given just enough information about it to produce the picture above.
As this was part of the One Day Sculpture series, I was also asked if I would produce a “writer’s response” to the work, which will later be collected in a
March 18, 2009
New story: Dull Care
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Dull Care is a story I drew for a beautiful book called Little Nemo 1905-2005: Un Siècle de Rêves, edited by Benôit Peeters and published in French by Les Impressions Nouvelles in 2005 (there are also Spanish and Italian editions). This enormous book (it’s nearly 34cm tall) includes rare work by Winsor McCay, essays by comics scholars and tribute strips by cartoonists from around the world, including David B., Lorenzo Mattotti, Moebius, Katsuhiro Otomo, Art Spiegelman, Craig
