Jo Waite is having an(other) exhibition

Comrades, my exhibition of drawings at Brunswick Bound Bookshop; The Mysterious All-Alloneo Archipelago is now up on the walls. The afternoon tea party is on this Saturday and you are all welcome to come. Most of the islands have appeared on my blog, but there are a few new ones.
Brunswick Bound is at 361 Sydney Road Brunswick, and tea will be served at 2 pm on
Saturday 29th of October. Anybody good at making cupcakes?

I Heart Tintin

A bunch of comics art love letters to Hergé's great creation.

 Dates: Tuesday 4 – Friday 28 October

The Castle Window exhibition space cabinet is at 681 Sydney Road Attached to The Edinburgh Castle Hotel Corner of Sydney Rd and Albion Streets Brunswick.

I Heart Tintin

I Heart Tintin
An exhibition featuring the stunning talents of:
David Blumenstein
Mandy Ord
Sarah Howell
Anthony Woodward
Ive Sorocuk
Andrew Fulton
Hamishi Jama Farah
Kirrilly Schell
Bernard Caleo
and Jo Waite

A bunch of comics art love letters to Hergé's great creation.

Dates: Tuesday 4 – Friday 28 October
On the Tuesday 4 October, 6 – 9pm at Edinburgh Castle, performance and hoo-hah at 7.00

The Castle Window exhibition space cabinet is at 681 Sydney Road, attached to The Edinburgh Castle Hotel, on the corner of Sydney Rd and Albion Streets Brunswick.

Yes, we know a Tintin movie is coming. Yes, it's by some guy. But we Heart Tintin, flat! The comic book character born on paper in 1929 and still alive there in 23 completed books and numberless panels, outliving his creator Georges Remi (d. 1983) and any number of dumb films. We've been reading him since before we could read, we dream about him and his little white dog. We are Melbourne comic book artists.
WOUAH!

Hobart Chugnutters do Performance

Hobartians Chris Downes and Josh Santospirito (Drive West Today) are hoping to compete bigtime with Sydney's "Graphic" in a couple of weekends time - putting on a comic-esque performance at the second annual Sound to Light night.

With Chris doing the drawing and Josh making the sound and music it should be a ghost-story more gory and delicious than ever viewed before!!

August 20th at the Long Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre building.

Tix - $12 / 10

facebook event

Chris

Josh

Anyone in the vicinity of the 'end of the world' should drop in!

Things I did at comics camp 2011

Half a cup

The best of my drawings of comics people - Andrew and Ive

Bret Braddock and Bob Hawke enjoy a beer, 1978

Pink Floyd analysis

List of hardest substances I've ever done

Free Comic Book Day

A bit over a week ago I was reminded that it was going to be free comic book day (FCBD) today. As I've been playing around with downloadable digital comics, I had an idea to round up some comic pages from fellow comickers and offer it as a free download.

I know FCBD is about getting people into brick and mortar stores but I think it's also about getting new readers into comics. Why not digital comic then!

This is the result,

 -download here-

It's basically a PDF file with dimensions that are perfect for an iPad screen but can also be read on your computer or any other device that reads PDF files.
It's totally free to download and you will be able to match the artists pages to an to their names by using an index at the front of the book; as well as links to each creators site.

I'd love to do this again sometime in the future, and I look forward to hearing about what you think.
 
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Comic_Book_Day
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

What I drew at Camp Chugnut

I spilt tea on this picture, on purpose, and then added the white highlights at home.

Ideas...

...I thought we'd talk more about them.
This is the only thing approaching a comic that I drew the whole weekend.

Chris

Mirranda

Sarah

Sarah with My Little Pony(TM) eyes.

Leigh R.

A not very good portrait of Leigh Rigozzi

Joshmo

My last post was a little light on in terms of interesting things to say.

From Melbourne originally but I live in Hobart with me beautiful wife and time-sucking veggie patch, I've been working on my magnum opus comicus - "The Long Weekend" for a few years now. It's based on an essay written by a Jungian psychologist friend of mine from Alice Springs (where we used to live for a few years). Here's a drawing I did based on a great photo from the Alice Springs News, a local newspaper in ... Alice Springs ... you guessed it. I hope to have a few pages of footy awesomeness in there somewhere.

I'm also a musician and later this year I fully intend to do a comic-music crossover project that harnesses the sheer rock-power of Christopher Downes!!

Chugnut was a ball this year ... and I will have to return in future years to try and take the table-tennis crown of that bastard FULTON!!! I'll be training in the off-season.

You can find my sporadically updated comic and music-news on this blog here - The Collossal Adjective.

Jase

Hi Chuggers, I'm new to some, old to others.
This way my first year at Chugnut and was great to meet some new comic type people and draw and stuff.

I've been drawing comics for about 8 years now, and have published four collections of my comics under the Guh! title. I currently have a comic strip running monthly in Trouble magazine

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jaseh/guh/series.php
www.jaseharper.com

Chris

Hey there fellow Chugnutters!

I'm Chris, and I make comics. I've self taught myself to draw and cartoon over the years but I've only recently been making and distributing my comics at zine fairs and cons. I've still got a lot to learn, and you can monitor my progress at http://inkendup.wordpress.com/

Be seeing you

hamishi

role call!

i'm hamishi, i also make comics but flickr wont let me download my own photos. i'm not very good at making comics but who cares, thats my name, "who cares". i have a show coming up that you shouldn't go to. i left all the hard work too late, its mostly paintings, maybe a coupla comics and some 3d stuff. marc pearson forced my hand into make comics, i resent him for it and i resent his look of proud steel when he tucks me in at night. i well waste too much time, and im one of the secret 5 who didnt jerk off at comics camp. but shut up about me, lets talk about my sweet nips.

www.flickr.com/bottomlesspoose

maudespiel

hello there my name is maude farrugia and i had a lovely, productive time at camp this weekend just gone. i live in melbourne and have been drawing stories in front of the heater since i was very small. i have made a few zines and minicomix over the last few years usually including my favourite things to draw (woodgrain, hairy men and cross-sections of digestive systems) and influenced by my favourite people who make comics (aron nels steinke, simone lia and sara varon). i have a blog here: www.maudefarrugia.blogspot.com

cheerio for now!

from maude

My Chugnut comic

Done with a red col-erase, followed by a HB pencil, and finished in speedball ink with a zebra G nib. Colours done in Photoshop.

David Mahler

Hi hi hi everyoooone
My name's David.

Ummm...yeah, I've been drawing comics since I was really little, but I only really got into serious when I was about 15, 16, when I read my first issue of Seven Pages Digest (Crazy, right? But fer real!!)

I've made a few shitty mini's over the years, but lately I've been working on Kahvillen Comics. I'm currently writing and drawing issue #3 which I'll hopefully have done before I head to Switzerland in June. Woo! Yeah, what else...oh, before I started working full time at a phone store I called myself an "animator" as making music videos for Norwegians was the only way I made moolah. Ha. I'm currently working on, like, 3 or so animations which is bonkers and unnecessary. I have this tendency to overload myself, but it's the only way I feel motivated.

Website: davemahler.com
Blog: savagesparrow.blogspot.com

(Not sure how I feel about this one these days, but it was the first "lores" pic I could find...)

Lastly, I don't know if it's necessary, but I just wanted to say I had an incredible time at Chugnut this year, making wonderful new friends and hanging out with old pals. Thank you, everyone!
Chugnut, WOO!

Chugnut weekend #3

This weekend just gone marked the third (now annual it seems) Chugnut comic week end. We had a large amount of of newcomers this time around and some of them may be posting a little blurb and image about their work.

There are also some photos popping up on the group chugnut group page over on Flickr.

marc pearson

my name is marc, and i've been drawing a crappy zine called "we gotta get real jobs" for a little while now, annndd i just put together an anthology called "self help comics". i'm 20 years old now, but when i was 7, i wasn't even nearly that old.
i've got a flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmarcle/

Ive Sorocuk

I figure I'm a noobie chugnut-wise.

I'm a cartoonist living in Geelong and I've been making comics online
for more than five years. I do a monthly Comics Face strip in Trouble
magazine and this year I started posting one a week online. Lately
I've been playing around with Flash and want to finish a game I have
going and start making some cartoons too.

All my comics:
http://webcomicsnation.com/nonstopcomics/

I still use livejournal:
http://sirive.livejournal.com

Other stuff:
http://superteamnonstop.com/

Joshua Santospirito

I guess I'm a "nooby"

The website below is my blog.

I'm also a muso and a muser and lots of other things.

         
www.camaldulensis.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/drivewesttoday

Little sailor hats!!!

For comic camp 'Chugus-Nutus we should totally buy a bunch of those little sailor caps that the peanuts gang would wear to summer camp.