What are mini comics?

I know part of the fun is in their lack of concrete definition, but is there a loose standard as such? Maybe it's best to create a standard type of mini comic artists can aspire to?* If you created the standard what would it be?

Mine would look something like this:

• A mini comic is A6 in size (one quarter of an A4 page) form american and Canadians this would be a quarter of a letter or legal sized piece of paper
• A mini comic is 8-24 pages in length not including the cover
• small mini comic = 8 pages + cover
• medium mini comic = 12 pages + cover
• large mini comic = 16 pages + cover
• super large mini comic = 24 pages + cover
• Ideally the cover should be a thicker stock to protect the inside pages
• Productions values should be kept simple, eg, plain paper and B&W printing. The book should be easy and cheap to make, keep the extra effort saved for drawing and writing an awesome comic

*By 'standard type of mini comic' I don't mean every mini comic should be this way or it's not a mini comic but rather, a pre-imagined format that has a name, ie, 'Browns standard mini'**

**Yes this is a poo joke

Chugnut Comics No.3 now available, inspired by 'Free Comic Book Day' I have put together a showcase of some artists here for you to download and checkout, totally free. Clicking on the link will take you to a download page were you will see the file called 'Chugnut_FCBD_2013', from here you can download the file (perfect for a tablet) or chose to read on your browser. Enjoy! http://cl.ly/Ojvw 

Chugnut 2013 (March 22-24)

It has begun! Attending this year are,


Anthony Woodward
David C Mahler
David Blumenstein
Sarah Howell
Marta Tesoro
Rob Macfarlane
Gregory Mackay
Mandy Ord
Andrew Fulton
Jo Waite

There are some more folks, but we will have to wait until they arrive. More updates soon

the caravan of comics

I don't know if you know - but I do and I'm here to make sure you know - that some very special Chugnutters (google it) have made a very special little trip -

Hopefully someone from the ACTUAL Caravan of Comics posts here eventually upon their return to our shores girt by sea. BUT I'd like to write a quick thingo to say how proud I am that Aussies made this awesome adventure over to the states and Canada to go and GET IT ON for their comics and Aussie comics in general!

If you haven't ch-ch-checked it - you should ch-ch-check it out on their website http://caravanofcomics.com/ 

• DAVID BLUMENSTEIN
• JEN BREACH
• ANDREW FULTON
• PAT GRANT
• MICHAEL HAWKINS
• DOUG HOLGATE
• SARAH HOWELL
• BEN HUTCHINGS
• GREGORY MACKAY
• MANDY ORD
• JOHN RETALLICK
• MATT TAYLOR

On behalf of all Australian comic-makers ... I'd like to say thankyou Caravan of Comics ... may your beards grow long! 

comics ahoy hoy

EDIT:
Ok, I wrote this for my personal blog and accidentally posted it in chugnuts...but we should get some comics on here, yeh? so i've removed the unnecessary text and have left le pictures:

This one originally appeared in Wooly Bully's free comic book day comic, edited by the deloightful Marc Pearson. It's part one of a (so far) 50+ page book I'm working on.

Chugnut this year

So I meant to put some of me drawings up from Chugnut but I spent most of the time finishing off this comic that I was doing for a magazine at Chuggers and I don't wanna stick it up just yet ... so I'm gunna stick up some of me other favourite project.

- drawing footy players!!! OHHH YEAHHH!!!!

CARN' The BLUE-BAGGERS!!!!

More of that dynamite stuff at me website. And at the bottom is another travel comic I did the other week whilst cruising around the sickeningly windy roads of Western Tasmania at Easter time ....

What I done at Chuggers- Neale B Year 8c

Chuggers 2012 - completely awesOME

Hey all - Chugnut was absolutely AWESOME THIS YEAR!!
I had a great time and it was totes worth the effort coming up from Tasmania and then missing my flight back and having to pay more ...

why is Melbourne so bloody large that it takes three hours to cross????

I will get around to putting pics up here ... and hopefully those who took mountains of photos will also chuck 'em here.

Can other chugnutters please tell newbies that this blog exists ... hopefully this can become a place where we all promote projects throughout the year rather than just what happens on "comic camp".

xo

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.