Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Camberwell Haul #5
Another Sunday trek to Camberwell. Not a huge haul but some interesting things. An old couple had a huge pile of Pictorial Social Studies Comic albums for $2 each. Published in the Fifties and Sixties, these were used as teaching aides for history lessons I presume. Covering a whole lot of Australian history I picked out a couple that were New Zealand centric. Never made it all the way through a Salmon Rushdie book but for a dollar I'll have another try at The Satanic Verses. William Gibson and E. L. Doctorow books were a couple dollars each, I'll add them to the thousands of other novels on the to read list. Maybe I'll get Miss Mai to read them and give me the cliff notes version.
There were comics here and there throughout the markets but I only picked up three for a dollar a piece.
Hot Stuff - I pick up cheap Harvey comics when I can to see what I can glean from them for my own comics.
The Jetsons - A Hanna Barbera Aussie reprint - again for drawing reference and also I've been thinking about doing some more futuristic gags/stories. The Garish re-colouring reminds me of reading these as a kid. I always remember the Superman editions where everyone had very pink skin pallor.
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera TV STARS #1 - Another Hanna Barbera reprint. This one is a great anthology of short strips based on Saturday Morning cartoons. Solid line up of cartoonists with Steve Shaw, Will Meugniot, Dave Stevens, Dan Spiegle, and an Alex Toth Space Ghost story.
Here's The Herculoids by Will Meugniot and Dave Stevens.
GRAAARRR!!
All manner of things turn up at Camberwell
The Corner Billboard
Under an Overpass by Punt Road BridgeSunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Smukey The Sexy Bear Script
Click to Embiggen! Haw! Haw!
This is my script for Smukey The Sexy Bear . Like a lot of my gags I wrote this whilst working the day job. If I can get the idea down with a few shorthand notes and lines of dialogue I do that and then make a stick figure script like this one on a scrap of paper or in one of the many exercise books floating around my house. After I get all the panels down I number them and then make adjustments if necessary to fit them onto pages usually of four, five, or six panels. If I can help it I try to use six panel pages which gives me almost square panels to work with rather than rectangles which I can't jibe with unless I'm trying to do some kind of panoramic landscape. After I draw the comic I letter the inked pages before colouring and remove any uneccessary dialogue. Usually heaps of swearing and profanity goes by the wayside at this point. Unless it is really funny profanity.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Camberwell & Box Hill Haul #4
After a Saturday spent fine-tuning my pushbike I stumbled out of bed last Sunday to get out to the Camberwell market and the formerly Camberwell now in Box Hill Record/Comic Fair. Got to Camberwell, had a quick nose around and picked up 3 annuals Lion 1966, Lion 1967, and The Big Battle Annual for $4 a pop. Old adventure comics from the glory days of English comics. Also an Ayn Rand book I hadn't read, The Virtue of Selfishness, for $4. Then I jumped a train for a few stops to Box Hill.
Box Hill Record/Comic fair was quickly filling up when I got there. I slipped into the Comics room and picked up a few neat things. A couple Johnny Ryan books for $10 each from Mr Daniel Best and I took a punt of an English translation of a European album, Roxanna, for $5 from Mr Philip Bentley.
Box Hill Record/Comic fair was quickly filling up when I got there. I slipped into the Comics room and picked up a few neat things. A couple Johnny Ryan books for $10 each from Mr Daniel Best and I took a punt of an English translation of a European album, Roxanna, for $5 from Mr Philip Bentley.
A bunch of other books I picked up for 40 cents to $2 each.I'm probably the only person in the world that wants it but if someone started publishing everything Sergio Aragones has done in his prolific career I'd be in for the haul.
I picked up a Hanna Barbera Aussie reprint of Korg: 70,000 B.C in the back of a second hand book shop on Phillip Island last year and found another issue this weekend. These books are great, i think there are two of the original Charlton issues reprinted in each issue beautiful Pat Boyette work and garish recolouring. I'm a sucker for cavemen stories with Sci-Fi elements.
A few random Charlton comics and some funny animal and big foot cartooning books. I've been picking up the odd book of these here and there to pick up some flourishes for my own work.
An X-men annual that I really dug when I was a kid and could actually follow what was going on in these comics.
I liked Howard Chaykin's character Dominic Fortune from the few appearances he made when I was a kid and glad to pick up an issue of his precursor character The Scorpion for a $1.
I probably have a bunch of these already but for $1.50 they'll be good bedside reading/ birthday presents for my Nephews when they are a bit older.
A couple original cartoons by Neil Mcbeath at the Camberwell markets
A french man was selling half a dozen of these colour strips on thick card for about $500 the lot. Not sure of the artist but one of them was signed 'Peter'.
Record and Comic Aficionados at Box Hill
Camberwell Train Station
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
The Dears - Blood
New Album, Degeneration Street, is great! I love when the horns from Letterman's band kick in on this live version of Blood.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
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