Camberwell Haul #10

It was cold and misty last Sunday when I made my way to the Camberwell Markets. Biked around a smashed up television pushed off Punt Rd onto the underpass. It hadn't shattered everywhere just crumpled which I'm sure was a disappointment. Further down the road I spotted a spotted a Helicopter hovering about five metres above the tram tracks on Commercial Road. Alas I forgot my camera.

It was pretty early when I arrived so did a few rounds of the whole market and glad I did cause I found a bunch of these on the second and third time around.

5 English kids annuals for fifty pesos each. 

An Black N White Indie Anthology 'Steel Dragon' for one clam. There was a copy of The Protectors #1 for 1 clam, a really terrible looking black n white book, I didn't buy it but remembered Dash Shaw talking about it here. if you have a look at the link it's worth reading the comments section.

How to Read Donald Duck for five clams - heard about this for many a year, thought it was time to give it a read. 

 A book of George Carlin's, Last Words, for four clams from the local bookhouse. Carlin created an amazing body of work in his lifetime and is one of the people who shaped my beliefs regarding religion. This reminds me I have hours of his stuff I still haven't listened to. No time!

The real find of the morning was an autobiography of Leo Baxendale that I had no idea existed for ten clams.  I read a lot of Baxendale's work when I was a lad and this book recounts forty years of his career as a cartoonist. I've only skimmed through it but was thrilled to find a pic of Ken Reid in there. Ken Reid is one of my all time favourite English cartoonists, I loved his work on Face-ache, Frankie-Stein and others. Baxendale also recounts his friendships with other DC Thomson cartoonists Davey Law and Dudley Watkins.

 

The Weekend 4-5 June 2011

I bought a copy of Colin Wilson's recent French book Qui a tué le président ? He drew a great sketch in the front as is the fashion in Europe.

  Plant found behind my table at the Emerging Writers Festival 2011 Page Parlour.

 Some people at the Page Parlour

Here is a cool English comic I picked up at the Camberwell Fair today. It has some great Leo Baxendale cartoons and a Ken Reid Frankie-stein strip.

Leo Baxendale double page in the centre

 

 here is a cool Gold Key UFO comic I bought for 2 clams at Camberwell market today

 

 

Here is an Irishman's wallet I found on the way to Camberwell this morning. I found him on facebook and messaged him to return it. I havn't heard back yet. I've found 4 or 5 wallets and purses in the last four years.

 

Here are some nice white people dining at the Crown Casino as is the fashion in Melbourne.

Here is a wall I visit everyday when delivering mail

 

Camberwell Haul #3

Hauled my bones out of bed at 7am and jumped on the pushbike to the Camberwell Sunday Markets. Not a big haul this weekend, although there were piles of books, comics and other items of interest. A lady had a box of old newspapers from the 1950's, I think it was The Argus, lots of weekend editions with full colour pages of ye olde comic strips. I passed on them 'cause really what am I going to do with a box of old newspapers? But cool nevertheless. What I did get:

A couple English annuals for $5 each. 1984 Buster Annual and a Funnies album from 1957. 1984 was the first year I went to the local bookshop when all the Christmas Annuals came out and got to pick a couple to buy with my savings (2000ad and Whizzer and Chips). They were $5 each in 1984 which was a lot of money for a young lad back then. The Buster annual has a lot of brilliant big foot cartooning including my favourite as a kid, Ken Reid's Faceache. The Funnies album is great - cartoons from start to finish, no boring prose stories. Most of it is old English strips with a few interesting American reprints towards the end including a cool Basil Wolverton Spacehawk story.

Two of the early Titan 2000AD reprints. With great covers by Bolland and Mike McMahon. These were $3.00 each and worth it just for the covers alone. I've read this material a bunch of times, Judge Caligula being one of my all time favourite Dredd Epics. These editions have notoriously lousy bindings, I left a Cursed Earth volume behind for that reason although these are nice and solid.

The other book I picked up is a cartoon tutorial from 1944 by 'Armstrong' How to Draw 'Em. Using Grid tutorials the book details how you can draw popular world leaders and dictators of the time. Also included are some general cartooning tips for drawing all manner of people from the general public. A steal at $3.00.

Pages from Armstrong's How to Draw 'Em

Ron Turner doing a Leopard from Lime Street Strip

Ken Reid's Faceache

From inside Funnies Album 1957


Bambi's Mum was murdered by humans

All sorts of things turn up at the markets like dinosaur fossils
(might not actually be dinosaur fossils.)

People

Melbourne has some amazing street art

The Filthy Yarra River on my way home

BONUS MINI HAUL!!

After lunch I popped in the local op shop. They have a large bookcase in their foyer that they fill with pretty much any book that looks to be over 10 years old and sell them for 50 cents. I buy way more books than I could ever read but I like to have them around so I can dip into them, maybe read a chapter or two and then try something else. I do finish whole books on occasion and I often come back to books to finish half read ones. Miss Mai instructed me to buy Wuthering Heights for her no doubt inspired by this: