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

 

My Comical Weekend

Saturday I popped into my Local Comics Shop to pick up a few of the free comic book day comics.

 Alternate Worlds, closing down, moving online, or to a new premises or something.

 Alternate Worlds Youngblood, Eric Bing, and some local hack

Sweet Larry Boxshall, he sold a heckload of comics for me.

Then I jumped on my pushbike and went for a sweet ride to the city to visit All Star Comics and the Melbourne Comic Meet-Up in Carlton.

All Star Comics was busy as heck

You wouldn't like Dom when he works retail

 Spidey-Man

 The lovely Katie Houghton-Ward sketchs and signs for fans.

 Joey Morris eyes up some freebies

 Paul 'Fierce' Bedford

 The Mighty Jolly Thor mans the till

Hopped a tram with 'Bedlam' Bedford and 'Maniacal' Mutard to the Prince Alfred in Carlton for the Melbourne Comic meet-up.

 Fred Atkins plays charades with Steve Sparke

Steve Sparke consoles Paul 'Weepy' Bedford

 Bren Halyday hangs with Steve Sparke

Trev Wood shows Tom Taylor some dimensions whilst Paul Bedford glowers

 Here are some pics by Jean Cocteau from the New English Library edition of his Novel, Opium, The Diary of A Cure.

 

  

Here is a Horse with a hat that Miss Mai put into my coffee for me.

Supanova Melbourne April 9-10 2011 + The List Volume III Launch

Last weekend's Supanova in Melbourne was the best Con I've been to yet. Well attended with Saturday's crowd about equal to both day's last year. I had a plum spot opposite the Auditorium where regular streams of folk would spill towards me after each panel. Met a lot of lovely folk that had read my work previously and I sold out of the 25 posters I had brought by early Sunday. I wish I had finished a new book as there were certain folk that had everything I've done. From the sounds of things everyone in artist alley were happy with the weekend's proceedings. The new larger shed was great for the size of the crowd that turned up. Still three or four more conventions this year I hope the rest are as good as this one. Special thanks to Trev Wood and Greg Gates for minding my table when I had to duck out.

Bruce Mutard, Greg Gates and Philip Bentley

Henry Pop, artist of the List, and some crazy homeless guy

The List Volume III Launch at Loop Bar followed Supanova on Saturday. Me and Bren rocked in as the speeches started. Mc'ed by Trev Wood, it was a tight affair with brief speeches from creators Writer - Paul Bedford, Penciler - Henry Pop and Inker - Tom Bonin and then an excellent audio visual presentation of key moments form the new book from Trev Wood. Culminating five years of work the fellas have pulled out all the stops in creating the final volume weighing in at just over 100 pages. The List team had a remastered version of Volume one at Supanova over the weekend and further down the track they'll be offering a collected version of all three volumes. 

 The first time Henry Pop has smiled since starting The List five years ago

Mighty congrats to the guys for seeing this labour of love through to the finish line. Anyone stupid enough to be making comics in a serious fashion knows the amount of work that goes into making a complete book, If you worked out an hourly rate it would be a pittance with the amount of time involved. I think it is very rare that an entire story is completed like this, so many creators burn out and give up after an issue or two. There are a lot of unfinished to be continued's in the comic book world. Check out The List here.

Buy The List online at Paul's Secret Sack

Gentleman Greg Gates and Boisterous Brendan Halyday

Handsome Trev Wood the Illustrative half of Sawbones

A few Sydney comikers were in town including Jan Scherpenhuizen of The Twilight Age

  

Animator and Cartoonist double threat Frank Candiloro and Brendan 'Bi' Halyday

 Bobby N, Darren Close and Tom Bonin. I won't give them nicknames cause each one of them could smash me with deadly force.

 Chris Sequeira tells Paul Bedford the Secrets of the Universe

Paul Abtruse in repose