MAY
25: Hangin' at the MCA
ZINE FAIR with Sarah Howell, Ben Hutchings, Ross Tesoriero.
See us at stall 32!
MAY 16, 2009
Updated the Precinct
blog with an actual Precinct-related post!
In other news: if one wishes to purchase the
SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS 2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR,
one may PayPal five Aussie dollars to me, my e-mail for these
purposes being david {at} nakedfella.com, being sure to provide
a mailing address. Then this marvel can be yours: twelve months
of sexy Australian comic artists, starting with “Mr
July” 2009, Pat Grant.
He's hot!
MARCH 26, 2009
COMIC BOOK FUNNY 2009
We're doing the "Second Annual" series
of Comic Book Funny, the live Melbourne International Comedy
Festival sessions devoted to local indy comix.
Once again we're sprawling through the Bella
Union bar at Trades Hall, 5pm every Saturday in April, launching
new work, showing off comics on the walls, and hearing from
some of my favourite Australian comics creators! Here's what's
happening each week:
Week one (Sat April 4): a genteel
exhibition launch and informal comics salon, directed by Mme
Josephine Waite. All welcome. Plus, live drawing
of hot male cartoonists for a calendar we’re launching
in week four.
Week two (Sat April 11): a very special
Intimate Conversation between long-awaited interstate guest
Gerard Ashworth and local comics broadcaster John
Retallick.
Week three (Sat April 18): Pat Grant
and Brisbane’s Patrick Alexander discuss
the merits of dirty comics with host David Blumenstein.
Week four (Sat April 25): Bernard
Caleo launches THE SEXY MEN OF AUSTRALIAN COMICS
2009-2010 FINANCIAL YEAR CALENDAR, featuring twelve hot male
Australian comic artists as drawn by female Australian comic
artists.
Click on the COMPLETE LIST, locate “THE HAPPIEST BOY”
and lodge a nice big THUMBS UP vote for it. You could win
a Playstation 3.
More importantly, if the clip gets enough votes, “The
Happiest Boy” will be shown at the Sydney Festival.
And if we actually WIN the audience vote, Justin
“the musician” and David “the animator”
somehow divvy up a MacBook between the two of them, and the
clip will be shown at the Melbourne and London International
Animation Festivals. THIS IS AWESOME AND A GOOD THING.
You can vote for “The Happiest Boy” once a day,
NO MORE. But even just one vote, once, would be much, much
appreciated. Voting ends January so, like, “get a move
on, piglets”, or whatever it is Justin says.
I'm back from MIPCOM,
where we flogged THE PRECINCT on various people and enjoyed
the sights of Cannes. Following this I visited Toronto and
Los Angeles. My heavily edited report is on the
blog, and it details the funnest people and animation
studios we came across. Also, find out how to get free food
at the world's largest audiovisual market.
When I got back, my friends at BigKidz
Entertainment enlisted me to help with animating a nifty
little segment for the upcoming season final of Rove
Live. As an enormous Back to the Future fan, I was
gratified to learn I would have to animate some BTTF-inspired
"future stuff".
Not having watched Rove in a while,
I YouTubed the work of the segment's author, a Mr Ryan Shelton.
Thankfully, it was funny! And the segment we animated is pretty
funny too. You can see it on this Sunday's episode.
Also, Daniel Craig, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Snow Patrol,
if that matters to you.
We're taking this little teaser to MIPCOM, the
international TV market in France, in the hopes we can meet
up with some people who are interested in helping us get a
cartoon cop show up. Aside from that we plan to have fun,
fun, fun out of the sun, sun, sun (I burn easily). More about
all this on THE
BLOG...
MAY 7, 2008
NEW PODCAST, MORE LIVE COMICS FUN
A brand new episode of Comic Book Funny,
the Australian comics podcast made for your and our amusement,
is now online on my
blog.
In this hour-long slice of cartoonist overkill,
we report on how the Comic Book Funny events at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival went, and present chunky excerpts
of Week 2’s discussion, featuring Benno, Glenn Smith
and Ross Tesoriero (sorry about the audio quality). Also,
we finally talk a bit about local comics we like rather
than bagging out crap ones.
Beyond this,
* we chat about our recent visits to Sticky, Gallery
696 and the Melbourne Bar & Bistro (”Melbourne’s
Cumhole”)
* Ben updates us on his drawing board situation
* we try out some product placement
* Ben’s Tootleg Boy music gets some well-deserved media
love
* David honks the horn for “Comics In A Day” at
the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival
* Ben tells of his encounters with FAMOUS PEOPLE!
* and we end on a song!
If the embedded player gives your trouble, reload
the page, or use the direct link and download it to your computorb.
Also, if you drop by the Melbourne
Emerging Writers Festival's zine fair (The Atrium at Fed
Square) on Sunday 11 May, you will find myself and cartoonists
Pat Grant, Sarah Howell and Jo Waite drawing COMICS IN A DAY.
Say hello!
APRIL 6, 2008
COMIC BOOK FUNNY LIVE AGAIN
Comic Book Funny session number three
was good stuff!
"I AM SO HAPPY TO BE PART OF THIS IDEAS EXCHANGE"
Bernard
Caleo (left), Clint
Cure (right) and Neale Blanden (cropped out
of the picture because he's evil) did great chat about comics
and animation. A couple more photos on
the blog.
The first two Comic Book Funny events
have now been and gone. Both were a lot of fun, but the second
was very well attended -- hopefully this'll continue for the
next two!
It's all (c) David Blumenstein,'97- 08. E-mail
if you have a question.
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MAY
25: Hangin' at the 
