Tiger and Bear

A comic I drew has been featured on the Korean English-language site, The One One Four. Click hence to read it!

It's about these two animals, which are quite important in Korean mythology. The idea is currently being explored by a pair of English performance artists, and the comics are a part of that. This article contains more information about the performance art side of it, and this video will give more of a taste.

They are still looking for strips, so if you are interested, go to Daegu Pockets, the website of the magazine, for more details.

Kinokuniya Book Launch: Scarygirl

Kinokuniya Bookstore in Sydney, a great friend of comics, is having a launch party for the new original graphic novel by fellow Australian Nathan Jurevicus, at 6:30pm on October 29, 2009. The book is called Scarygirl, and it's published by the Australian publisher Allen & Unwin, who have already published graphic novels by my compatriots Bruce Mutard and Nicki Greenberg, and will soon publish The Tango Collection. I'd go myself, but unfortunately I'm not in Sydney at the moment!

I think it will be a fun, interesting event. Find more details about the launch and the book here.

Yuck! #2

Milk Shadow Books has launched the second in their Yuck! series. It's a small anthology of stories that are horrifying, gross, disgusting and/or inappropriate. It's edited by Mr. Slime, also known as James Andre. It can be purchased from various locations in Melbourne, or from the Milk Shadow website.

If you have any comics which are inappropriate, gross, horrifying, or just comics which made you think, 'Hmm, I don't know if I want people to actually see this," then please get in touch with Mr. Slime and see what he thinks of it. The deadline for submissions for Issue #3 of Yuck! is December 14th.

Atheist Love Story

My webcomic serial Atheist Love Story now also appears at Most Modernist. Go and have a look, and while you're there, check out some of the other interesting stuff at the mostmodernist website.

Part 6 of Atheist Love Story will appear at The 3rd Blade and mostmodernist.com in the coming weeks.

The Tango Collection

Allen & Unwin will release The Tango Collection in December this year. This book is a collection of strips from Tango, the Australian romance anthology which I've mentioned in a few previous posts. There are a few copies of the book out there. Here is an image of the cover, thanks to hackpacker.blogspot.com.

Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark

Now available in your comic store is Strange Eggs 3: Strange Eggs Jumps the Shark. This is a 48 page comic book anthology brought out by SLG Publishing. It contains comics by a variety of creators. (Click on the image to see the list of creators.) Now, if I were standing next to you in an elevator, and I had three floors to explain what this book was about, I'd say "Just read it! It's fun!" I'd add, in the remaining two and a half floors, "The Strange Eggs TV show, about two good little children who get delivered eggs which hatch into wonderful, fantastic things, has grown stale. So a bunch of slick TV executives put their heads together to come up with fresh approaches to the Strange Eggs concept, and pitch them. Anyway, here's your floor. You here for a job interview? Really, that sounds interesting. Oh, you ah, you have a little schmutz on your tie there... Nah, you can't really notice it. Then again the interview room is probably going to be a little lighter than this elevator... Hey, if you notice the interview going badly, because of the schmutz or whatever, would you mind mentioning Strange Eggs 3? You know what, just mention it anyway. You will? Cool, rad, thanks brother. What am I doing here? Oh, I just like riding elevators in big corporate skyscrapers. It's fun! Okay, you're going. Bye. Bye-bye! Bye! Good luck!"

Ordering links and other information:

Jen Contino interviews Strange Eggs editor Chris Reilly
Guttergeek interviews Chris Reilly
Comics Daily's review of Strange Eggs 3
Buy from SLG comics
Buy from Amazon.com

Announcement: New graphic novel

The second quarter of 2010 will see the publication of The Sixsmiths by SLG Publishing. SLG are the publishers of my two previous graphic novellas, Egg Story and Eating Steve. The Sixsmiths is drawn by me and scripted by Jason Franks, a Melbourne comic creator with whom I've made many comics over the years. The comic will be about 100pp, of which I have drawn some forty.