By Pepi RonaldsPepi Ronalds takes us on a tour of Melbourne’s locally-made comic book scene – up alleyways, behind hidden doors and down in the tunnels below Flinders Street Station.I am yet to ride …
Neil Gaiman
Event · Thu, 24 Jan 2013
Neil Gaiman is a writer with a rock star following. He has a reputation for reinventing genres – and for following his imagination wherever it leads.He’s written everything from journalism to…
Rock star writer Neil Gaiman has a reputation for reinventing genres – and for following his imagination wherever it leads. He’s written everything from journalism to episodes of Doctor Who, fantasy …
Michael Leunig is best loved as our wizard of whimsy, creator of quirky characters like Mr Curly, the duck and Vasco Pyjama. Asked how those creations were born, he says, ‘I felt maybe society…
When Jeff Kinney created Diary of a Wimpy Kid, he thought he was telling stories for adults who like cartoons. Instead, the eccentric everyday comic adventures of middle-class middle child Greg…
Surreal, edgy and darkly comic, Etgar Keret has established his reputation as a major international talent. In Israel, he’s seen as a worthy successor to the Amos Oz generation with work that is as b…
We wouldn’t normally write about a press release.Not even the ones that make great fodder for drinking games (you know: drink when you read ‘acclaimed’, ‘award-winning’, ‘rare talent’, ‘lyrical’…
Neil Gaiman
Video · Fri, 16 Dec 2011
From Coraline to The Sandman and American Gods to Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman has made his mark by bringing fantasy and sci-fi from the fringe and into the spotlight. Gaiman joins Clem Bastow onstage to …
As Italian pensioners prepare to cop the brunt of bank foolhardiness, one minister has found it all too much. Italy’s welfare minister, Elsa Fornero, was delivering news of cuts to pensions at a…
Is nothing sacred? It’s a subject that continues to torture the stylish brows of French literary types following the bombing of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week. Last week’s edition &ndash…
The reviews are starting to come in on the film adaptation, by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, the classic detective-adventure hero whose…
Crumbs!
Dailies · Wed, 10 Aug 2011
The Enthusiast reports that legendary US comic artist Robert Crumb has cancelled a scheduled appearance in Sydney later this month following a Daily Telegraph report he believes misrepresented him…
This week has been a veritable hotbed of controversy. Here’s our wrap.Amina Arraf, a lesbian Syrian blogger, was abducted by Syrian authorities during the week, prompting howls of protest around the …
Illustration of the golem by Philippe Semeria via WikiCommons
“I think it’s a part of a bigger trend of Americans almost apologizing for being Americans,” said Mike…
Mike Shuttleworth has just visited Angoulême, France, for the 38th Festival international de la bande dessinée, the world’s biggest international comics festival. In a cross-post from his blog, he…
Was your childhood filled with murder, robbery, rape, cannibalism, carnage, necrophilia, sex, sadism, masochism “… and virtually every other form of crime, degeneracy, bestiality, and horror”? If…
On the curriculum: graphic novelist Shaun Tan
The University of Melbourne has announced that in 2011 it will offer an undergraduate subject on comics called Graphic…
With F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby under her belt, graphic novellist Nicki Greenberg turned her hand to Shakespeare. In conversation with celebrated illustrator Shaun Tan, Nicki discusses…
Let us assail your ears, with an afternoon conversation between two of Australia’s leading graphic novelists and illustrators. In her 2007 adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Nicki Greenberg burst onto t…
Author & illustrator Nicki Greenberg
Unlike most stage productions, this book was a one-person affair. I felt like I’d taken on the task of directing the play – and not…
Click to watch video (Image by Dan Hallett)
Jonathan Walker challenges what a writer is with his illuminated novel, Five Wounds, which mixes images and…
With the creation of his illuminated novel Five Wounds, Jonathan Walker is blurring the lines between text and images. In this video he discusses how writing is becoming more collaborative and why…
Author & illustrator Sally Rippin
Have you ever noticed how in many of the best books for children the author removes the parents from the picture as soon as possible…
Just one of the titles held at the Digital Comics Museum
Golden Age comics that have fallen out of copyright are being collected online at the Digital Comics Museum…
Adapting F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby let Nicki Greenberg re-imagine the original with monsters and sea creatures.
