What? A Webcomic?

- edited for spurious reasons -

Till next month then....

If you're quick...

You can catch me, Heidi and Ed trying to interview Josh Lawson on the TGYH download page. This was a fun sketch and Josh is a great improviser (soon to be seen in a new watery Aussie drama I believe).

Get a Life

A couple of weeks ago I bought a copy of Get a Life at the Brunswick St Bookstore and quickly devoured it's contents. I'll admit I'm a huge fan of the clear line school of storytelling that comes out of France and Belgium. It all started as a boy with a chap called Tintin of course, then many years later when I landed in Paris I picked up a copy of Soirs de Paris by Francois Avril and Philippe Petit Roulet I was hooked from that moment on. It has been hard to find English translations of Dupuy & Berberian's work (as well as Chaland, Clerc, Trondheim etc) but thanks to the talented folk at Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics etc we are starting to see more and more fantastic bande dessinee come across our shores.

I emailed Dupy & Berbian many years ago with a really, really sloppy fan letter in the vain hope that they would forgive my terrible, mangled French (and eventual collapse back into English) they did - and not only that - Charles Berberian emailed back (even now that makes me excited in a fan boy way) he then went and had a look at my website (the one I had ages ago - before the one I now have which is in dire need of an overhaul and some new content). I was in heaven after that. I bought Barcelona Carnets when I was in Leuven alongside a whole bunch of wonderful work from all sorts of artists. One day I will go back to France and stalk everyone until they sign all my books - then I can die happy (in a Paris jail no doubt for stalking poor defenseless artists).

Celebrating International *LSE day

*Low Self Esteem

Actually I was just testing some different brush settings as I was drawing around with Flash and this popped out. I'm done with the self bash now. More hi-jinks in new posts I promise

First Deleted Post!

Even I was appalled by the woe factor in that last entry and so have deleted it (now that I have got it off my chest). Never fear dear readers - more crap will emerge...

Sandy Point & Dress Ups

Russell Gilbert was a great guest on last week's TGYH but so nervous that when he came through the door he hugged the entire cast before the scene had started - a lovely gesture to be sure - but notice how I'm fumbling in the background? After Russell hugged me my lapel mic got caught on his space suit and popped off after he let go. I love tech stuff ups but I had two lines to deliver which is why I appeared a little more voluble/emotional than usual...heh heh. Tonight I get to play dress ups again as the sergeant at the scene of a siege. Angus "Wild Thing" Sampson was hilarious during this shoot. I hope the Working Dog guys leave these scenes uncut for a DVD in the future - so much good material hits the cutting room floor.

Went to Sandy Point with the kids for a holiday (apart from a few days commuting for a location shoot and an audition). A beautiful spot nestled between Walkerville and Wilsons Prom – tea trees, gravely roads bushy scrublands, sandy beach tracks, mini golf, one general store and a take away shop. Unfortunately it also happens to be the windiest spot on the face of this planet. Good god and I thought I was bad.

Oi that’s got to be the first time I finished a blog entry with a fart gag. Hurrah!

Photo Tuesday

Jud just got a new Mac to play with and we fooled around with the in-built camera features...soooo much fun....not like stoopid windows. Bah.

This could be my new web comic "Middle Aged Comic Character"
(note: technically I am only 35 - but I'm taking artistic license)

This has a nice pencil feel that reminds me of a Plympton animation or an early A-Ha video clip

Come on - who hasn't at one time or another wanted to be a one eyed freak?

He’s just a little bitty thing, he’s just a little guy
But women go crazy for the big blue eye
How does he dream, how does he think
When he can’t even speak and he can’t even blink

I said: Hail, hail
The Eyeball Kid
Hail, hail
The Eyeball Kid
Hail, hail
Eyeball Kid

Excerpt from the lyrics of Tom Waits "The Eyeball Kid"

Written by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan-Waits
Published by: Jalma Music (ASCAP), © 1999
Official release: Mule Variations, Anti Inc., 1999
Arrangements and lyrics published in "Tom Waits - Mule Variations" (Amsco Publications, 2000)

My son Rafferty and I at the Impro Melbourne Riknik (like a picnic but named after Rik who thought of it). Does Ham run in the Family? I have a mouth full of hotdog in case you're wondering.

Thanks to Leah for her snap happy ways.