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Daniel Best & "Newton Comics" Need Your Support. ('Nuff Said!) 4 Jun 2013 | 12:25 pm
Many Australian comic-book fans and collectors of a certain vintage (ahem!) still have fond memories of Newton Comics, the Melbourne publishing company owned by the charismatic (and controversial) jou...
Heroes and Villains Revisited @ State Library of Victoria 17 May 2013 | 01:03 pm
The Dynamic Dark Nebula @ Heroes and Villains exhibition, ca.2006 Regular readers of this blog may recall that, back in 2006-07, I was appointed Guest Curator at the State Library of Vict...
Terry Trowell - "Lost" Paintings Uncovered in WA 19 Apr 2013 | 12:46 pm
Swan River, 1827 - Terrence J. Trowell, 1955 Sometimes publishing a post on this blog can yield delightful, yet unexpected results, especially when it comes to documenting the history of Austr...
A Tribute to Jim Shepherd (1933-2013) – Publisher of The Phantom 18 Apr 2013 | 07:13 am
Richard Fry, convenor of the Lee Falk Memorial Bengali Explorer's Club (Australia), recently announced that Jim Shepherd, the Australian publisher of The Phantom comic magazine, died shortly after col...
Publishing Makes Strange Bedfellows 3 Apr 2013 | 11:51 am
Launched in 1946, Adam was the latest addition to Sydney publisher K.G. Murray's range of "men's magazines", an appeared ten years after the debut of the company's flagship title, Man. Originally bill...
Uncovering Pre-Code Horror Comics in Australia: Venus 27 Feb 2013 | 11:12 am
In my article, 'A Design for Depravity: Horror Comics and the Challenge of Censorship in Australia, 1950-1986' (published in Script & Print, vol.36, no.3, 2011), I'd stated that very few American horr...
Big Arse Comic Launch 3 - 2nd March, 2013 26 Feb 2013 | 11:28 am
My peerless prose is (almost) surplus to requirements on this occasion. If you wish to see a fistful of new Australian comics launched with style, panache and aplomb in the "Chicago of the South" (as ...
OzComics Draw-off #79: Aussie Comics 30 Jan 2013 | 11:07 am
Never mind chucking some lamb chops on the barbie, or sinkin' a few tubes with yer' mates - if you were a fair-dinkum, ridgey-didge, true-blue Australian cartoonist, you would have spent the Australia...
Meet Matt Emery...if you dare! 16 Jan 2013 | 10:56 am
I've known expat New Zealand cartoonist Matt Emery since July 2010, when we first met after I delivered a presentation on horror comics censorship in Australia at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, and ...
Captain Atom - The First Million! 19 Dec 2012 | 12:03 pm
Following on from my previous post about the Captain Atom power ring, I thought I'd post this scan of an advertisement from the Australian newspaper & magazine publishing industry's trade journal, New...
