Tonight: David Blumenstein In Conversation With Nat Pestana

David Blumenstein in conversation with Nat Pestana discussing his new comic #takedown: My evening on a pier with pick-up artists and protesters, 6:30 tonight at Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton, VIC, Melbourne.

What are pick-up artists really like? Cartoonist David Blumenstein wanted to know, but in signing up for a free seminar with international pick-up artist (PUA) instructor Julien Blanc, David found himself witness to one of the most successful anti-PUA campaigns launched by the feminist community.

Free, but please book here: http://www.trybooking.com/HXMO
 

Air Hawk and The Flying Doctors - Hart Amos Sundays

Last two episodes of Air Hawk and The Flying Doctors Sunday strip "The Missile" illustrated by Hart Amos in collaboration with Air Hawk creator John Dixon, and published in October 1974. Amos worked with writer/artist Dixon on Air Hawk from 1970-1977. Two collections of Air Hawk strips are available from Comicoz with a third volume due this year.

Air Hawk at Comicoz

Cremoata Cards - Space Adventure Album 1967 Series - Part One

It's Queens Birthday weekend and I have ten thousand things to do but in an effort to keep sharing something daily, here are a couple galleries of space adventure cards from a New Zealand Creamoata album produced in 1967. Cereal albums were still common when I was a kid in the late seventies, cereal boxes and bags would contain a few cards that you could collect and place in a themed album. I don't know anything about the artwork on these cards but presume it may be one of the New Zealand commercial illustrators Darian Zam has covered at Long White Kid.

Darian has written an extensive article of the origins of the company that produced Cremoata products in New Zealand: The Bugle Boy of Company F: Creamoata and Sergeant Dan.

Behold the glorious colours of space travel and stream lined rocket technology, pre-moon landing, as depicted by a New Zealand artist in 1967!

Canterbury University Capping Mag Covers - 1960s

University Capping magazines alongside University magazines themselves were a point where many New Zealand cartoonists saw their first work published. Student cartoonists featured in Capping magazines during the 1960's and 1970's published radical material far outside the guidelines of mainstream publishing. Some of this work was insightful political and social commentary, some was misogynist, xenophobic and politically incorrect by modern society's standards. The gallery below displays covers from the University of Canterbury Capping magazines of the 1960's.

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