Paper Trail

Tomorrow: Zine and comic event Copier Jam. FB Event page.

Copier Jam is an exhibition showcasing current zine and independent comic creators, collectives and distributors from across Australia. Join us at Childers Arts Space (CHARTS) during the Childers Festival for the Copier Jam! opening event, "The Staples Sessions: Zine and Indie Comics" with curator Jeremy Staples

Laura Renfrew reviews Jen Breach and Doug Holgate's Maralinga.

Georgia Kartas interviews Cazz, Naja and Soph, founders of the All Star Women's Comic Book Club.

Caravan of comics are giving you free comics weekly, just take them.

Darren Close revisits making comics in Australia during the early 2000's.

Catching Up: Cartoonists at the Auckland Writers Festival in review by Eddie Monotone.

Clockwise: Rae Joyce, Damon Keen, Ant Sang, Sam Orchard.

Sharon Lam interviews Wellington artist Claire Harris, one of the founders of the New Zealand Comics Creators Collective, now a multi-disciplinary artist.

Catching Up: James Zee investigates works created in Australia during a brief period of residence by Italian artist Guido Scala.

New Melbourne comics publisher Twelve Panels Press launch their first title at The Salty River by Jan Bauer at Readings in Carlton, Melbourne, 27th August. FB Event

Coming up this week if I can get my act together: A lengthy investigation into the career of one of New Zealand's unsung pioneering cartoonists Phyllis Fitzgerald by Darian Zam.

This column is sneakily bought to you by the Barry Linton Kickstarter. Finely crafted comics and prints by Barry delivered through the mail system into your sweet sweet hands.

Barry reviews a copy of 20th Century BC.

Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Thrust Justice Preview (Warning Powerful Manly Images)

Here at Pikitia Press we like to publish manly comics about manly men, by manly men, for manly men. THRUST JUSTICE is one of those comics. New Zealand's hardest working cartoonist Brent Willis (tied with Barry Linton & Richard Fairgray) has produced a powerful work of literature that we are confident will win awards and get good reviews and all the other special things one needs to enrich one's soul. Powerful with a capital THRUST.

Lucky Aki in the New Stone Age - Barry Linton

Pikitia Press are proud to present Barry Linton’s Lucky Aki in The New Stone Age.

 Lucky Aki in the New Stone Age is the first volume in a series chronicling teenage explorer Lucky Aki’s adventures through the islands and cultures of a re-imagined past.

From Barry Linton’s afterword:
"What if there was a time, now out of mind, when there were many more islands of all sizes, and few or no continents, with busy island groups, trading, fishing, herding, farming and lots of seasonal voyaging, eh?"

"A youth might dream of a life sailing the myriad island trade ways, exploring the unknown fertile shores, and a youth might get lucky, then as now."

To The I-Land - The Comics of Barry Linton by Dylan Horrocks

Barry Linton bio by Dylan Horrocks
Barry Linton has been drawing comics since the early 1970s and was a key figure in the influential New Zealand comics anthology Strips. His comics and drawings have been published in books, magazines and literary journals and on posters and album covers.

Barry’s early comics detail the lives and loves of a group of characters living in a familiar South Pacific city, with plenty of music, sex, politics and drugs. Over the years his characters wrestled with broken relationships, parenthood, criminal gangs and crooked lawyers. In one story the cartoonist Spud is kidnapped and chained to a drawing board, forced to churn out pornographic comics by his gun-toting captors. In recent years Barry has worked on a series of graphic novels set in a fictionalised neolithic Oceania, Lucky Aki, and comics exploring ancient history, UFOs and the future of humanity.

AVAILABLE FROM THE PIKITIA PRESS STORE NOW.