Showing posts with label Toby Morris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toby Morris. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

Mini Paper Trail


Tonight: Silent Army Storeroom 6pm -8pm Once - A New Comic Book by Tim Danko.

Silent Army:


Storeroom open today 12 - late with hardcover book launch of 'once' by Tim Danko tonight and the last pages of the giant wooden comic book being completed live and for your enjoyment.
 
Katie Parrish's We can go anywhere but we'll always be we where we are.
 

Jonathan Goodman writes about Gavin Aung Than's Zen Pencils.

 
Erica Goldson: Graduation Speech on Zen Pencils.

Race Relations Commissioner receives complaint for cartoon depiction of the goddess Kali in the New Zealand Herald. (Hat Tip - Alan Liefting)

Jason Paulos Heavy Metal Submission.



Milk Shadow Books publisher James Andre is Scenestr of the day!


Lucy Frew profiles Toby Morris.



Simon Hanselmann excerpt from The Lifted Brow.


Keith Chatto must win the award for drawing the most Australian comics covers ever.




James James and Tim Molloy share WIP Deerstalker.


Clip from a couple years back of Michel Mulipola on Pacific Beat St.



Pepi Ronald's interviews Sam Wallman.


Q and A with Ben Hutchings on Noncanonical.





Penny Lewis writes about pioneer New Zealand cartoonist Trevor Lloyd's home, Whare Tane.


Eddie Monotone's Sloths and Trolleys.


Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris. 

Friday, May 10, 2013

Pikitia Press News

 
I'm proud to announce the Pikitia Press Blog has been invited by the National Library of New Zealand to be added to the National Digital Heritage Archive which collects copies of New Zealand websites, plus sites relating to New Zealand, for the preservation of their historical and research value.
 

This Sunday 12 May Pikitia Press will be attending the Illustration and Comic Art Festival Chromacon from 9am – 5pm at the Air NZ Foyer, Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Sunday will see the offical launch of some new releases from the publishing arm of Pikitia Press:

Toby Morris' Dreamboat Dreamboat.



Toby Morris is an illustrator, designer, art director and comic artist recently returned to New Zealand after 9 years of living and working in Melbourne and Amsterdam. He made his start by drawing and self publishing comics from the age of 13 and currently works as an advertising art director by day and an illustrator at night.Toby's style has roots in the clear line school of comics, but in more recent years has evolved into a looser and simpler but still very graphic look.

Sarah Laing's Let Me Be Frank #1 and #2


Sarah Laing is a novelist and graphic designer who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She has had two books published, and a third, The Fall of Light, is due out in July. She began drawing comics seriously in 2003, when she read Persepolis and was reminded how much she loved the medium. She kept comics diaries of her life as a new mother. These graduated to the internet in 2010, when she was the Frank Sargeson writer in residence in Albert Park. Her blog, Let me be Frank, quickly gained a following and she began contributing to magazines such as Metro, Little Treasures and Booknotes. Sarah is now working on a graphic novel about Katherine Mansfield.

James Davidson's Moa Volume One.(Collecting the first three issues of Moa and extras.)


James Davidson, creator of Moa, a comic series set in a distant New Zealand where history and myth collide. An Art teacher by day, James has a passion for sequential art and plans to convert the children of New Zealand to the comic form. With his plucky heroes Possum von Tempsky and Kiwi Pukupuku, James hopes young people will be brought into the world of comics he so enjoyed as a child.


Another mini comic joint from the gutter by M.Emery.

 
These titles will all be available from the Pikitia Press Store next week.

We'll also have a limited selection of Steve Ditko's contemporary work from Robin Snyder and titles from Milk Shadow Books including Tim Molloy's It Shines It Shakes And Laughs and Mr Unpronounceable Adventures.

 

 


Click to enlarge the Chromacon floorplan below. Pikitia Press will be located at H2 and H3. James Davidson and Sarah Laing will be attending the Press tables most of the day, catch them and Toby Morris at Adrian Kinnaird's Best Of New Zealand Comics panel on Level 4 at 9:30am.

 

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Paper Trail



I have a dickload of things to do this week so will try posting daily mini Paper Trails to offload my rapidly overflowing link pile.

Excerpt of  HTMLflowers’ comics from  Å¡! #13 ‘Life Is Live’.



Dylan Horrocks talks Australian Comics with Bryan Crump on Radio New Zealand's Nights.




Jason Chatfield recaps and follows up on his horrific taxi experience from 2011.


New Squishfacers.
 


Roger Langridge interviewed on Where Monsters Dwell.



Tane Williams on tumblr.


Simon Hanselmann's Truth Zone is back at Comics Workbook and taking no prisoners. New installments #70, #71, #72, #73.

 
I made a new mini comic (Not for Young Folk). You can buy it from some place at some point.


Karl Wills has teased a Connie Radar short film currently in production. Shot from a script by Wills and Timothy Kidd.



Hey, here's a Connie Radar animation test from a little while back.



 Oh Gosh, it's the Connie Radar Dailies blog from a couple years back.


Have you ever thought about buying a Connie Radar t-shirt?

  
Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Paper Trail


Darian Zam writes about the work of cartoonist and commercial artist, Joseph Bruno Moran.

Image from Darien Zam's Long White Kid. Maori Wonderland picture album, published by Frank Duncan & Co Ltd, c. 1920. Possibly the cover, as well as the company’s logo, were designed by Moran. Courtesy of Early Canterbury Photographers blog, canterburyphotography.blogspot.com

Ghost Ghost Tumblr.

 
Joe Wylie's political fumetti at Porcupine Farm.


Bookmarks catchup: Karl DuFresne writes about New Zealand cartooning historian Ian F. Grant.

 Cartoon by NZ cartoonist Trace Hodgson

Five questions with New Zealand cartoonist Steve Bolton.

 

Toby Morris shares recent gig posters he's illustrated.


Janet McAllister writes about New Zealand Comics exhibition Nga Pakiwaituhi.


 Frank and Becky of Tiny Kitten Teeth feature on The Mutant Season at Nerdist.



Animated abstract cartoons by DRAW.



Chris Arrant interviews Moth City creator Tim Gibson.


Sarah Laing shares illustrations from her forthcoming novel The Fall of Light.




John Retallick has brought his Comic Spot podcast out of retirement with an interview with future co-host Gary Chaloner. John with Jo Waite and Bernard Caleo interviewed a wide range of cartoonists in the Comic Spot's first iteration. Listen to Comic Spot archives here.


The Public Relations Institute of New Zealand present a talk from three New Zealand cartoonists this Thursday 21st March at Dida's Wine Lounge in the Auckland CBD. Rod Emmerson, Chris Slane and Guy Body will discuss cartoons and news media with MC Brendan Boughen. More details here.



Bookmarks catchup: Dylan Horrocks talked to Arts on Sunday about New Zealand comics and recounted his experiences at the 2012 Frankfurt Bookfair and Treviso in Italy.


Tim McEwen reviews Bobby N's Digested #2


Nat Karmichael reviews Kokoda: That Bloody Track. Copies are currently available on selected Australian news stands and from Zbeach True Comics.


Cartoonist, 2013 Ruebens Host, and stand-up comedian Jason Chatfield promotes his upcoming show at the 2013 Melbourne Comedy Festival with some speed cartooning. Tickets online at http://goo.gl/Jk53c.







From the Pikitia Press WIP folder:


 Illustration by Allan Xia

Cartooning and comics in New Zealand capping magazines.