Showing posts with label sam wallman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sam wallman. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Refugees in Australia - Policy and Detention Centres


There's been a lot of discussion of refugees and detention centres in Australia in the last week initially sparked by Melbourne cartoonist Sam Wallman's comic At Work Inside Our Detention Centres: A Guard's Story.

Sam's comic brought awareness of an Australian Government commisioned comic launched last November as a disincentive for refugees to attempt entry to Australia via people smugglers. Mostly wordless this comic contains warnings in dominant Afghan languages Dari and Pashto and has been distributed overseas as part of an effort to discourage asylum seekers from coming to Australia through people smugglers.

news.com.au story on the federal Government comic.

  Excerpt from Statt Consultancy produced comic.

This Goverment commissioned comic was largely vilified for many reasons from it's message through to it's execution and revealed by the Guardian writers, Oliver Laughland and Asher Wolf to have been part of a two million dollar contact held by a Hong Kong based Global agency STATT Consultancy with Australian Customs and Border Protection to provide "education and training services".

Guardian Article on Consultancy behind graphic campaign.
Elizabeth Mcfarlane article on Government graphic campaign with commentary from cartoonists. 


Refugees immigration policy and asylum seekers in Australia have been a hot topic for a quite a while. A year ago I walked into a 'Boat People' conversation between an irate woman, another man, and the owner of the bookshop we were in. I was 'on my day job' at the time and she asked me how I'd feel if Polish people moved here and took my job from me. I mentioned that was a ridiculous scenario and that I was an immigrant myself from New Zealand. I then told her the bookshop owner had migrated from New Zealand and it turned out the other man was from Britain. Australia's made up of people from other places, some folk come here from peaceful countries, some from war zones, can't we show a little compassion for the people that need it? Sadly her response to my suggestion that she had 'come from elsewhere' and the original people of Australia were here long before 'her people' was, "That was a long time ago, they should get over it."


http://www.pozible.com/project/178615


Many creatives in Australia are protesting the Governments handling of Asylum seekers with a one reaction this week being the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to produce a comic to encourage people seeking asylum in Australia. As of this writing the campaign has achieved almost 30% of it's target in two days.

From the You Are Welcome In Australia Pozible campaign,

We would like to publish a comic in direct opposition to what the government has published. We have no plans to directly encourage people to seek asylum within Australia; instead we are aiming to create a comic explaining that seeking asylum in any country that has signed the UN Refugee Convention (as Australia has) is not illegal, that there are many Australians who disagree with the government's treatment of asylum seekers and who are fighting for their fair treatment; and that there are a large amount of resources available for asylum seekers who are already settled in Australia, such as the ASRC and RISE.

 
This Sunday Sam Wallman is having a silent auction of the artwork from his Detention Centre comic at H.O.P, a new community centre, at 659 Plenty Rd, Reservoir. They'll be Sun, DJs and juicing as well.

From the facebook event page,

Sam Wallman and the global mail last week launched a piece of comics journalism about the experience of refugees living in detention in australia, from the perspective of an ex-employee of serco. a large selection of these drawings are being shown on the walls of H.O.P. on sunday, and people are invited to take part in a silent auction throughout the day. money raised will go directly to R.I.S.E. (Refugee Survivors and Ex-Detainees), an organisation run and governed entirely by ex-detainees, for the benefit of those recently released from detention. 10% of the artwork's sales will go to H.O.P. to help pay the rent of the space.

If you're unable to make it to H.O.P. on Sunday, email bids are welcome - email sam@penerasespaper.com with a price and a description of the drawing you're interested in.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sunday Gem: Advice Comics

 

 




 


Need advice? Consult some of Melbourne's top advice columnists via the wonderful medium of comics. 
 
http://www.advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/sally

Sally is due to start high school next year, her mum’s boyfriend often refers to her as an ‘old soul’ as she feels deeply and completely for all things. If asked, she identifies as a ‘professional empathe’ which her grandma feels is very mature. Her two all time favourite things are dogs and the colour blue.


Dr. Entrails, Ph.D. specializes in pediatrics, neurosurgery and trepanation. He is also the host of the children’s saturday morning television program, Dr. Entrails and Friends.


http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/mulbert
Mulbert was abandoned mere seconds after his birth. His parents had been expecting a girl, not a moose, and this would not be the last time he would disappoint a group of strangers. To quote his doctor, Mulbert’s life has been “medically regrettable”. He spent his first few years of orphanhood squatting sleeplessly inside a Time Crisis II arcade machine, his tiny hooves perpetually up in bewildered surrender. For a while he tried masquerading as a hypertrichotic Vietnam veteran named ‘Gubers’, but his pension never came through. His roommate recently got him a job at Cosmo’s Deli, which was cool of him, but still Mulbert wakes up most days acheing, sore from modest dreams, wondering how to get from point A to point B if you never learned to spell.

http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/mr.-ray
Mr. Ray is one of the most influential and important names in contemporary Australian poetry. His long-awaited new book Aghh, I Don’t Know If I Can Do This Again Vol. 2 is out this Christmas through Mouthwhisp & Whimperman. Ray Lives in Melbourne, Australia with his dog. 

http://advicecomics.tumblr.com/tagged/boyfriend
Because of what he is, Boyfriend brings a perspective external to general human experience. But don’t think he can’t empathize with you or he doesn’t care. The events of your life mean more to him than anything.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Everyday Life Can Be Pretty Interesting Stuff - 14th June 2013


Pictures from art show at Signal following a five week course for young cartoonists in Melbourne. Michael Fikaris and Kieran Mangan comic below excerpted from a 100 page anthology produced over the five weeks. Guest tutors included: Mandy Ord, Michael Fikaris, Sam Wallman, Simon Hanselmann, Kieran Mangan, and Stewart Cole. Everyday Life Can Be Pretty Interesting Stuff and many other fine comics are available from the Silent Army Storeroom.





Yashar Hosseini



M P Fikaris


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.