Mandrake The Magician - Feature Productions

Notes on New Zealand comics publisher Feature Productions and covers of first twenty issues of Mandrake the Magician here, #20-#40 here, #41- #60 here, Covers from FP editions #61 - #80 of Lee Falk's long enduring character, Mandrake the Magician, featured below.
 

Source:http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

English Comics Diversion: Jingles #610

Stanley & Reginald Pitt: Only Skin Deep

Panel detail from Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery #33, one of the few examples of American comics work by Stanley and Reginald Pitt.

 

 

 

  

Scans from: http://tertuliadestudio.blogspot.com

Blood and Thunder: Kernow Craig Interview

Photo by Rafaela Pandolfini

Rafaela Pandolfini interviews Kernow Craig of Sydney design and printing outfit Blood and Thunder.

Auckland Zinefest - Presence Zine

Auckland Zinefest
27 July 2013, 12 noon – 5pm
 St Kevins Arcade, 179 Karangahape Rd, Auckland.

Presence Zine are interviewing a selection of table holders at next weekends Auckland Zinefest including many of the comic folk in attendance.

Auckland Zinefest Stallholders Part 1 Q&A

Auckland Zinefest Stallholders Part 2 Q&A

Auckland Zinefest Stallholders Part 3 Q&A

Pic yoinked from flickr All rights reserved by akzinefest

Fantagraphics to publish ‘Megahex’ by Simon Hanselmann

Chris Mautner at Robot 6 has an interview and details of Simon Hanselmann's Megahex forthcoming from Fantagraphics.

Sunday Gem: Over My Dead Body - Tim Molloy & Ben Stenbeck

Unpublished zombie comic by Tim Molloy and Ben Stenbeck.

Tim Molloy:

So way back in 2001, by buddy Ben Stenbeck ( BPRD, Baltimore) and I watched too many Zombie movies and westerns and as a result we made a comic together, (me writing, him drawing) called Over My Dead Body. It's a zombie story, a last man alive story, and kind of a story about why I don't believe in God, or would even want to... Anyway, it's been gathering dust for more than a decade and Ben has finally decided to release it for our viewing pleasure. It's quite old and a bit mouldy and dusty, but I guess when all is said and done, I am proud of it, and still blown away that I got to direct Ben Stenbecks mighty pen hand for 80 or so pages! Enjoy!

Mini Paper Trail

Siobhan Downes writes about Jem Yoshioka’s Sunshine.

 
I love Moonbeard.

 

Tom Scott lauded in French newspaper Le Mond.

Happening this afternoon at All Star Comics Melbourne:
 
Milk Shadow Books, Squishface Studio, NonCanonical Comic Podcast and All Star Comics present the YOU STINK AND I DON’T - VOLUME 1 AND 2 LAUNCH.

For 20 years Ben ‘Hutcho’ Hutchings has been creating one of Australia's best funnybook comic series, You Stink and i Don't. From the Woden Bus Interchange to the beautiful streets of Brunswick, and over 10 issues (plus lots of other mini comics collected here!), Hutcho has been smashing the piss out of all conventions such as growing up, other comics, modern medicine, pop music, sport, organised religion, and other unimportant things.

From 4 – 5pm there will also be a Q & A with Hutcho by the crème of comics podcasting, the fellas from NonCanonical!

Cakeburger comments on the recent 'formation' of a Pakeha Party in New Zealand.

Sarah Laing: I <3 bookshops

Trailer for Larry Boxshall's new doco Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun.




Upcoming Tim Molloy Exhibition Strange Pageant.

New Paintings, Comics and Sculpture by Tim Molloy. Opens 6pm Tuesday August the 20th
 
DRIFT away and off into Hypnagogic landscapes drenched in sunset psychedelic hues, as you listen to the far-off piping of strange flutes. JOIN the procession marching through your frontal lobe, monstrous and altogether (un)familiar... there are AWFUL mysteries to celebrate. Life and death and horror and joy merge into one.BEAR witness to the STRANGE PAGEANT.


First 100 Attendees shall receive an exclusive FREE 36 page mini comicbook, HOT off the searing grill of Molloy's subconscious!!!

Gary Chaloner updates on his various projects.

I lost a few piles of links which was probably a blessing but here's one I refound. Bob Brockie receives Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in Queens Birthday honours.

  
Jacqui Taffel writes about Smaller comics Minicomics of the Month. Read my Beard Spotlight with Smaller Comics CEO Andrew Fulton here. Sign up for a MOTM subscription here.

Occasional cartoonist Bobby N's photo essay from Melbourne Comic Con 2013.

New Zealand Flash Gordon comics from Feature Productions circa late 40's early 50's. Covers drawn by unknown artist, interior art by Alex Raymond.

Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.