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Melbourne booklaunch pics

2 Jun

Thursday night last week I flew like crazy from Hobart to Melbourne, jumped in a taxi with a funny driver to Readings where I met my parents, my brother, Bernard Caleo, Peter Foster and Sue and wolfed down a pizza at Trotters before running across the street to have a booklaunch – here’s Bernard in his white suit.
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Here’s Bernard holding up a fine book that he is spruiking with all his mighty might
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Here is an engaged and wrapt audience of book-devourers
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And here is me, a touch nervous … but doing a better job than I did in Alice Springs.
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Booklaunch in Melbourne – done!

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21 Apr

Click here to go to a podcast that josh did on The Comic Spot with John Retallick and Gary Chaloner – talking for an hour about the Long Weekend, the process of making the graphic novel, publishing in Tassie and adapting from essay into comics.

Go here 

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Melbourne book LAUNCH – May 30th, 8pm

18 Apr

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Available NOW

11 Mar

The long wait for The Long Weekend is finally OVER!

You can buy it now direct from the San Kessto Publications website.

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Hobart Book launch web

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Tas Writers Fest – Booklaunch

5 Mar

Hobart Book launch web

We love printers

20 Feb

So … now that we have a website for our publishing company San Kessto Publications … our second job as publishers … is to publish a book.
OK – so, here we go – here’s something that we just whipped up

– I’ll send Nadine down to the print-shop to make sure they’re doing a sterling job with our book.

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Hmm … yes … they appear to be doing a good job …
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Yes … this printer looks attentive enough … good carry on.
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All images – Nadine Kessler

San Kessto Publications

20 Feb

Born in the burbs of Hobart Tasmania – San Kessto Publications is the new small publishing house run by Nadine Kessler and Joshua Santospirito. The logo made by Nadine is, of course, the wonderful Hills Hoist in the centre of our backyard, the centrepiece of all families with stories to tell! The name is a fun amalgamation of our two surnames, we initially came up with it as a name for our home made fruit-wine label. It seems to be the name we stick on everything now, we make a lot of things so it seems a natural progression to have it as the moniker for our literary and publishing venture as well.

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The first major publication for San Kessto will be The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (available to buy from the San Kessto website from March 16) which was Josh’s major opus over recent years with the book design by Nadine. Future projects involving both comics and posters as well as graphic design booklets. Josh is in the present moment in the early stages of curating a collection of likely Tassie-based comic-artists to produce a series of small comics called Down There, with the first issue available in the second half of 2013. Some of the projects sound freaking unreal so you should stay tuned!

Click on the logo to have a look at our books/zines/posters at the new website –  www.sankessto.com