I’ll start putting up pages of this comic VERY soon for you to have a look-see. I’ll remind you more about #swallowscomic preorder drive during April through the Pozible website. Publication in AUGUST 2015.
APRIL preorder campaign
5 MarPlain Air Radio interview
21 FebHere is an interview from 2013, that has recently been posted, of Josh being interviewed on Edge Radio 99.3fm in Hobart – by Bridget Hickey and Caitlin Richardson.
Graphic Contents – Digital Writers Festival thingo
19 FebChatted on this with David Blumenstein, Ashley Ronning, Cameron Baker and Leigh Rigozzi at the Digital Writers Festival –
Digital Writers Festival
18 FebThursday the 19th of Feb, 8pm on YOUR COMPUTER – jump onto this website and watch Josh talk with David Blumenstein, Ashley Ronning,Leigh Rigozzi and Cameron Baker – all in DIFFERENT places. LIVE CHAT!
for
Karen – an open submission exhibition
3 Feb
The ongoing adventures of Karen the mildly cranky eastern quoll from Oatlands
– open exhibition – June 5
at Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival
ANYONE can enter artwork (including kids!)
Artwork due May 21
* as in YOU can put in one drawing / photo / painting / whatever / single-image / comic etc which sticks to the title … It can also deviate from the title … If you’re feeling mischievous.
All artwork to be PG rated, we’d like to see if we can send this exhibition to the State Library later on if it’s successful.
Exhibition opening is 5th June, Friday 7pm at The Homestead in North Hobart: exhibition runs all of June. As part of Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival. Keep your ears open for announcements in Mid May!
All images need to be
– 210 x 210mm
– On white-ish paper (you can colour it if you like … But just so you know – the exhibiting wall is orange … So if you wanna leave lots of blank space then choose your colour accordingly)
– NO need for FRAMES, but keep in mind we might use Blu-Tak for this exhibition. If you rather it were pinned, let us know when you deliver it.
Artwork delivery
– at the Drink & Draw session May 21st from 5:30 at The Homestead on Elizabeth Street (come and have a beer and a draw with us when you drop off your image). Late entries are welcome too … But not TOO late please.
Keep in mind – drink and draw is monthly (3rd Thursday of every month) and it’s fun and low-key… It involves drinking and drawing … And you should come to it.
Neil Gaiman
28 JanAt MONA FOMA in January I found Neil Gaiman with a little help from festival curator Brian Ritchie – it gave me the opportunity to hand Mr Gaiman a copy of my book The Long Weekend in Alice Springs. Now Hobart is a small town, and all my friends were at that amazing festival (you should come – MONA FOMA is a freak of a good time): and I had a bit of intel that Neil Gaiman had been sighted coming out the jumping castle, and down at the cafe reading it … so it was nice to hear he’d had a look.
A week or two later – he tweets this ->
Sleuth: OMG
26 DecSleuth: OMG from Joshua Santospirito on Vimeo.
Art, direction, music and written by Joshua Santospirito in 2014.
As a part of Joshua Santospirito’s ongoing multiformat “Sleuth” series, OMG was published in June 2014 in comic form in Island Magazine #137. It details further Santospirito’s obsession with identifying and naming the pre-human archetypes of the Australian continent, in particular the one that haunts our darkest dreams and ensures we remain terrified of the vast interior.
But this archetype is no Jungian whimsy … this one means to do us all harm. From the darkest recesses of our psyche, OMG plans to use some form of crazy reverse colonisation to take over the planet and burn us all to a crisp.
The Sleuth series is an ongoing series of investigations into the modern Australian spirituality and psyche. Look out for further exhibitions and writings at Josh’s website.
Also, much thanks to Island Magazine.
Joshua Santospirito Art 