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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!

Pics from the artist’s talk

20 May

On Saturday the 11th of May – Craig San Roque joined  Josh Santospirito for a bit of a chat with some interested people about things to do with the comic.

Interestingly enough – about 30 people showed up … which was pretty awesome. Here’s some photos by Nadine Kessler.

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Sleuth Exhibition #2

17 May

Sleuth travelled to Alice Springs with me recently as well … he seems to fly off to all parts of the country, leaving no stone unturned … he really wants to get to the bottom of this malarkey: what the FYKE is garn ON ‘ERE!???

Below shows Ivan Brackic in Tenterfield (briefly). I am currently working on a 20 page Brackic story for the upcoming Tasmanian comics series Down There. It’ll be done in July.
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This is the Numbat’s tale
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Below is the Bunyip of Borrolloola and the beginning of the Dept of Conversation

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At the top of the next image you will see the God-sequence … with God being played by Stephen Kernahan

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This is the Sleuth wall in it’s almost entirety.

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Some readers on opening night over near the Sleuth wall. The rest of the gallery was filled with The Long Weekend in Alice Springs exhibition.

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Review in Alice News

16 May

At this site you’ll find a thoughtful review from the Alice Springs News’ Kieran Finnane about the book The Long Weekend in Alice Springs.

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Other media stuff that the book has collected on its journey can be seen at some of these places –

The Comic Spot interview

Framed Magazine

Alice Online article

Sleuth comic poster #2

16 May

The bloke in this month’s episode is Cam Buckley from the cafe on Todd St in Alice Springs.
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Long Weekend Exhibition – May 10 to June 7

15 May

Some images from the exhibition that is currently in Alice Springs at Watch This Space gallery of the art from the graphic novel along with development sketches and earlier version of pages and other bits and bobs.

Exhibition dates – May 10 to June 7

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Sleuth Zine 2 is in the pipeline

26 Apr

SO – I’ve set about beginning a new publishing idea: that is, gathering a bunch of comic-artists that I like here in Tasmania and asking them to do a comic each. The series will be called DOWN THERE. Each issue will have a different artist and will be available from San Kessto Publications. The first issue will be by myself and will be available in July with a launch of the entire series to be announced in the next month or so.

So I’m busy in the inking stage of my comic which is part of my ongoing project Sleuth – I’ve already mapped out, scripted out, pencilled out – a cracking yarn where detective Ivan Brackic comes to Tasmania, the island of DEATH, on the search for a missing person who was thought to have been killed many years back – the cold case of Brenda Hean.

Just … do me a favour and ignore the spelling of Tasmania – I shall be fixing that up later on in the process.

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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

Web invite Melbourne May 01

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Sleuth Volume #2

16 Apr

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