Interview on radio/podcast with John Retallick and Gary Chaloner at the Comic Spot – nice conversation about various issues.
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Tag Archives: Australian comics
Alice Springs LAUNCH
8 AprAlice Springsians please note in your diaries – this is the Friday after Wide Open Space.
You’re invited of course.
Please come.
Some pics from the Hobart book launch
18 MarHobart comics legend Lindsay Arnold launched my book
… he literally launched it into the air actually … I caught it!
Available NOW
11 MarThe long wait for The Long Weekend is finally OVER!
You can buy it now direct from the San Kessto Publications website.
Proof!!
11 FebConfusingly – printers send you this thing to look at which has all of the pages all over the place …
Excitingly, the print it on glossy stuff which looks looks nice and shiny! The real thing won’t be printed on shiny paper … so this is a nice novelty before the final piece comes in a couple weeks.
Sleuth – The Waldheimerin
8 Feb
This comic was completed in March 2013 by Josh at Chugnut (comics weekend in Victoria). It was written with major assistance from Katsutoshi Osakabe and Nadine Kessler who helped with translations, I sneakily placed in some people I know, borrowed their stories somewhat and whatnot – thankyous therefore go to Jerome Santospirito, Andrew Harwood, Glen Ewers, Sarah Katz, Sophie Clear and anyone who looks after the Cradle Mountain National Park. This comic is part of the Sleuth series of comics, an investigation into the spirituality of modern Australia. I also stole something from TGH Strehlow.
Book cover
7 FebBook-launch to be held March 16th as part of the inaugural Shock of the Now festival.
Here’s a sneaky-peek!!
The Shipwright & the Banshee
20 Jan
The S&B was first performed by Chris Downes and Josh Santospirito as part of the 2011 Sound to Light evening which pitted a visual artist with a sound artist. Josh approached Chris in early 2011 about doing something together and they slowly developed the idea of performing a ghost story based on the Derwent River near Hobart, Tasmania.
Chris came up with the slow-burning 20 minute story of a young Shipwright meeting a banshee on the banks of Derwent River and Josh wrote the music and created the soundtrack and the music that he also performed. The story was cobbled together from various myths about banshee’s.
The second performance was at Chugnut (comics camp) in Victoria on the 31st of March 2012 where it was watched by every comicer worth a damn in the country (except for all the others) … who loved it.
The performance was then dissected for its weak points and turned into an interstellar monster with the addition of the idea of having an animated component along with Chris’s drawing … then we decided against that.
Then we asked Brian Ritchie (of the Violent Femmes) to include it in the MONA FOMA – an awesomely amazing music and art festival in Hobart, Australia … where Chris and I both live. The video is from the performance at the Rosny Barn as part of the festival.
MONA FOMA 2013 – the Shipwright and the Banshee
13 Jan
Joshua Santospirito and Christopher Downes perform The Shipwright and the Banshee on Friday the 18th at the 2013 MONA FOMA in Hobart, Tasmania.
It’s a performance that combines comics and sound – better make sure you get into the act!!
Joshua Santospirito Art 