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Free postage til Xmas

Woop !

I’ve been on big art-adventchas lately, it’s been grand.
But i’m back home now and it’s super nice to be back in my own bed after 5 weeks.

It’s almost the end of the year: it’s always surprising when it sneaks up on me like that. Not sure what you’ve been up to this year, but looking back I reckon the thing that I’ve spent most of this year trying to get better at is being a good friend to the people that mean a lot to me. I’m often away with the fairies in my own head reading books and writing and sometimes forget to tell my peeps that I love them. I’ll probably keep trying to get better at that next year too.

I’m grateful you’ve all been interested in stuff I do. I always hope that people find it interesting. Secretly (shh) I think I make comics because I’m not great at starting conversations the normal way … so I’m always super glad when people talk to me about ideas in my comics. It may not be the most efficient way to start a conversation … but I’m glad it works! 🙂

Xmas pressies
Hey … I just had an idea … perhaps you should get onto Christmas presents right now. By which … I mean you should buy my books and comics for your friends and family. San Kessto publications has free shipping til Christmas on both my graphic novels ->>>>>>>>

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* Swallows Part One (a tale of immigration and family) – $15 (FREE postage)

* The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (has turned out to be a cult hit over the last four years) – $29 (FREE postage)

* I wanna be a travella: Sri Lanka (a nice little travel comic/sketchbook from my trip there) $5 + postage

But now that my overly forthright sales pitches are all done
– I’d like to say that 2017 has been smashing for me and I hope that it’s been pretty damn smashing for you too. Whether it has or not – I hope that 2018 will be a WONDERFUL an super creative year for you all.
jxo

Tags: Aboriginal, Alice Springs, Australian, comics, Craig San Roque, Culture, graphic novel, immigration, Joshua Santospirito, Melbourne, Story

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Categories Publishing, Swallows, Swallowscomic, The Long Weekend

Melbourne Exhibition

4 Sep

Get down to the Immigration Museum to see the free Swallows exhibition in the foyer area, ends at the end of October.

More info here – https://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/whats-on/swallows/

Tags: Australian, Australian comics, Carlton Football Club, Comic, comics, drawing, fumetti, graphic novel, immigration, Joshua Santospirito, San Kessto Publications, Swallows part one, swallowscomic

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Drawing Swallows

14 Apr

Swallows part one – is a graphic novel by Joshua Santospirito.
in April – you can PREORDER A COPY at POZIBLE which will help Josh cover the costs of printing the book, which is comPLETEly rad of you.

I reckon – you might enjoy the book too! – you can find out more at pozible.com/swallowscomic

Book will be available from August 2015 from SAN KESSTO PUBLICATIONS!!

Music in the video –
Floaty drawing music is by The Necks
Hardcore drawing music is by Patana Beretta (electronics) and Joshua Santospirito (drums)

Tags: Australian, comics, drawing, Melbourne, Santospirito, swallowscomic

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Categories Swallows, Swallowscomic

Swallows pages 9-11

2 Apr

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CROWD-FUNDING the Preorder NOW – Swallows Part One is a comic that will be published in August of 2015.

These are the pages 9-11 of it, set in Melbourne at the turn of last century. Previous pages can be read on the SWALLOWS page. I’ll chuck up the next pages in a week or so. The preorder campaign runs for the entirety of APRIL, which will help me out greatly with the money to print the books.

Here’s some details of my current promotional tour

Tags: AFL, Australian, Carlton, comics, football, Italians, Melbourne, migration

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2014 – my year.

22 Dec

Personally, it’s been a pretty average year for me,

But artistically – It’s been an awesome year

… I’m not sure if that means I’ve come out on top or not … who knows.

Awards

I won some awards for The Long Weekend in Alice Springs … now I can refer to myself as a “multi-award-winning-graphic-novelist” … isn’t that rad.

ComicOz Award for Best Australian Original Comic Book for 2013
But even more important to me was this one – 2014 Chief Minister’s NT Read Non Fiction Book Award. It’s rad to have won this award in the NT, where the story of The Long Weekend belongs. In fact – there was tonnes of Central Australian stories up in Darwin nominated at the book awards – which is awesome for the Centralian region.

Exhibitions

I had 2 exhibitions which is pretty alright I reckon!

Sleuth: The Delegation – at Sawtooth ARI in Launceston in April
The Long Weekend in Alice Springs at the Top Gallery at the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart.

Publications

I managed to get 2 different Sleuth pieces into literary magazines this year which is exciting, as well as some other stuff.

Sleuth: OMG – published in Island #137 in June
Sleuth: The Transcontinental Distress was published in Meanjin in September.
Oi Oi Oi! First 9 pages of The Long Weekend was reprinted in this.
Fluid Prejudice – some other pages from The Long Weekend was contained in this wonderful Aussie History Comics anthology

I’ve also been working on a series of 20 kids books in the3 Yankunytjatjara language from South Australia – these will be released in early 2015 (if all goes according to plan).

ALSO – I continued organising and publishing the Down There comics series through San Kessto Publications – Tom OHern and Tricky Walsh both had releases of really awesome Tasmanian comics through that series – one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever been involved in!

Writing

Something I’ve not done for a while.

Wrote for the Meanjin website in January
Wrote for the Island Website in May – review of Fluid Prejudice
Wrote for Island Magazine in June – Island #137 – on the making of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs.

Festivals

Managed to be at a number of Festivals during the year for writing, comics and music … here’s a list!

MONA FOMA, Hobart – played manic guitar as part of the Hobart Improv Collective
NT Writers Festival – Word Storm – Darwin: spoke on panels, presented my graphic novel, hung out and stuff (won an award)
Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne – spoke on a panel
Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival – I was the Festivale Directeur Flamboyante of the first Comics/Illustrators/Zines festival in Tasmania in June.
Helsinki Comics Festival, Finland – international comics festival that I had a table at – and met lots of fine folks.

Music …

Concert-wise it’s been a quiet year by my normal standards with only about 7 or so performances … but I did manage to fit in a few gigs here and there, played in Helsinki twice as well which is rad.

Recordings – I did have two recordings released through two channels.

“Feels” was commissioned and played on Ears Have Ears show on FBi radio in Sydney in September, it can be listened on their Soundcloud site for free.
“The Waterhole” was a track that was released on the Hobart Experimental Noise compilation Convergence, curated by Matt Warren and Julian Teakle, which can be bought/downloaded from Rough Skies Records.

So all up – It’s been a pretty good year!!

2015 is already shaping up quite well –

2 more exhibitions lining up – One in Hobart! One in Canberra!
A longer comic piece being finished for August or thereabouts
Some more festivals
Knuckling down on some more graphic novels
Some weeklong workshops
Chris Downes and I performing The Shipwright and the Banshee in Melbourne
Her Majesty’s 2^nd Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival, in June
More Down There comics – I have soooooo many Taswegians lined up making comics it’s just not funny … not funny at all!!!
Who knows what else!!!

Tags: artist, Australian, awards, graphic novel, Santospirito, Tasmania, The long weekend in Alice Springs, writer

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Sleuth – the delegation

6 Apr

Exhibition at Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Australia. April 4-26, 2014

Sleuth: The Delegation
Joshua Santospirito

it would seem that sometime in the last 250 years the fire-farming just stopped. The humans no longer see themselves in the landscape, and consequently they no longer care for the trees, the dirt, the spirit. Now the giants have awoken. These strange and large visitors have come to Canberra to discuss a situation: Australian spirituality is all over the shop! The continent’s psyche appears to be diversifying … this mightn’t be such a good thing.

I don’t reckon this is such a good thing.
And where is Amos? Is he always late for every meeting!!

Exhibition review by Patrick Sutczak (April 2014)

Sleuth is an ongoing series that begins with exhibitions, comics and other crosses into other multimedia. It explores what is happening with the Aussie psyche and soul, a nebulous and amorphous thing.

Joshua Santospirito is an illustrator, musician and multimedia artist who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. His main artistic obsessions revolve around language, anthropology, culture and psychology. His main works in comics have been his very rambling Sleuth series, and the award winning graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs which he published in 2013 through Sankessto Publications.

joshuasantospiritoart.com
sankessto.com

Tags: Australian, comics, graphic novel, illustrator, mythology, San Kessto Publications

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Categories Exhibition, Sleuth

Adam Goodes – Aussie of the year

25 Jan

I’m not much into Australia Day or political posturing, or hero-making – BUT this man’s admirable actions in the face of racism and public scrutiny moved me, so I say to all of us – this is a worthy Aussie of the Year.

Tags: Adam Goodes, AFL, Australian, Santospirito

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Recording from MONA FOMA

22 Jan

I played as part of the Hobart Improv Collective in an hour long relentless set – it was freaking unreal
You can download the set here if you want to listen – there’s a little Miles Davis, there’s some freaking weird noises – Pip Stafford harnessed a crystal: go figure that one out.