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tropical fruit
4 Oct
For the next couple of weeks – I’ll post up my sketch-book comics and pics of Nadine and my trip to FAAAAR NOOOORTH QUEEEENSLAND – tune in tomorrow!
And if you’re in Sydney on the 24th October come to the book launch of “The Long Weekend in Alice Springs” graphic novel at 6pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art. To be launched by top graphic novellist Pat Grant and Dr Anne Noonan.
If you’re in Hobart on the 31st of October – come to MONA for the Emerging Writers Festival – where I’ll do a comics reading from the same book.
AND –
If you’re in Adelaide on Saturday the 30th of November – come to the SA Writers centre for the South Australian BOOKLAUNCH, at 3pm – to be launched by novelist/author Jennifer Mills.
The map
2 Oct
Here is the THE MAP – of the area to be investigated – dissected – desecrated – devoured – pooped out – and analysed over the next two weeks – FUN!
J
Sydney Booklaunch of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs
1 Oct
Booklaunch at 6pm at the MCA shop – Thursday 24th of October
(Museum is open until 9pm on Thursdays)
This popular Australian graphic novel was published early in 2013 and is already in its second print will be launched at the MCA by the inimitable Pat Grant (Blue) and the wonderful Dr Anne Noonan.
Josh Santospirito, who adapted and drew the graphic novel, will be present for booksigning and a natter at the MCA shop.
Learn more about the book at sankessto.com
A strange and beautiful graphic novel about the psychological effects of colonisation. Craig San Roque, an Alice Springs psychologist, takes us throughout a long series of poetic thoughts and places over the course of a long weekend in the central Australian desert town of Alice Springs. He grapples with an analysis of his own culture and the pain which it intentionally and unintentionally inflicts upon other cultures.
in 2007 Joshua Santospirito, a psychiatric nurse in the Central Australian desert, came across the essay A Long Weekend in Alice Springs by Craig San Roque in a book called The Cultural Complex. Josh found this piece instrumental in reframing all of the seeming chaos around him and began to reframe the essay itself into comic form.
Available in Sydney at the MCA shop and also Kinokuniya, Gleebooks and Better Read Than Dead.
A world to DISCOVER
1 Oct
The continuing one-pagers from my sketchbook on our travels in Far North Queensland!!
Tune in tomorrow for the MAP! ooooooo
The origin story
30 SepEvery stupor-hero has an origin story – in the “I Wanna Be A Travellar (and a artist)” series of comics – this is MY origin story
Tune in tomorrow – and each day of October for a new comic / sketch from our travels in Far North Queensland!
Coming home
20 AugSO – at dOCUMENTA we discovered Warwick Thornton’s piece – which was great to see, a little bit of home in Germany.
Then we trained it Frankfurt, and then we caught a plane or two to Melbourne then to Hobart … then taxid it to our house, then passed out.
And that’s the end of my travel comics from August 2012. Hope you enjoyed them.
Joshua Santospirito Art 