Tuesday 18 August 2015

Totally In Amongst It





Currently collating the comic strips from contributors, and all great stuff! A wide range of content thus far, from the biographical to the satirical to the avant-garde. I've started doing teaser runs on FartBickie with some snippets of art from the first few contributions in - featured above (as opposed to the Facebook group, I have little idea if anyone is actually reading this blog, but I like this format for providing the opportunity for more substantial publicity-related discourse...).

Otherwise packing my pants preparing for the processes of publication and performing publicity.
I have booked Sat Sept 26 for a release event at the Meteor Theatre in central Hamilton, which will feature musical performances by acts associated with several of the contributors (most of these arty types being musos as well eh?) More details as organisation gets more detailed.

Thursday 6 August 2015

Submission, Bondage, Domination





This post is just an update about submissions to the anthology, but I thought it might be worth extending the title of the post to appeal to the BDSM market (lots of lawyers and businesspeople apparently - rolling in it)

Date for submissions is mid August and have received the first 4 as of this posting - great stuff!  Diverse range of art styles and interpretations of the 'Hamiltron - City of the Future' theme on display: I think the proper term to use for publicity purposes is 'eclectic'.

For example: a typical write-up in local papers on a RockQuest band usually goes something like:
"(band name of your invention - 'Ronnie James Diocesan School For Girls' or similar) play an eclectic mix of funk, jazz and rock, with elements of electronica".

So I'll pre-describe the anthology as an eclectic mix of whatever the comic equivalents of 'funk, jazz, rock, with elements of electronica' are.

Will do some teasers of artwork soon. In the meantime, enjoy the above images of a couple of famous Hamilton disasters - the 1948 Frankton tornado and the 2008 V8 Supercar champs.