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Comics Down Under Blog
30.11.2022
Planetary Republic of Comics is a new website curated by Frederick Luis Aldama , Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, (Department...
The Australian Cartoonists' Association announced on 25 November 2020 that acclaimed Australian comic-strip artist, Yaroslav Horak, had pas...
Fatty Finn's Comic - Australia, late 1940s In 2012, I was asked to contribute a chapter to a then-forthcoming publication, titled A Glo...
I'm delighted to announce that my latest research on Australian comics appears in a new essay collection, The Popular Culture of Romantic ...
Paul Wheelahan, early 2000s I've written about Paul Wheelahan on numerous occasions over the last two decades, but having learned that ...
Queenie Chan, Australian manga artist NOTE: This blog entry is a modified version of a post I submitted to the "Australian Comics His...
My interest in the history of Australian comic books has led me to investigate other forms of popular Australian print media, such as "pulp-...
Andrea Bresciani - 1966 The following interview with Andrea Bresciani (1923-2006) was recorded by Giuseppe Trovato in February 1997. ...
The Ledger Awards were launched in 2005 to acknowledge excellence in Australian comic art and publishing. Named in honour of the expatria...
The following is a revised and updated version of the article I originally wrote for the long-expired PulpFaction.net website back in 2007. ...
The Ledger Awards were launched in 2005 to formally recognize both outstanding new works by Australian comic book/graphic novel creators,...
I recently wrote a Facebook post to commemorate the centenary of the Australian comic artist, Hart Amos , who was born on December 2, 1916. ...
I originally wrote 'Antipodean Currents' in 2016, after being commissioned to write a brief "layman's history" of comic art in Australian an...
My previous blog post on Comics Down Under briefly mentioned an article by Rex Chiplin , appearing in the Tribune newspaper on 11 Novembe...
This is a portrait of a paperboy in Collins Street, Melbourne, taken by photographer Mark Strizic . It was reproduced in a book of Strizic's...
One of the reasons why I have only made infrequent blog posts during the last 12-18 months is that I have been preoccupied with various acad...
I've had an article published in the recent edition of Giant Size Phantom comic (Number 2), released by Frew Publications (Australia). ...
For many Australian comic-book fans growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, John Ryan's landmark book, Panel By Panel (1979), provided us with...
The following is the second (and final) part of my revised and updated account the "Gully Foyle" comic-strip saga, which I originally wrote...
I originally wrote 'Antipodean Currents' in 2016, after being commissioned to write a brief "layman's history" of comic art in Australian a...
Jo-Jo, Congo King Comic , No.5 - 1948 The year 1948 signaled the beginning of the comic-book "boom" in Australia, with dozens of new tit...
Alexander Stitt (OAM), the acclaimed Australian animator, graphic designer, and painter, died this week. He was best known for his televi...
NOTE: I was fortunate enough to interview Arthur Mather, co-creator of the Australian superhero, Captain Atom, at his Melbourne home in 200...
Above : Norman Clifford, Melbourne 1959 Norman Clifford was one of many talented and enterprising Australian artists who created opportuniti...
Today I bought a second-hand copy of a book titled Australian Writers & Artists' Market , published by The Australasian School of Journali...