 Cover to BOLD BEN HALL as designed by Ryan McDonald-Smith Just a quick note to let you know that Bold Ben Hall will be going live on Kickstarter before the month is out. There will be some great Rewards on offer, including an opportunity to be one of the first hundred to have a signed copy of the book sent to you post-free! Keep an eye out for it! (Naturally, I will post more about it on-line here and on my Facebook page....!) In the meantime, the latest issue of Inkspot from the Australian Cartoonists' Association has been released. There is a lot of coverage from the 2017 Ledger Award, and plenty of reading inside, as well as some competitions where you can win a lot of free things, like posters (of ZICS) or books (by Judy Horacek) and even $100 cash. If your local Library doesn't have a copy, please let me know and I shall attempt to get it on those shelves....
One of these photos made it into the INKSPOT magazine. Which ones didn't? You'll have to read the magazine to find out. These are more photos of when I gave my speech, leading to the announcement that May Gibbs was the 2017 Recipient of the ('Dead-Set') Ledger of Honour. Rosalie May accepted the Honour on behalf of May's family.
 Designed by Neville Bain, with assistance from Graeme Cliffe, Ryan McDonald-Smith and Nat Karmichael. To a lot of people this posting is going to be seen as a bit of a tease. Presently, my Mother is very unwell, so in the past six months (plus), I have had limited opportunities to be able to work on my comics and comic-related books. So many are in a half-completed state, that I have hardly had much time to work on them, let alone write much on this blog. So I thank you for your continued patience....  John Dixon's version of The Phantom; photograph of the painting by Glenn Ford; with thanks. So, while you are waiting, I thought I should share this illustration by John Dixon that was passed on to me by Glenn Ford (one of the co-publishers of the Australian publishing house that releases The Phantom). Over the years I have written quite a few blogs critical of Frew, but for some time now I have wanted to praise them. Recently, they have been proactive in getting Australian Phantom tales in the public eye, and employing locals like Paul Mason and Jason Paulos to do so. I was so impressed, I even included some articles in Inkspot, the journal of the Australian Cartoonists Association that I edit!  Unedited Antonio Lemos illustration for the Autumn 2017 issue of INKSPOT Recently, Glenn has also put me in touch with Andreas Eriksson, who has told me about John Dixon's work for the Swedish publisher Egmont. Whilst I knew John worked on the comic Agent X9, I had no idea to what extent -- until an email this morning! This is -- for me -- an exciting discovery! Apparently there were 16 stories illustrated by John that saw print, each totalling 22 pages each. When I have access and permission to reprint these stories, I'll include some illustrations here. In the meantime, I have to equally patient while I find out more....!
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Comicoz is Nat Karmichael's publishing imprint. Nat is committed to preserving a permanent collection of Australian comic and comic strips. He feels that there is a need to recognise comics' contribution to and depiction of Australian culture.
Nat Karmichael.
Since 2011, Nat has self-published over twelve comic-related books and was Publisher-Editor of Oi Oi Oi! -- the last series of nationally-distributed comic books of original stories to appear on Australian newsstands. He is a member of the Australian Cartoonists Association and edited the Association's journal Inkspot for 14 issues from late 2015. For numerous years he has been the Lead Judge in the Ledger of Honour Awards for the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (formerly the Ledgers). These days Nat dreams of retiring from his occupation as a Clinical Nurse in the Psychiatric Emergency Centre in Queensland's largest public hospital, so that he can spend more time with his long-suffering wife and their six children and fourteen grandchildren. And perhaps publish some more comic-related books. 
Nat by Charlotte
Comicoz acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay respects to elders, past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples.
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