In a couple of weeks time, I shall be attending Melbourne's Home-Cooked Comic Festival. It will be my first time. Between now and then, I'd like to share with you what I have been doing, and Festival I do plan to visit, those events and Festival I have not attended and things of that nature....before I end up forgetting! It's been the busiest start to any year that I can recall.... |
So, in some ways, it was an exercise in nostalgia. I was treated like royalty, being picked up at the Airport and trying to recall the places and faces from all those years ago. Yet it was so much more: Canberra has changed. They even have a comic book shop right in the middle of town! Mal Briggs is the owner and runs Impact Comics, and is also the wonderful host who put me up for the Festival. Have a look at his web-site (click here), and just tell me that that does not entice new comic readers....
Cath Brinkley and Bruce Mutard organised the Festival, and deserve our thanks. It was professionally put together, and there were so many workshop alternatives to choose from that it was difficult to work out which one to attend. For me, personally, I enjoyed the session put together by the Librarians, because I got so much out of it. I have not had time to implement the teachings yet, but I will get there -- I hope! I'm not going to detail who was there in Canberra and who I chatted to (this is supposed to be a short Blog entry, after all); but I can say, if you were NOT there: WHY NOT?? Make sure you can make it next year*!!