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Happy 100th Birthday to the world's oldest cartooning organisation, the Australian Cartoonists Association!
As present-Secretary Steve Panozzo reports: "On 17th July, 1924, twenty-six Sydney cartoonists got together and formed the Society of Australian Black and White Artists. the first organising committee was made up of (pictured from left): Stan Cross, Lance Driffield, George Finey, Cec Hartt (President) and Syd Miller." Tonight, the modern incarnation is gathering at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney to celebrate that momentous occasion. I want to wish all present a wonderful evening. Unfortunately, I won't be attending: there's State of Origin 3 being held in Brisbane at the same time. (Poor excuse, right?!) Go Queensland!! |
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. He remains the Lead Judge in the Ledger of Honour Awards for the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (formerly the Ledgers). Nat has now retired from his former 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. He still plans to publish more comics and comic-related books, the details of which you should see here in the coming months... 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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1 x Poster 19 x comics (one a co-production with Cyclone Comics in 1988/9, one a co-production with Cowtown Comics in 2022) 2 x Paperback books 10 x Hardcover books All Australian! |