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After sharing my attempt at a video (that was more fun than serious), Rob Feldman and I have, over the past few days, been preparing a Kickstarter campaign for his Fridge Boy in Space comic. Including this visual masterpiece (above) by Rob (that we shall use)! Seeing Diamond are not interested and Luna have not responded to my emails about Rob (and Dillon)'s comics and books, we needed some way of getting the word out there into the world! I know! I'm a bit of a hypocrite: I have been vocal about my 'criticism' about Kickstarter. Well, perhaps 'criticism' isn't the right word: I'm concerned about the limitations and the saturation of that particular crowd-funding site, and my concerns that it doesn't take the comic medium further. Still, it's going to be useful to us for the present point in time, so maybe I'll just suck up my reservations and get on with it!
We're tweaking the Rewards today (and hope that it will be finished later this morning) before we are able to submit the project. Launch (at this time) is scheduled for August 23rd, although there is every likelihood that we may go earlier. Stay tuned! Everything seems to be happening at once around here (comic-wise). John Dixon's son (Andrew) and Don Ticchio are getting together this Wednesday to check on the availability of material for Air Hawk #3, which is destined to be the first overseas issue of the current series. Andrew and John will no doubt also be discussing the layout dilemma that I posted about earlier (in relation to the back cover to #2). With all this activity going on, it means I have not been keeping Ryan McDonald-Smith up to speed with the needs for Iron Outlaw. And what is The Cloak up to? When I was working, it's my belief that I was able to work on many comic projects simultaneously. These days, I feel I am so flat out with other things (house maintenance, Netflix with Carlene, visiting friends) that I'm nowhere near as organised, comic-wise, as I once was. (Said with a wry smile?) |
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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