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 Art Copyright Neil Matterson; used with Permission. So, you will be wondering: Who is TRUNDLE? Unless you were one of the readers of a couple of select Australian newspapers in the late 1980s, you will have no idea! However, now that I have more-or-less recovered from the Flu, I can tell you that it is likely to be the next book to be released by Comicoz! Neil Matterson is the Cartoonist, and Trundle is his most marvellous creation. It is a beautiful, gentle strip that did not -- in my opinion -- receive the wonderful accolades it really deserved in its day. Neil has drawn so many comic strips in his Lifetime, among them: St Pips, It's A Baby!, The Shambles, High Tide. Neil has also has won much acclaim for his cartoons at the Australian Cartoonists Association's Annual Award Nights: winning Best Cartoon on the Night more often than any other cartoonist. Neil is a modest man, so he will cringe with embarrassment when I share with you right now the number of times he has won the Award. In fact, Neil has won the Award in every decade since they began! 1988, 1990, 1999, 2009, and I do believe he is planning on winning again this November. However, in my opinion, for all Neil's Awards and success with his other strips, none were more deserving of an Award, none were more challenging creatively, none more gentle and endearing than this feature. Trundle was a pantomime comic strip. I could talk to you about it for a good ten more paragraphs...but I won't. I know you have things to do. This book carries most of the strips that were published in the fourteen months this feature ran. The book will also carry some previously unpublished strips that have never before seen print, and will appear here for the very first time. This is a book for readers of all ages. I am telling you now, because I am excited about this book. I am going to be preparing it for the printer this coming week. I am going to give this book to all of my grandchildren, and I want to share the news of this beautiful work with you too....  This is just one example of the creative ideas included in this book, called TRUNDLE. Look, if I didn't think it was a beautiful work for you to share with someone you love, I wouldn't be raving about it. Just wait and see for yourself. Art Copyright Neil Matterson; used with Permission. |
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 was 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
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