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Each month Australian comic historian Graeme Cliffe and I make it our business to catch up with fellow comic enthusiast Neville Bain. I received a phone call from Graeme last night indicating that this month's meet-up (scheduled for next week) might be in doubt, after he shared that on Monday that he had been involved in a road accident and was presently recuperating in the Princess Alexandria Hospital. Details are sketchy (Graeme was not 100% lucid), so I shall bring more details when I have them at hand.  The three amigos (left to right) two months ago: Graeme Cliffe, Neville Bain, Nat Karmichael. In an ironic twist to this tale, Graeme and I were musing on life and death as we drove to meet Neville last month. What plans did we each have for our comic collections should we - "perish the thought" we added! - pass away? These were questions foremost in my mind this month, as Carlene and I sought to put pen to paper in formulating a new Will and completing Enduring Powers of Attorney forms. It's always a sobering process, as most of us live from day to day without contemplating even the possibility that our time on this planet is finite.
IN any case: Get well soon, Graeme! |
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... 
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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