Melbourne City Library Comics Exhibition

Ahoy mateys! Welcome to 2014. Posts on this blog really dried up during the second half of last year, didn't they? Well not to worry because 2013 was fairly uninteresting anyway, and already this new year is shaping up to be a good one.

I was fortunate enough to have nine pages from "Avalanche", the fourth story from Airbury Academy IV (my new black and white 150+ page comic that I only completed the day before New Year's Eve), included in the Melbourne City Library's Comics Exhibition! If you're local, get down to 253 Flinders Lane and see it before January 30th. It's in the upstairs gallery. Here are some pics from the opening night, Thursday January 9th.

The pages mounted on the wall. "Avalanche" is 22 pages long, so these nine pages are not consecutive but hopefully still make sense.

One of the guests who read it. She and others took their time to read every comic, not just skimming them. People seemed to take a long time reading mine – it does have a fair bit of dialogue to get through though!

My mate Chris having a read. "Avalanche" was one of the more humorous entries – other comics dealt with much more serious subjects.

The niche box on the ground floor near the stairs, where I displayed some items that hopefully give an insight into my particular art style. There were three or four of these.

The guestbook in the gallery – with some great comments in. Thanks to all who commented! Thanks also to Leonee Derr and the other Library staff who pulled the whole event together. It really is a unique experience to have your work viewed by other people, and the positive comments they give are very encouraging.