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Golden Globes: Steven Spielberg says ‘Tintin’ is an animated ‘buddy movie’

TinTin Poster

Its no surprise to me, no surprise at all. Sir Peter Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin has won the best animated film award at the Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles. Directed by Spielberg and produced by Sir Peter and his digital effects company Weta Digital  in New Zealand.  The movie the first of a [...]

Well, well!

Somebody’s been a slack blogging wombat then;D

Fantagraphics Brings Tardi to the US

ICI MEME

Often credited solely as Tardi, Jacques Tardi is a French BD artist. He started writing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the comics’ magazine “Pilote”. Initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and De Beketch. Tardi has successfully adapted crime novels by Léo Malet. . into a series of critically acclaimed [...]

The return of Le Petit Nicolas

Le Petite Nicholas

A nostalgia fest has begun in France for its best-loved schoolboy, Le Petit Nicolas, a cheeky little nine-year old, and his classroom pals dreamed up by Asterix co-inventor René Goscinny and genius illustrator, Jean-Jacques Sempé. Full article

European history from Mein Kampf to Kafka in manga.

History in pictures

The Tokyo publisher East Press is launching a series of 32 manga versions of important European and Japanese literature. Full Article

The End

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 At last Fred reached the end of the red sausage and found that he could no longer stand for the weight of the earth had settled on his heart. Back to beginning..

Middle

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 Right in the middle of now where he stopped and ate a red sausage. Next page……..

The Beginning

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Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 The back of the packing shed, my bed, no windows. Down the track from the loading bay… my Grandfather’s bush cot, a bush larder holding several bottles of Bundaberg op rum, hard bread and cheese, the open sky. Under the lean to, always boiling, a billy and [...]