Some more review of Blue have been bouncing around –> The Australian by Sam Twyford Moore (note: worst sub-editor’s headline of all time) /////  Sydney Morning Herald and The Age by Owen Heitmann //// Time Out by Darryn King //// Slate Online by Dan Kois (with some of my illustrations) //// Bookslut by Martyn Pedler //// Toonari Post by Kala Istvanek //// A Polish pop culture site by Lukasz Kowalczuk //// NSW Writer’s Centre blog by Jen Breach //// Meanjin Literary Journal by Ford Thomas ////  Overland Literary Journal by Jen Mills //// Australian Book Review by Ronnie Scott (pdf) ////  ABC Radio National by Ronnie Scott ////  Another one in Meanjin by Chris Flyn //// Seattle PI by Bill Sherman //// A really good negative(ish) review on Comic Book Resources by Greg Burgas ////

Also e-book editions of Blue are available in several different formats for $1.99. Go get it here at –> TOP SHELF

Here’s some of the response to Blue in the media:Comic art publicity sheet for Blue - I made this internet all by myself and it got ping ponged around like crazy.
A nice review by The AV Club (The Onion)
Another nice review by British comics critic Paul Gravett
A less good review on the Comics Bulletin
A hilarious flaming by some strange right wing libertarians on the Infidel blog
a review on the Rations Mag blog
A review on Comix Alliance blog
An interview on the Broken Frontier blog.
A podcast interview on the Non Canonical podcast.
Another podcast interview on Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib
A really lovely review on the excellent Re-readers podcast
A review on Read About Comics
A trailer for the documentary Graphic Novels! Melbourne! in which I mumble a bit

Forgive me if I’ve been elusive.

I’m hammering away at the first 60 pages of a really long comic. I’m doing my best to pencil out the whole chapter and, to be honest, it’s a harrowing task.  Telling long stories with pictures is outrageously tedious. Thank fuck that Dylan Horrocks is there to cheer us on. Here’s a video of us being cheered on. In the video you get to see my hand and the top my head. A fine aspect!

Anyway. I’ll have some preview pages up here soon.

 Lumpen #7 landed in time for the zine fair at the Festival of the Photocopier. It’s a pretty two-colour offset job that folds out into a poster sized comic. I have hundreds of the bastards to offload so I’m selling them cheap! You can buy one here for two bucks.

Whoa! Fame! Just had an interview posted on the ASL website and I may or may not be part of Drawing out and Drawing In: A spotlight on graphic novels  on at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne in late April.

Oh, and I’ve recently started a new blog called Unfinished Comics which is a little bit academic and a little bit pretentious, but it’s about drawing comics so the hard-core comic nerds out there might be interested.

I’m starting a PHD in March 2010, and guess what it is in? COMICS!

Soon you’ll be forced for address me as Doctor Pat, just like the tobacco. Ha.

Also, checkout the Atlas just released by Ronnie Scott and his vast team of talented cohorts at The Lifed Brow. There’s a creative piece for every country in the world. Poetry, prose, comics, illustration and sound recording. I’ve got a really strange illustrated story in there about Luxembourg.