Portrait of a waiting pig - Book Launch!

Comics on K- This weekend!!

Poster art by Darren Sheehan.

COMICS ON K will showcase a group of invited artists, and include an exhibition of their art. All artists will attend both days of the convention to sell work and answer questions. The exhibition will be for the weekend only, and the art auctioned on the last day, Sunday 18th-around 5:30. Talks will be held on Saturday from 5pm by influential cartoonists Chris Slane (cartoonist for the New Zealand Listener), and Dylan Horrocks (respected author and artist of Hicksville).


Stallholders include:

Dylan Horrocks, the international pinup boy for New Zealand comix, Dylan has had a long, and varied career that has garnered much praise and recognition. He is best known for his graphic novel Hicksville, which has been published in the United States, France, Spain and Italy.Dylan will be selling mini comics as well as giving a speech " The 6 things I have learned from comics". Not to be missed!


Stefan Neville a prolific, long time cartoonist with numerous titles to his credit including Dad and Tracey, New Dixon and City of Tales (with Clayton Noone). When not cartooning, Stefan makes sweet music as Pumice, and has toured extensively-including trips to the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

The Sheehanbros, authors of Go Gorillas, the Long Man and the just completed Inhabitants-a work 7 years in the making. They recently took part in a group exhibition at the Bath Gallery in Parnell with Dylan Horrocks, Barry Linton, Tim Bollinger and comics-influenced artists Mark Braunias, Dick Frizell, Robert McLeod and Denys Watkins. Kelly and Darren will be releasing the complete volume of "the Inhabitants"at Comics on K.Previously available in three part, "the Inhabitants" will be available for all to peruse and purchase along with other comics from the Bros.

Mat Tait author of Love Stories, a beautiful collection of short stories with a strong, spooky sense of New Zealand. Mat has been published internationally, having work featured in Kramer's Ergot, Comix 2000, and Studygroup 12, as well as local anthologies Loose, Pictozine and Radio as Paper.

Brent Willis, an extremely prolific Wellingtonian, Brett has numerous comix projects under his belt and is currently the editor of Bristle, the Wellington Comix anthology.

Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt authors of Tiny Kitten Teeth, a super web-comic updated daily. Frank and Becky have recently returned from San Diego Comic-con and Mocca (a New York based alternative comics convention) where they were promoting their work. Frank and Becky have a new mini comic called Little Beaky which will be debuted at Comics on K, excitement!!


Marc Streeter
Marc Streeter has just finished his first full length comic Action man Adam, which has been three and a half years in the making! Marc will be happy to shake your hand if you ask nicely and will gladly give you one of his comics in exchange for the purchase price.



Many thanks to Jerome Bihan for making this happen! Check out the blog for this event for more info and updates and also Jerome's Radio As Paper blog featuring comics from his Radio As Paper mag.

Some pics of the opening of Everything Ends In Tears

http://nz.throwshapes.com/2009/10/13/photos-high-seas-everything-ends-in-tears/

Thanks Claire and Olly!

Review of Everything Ends In Tears opening on Einstein Music Journal

Thanks Nick & Sarah & Matt and everyone who came to the opening.

http://www.einsteinmusicjournal.co.nz/2009/10/13/megaheroes-golden-axe-live-photos/#comment-21706

Coming in November....

Ducktails/Ghostwave/Nigel Wright

Ducktails (USA)/Ghostwave/Nigel Wright
Saturday the 10th of October
Doors open 8.30pm
$10

Ducktails
Ducktails is the musical project of Matthew Mondanile originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey.
“On the other side of the globe, solo artist Ducktails approaches psychedelic music from a pop perspective. Born in Northern Jersey and a graduate of Western Massachusetts liberal arts magnet Hampshire College, Matt Mondanile constructs tropical mixed tapes from outer space.

Reached by phone before a show, Mondanile described his live performances as “like making a soundtrack to a movie on the spot.” Though his recordings are improvised, his live sets weave longer pieces together. Acting as a collagist, he uses samples and plays over them with a synthesizer or a guitar.

Asked about the influences of his work, Mondanile emphasized melody and a pop sensibility. He cited “oldies stations” on the radio as major touchstones. “I really like it when people can pick out melodies from the mush of sound they are presented with.”

Ducktails’ music shimmers and sparkles as interwoven and overlapping transmissions. Though he cites the solo work of Tangerine Dream member Edgar Froese as a touchstone, and has been in his share of punk and noise groups, Mondanile highlighted the significance of song-craft in neo psychedelic music.

Ghostwave:
Ghostwave is one of aucklands newest and most refreshing new artists, playing
an off-key blend of sunny psychedelic dances. Inspired by Lee Perry jams, Nintendo and guided by the ideal sound
in his head (like all artists making truly individual music), this is something you won't want to miss!

Nigel Wright:
Nigel Wright creates slabs of heavy drones, underlying rhythms trying to get out and sometimes succeeding, speakers sometimes complaining.... NW uses his laptop and guitar to aid him in creating these pieces with no particular beginning or ending points, more a filtering of a sound that already exists.
NW collaborates with Andrew Scott (half of Metal Rouge) as Nest, and with local artist Tim Coster as Cathedrals as well as helping to run The High Seas gallery/shop/venue with Auckland visual artist Sophie Watson.

Tickets available from undertheradar.co.nz!
http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/tickets/ID/647/Ducktails_(usa).utr

Everything Will End In Tears Exhibition and Comic Book Launch

Everything Ends In Tears is a collection of a bunch of Matt’s web comics and some previously unpublished longer pieces. Matt’s web comics can be seen on his blog:
http://guzumocomics.com/
Matt Emery has been making comics for several years in between working for the man and bashing out tunes with various music crews. Born in New Zealand but currently living in Melbourne, Australia.

Exhibition opens at 6pm
Live music from Golden Axe/Megaheroes/Stress Cadet from 7ish

Chris Watson/Richard Francis/Rosy Parlane

Chris Watson with Richard Francis and Rosy Parlane
Wednesday the 7th of October
8 pm $10
Free artist talk at 5.30

Chris Watson is a heavyweight in the avante garde world for his work with field recordings. A founding member of late '70s techno and synth-pop innovators Cabaret Voltaire and, later, ambient-industrial fusioners the Hafler Trio. In something of an odd switch, Watson left the music industry behind in 1985 to work as a sound recordist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He quickly branched out into production for film and television and has since handled field recording for a number of nature programs and documentaries, including David Attenborough's "The Life of Birds" which won him a BAFTA for best factual sound in 1998.
In 1996, after collecting hundreds of hours of location recordings from less accessible regions of the world, Watson returned to music production, releasing his first-ever solo album "Stepping into the Dark", on the Touch label. Actually a compilation of recordings of natural settings spanning from Inverness to Kenya to Venezuela to Cumbria, the release was lauded internationally and received an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. His second album "Outside the Circle of Fire" was released in 1998 and "Weather Report" from 2003 was listed amongst the Guardian newspaper's "1000 albums to listen to before you die".
In 2006 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Technology degree by the University of the West of England "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to sound recording technology, especially in the field of natural history and documentary location sound"

Edie Eve and Alex MacKinnon/The Absolutionists/Nigel Wright/Rachael Shearer

Edie Eve and Alex MacKinnon/The Absolutionists/Nigel Wright/Rachael Shearer
Saturday the 3rd of October
7pm
$5

EDIE EVE'S AND ALEX MACKINNON
Both residents of the super clandestination NONE in Dunedin, will be dragging our cochlea through a tide of tonal currents... filling the High Seas!
Edie Eves, a long time member of The Invaders and new member of The Aesthetics, work as a sound maker forges the lo-fi into the monumental; Alex, of the late Dunedin free... metal(?) band Dirt Room, works through an expanded guitar orientation into home-spun electronics; smashing both together surely sounds unabashedly southern in its trad-freenoise elements but is intended to create a tonal construction that... is probably the sonic equivalent of having a bath and shower at the same time.

THE ABSOLUTIONISTS
Are spectral-dance-voodoo-pulse-love-jam-space-mis-form-brothers/sisters, fuck the codifiers, fuck the expectayshin, fuck the fans, fuck the genre, fuck the puppy, no testification, free-determined fantastitude, festival flying up niceness art/life totality, fuzzy dance-bomb finger painting, less hesitance, miracle frequencies float the free sea's, H Bomb, HEX HEX HEX, peacock storm dance blisters, sweet charms, ringing gong chants and sexy salads, voodoo punk hippies speak the yelling vibes of beastial broadband jungle spazz evolution music from roots like volcano's and carved mountain abysses.

NIGEL WRIGHT
Creates slabs of heavy drones, underlying rhythms trying to get out and sometimes succeeding, speakers sometimes complaining.... NW uses his laptop and guitar to aid him in creating these pieces with no particular beginning or ending points, more a filtering of a sound that already exists.
NW collaborates with Andrew Scott (half of Metal Rouge) as Nest, and with local artist Tim Coster as Cathedrals as well as helping to run The High Seas gallery/shop/venue with Auckland visual artist Sophie Watson.

RACHEL SHEARER
"Rachel Shearer is an integral player in the New Zealand underground. Performing with Kiwi bands Angelhead and Queen Meanie Puss during the 1990s, Rachel entrenched her sound in the ears of adventurous stateside record collectors, recording for labels like Flying Nun, Xpressway and Siltbreeze. Rachel's solo performances as Lovely Midget created a transcendent world of shivering ambient sounds, distant ruptures and warm washes of analog sheen. Building pieces around aching tube equipment, and delicate strokes of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal hum, Lovely Midget's international appeal has far surpassed her meager output. Somehow crossing the paths of Brian Eno to Jason Lescalleet and Elanie Radigue to François Bayle with a personal intimacy and the lovingly woven aural tapestries New Zealand has become known for a sublime aural architect of a new order." - Forced Exposure

Radio As Paper #3 review

Thanks to Adrian Kinnaird for the excellent review of the launch and new issue of Radio As Paper #3.

http://fromearthsend.blogspot.com/2009/09/fleet-fm-radio-as-paper-3-launch.html

Photos of the exhibition coming soon.

Comics on K is coming...

The High Seas, Fleet fm, The Cross Street Carnival and the K Rd Business Association are proud to present: COMICS ON K; A New Zealand Comics Weekend. This event will take place on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of October, from 1pm to 7pm, a week before the Auckland Armageddon Expo.


COMICS ON K will showcase a group of invited artists, and include an exhibition of their art. All artists will attend both days of the convention to sell work and answer questions. The exhibition will be for the weekend only, and the art auctioned on the last day, Sunday 18th-around 5:30. Talks will be held on Saturday from 5pm by influential cartoonists Chris Slane, (cartoonist for the New Zealand Listener), and Dylan Horrocks, (respected author and artist of Hicksville).


For those unfamiliar with New Zealand comics and their creators, this is an opportunity to meet a variety of artists and sample their work. So far confirmed to attend are:

Dylan Horrocks, the international pinup boy for New Zealand comix, Dylan has had a long, and varied career that has garnered much praise and recognition. He is best known for his graphic novel Hicksville, which has been published in the United States, France, Spain and Italy.

Stefan Neville, a prolific, long time cartoonist with numerous titles to his credit including Dad and Tracey, New Dixon and City of Tales (with Clayton Noone). When not cartooning, Stefan performs music as Pumice, and has toured extensively-including trips to the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

The Sheehanbros, authors of Go Gorillas, the Long Man and the just completed Inhabitants-a work 7 years in the making. They recently took part in a group exhibition at the Bath Gallery in Parnell with Dylan Horrocks, Barry Linton, Tim Bollinger and comics-influenced artists Mark Braunias, Dick Frizell, Robert McLeod and Denys Watkins.

Mat Tait, author of Love Stories, a beautiful collection of short stories with a strong, spooky sense of New Zealand. Mat has been published internationally, having work featured in Kramer's Ergot, Comix 2000, and Studygroup 12, as well as local anthologies Loose, Pictozine and Radio as Paper.

Brett Willis, an extremely prolific Wellingtonian, Brett has numerous comix projects under his belt and is currently the editor of Bristle, the Wellington Comix anthology.

Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt authors of Tiny Kitten Teeth, a web-comic updated daily. Frank and Becky have recently returned from San Diego Comic-con and Mocca (a New York based alternative comics convention) where they were promoting their work.


For more info check out our blog http://www.comicsonk.blogspot.com