The ComicBook Factory

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

2009-12-17T15:04:00.008+13:00

My favourite photo from the gig... The Drab Doo-Riffs and Kitty, Daisy and Lewis played in the Montechristo Room, Auckland, 15th Dec. Check out more photos I took for Cheese on Toast at the websoite HERE.

Connie Radar Daily 030

2009-12-11T11:52:00.010+13:00

UPDATE: I got a nice email back from NASA (well technically CICLOPS) saying "Dr. Porco thought your comic was cute."
Dr.Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Imaging Team on the Cassini mission to Saturn. ...Made my day.

Framed and Ready to Hang

2009-12-10T11:56:00.003+13:00

Look, my friends, I was sent this photo of my paintings (nicely framed up) from their new owner.

Hotwire #3 Preview

2009-12-10T10:21:00.007+13:00

[The following is copied from Fantagraphics Flikr page]
The Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and trangression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day.

Hotwire the third leaps off the page from the get-go with David Sandlin’s “Infernal Combustion,” about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane’s bit of freight-hopping grit, “Spike.” Underground comics legend Mary Fleener returns with “The Judge,” a true tale about her own life fending off thugs… with a .38! Meanwhile, Hotwire Captain Glenn Head spins the biography of German surrealist Hans Bellmer as a down and out Vaudevillian in decadent Weimar Berlin. R. Sikoryak turns in a brand new batch of "Masterpiece Comics", as Dennis the Menace stars in Hamlet! Other creepy delights: Rick Altergott delivers a fable of a child-molesting clown pleasuring himself in the suburbs, while Matti Hagelberg’s “Passion of Atte” is a modern-day Dante’s Inferno of comics.

There’s also more knockout work and crazy visuals by Mark Dean Veca, Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan, Mats?!, Max Andersson, Sam Henderson, Steve Cerio, Stephane Blanquet, Doug Allen, Michael (Tales Designed to Thrizzle) Kupperman, Danny Hellman, Mack White, David Paleo, Chadwick Whitehead, Onsmith, Karl Wills and Jayr Pulga. Looking for laffs? A psychic jolt? A partner for your next trip? Look no further than… Hotwire!

138-page color/b&w 9" x 12" softcover
ISBN: 978-1-60699-288-3

In stock: December 2009 (subject to change)
In stores: December 2009 (subject to change)
[Pre-orders now but more likely in stores early 2010]

100 CLAMS Exhibition

2009-12-02T19:07:00.005+13:00

Copied and edited from the High Seas Blog:

[The High Seas] are having a christmas show, because everyone love buying things at christmas time, right?? 40 or so contributors lovingly hand-picked, dewy fresh vine-ripened artists bursting with $100 goodness!! Gulp..
Here's a wee talent sampler to get you art salivating:
Tim Molloy, Karl Wills, Johl Dwyer, Becky & Frank, Imogen Taylor, Erin Forsyth, Boe Busch, Andy Conlan, Sam Thomas, Aleksandra Petrovic, Cinzah Merkens, Glen Leslie , Beck Wheeler , Matt Emery and tons more
The exhibition opens on the 11th of December at 6pm. Refreshments provided.

"Oh For Christs Sake"

2009-12-02T16:09:00.008+13:00

I went to a Dr Sketchy life drawing "class" last night. The theme was a burlesque "evil" christmas story that they would periodically hold for a 5, 10 or 20 minute sketch. It was a fun evening, and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their drawing chops. I won a DVD from one drawing and later on managed to make the lady model say "Oh for christs sake" after she saw my last sketch of the evening. We had to incorporate the Joker (from the Batman comics) somehow into the picture...

Hotwire #3 New York Exhibition

2009-11-25T17:56:00.008+13:00

Hotwire #3 comic anthology from Fantagraphics will be out in February, I've got a 2 page Connie Radar comic inside (with colouring assistance by Shoo). As with previous issues, there will be an exhibition at the Scott Eder gallery in Dumbo; a signing party at the comic store Desert Island in Williamsburg and a live comic show at MOCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art), lower Broadway, NYC. If time and money permits, I'll be at all three.

Underworld Animated # 01

2009-11-23T11:35:00.009+13:00

Hooray! The first animated version of Kaz's Underworld comic strip is now online! Click HERE or go to www.mylittlefunny.com. While you're there join the mailing list for instant notification of future episodes...

Connie Sketch

2009-11-22T19:15:00.003+13:00

Love Hurts - Exhibition Poster

2009-11-01T00:01:00.000+13:00

Poster to the exhibition I'll have work in. Other artists contributing are Adam Craft, Liesje, Tom McMillan, Hamish McLougham, Misery, Deus, Kelly Thompson, Sarah Larnach, Ben Stenbeck, Chris Sheehan, Steph Lusted, Seth Wood and Sarah Florence. No idea who did this great poster, it'll be up around Auckland a week before the show...

Telecom Advert

2009-10-27T15:44:00.003+13:00

Here's the new Telecom advert I helped out with at Watermark...

Devil Painting

2009-10-19T09:32:00.004+13:00

It took awhile but I've finally finished this commissioned painting. I think I might put it on t-shirts and cups. More Connie Radar dailies soon, just wrapping up some other projects...

Muay Thai Photography

2009-10-12T12:57:00.007+13:00

Not exactly comic book related but something else I like to do when the opportunity presents itself. I was asked to photograph a kickboxing event on Saturday at the ABA stadium in Auckland, here's my favourite pic from the evening. This was taken towards the end of the second round, he was beaten to exhaustion and was obvious (even to him) he wouldn't last the next round...
More photos HERE

Connie Radar Daily 029

2009-10-08T02:46:00.001+13:00

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2009-10-07T20:31:00.001+13:00

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2009-10-06T17:01:00.001+13:00

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2009-10-05T19:23:00.003+13:00

Connie Radar Sunday Funnies 05

2009-10-04T21:53:00.003+13:00

Connie Radar Daily 025

2009-10-02T23:14:00.001+13:00

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2009-10-01T14:57:00.001+13:00

Connie Radar Daily 023

2009-09-30T22:42:00.003+13:00

Laboratory!

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2009-09-29T23:03:00.002+13:00

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2009-09-28T09:28:00.000+13:00

Connie Radar Sunday Funnies 04

2009-09-27T00:50:00.000+12:00

Connie may have got a couple of facts wrong, see if you can figure out her mistakes...

Connie Radar Daily 020

2009-09-25T10:47:00.001+12:00