Paper Lifeboat image by Jo Waite 2009
The Paper Lifeboat - an exhibition of original comic art as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009
Of course, we all know that art saves lives. But for comic book artists, the situation is more extreme. Making comics is the only thing that keeps us this side of the pale. This exhibition of original art will show you, in appalling detail, the craft that keeps us afloat.
Curated by Jo Waite
At the Town Hall Gallery, Booroondara Town Hall,
corner Glenferrie and Burwood Roads Hawthorn
Opening Thursday 24 September 6 - 8pm
Running from Wednesday 23 September - Sunday 4 October 2009
Town Hall Gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 12 midday - 5pm
Programs on Saturday 26 September:
All welcome, all ages.
2 - 3pm talk: 'How comics saved my LIFE!'
Testimonials, tragic and comic, from the lifesaving world of comics.
3 - 4.30pm draw: 'Draw for your LIFE!'
Join in a comics jam and draw comics like your life depended upon it.
This exhibition is now over but there are photographs of the works, taken by the curator of the Town Hall Gallery, the excellent Ms Mardi Nowak, here.
This exhibition featured drawings, paintings and prints of a bunch of grotesque characters by a bunch of Melbourne comic book makers: Neale Blanden, Michael Fikaris, Sarah Howell, David Blumenstein, Tim Molloy, Bobby. N, Kirrily Schell, Bernard Caleo, Tolley, and Andrew Weldon.
On Saturday the 4th of October we ran a couple of programs:
>>>an Ugly talk considering some of comics' masters of ugly: Basil Woverton, Ralph Steadman, Peter Bagge
>>>an Ugly draw-off where people who came along got to draw ugly folks on beer coasters = fun!
This show, our first for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, was subtitled 'Melbourne Underground Comics and Animation Art Exhibition', and was organised by Jo Waite, Bernard Caleo, Aaron Doty and Nicole Skeltys.
Large-scale (A1) comic book pages composed of panels from different comic book makers' work were hung up.
Jo Waite painted a long frieze directly onto the wall, composed of characters from various comic book makers' books. The criterion here was that the character needed to be an avatar, or a stand-in, or visual nom de plume of the original author.
The passageway to the dunnies was papered with old proof pages from previous issues of Tango.
We ran some programs at this one too:
>>>Friday 28 September was our opening, plus the launch of comic books 'Pigeon Coup' by Aaron Doty and Nicole Skeltys, and 'Tango7: Love and Sedition'.
>>> Friday 5 October was 'Animart', a chat with animators who are also comic book makers: Mandy Ord, Kirrily Schell, David Blumenstein and Picknick
>>> Friday 12 October was 'The Great Australian Graphic Novel', a chat between Nicki Greenberg, Bruce Mutard and Erica Wagner
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