I was on the Comic Spot the other day.

Yay!  John Retallick and Jo Waite chatted with me about This Is Not Art live via the telephone and it was great fun.  The Comic Spot is a monthly feature of the DIY arts show which airs on 3CR community radio.  It’s all about what mad s**t is going down in the Australian comics scene.

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Rappin’ about comics on ABC radio…

Mal Briggs from Impact comics, Jon Sommariva and Ben Hutchings (me) talk to Peter J Casey about comics on ABC radio one balmy Sunday afternoon.

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Comic Book Funny #3

Self-indulgence is the watchword in

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BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN

Episode #3: Look At What You See

http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode03.mp3

In this hour-long slice of cartoonist overkill, we report on how the Comic Book Funny events at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival went, and present chunky excerpts of Week 2’s discussion, featuring Benno, Glenn Smith and Ross Tesoriero (sorry about the audio quality). Also, we finally talk a bit about local comics we like rather than bagging out crap ones.

Beyond this,

• we chat about our recent visits to Sticky, Gallery 696 and the Melbourne Bar & Bistro (”Melbourne’s Cumhole”)
• Ben updates us on his drawing board situation
• we try out some product placement
• Ben’s Tootleg Boy music gets some well-deserved media love
• David honks the horn for “Comics In A Day” at the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival
• Ben tells of his encounters with FAMOUS PEOPLE!
• and we end on a song!

Links:
Ben Hutchings – http://www.effect.net/geeen/
Glenn Smith – http://glennoart.com/
Ross Tesoriero – http://www.weirdgalaxy.com/
Aural Text on 3RRR! Thanks to Alicia Sometimes and Stella Glorie for saying “Sing A Song Of Bum Sex” and “Shlong Surgery” live on air – http://www.rrr.org.au/onair.php?pid=21
Trumpet ice cream – http://www.tiptop.co.nz/our_brands.asp?category_id=6
Sticky zine shop – http://www.stickyinstitute.com/
Gallery 696 – http://www.696.com.au/
Brunswick Bound – http://artabase.net/gallery/24-brunswick-bound
Patrick Alexander – http://chickennation.com/
David Tang – http://www.eclectical.org/davidtang/
stikman – http://www.stikmancomics.com/
Paul Elliott from Polyester Books asked the question about how some comix have good art but bad stories and vice versa – http://www.polyester.com.au/
Supanova Pop Culture Expo – http://www.supanova.com.au/
Armageddon Expo – http://www.armageddonexpo.com/
Melbourne Bar & Bistro – http://www.melbournepubs.com/v/465/
Any comics we mentioned without their own website can probably be found at Tabula Rasa Australian comics gallery – http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusComics/
Try a Google search for Gerard Ashworth. I did, and found full copies of some of his comics online, in PDF format!

Tootleg Boy tracks in this podcast:
- Little Bit Of Jesus

“The Never Ending Story” was written by Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. We adapted our arrangement from a MIDI file, author unknown.

Special thanks to our new robot announcers.

Comic Book Funny episode 2!

Apologies for the mobile phone shenanigans in this episode of

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BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN

Episode #2: Don’t Be Shame, Be Game

http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode02.mp3

In this episode, we are sex-obsessed. We talk about the comics in free youth magazine STREETWIZE and how its spin-off, JAILWIZE, helped inmates get laid safely, we discuss the least erotic comic book ever made in Australia and even many of Ben’s Tootleg Boy music tracks are about sex. Sexy!

Also, we plug our own stuff again, touch on the giant “Life: Be In It!” ball and classic Aussie cartoonists, there’s plenty of swearing and David impugns the reputation of a dead cartoonist. Plus an exclusive interview with William Shatner!

You can download Ben’s music at his website. Here are the tracks used in this podcast, so you know which ones to get:

Sing A Song Of Bum Sex

• I Am Saucy
• Pop Punk Is So Exciting
• Shlong Surgery
• I Rode To Woden
• There Is Nothing Like A Sex

Go ahead and comment below if you feel like it. Or send your audio responses to david, at nakedfella dot com.

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Comic Book Funny

Because the public demanded it!

the amazing podcast!

BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN

Episode #1: Have A Big Wank!

Ben and David inaugurate their possibly ongoing podcast. Featuring an exclusive interview with Stan Lee, talk about getting your comics out to an audience, news about how comics are invading the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a number of naughty excerpts from Lord Of The Rings.

http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode01.mp3

WHERE STUFF’S AT

0:54 – selling your comics to people?
7:37 – ‘Tales From The Pub’
15:47 – Lord of the Rings: gay?
18:03 – Comic Book Funny, the Comedy Festival show
27:52 – Comics Craft!
28:10 – “interview” with Stan Lee
32:50 – sign off

LINKS

http://www.glennoart.com/
http://www.nickigreenberg.com/
http://www.effect.net/geeen/

Go ahead and comment below if you feel like it. Or send your audio responses to david, at nakedfella dot com.

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