Thursday, 10 February 2011

Speedy Review Show.

The all important comicspot review timer.
The program that went to air on Feb 3 and now available from 3CR podcast here featured a whole slew of reviews. Here’s some details on the comics we talked about.

A lot of these comics and zines came from...

Sticky http://maildept.stickyinstitute.com/a
Bird In The Hand – http://www.zineshop.com.au/
Smells Like Zines – http://www.smellslikezines.com/

Jo reviewed
- Maude Farrugia – Hairy Bloke - “so sweet with a sealed section”
- Leigh Rigozzi – Stairway to Nowhere
- Filka Zines – Haitch 1 and 2. Bird Habit. torntranslations.com.au
- Wrong Button – Michael Sandford. michaelsandford.com “a button that’s been pushed that needs to be unpushed”
- A Week Of Perfect Conversation #1 : Gee Nah. (link anyone?)
- Melbourne: Open Mouse : Amy Devereux and Peader Thomas

John looked at
- Birds #2 – Suzy Pow, The Fetus, Catman.
- Beef Knuckles #4 – Rob, Bryn,Hon
- Crime Times Volume 1. Michael Sandford. michaelsandford.com
- True Story; no really - Alex E Clark. alexeclark.blogspot.com

Bernard gandered upon
- Spaceman Spaceman – Peader Thomas
- The Existential Baker – Elizabeth Tan
- Blackguard #3 The Crime Issue: – cover by Neale Blanden, feat Ashworth, Glenno, Anton Emdin, Ross Radiation, Stratu. blackguard23.livejournal.com
- Half tone heroes. Matthew Dunn. matthewdunnart.com
- Psychoderelict by J Marc Schmidt & Peter Townsand
- Dote by Bernie Slater (?) and Christina Costarides (links anyone?)
- Kevin’s Merino Jumper Story by Heesco.


Some Quotable Quotes?

“New Folk type zines”.
“Overcomplexification”
“I’m allergic to comic sans”
“How do you unpress a button?”
“Congratulations to Shaun Tan on his Oscar nomination”
“Luckily we are not strangeley deviod of comics to review”


And Don’t Forget...


My what a big...launch.

2 comments:

E J Zyla = Filka said...

Thank-you kindly for the fantastic review!

Michael Sandford said...

oh wow! I can't believe I hadn't seen this episode until now. Thanks for the reviews, guys!