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This Sunday 12 May Pikitia Press will be attending the Illustration and Comic Art Festival Chromacon from 9am – 5pm at the Air NZ Foyer, Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Sunday will see the offical launch of some new releases from the publishing arm of Pikitia Press:
Toby Morris' Dreamboat Dreamboat.
Toby Morris is an illustrator, designer, art director and comic
artist recently returned to New Zealand after 9 years of living and
working in Melbourne and Amsterdam. He made his start by drawing and
self publishing comics from the age of 13 and currently works as an
advertising art director by day and an illustrator at night.Toby's style has roots in the clear line
school of comics, but in more recent years has evolved into a looser and
simpler but still very graphic look.
Sarah Laing's Let Me Be Frank #1 and #2
Sarah Laing is a novelist and graphic designer who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She has had two books published, and a third, The Fall of Light, is due out in July. She began drawing comics seriously in 2003, when she read Persepolis
and was reminded how much she loved the medium. She kept comics diaries
of her life as a new mother. These graduated to the internet in 2010,
when she was the Frank Sargeson writer in residence in Albert Park. Her
blog, Let me be Frank, quickly gained a following and she began contributing to magazines such as Metro, Little Treasures and Booknotes. Sarah is now working on a graphic novel about Katherine Mansfield.
James Davidson's Moa Volume One.(Collecting the first three issues of Moa and extras.)
James Davidson, creator of Moa, a comic series set in a distant New Zealand where
history and myth collide. An Art teacher by day, James has a passion for sequential art and plans to convert the children of New Zealand to
the comic form. With his plucky heroes Possum von Tempsky and Kiwi
Pukupuku, James hopes young people will be brought into the world of
comics he so enjoyed as a child.
Another mini comic joint from the gutter by M.Emery.
These titles will all be available from the Pikitia Press Store next week.
We'll also have a limited selection of Steve Ditko's contemporary work from Robin Snyder and titles from Milk Shadow Books including Tim Molloy's It Shines It Shakes And Laughs and Mr Unpronounceable Adventures.
Click to enlarge the Chromacon floorplan below. Pikitia Press will be located at H2 and H3. James Davidson and Sarah Laing will be attending the Press tables most of the day, catch them and Toby Morris at Adrian Kinnaird's Best Of New Zealand Comics panel on Level 4 at 9:30am.
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