Oops! Too W00ting to notice Friday.

Me so sorry! Late post!!
I guess I was too busy W00ting and receiving my prize yesterday to remember to post up the latest cartoon!
Speaking of which... The latest panel is up at the Kiwimancomics webppage!


The prize I received from the Library Graphic Novel Competition is called 'The Big Book Of Essays' which is something to come out of the Real Art Roadshow.
It contains prints of NZ art and essays about the creators, all work that featured in the roadshow.

Have a good week, promise to post on time next week.
Matt

I Won a Comp!!

Wow! I just found out that I have been named the Grand Winner of the Library Graphic Novel competition for 19+!
I thought I would put up a celebratory post, W00t!

Here's the image again, I made this version of it for my Illustration Blog,
which I am using as an online portfolio.

If you'd like to look at the strip without the copyright message click the Library comp link in the top paragraph.

Well I'm really bouyed up by this I can tell you!
Yay!

Have a great week!

Matt.

Friday the 20th Webcomic post uploaded!

Check out the latest panel! At KIWIMANCOMICS !!!


Also if you're in town in Wellington on Saturday (August 21)
there is the August 2010 Comics Meeting at The Bristol level 1 by the fire place or in the pool room At 5:00pm

Don't forget also the MYGALAXI ART MARKET #3 at Basement, 39 Dixon St
Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd August 2010 - 11am-5am both days
Check out the website for more info.
www.mygalaxi.co.nz

As blogged about by me earlier!

Lots to do and see!
Peace out
matt

A New Blog: My ILLustrious ILLustrations!

Hey gang!
I have a new blog which I have set up to be an online portfolio for my new venture into freelance illustration.

I'll be alerting possible clients to the illustration blog so that they can see more of my work than can easily be included in a tearsheet.

So take a gander over at
http://matthewkellyillustration.blogspot.com/
And if anyone should mention that they need a freelance illustrator to pay fairly for a job let 'em know of my blog and my newly set up email for taking up illustration jobs:
matthewkellyillustration@gmail.com

Cheers!

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART ONE!

Hey y'all!
The latest panel has been posted over at www.kiwimancomics.com
continuing our most parallel narrative so far!!!
Will Rhonda R. Rearson evade capture and reveal Kiwiman's
secret persona to the world? Or will the Collector's plans to auction Kiwiman's secret persona to the highest bidder succeed first? Or will Anton McGreedy's plan to escape the lethal interests of The Smuggler by breaking Kiwiman out of captivity and relying on the Wingless Wonder to rescue him from the Collector's remote pacific island work first? And what about Kiwiman's plans to round them all up and arrest them in the name of saving endangered species of Aotearoa New Zealand?
Oh it's all so complex!

OTHER THINGS!
Wellingtonionians have the opportunity to discover a marvelous underground art dimension ! Mygalaxi Gallery holds a monthly underground art market, serving as a venue for affordable, original art work from local artists.
The next market is Saturday and Sunday 21-22 August.
MYGALAXI ART MARKET #3 at Basement, 39 Dixon St
Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd August 2010 - 11am-5am both days
Check out the website for more info.
www.mygalaxi.co.nz

Don't forget to tell art lover people you know about it so that they can help support local artists!


THAT LIBRARY COMPETITION I ENTERED

Well my submission was officially accepted and is now in the running to earn me a prize!
Meanwhile, it looks like the only entry so far this week, David Tulloch's Fumeti or 'photograph-comic' of lego people, is probably going to take out this weeks division as there is no other contender. The competition does not seem to attract much competition - which is of course ironic. But I found the latest entry amusing and thought it was taking the story - such that it is - in a funny new direction! Let's hope people keep the thing going!

Allright Kiwimaniacs!
Till next post,
"Let's be careful out there'.

Kiwiman delivery!! What's on, shows and comps.

Latest strip has been posted over at Kiwimancomics!

I have not yet blogged here outside of the Friday Kiwimancomics strip posts, which is a bit sad of me because I've been doing other stuff and I could have blogged about it. Mea culpa.

Anyway at least it gives me somethings to talk about other than the latest strip here today!

To wit...



Library Graphic Novel Competition I've entered this competition, here's a panel of fully coloured comic strip in a different style. It has been suggested to me that it is a more commercial looking style than the stuff I usually put up at www.kiwimancomics.com, the competition works as follows, each week artists can submit four panels that continue on from the last week's winner. The winner is chosen from all the entries, however as of this writing there has been no other entry for the week, of course anything could change between now and Monday, but I guess if nobody else puts up an entry before Monday morning they'll take my entry to be the week's winning one.
It has been suggested to me that this is a more commercial looking style than the stuff I usually put up at www.kiwimancomics.com.
It did this in about 3 (tiring) days and was trying to sort of fit it in (in terms of style) to what had gone before.

As for shows, Clair Harris (creator of the "True Lives" fumetti comics) and Jess Johnson (who has a lovely little comic strip piece in Pictozine 2) both have work in the New Artists exhibition "Knowing You, Knowing Me: New Artists Show 2010 10 July - 21 August" in the Artspace gallery in Auckland city.

Also in Auckland, Titus Books' publishing of Mike Johnston's latest book, "Travesty", was launched last night, the book contains illustrations by Daren Sheehan of the Sheehan bros. (who completed their latest comic series "The Inhabitants" last year).

Lots of stuff going on in our cherished isles!
I'll try to keep you posted!
Big Love