BLOTTING PAPER The Comic: Production Report No.16

Art, Blotting Paper, Comics November 1, 2013

This post covers some glimpses of the works on display and visitors to the exhibition Blotting Paper: Works On Paper 18-29 September at GAUGE Gallery in Glebe, Sydney. It included the publication and launch of the second issue of my artist book/comic Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions Of Doctor Comics, Chapter 2: A Blot On His Escutcheon.

Xander Black and friend -(Photo © 2013 Michael Hill)

Xander Black and Alison Van Hees -(Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Note Board. (Photo © 2013 Michael Hill)

Display Board. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Mayu and Chie. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Mayu and Chie. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Some of the prints. (Photo © 2013 Michael Hill)

Some of the prints..framed or as postcards. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Sana. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Sana. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Cartoons and copies of Blotting Paper #1 and #2. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Research based cartoons and copies of Blotting Paper #1 and #2. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Composer Nicole Kim. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Composer Nicole Kim. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Postcards in sosaku hanga style. (Photo © 2013 Michael Hill)

Printed postcards in sosaku hanga style. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

With Masashi Owada. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

With Masashi Owada. (Photo-©2013 Louise Graber)

 

Blotting Paper #1. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Blotting Paper #1 with woodblock. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Louise Graber and Imogen Yang. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Louise Graber and Imogen Yang. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Alexis and Craig Simmons aka Space March. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Alex Harris and Craig Space March Simmons. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Cartoons and toys. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Cartoons, toys and postcards. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

Katie Pye as Adelaide Whye. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Katie Pye with my Adelaide Whye art! (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

POP-UP TOY & COMIC sale sign outside gallery. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

POP-UP TOY & COMIC SALE STREET POSTER
Sale sign outside gallery on a sunny Saturday morning. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

Did you see this exhibition? If so, I would love to hear of your impressions of the show and of my art…and/or of this post about it. You can post to this Blog, Michael.

Chasing Vaughan Bodē comics-Michael Hill with Nic Beatson and Bodē tattoo. (Photo-© 2013 Louise Graber)

Chasing Vaughan Bodē comics- Dr. Michael Hill with Nic Beatson and his Bodē tattoo. (Photo-©2013 Louise Graber)

The Bodē tattoo. (Photo-© 2013 Louise Graber)

The Bodē tattoo. (Photo-© 2013 Louise Graber)

Liz Pozega and friend. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Liz Pozega and friend. (Photo-© 2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

 

(All text, photos and artwork-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation plus a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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