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, Sydney that included the publication 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)

Note Board. (Photo © 2013 Michael Hill)

Display Board. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill)

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

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

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

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

Sana. (Photo-© 2013 Michael Hill)

Sana. (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill)

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Katie Pye as Adelaide Whye and those boots…! (Photo-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill)

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

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

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 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)

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Creator and former Director of the Master of Animation course at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation and a PhD 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 donated 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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