BLOTTING PAPER The Comic: Production Report No. 30

Art, Blotting Paper, Comics, printmaking August 10, 2019

NEWS…CONFIRMING THE COMPLETION OF MY COMIC, NOW GRAPHIC NOVEL…BLOTTING PAPER! I have completed the final stage of the writing and editing of my comic…or should I say…graphic novel…as what began as a single origin publication has ended up in half a dozen units! Now all six chapters will be compiled into the graphic novel format. This includes the previous three separate comics that made up The Cat Cooking Comics In Kappabashi No.1 No.2 and No.3 that were not initially intended to form part of the BLOTTING PAPER comic. The title remains Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions Of Doctor Comics. All six chapters will be made available on my Blog. Below are some photos from the original launch back in 2012 at Hondarake Full Of Books bookshop in Sydney. Eight years later the work is essentially complete. Here is a photo from the original launch.

Product and packaging of the debut issue at the original launch at Hondarake Books. (Photo-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

The moment of the launch…on a Saturday afternoon…in a graphic bookshop in Sydney…beneath a canopy of my woodblock fish prints.
That’s comics scholar and colleague Gene Kannenberg, Jr. onscreen in a live cross from the USA launching the comic.
The package deal, my comic with an original print and bookmark in a specially printed bag. (Photo-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
A display of my postcard art was installed as a decorative corner in the bookshop. (Photo-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Some of the woodblock prints from my animation TOXIC FISH were used as a decorative canopy at the launch. (Photo-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

                 

(All text, photos and artwork-©2019 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 and 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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