WHAT CANBERRA: a mini-comic workshop with me

Posted on May 16, 2013 by elerimai

Hey guess what?

I’m going to be in Canberra in June AND thanks to ACT Comic Meet and Scissors Paper Pen, I’ll be giving a workshop at the ACT Writer’s Centre!

Y’all should totally come!

Here are the details:

Comics: structure, draw, print.

Scissors Paper Pen and ACT Comic Meet

With: Eleri Mai Harris
Actually literally days from studying at the Centre for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction,Vermont, Eleri Mai Harris gives a once-only workshop during her visit to Australia.

Thursday June 6th, 6pm-7pm at the ACT Writers Centre Workshop Room
Cost: $15 OR $10 for ACTCM members

To register, email writetoscissorspaperpen@gmail.com for a reserved place, and turn up on the day with cash in hand. You can just turn up, but we do like it when you book!

Spend an hour with Eleri Mai Harris in a one-off workshop while she’s in Australia. It’ll be a table of comics, a pen, paper, and a projector, and you braving an illustration of your own. By the end of the hour you’ll have your own zine ready to distribute. Materials and photocopier supplied.

Ink wash and watercolour comics: what, how, huh?

Posted on May 10, 2013 by elerimai

Back in 2008 when I first started really drawing comics, I signed up for an ink drawing class at CAE in Melbourne.

The class was amazing. I was hooked on ink washes, using them to add texture to my panels and pretty soon EVERY comic I created used ink wash or watercolour.

Fast forward to my arrival at CCS where I discovered for the first time the beauty of the bitmapped line… and realised the heartbreaking consequences of the way I work. Continue reading →

Riptide: Sunken City comic

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Posted on May 6, 2013 by elerimai

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Here is a comic I contributed to the Sunken City anthology… forgive the format, it was designed for a book, not the web. You can buy a copy of the beautiful anthology Sunken City here.

#americanadventure goes #downunder

Posted on March 25, 2013 by elerimai

ADORING FANS,

On June 1 my beloved friend Fifi is marrying a hippy name of Jarrah (he seems like an okay bloke) on a beach or something back home in Tasmania.

Fifi and myself back in the year 2000 when my hair was all one colour.

Clearly it’s important for me to be there – to live draw the entire event, tell embarrassing stories about Fifi’s colourful dawn of the new millennium youth and be a witness in the ceremony in a fancy frock.

The catch? I am a broke cartoonist studying for a masters on the other side of the planet and I can’t afford the airfare.

This is where you come in. I have made 400 copies of this mini-comic called #americanadventure detailing episodes of weirdness, humour and hi-jinx in the Land of the Free.

This is what a bunch of #americanadventure comics looks like on a table.

I need to sell all of them to cover my Qantas oriented debt.

They’re 16 pages, silk screen covered tiny things and they’re five bucks.

You can buy one here.

If you are willing to wait for me to bring your #americanadventure comic to Australia, instead of paying $1.10 for postage, I will be making myself available in four cities there:

MELBOURNE – MONDAY MAY 27
HOBART – MONDAY JUNE 3
CANBERRA – SUNDAY JUNE 9
SYDNEY – TUESDAY JUNE 11

I will also be attending some comic conventions in North America before I head #downunder:

MoCCA in NYC (you’ll find me at the CCS table) APRIL 6-7
wandering aimlessly at TCAF in Toronto MAY 11-12
and tabling at MeCAF in Maine MAY 19

Just select Micronesia as your country of origin and let me know which city you will be visiting me in.

Panel from the comic featuring New Mexican toonie Josh Lees.

Alternatively, if you just want to buy me a beer and have a natter, THIS IS THE TIME.

BEER! COMICS! HILARIOUS ANECDOTES ABOUT LIVING IN AN TINY AMERICAN TOWN WHERE IT SNOWS SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR!

Specific venues to be announced on the Facebook event when I am told by those in the know where cool kids go these days.

Liedekijn: painting in the post

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For my friends in Canberra, I’ll be part of Liedekijn: a group sequential exhibition at The Front Gallery in Lyneham opening on March 28.

Those wonderful kids at ACT Comic Meet have grabbed a bunch of super talented artists to illustrate a Dutch fairy tale, The Song of Heer Halewijn.

Each artist has a different page and there will be an art book for sale with all the pieces collected together.

Here’s a sneak peak of my work for the exhibition…

Josie and Archie eat your heart out: meet The Nowsills

Posted on February 18, 2013 by elerimai

When you start the MFA program at the Center for Cartoon studies, seniors speak in hushed voices about the assignment to end all assignments, the group project that generates tears and infighting, destroys friendships and shatters fragile sleeping patterns.

THE SILVER AGE PROJECT.

In the first class of second semester you are split into groups and seemingly arbitrarily handed a genre of Silver Age Comic to emulate precisely in two weeks.

TWO WEEKS.

In the actual Silver Age, writers, pencilers and inkers had a whole month to create an issue and proper editorial staff- but they didn’t have Photoshop or Steve Bissette.

While there was no sign of tears or infighting, after two weeks of 12 hour days my group found ourselves printing in the basement lab at 5am the day the project was due.

And our project was something else – none of us had ever done anything like this before.

Thrown back into the year 1966 our task was to create a TEEN MUSICAL COMEDY that would outsell Archie.

I have to admit, I never thought I would ever know as much as I know now about 1960s band comics from Josie and the Pussycats to The Monkees.

And so meet The Nowsills our Silver Age comic babies..

Thanks to my team Juan Fernandez, Simon Reinhardt, Aaron Shrewsbury, Ben Evans and Alexis Dexter.

They should be credited with not killing me during this process.

Seizure Magazine Music Edition: I am totally in it yo

Posted on November 30, 2012 by elerimai

If you’d like a nice shiny magazine full of interesting cool things, then buy a copy of Seizure‘s Music edition, coming out soon available for pre-sale now.

If you don’t like shiny things, coolness or anything fun you should buy a copy anyway because I WILL BE IN IT. YES THERE WILL BE A COMIC OF MINE IN IT.

And it’s funny. And it’s about Meredith Music Festival in Victoria, which I will be missing this year because I am not in Australia.

If you don’t buy it I won’t ever get asked to do another comic again and my career will crumple in a ball and I will be run over by a train here in White River Junction and no one will ever remember I existed and that is terrible so PLEASE DON’T LET IT HAPPEN.

Love Eleri

Eleri Mai Harris

The cartoonist formerly known as Zombie Pirate Journalist