COMIX WEEKEND IN WELLINGTON
Local comics have a big weekend coming up, with the NZ Comix Weekend settingup shop on the 19th and 20th of April at the Southern Cross as a complementto the big budget local and international line-up featured at the ArmageddonExpo. The NZ Comix Weekend has been quietly running alongside Armageddonsince 2005, organised by a loose collective of artists who live all over thecountry but gather in Wellington for a couple of days of exhibitions, comicsselling and creating, talks and networking.
As well as the events at the Cross on Saturday and Sunday, Cuba Mall comic shop Graphic will host an exhibition/launch – ‘Triple Threat’ – of comic artists Robyn E. Kenealy, Claire Harris and DRAW’s new work, with the opening party kicking off theweekend at 5pm on Friday. This year newcomers on the creative space scene, Spacething, join the Comix Weekend and launch their comic and zine lendinglibrary on the Sunday. Spacething is a weekend-only D.I.Y publication shop and social space, stocking an eclectic mix of small press publications,music and art, and their Adelaide Rd cubbyhole often hosts bands in the backroom to launch exhibitions, easter egg hunts and the like.
Visit the Comix Weekend site at nzcomicsweekend.blogspot.com for a timetableof events and venue information, and look out for talks by local Mat Hunkin (creator of the Comics on the Fringe street poster strips) and DylanHorrocks (he’s big in France!) as well as comic jams – basically acontrolled explosion of comics creating on the fly.19th - 20th APRIL
SOUTHERN CROSS BAR, 30 ABEL SMITH ST, WELLINGTON
11am-7pm Saturday and Sunday – Comics sales, jams and talks
FEATURED EVENTS:
• "TRIPLE THREAT" (comix launch and weekend opening) 5:00-7:30pmFriday, Graphic
• TALKING COMICS 5:00-7:00pm Saturday, Southern Cross
• SPACE THING - all weekend. Midday Saturday exhibition opening andnew window unveiling, Comix Library launch Sunday, Spacething
• NZ COMICS AT ARMAGEDDON - all weekend, TSB Bank Arena
Southern Cross bar, 30 Abel Smith stGraphic 106 Cuba st
Spacething 171 Adelaide rd, Newtown
