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If you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss the Pixar exhibition currently shoing in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. From the website:
Over 500 sketches, paintings, sculptures and storyboards reveal how
Pixar’s much-loved characters and worlds are brought to life. In
addition to these one-of-a-kind works by artists and sculptors, the
exhibition includes spectacular immersive environments and interactive
experiences developed […]

Zap! Pow! Blog! is a three-day online blogging event that brings together some of Australia’s leading comic creators to chat about their work, their inspiration, their favourite comic heroes, and whatever else takes their fancy!
Our guest illustrators will be writing for the blog and responding to comments for two and a half hours each over […]

The Heroes and Villians exhibition is being shown in Melbourne over the next few months. Sounds like it would be worth a look if you’re in town:
Heroes & Villains: Australian comics and their creators is a free exhibition at the State Library of Victoria that explores the colourful, and sometimes controversial, history of Australian comic […]

In Australia, there is a well known and prestigious portrait competition known as the Archibald Prize. The competition is an oportunity for some of Australia’s finest artists to be told how bad their work is by a panel of people that wouldn’t know one end of a brush from the other.
Around seven hundred entries are […]