The Reeperbahn

I am a Tom waits fanatic and his music inspired me to start a comic based on one of his songs 'The Reeperbahn' from his 2005 album 'Alice'. More to come.

Adventures in Zineland

I finally finished my first ventures into zineland. One is the first part of a long story I have written, the other is a kind of picture and story combined as a poster. Despite all the frustrations of Lusaka, one thing I am able to do is get copying done fairly cheaply – who knew?

So I now have blog where people can buy the zines, here it is with more descriptions of the zines themselves.

http://joyoftextzines.blogspot.com

The Art Pages – An Update

Work is going well, we already have two articles currently being edited as well as photos. So far contributors have been respectful of deadlines and been attending our meetings.

The key work right now is to look for funding for subsequent issues of the paper. We have managed to scrape together enough to publish our first issue but after that we need another source of funding. We are looking into some grants from embassies that have a keen interest in supporting the arts, but these grants can take some months to be approved. So we are have to be creative. We have a possible idea for raising some money but this idea is still in its early stages, stay tuned for more!
Despite these financial issues we are so heartened by the amount of support we are receiving from artists who feel this kind of newspaper is long overdue. For them and many others, we will continue the work.
We are also working on a website that will help promote The Art Pages, this is still very much under construction and we have to make allowances for our temperamental internet, but it is definitely getting there.