Jan 19 2003
Don’t know what’s up with the pic in the last post, but it doesn’t want to showup and doesn’t want to let me edit it. Here we have the image again:
Archive for January, 2003
Jan 19 2003
Well, I’m lucky to have a town left…
Canberra has had one completely screwed up weekend. Bushfires descended on parts of the city like a nightmare. Four hundred homes destroyed. Four people dead so far.
From my home, we had fires to the north, west and south of us. It never really got that close, but we still had the darkness, and the red hellfire, and the serious worry. We lost power for about nine hours as well.
Scary shit.
Here’s one pic I took – this is 4pm on Saturday afternoon. Didn’t do a thing to the picture:
Jan 16 2003
Another quote about MEENA, this time from Justin Gray, co-writer of “21 Down” and “The Resistance” from DC/Wildstorm comics:
“Meena is a story that won’t be popular in a country that is warming up the engine of war, it humanizes and puts a face to an enemy we’re told we have to hate, it takes away the generalization of those us v.s. them ideas that make it possible for thousands of young men, neighbors, friends and family members to be shipped off to fight for oil.”
Thank you Justin!
Jan 10 2003
Had a great new review for Meena by comic pro Steven Grant at his Permanent Damage column at Comic Book Resources. This is excellent stuff – there’s so many levels of compliment and flattery here. This will be used constantly in any future pimping I do:
“This mini-comic slipped out of the pile last week: MEENA: An Immigrant Tragedy (Stephen Turner; $2). Bleak and thoughtful, filled with reflections on racism in Turner’s homeland of Australia, it compares favorably with Sara Ryan and Steve Lieber’s exceptional ME AND EDITH HEAD; while artist iKE%mORPH isn’t as accomplished as Lieber, his work’s pretty effective here. It’s a brief tale of a young documentary filmmaker and his key subject, a Afghan doctor who escapes the Taliban for what he believes will be freedom in Australia, and both pays and extracts a terrible cost for it. It’s disturbing on several levels, and a fine job. Read it.”
I also saw copies of Meena for sale at Kings in Sydney, the best shop in the country and one of the best in the world. It’s a small thing, but it’s encouraging to see… 
Jan 02 2003
Happy New Year all!
I feel good about this upcoming year. There are things afoot for me creatively, and for people I know. The fact that I know these people is part of the good vibe of course…
I’ve been away for nearly two weeks over the Christmas period – first my girlfriend Sallie’s parents on their farm in rural NSW, then my family at our holiday house in Port Stephens. Simultaneously relaxing and tiring, but a good break all the same.
All sorts of Christmas presents of course – the last one being from my brother – the Buffy musical episode “Once More With Feeling” soundtrack CD. Seen the episode of course, but it’s great to listen to the intricacy and cleverness of the songs on CD. It’s amazingly clever stuff, and somehow really inspirational as well. I want to work with people this clever, this interesting and this creative.
There’s a lot of new projects moving for me now. A lot of work to be done, but I think that MEENA has shown me and everyone else that I can do it.