A fun time was had at the Emerging Writer’s Festival. We’d just like to say thanks to the organisers. Jen attended many of the sessions throughout the week and will no doubt be making comments about that.

For my part I spent yesterday afternoon at the zine fair in Fed Square sitting next to Dan Reed from the fabulous Crumpleton Experiments (who doesn’t seem to have a webpage I can link to). Ive Surrock and Phil Bentley were also there running booths and Jason Franks and Matt Emery (greatlocal creators) popped by for chats.

Trev says: Hey folks, this weeks comic left me with a bit of a conundrum. at 10 panels with was pretty dense, but cutting it in half would mean you’d have to wait a full week for one page’s worth of payoff.

With that in mind, I split the page in two at the last minute* and this week there’ll be two updates. Check back Wednesday the 8th for part two of this page or follow us on twitter and i’ll remind you all!

*so last minute i haven’t told Jen yet, sorry for breaking your page Jen.

Trev says:

It’s mid August which means Jen is halfway through her epic challenge to read a graphic novel a day and review it on the wonderful Inside A Dog website, run by the The Centre for Youth Literature, State Library Victoria.

It’s a website that promotes reading and this month Jen’s resident reviewer. She started out the month reading Bone so she already had me and then has followed it up with books like The Middle Man, the Arrival and even the ever so popular Scott Pilgrim (lord I found that film an hour too long but that’s another story).

I’m hoping you head over there and give Jen lots of love. Comment, agree OR disagree or just find something you’ve never heard of before.

Comics rule and I just want you to get involved.

Jen says:

For August I’m the resident blogger at the State Library of Victoria’s Young Adult Lit site, Inside a Dog, to read and review YA-appropriate comics and graphic novels. I’m hoping to reach well beyond my own meager understanding of this field by taking advice from folks who know better than me.  So, tell me what I don’t know – what great graphic novels either for or about young adults (13-18 year olds) should I be writing about?  Leave a comment here, or email me on jenbreach (at) gmail (dot) com.  The longer your list of recommendations, the happier you’ll make me!     Thanks!