Gday everybody!
I learnt to read by looking at (and slowly learning to read) Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge adventures.
I had a big old box full of them that sadly got left in my childhood 'Secret Headquarters' my brother and I built in the patch of rainforest behind our house. (The whiteants found the box and turned it into a mound of dirt)
Every school holidays my Mum would hire a TV (we didn't have one in the house until I was 16, sad hey?) and I would watch every cartoon possible. But then the holidays would finish and I would go back to comics and books.
Living in Australia the comic supply was extremely limited… TinTin, Asterix, and the occasional superhero stuff.
To this day I don't like superhero comics (except for the modern Spiderman).
Because of this limited supply I avidly read lots of comic strips. The first character I seriously tried to draw was 'the dog' from a New Zealand strip called 'Footrot Flats'.
At Uni I studied film and discovered I could make good money out of teaching classes of kids at the local schools how to draw cartoons. (my Mum, being a teacher fostered any creative spark with 'How-To' books so I was adept at all the techniques.)
That was back in '92 and I have been teaching ever since all over Australia.
During that time I wrote and drew a comic strip called Zamba Daze about a family and its dog, Illustrated various business signage and marketing material, a few book covers, etc. and tried my hand at various business ventures.
I have always told stories in my classes at teh schools. Some of these stories began to develop over the years and I decided in about 2001 to set up a web site teaching cartoon art which would also be the vehicle for those stories to form and develop further.
Two years ago some money came into my life so I purchased a G5 Quad and a Wacom Cintiq 21UX, learnt how to use photoshop and Carrara 5 (a 3D program) and I was off…. I spent the last two years hitting the severe learning curve of digital art and website construction. The site is online but membership is slow so I googled 'on-line comic' and found DD.
So here I am….
I absolutely love some of the new styles of comic being published these days, both on-line and in hard copy, and look forward to reading more of members' stuff.
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I'll fix it soon as I get time, I've only just worked out how to do it tonight.
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Good Day, Professor.
I think I popped out of the wound reading. I was one of those kids that used to get grounded from my books and my love for them has not faded with time. I can remember reading "Richie Rich" comics and of course, "Archie." I like a good "Superhero" comic, myself.
Lots of Australians here at "The Duck." I'm not the artist of our "team." I'm more a wordsmith. I taught for several years, but now I write. Can't wait to see your "stuff." Welcome to Drunk Duck.
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