resources

Find IRL comics in Melbourne:

• All Star Comics Melbourne (city)

• Sticky Institute (city)

• Minotaur (city)

• Comics ’R’ Us (city & Windsor)

• Santa Carla (Brunswick)

• Evil Empire Comics (Coburg)

• Readings Books (various)

• Lobos Collectables (Northcote)

• Collectors Edge (Moonee Ponds)

• Secret Headquarters (Beaconsfield)

• Alternate Worlds (Bayswater)

• The Comic Place (Frankston)

• Incognito Comics (Cheltenham)

• Your local library (various)

Learn how to comic:

• Squishface Studio

• Express Media Toolkits program

• Signal

• Graphic Narratives (Swinburne)

• Graphic Narratives (University of Melb)

• CAE

• TAFE

• Go to social drawing nights or join a studio to learn skills with mates

• Follow your fave artist’s social media because they might do workshops

• Draw, and draw, and then draw some more – then show your pals and ask for their feedback 

buy online, get inspired:

• Glom Press

• Milk Shadow Books

• Gestalt Comics

• Silent Army

• Helio Press

• Zine Gang Distro

• Tree Paper Comics

• The Nib

• The Comics Journal

• The Tiny Report

• Study Group Comics

• High-Low Comics

• The Beat

• Make it then tell everybody

• Brow Books

get yr tools of trade:

• Manga Arts

• Deans Art

• Eckersley’s

• Daiso (stock Jet Pens and other art supplies)

• West Art Supplies

other stuff …

• Australian Cartoonists Association

• Melbourne – City of Literature

• Join a gang! All Star Women’s Comic Book Club

• Make some moula! Pricing guide at ACA

• Watch! Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie in-convo