Watch out for the BFI Anime weekend in May http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/anime_weekend

and check out the Preview: The Sky Crawlers Fri 16 Apr 20:40 NFT1 - http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/regular_strands/previews/preview_the_sky_crawlers

SICAF 2010 International Digital Cartoon Competition
: Chance to post your works on the www.toondosi.com

SICAF 2010 International Digital Cartoon Competition is sponsored by SK Telecom ‘Toondosi’ (www.toondosi.com). The selected works for final competition will be presented on the Toondosi website. The Grand Prize, the Gold Prize, and the Creative Story Prize Winner will have opportunity to post their works on the website. Show your potentials in Web Cartoons, Scroll Comics, Mobile Comics, Digital Illustration, Creative Story. Make your dream come true!

Entry Deadline
Feb 24, 2010 - Apr 20, 2010

Categories
Web Cartoons/ Scroll Comics (Short Story, Long Story)/ Mobile Comics/ Digital Illustration/ Creative Story

* Prizes
Total 30,000,000\ (Grand Prizes 10,000,000\) Foreign exchange rate is subject to change. (Korean currency: Won)
-The Grand Prize and the Gold Prize Winner will have opportunity to post their works on the web-site (www.toondosi.com)
-The Creative Story Prize winner will have opportunity to post their works on the web-site (www.toondosi.com)
-All prize winners will be published on international advertisement booklets (English, French, and Japanese)

*All materials should be submitted to
- Official Website: www.sicaf.org
- For any questions, please contact: E-mail: digitalcartoon@sicaf.org Tel: 82.2.3455.8411
- Please submit your work to our official website, www.sicaf.org. (Off-line submission is not available.)
- The official languages of the competition are Korean and English.

Or (as cartoonist author Kate Evans writes) if you don't have an independent book retailer nearby, it's on amazon.co.uk!

It's my latest book The Food of Love and it's very useful if you are, or are about to become, a breastfeeding mother.

And other people like reading it too, including childless blokes, which surprised me, until someone pointed out that it has naked bosoms in.

As well as that, we have:

funky cartoons about babies
a step-by-step visual introduction to latching on a newborn
a little on the socio-political and historical context of breastfeeding in our society (just because I draw pictures doesn't mean I'm thick)
some sly digs at Gina Ford's Contented Little Bootcamp
stuff about why it's lovely to sleep with your baby
stuff about why it's really bloody annoying to sleep with your baby
the most comprehensive and readable chapter on breastfeeding complaints of any book in print (that's a challenge, there)
solutions for post-natal depression that could save your sanity
and The Mama Sutra - advanced breastfeeding positions
And, all this in a blingingly shiny gold book that is designed to stay open at the page, so you can read it with your hands full.

So I'd quite like you to:

buy the book (publisher: Myriad Editions, ISBN: 9 780954 930950)
or order it at your library, if you're too credit crunched for spare cash
and/or review it on amazon (I suppose, technically, you're supposed to have read it first)
and blog it, and recommend it to others, and buy more copies, and give them away
and forward this link to anyone else who might be interested.

The Food of Love - because babies don't act like Tiny Tears and we don't look like Barbie dolls.

Cartoon county members Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin's new book, Dream Date is being published this month by Running Water Press. This amusing stocking filler will be launched on Tuesday 9th December at the Komedia Studio Bar. All the necessary information can be found here:

http://www.runningwateronline.co.uk/dreamdate.htm


The book launch (£2 entry) will be accompanied by live music from Bird Engine, Nervous Breakdown and Geesin and Leopard’s very own, Passiondale. Alcohol and complementary snacks shall be available and Dream Date itself will be on sale for the special price of £3 (rrp £4.99).

Do come along as both Tim and Fraser are desperate for people to come and enjoy themselves!

Don't miss out on the great events at the ICA for this year's comics season (tho Art Speigelman's appearances appear to be already sold out, sadly...): check out http://www.ica.org.uk/comics and curator Paul Gravett's site at http://www.paulgravett.com. On Saturday 22 November there's a comics self-publisher's fair - free admission - at the ICA, and you can catch local hero Tim Pilcher on a panel about Erotic Comics at 4pm on Sunday 23rd. Our man from Hastings, Zeel, is busily preparing for his Magic Lantern Lecture this Tuesday evening 18th November 7pm at University of Westminster, Upper Regent Street (turn up at 6- 630 for free tickets). Catch that if you can for “Work in progress toward a 7 minute zombies, mutants and humans wrestling in Orbit EPIC. it really does seem to be turning into a sort of mixture of COMICS, magic lantern show, web animation and avant garde jazz-metal.”