It was a superb weekend for the ACA Cartoon Conference in Melbourne.
I cycled in via St Kilda seafront
Biked over the bridge that shows where Australians have immigrated from
Jason Seiler gave a great presentation on how he does his caricatures
He does a lot of preparatory sketches from posed photographs and good reference
Jason Seiler used some of the ACA guys to show how he observes people to do their portraits
Leigh Hobbs gave one of the best presentations, talking about how he ended up doing his marvellous children's books
Michael Jantze was another of the guests from America (also Stan Goldberg) and we would have loved to have seen more of his work - great animation
The last photo is from the ACA web site and you can see more here.
It was fantastic to meet more great cartoonists this year, including the multi-talented and charming Michael Jantze, who wasn’t able to come last year due to a bit of a plane ticket snafu…
I didn’t take my camera to the Stanleys, but Table 4 was the best crowd. David Pope got the award for Cartoonist of the Year and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer chap. We were surrounded by talented Melbourne cartonists – Oslo Davis, Andrew Weldon (who is resisting the siren call of the internet), Matt Golding, Leigh Hobbs and Judy Horacek (who has scandalously never been nominated, but whose book is getting rave reviews). I was chuffed to get nominated again in the comic strip category, even though I lost out to my nemesis, Tony Lopes (please, Tony – enter Insanity Streak in the single panel division and give me a chance!). At the end of the evening, we were hand-drawing business cards to give to each other. Considering that a fair few of us were tired and emotional, I’m surprised how well these turned out.
recycling the Stanleys brochure at the dinner
