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NAKEDFELLA COMICS #8
($4.00 AUS from David Blumenstein / PO Box 2229 / Caulfield Junction / Victoria, 3161 / AUSTRALIA. Web:
www.nakedfella.com)
There's some pretty amusing work in this David Blumenstein production but my favorite is a 16-page "24-hour comic" drawn entirely in pencil. There's just something about uninked pencils I like a lot. They usually seem much more lively, more organic, pleasing. It's not that the inks throughout the rest of the book aren't good, but I think pieces like this make a good case for abandoning ink pens – at
least occasionally.
The second-longest strip (10 pages) is a sarcastic look at a trio of ineffectual (well, mostly) culture jammers that has a few good jokes. I'm not completely certain whether the jab is aimed at culture jammers in general or just the lame ones, but this is based on a short film,
Culture Jamming, which you can view at his site. I wanted to watch it but got tired of waiting for my crappy computer to load it.
Other strips deal with his unruly Jewboy hair ("Jew & 'Fro" – har!), John Wayne, exactly
why one should strive for great wealth ($500 porn) and bar-hopping. It's fun stuff. Oh, and although the not-so-great scan of the cover above is in black and white, I'm pretty sure the copy you pay for will sport a color face.
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