Corysaur

Here is a bit of an update for the new year. Tickets to Florence have been purchased. Come July, Ill be hopping on a plane to Europe and be spending a month studying at the Fine Art Academy in Florence, Italy. Getting some serious oil painted figure work on. This is a big deal for me as it'll be my first overseas experience, and most of it is being paid for by the prize money from the cartoon competition from last year. Rural farm boy from Nu Zeeland is going out into the wide world at last. The second Chomacon is on the horizon for this year. Seeing as I'm on such a tight budget, I doubt Ill be making any of the Armageddons, but that'll be

Goodness. Things are happening. If you told me six months ago I'd be doing editorial cartoons for magazines and newspapers I'd have had trouble believing it. I mean, I'm the dinosaur guy right? I won a competition for the NZ Listener magazine back in April and all kinds of exciting things have come from it. - http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/art/young-cartoonist-award-results-announced/ I wouldnt know where to begin listing everything that's gone down, but I am putting the cash prize towards going to an art atelier school in Florence, Italy next year and squirreling away all the money I get working on commissions and cartoons towards it as

Hey guys. Just dropping the word on a great little con being held up in Auckland, New Zealand next month. Its pretty much the first of its kind (in NZ), an expo aimed specifically at comics and illustration. Check the website, its worth it just to scope all the sweet talent going, and maybe Ill see you there ;) www.chromacon.co.nz Keep that fire burnin' Corysaur