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The Army This Months Feature on Swamp

Swamp — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:16 +0200

This month Swamp takes a look at life in the army.The swamp army. Recruitment and training are the main occupations in this swamp land defence force. Fully trained they will be a deterent to any enemy threatening their marshy shores.

Until then they are only a danger to themselves. The Swamp website has pages and pages of its best Army cartoons in full colour for all enthusiastic about the military or not to enjoy!

There are more cartoons like this in the Military Cartoon Album or the entire gallery on the Swamp Website. www.swamp.com.au

See the Swamp animation short on YouT...

Swamp — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:31:45 +0200

See the Swamp animation short on YouTube featuring the Rats.

It was done by two young animators, Xue Sen Wong and and Steven Smith, to see how the Swamp characters transferred to animation with the Adobe Flash program.

They did the voices and music themselves.

Both these guys have recently graduated from the Animation College of Southbank, Brisbane Queensland.

This is the original Sunday that the animation was based upon.

Click on link to see animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlrmJ_XoZf4&feature=related

Gary Clark Interview

Swamp — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:21:56 +0200

This past week Gary Clark, the creator of Swamp, was interviewed for the cartoon website, Comics Coast to Coast.

This site features alot of great interviews you can download and listen to. They have interviewed among other famous names , Patrick MacDonell who does the 'Mutts' strips. If you are a real cartoon fan then do yourself a favour and check their site out as it has alot of great material and information on cartooning.

This website is hosted by three cartoonists, Tom Racine, Brian Dunaway and Justin Thompson who do all the interviewing themselves.

Gary was their fourth international guest. They were put on to Gary by a young Swamp fan, Declan Byrne, who suggested they interview him. He even suggested some of the questions asked by the 'Coast to Coast' crew.

Leprosy Mission ReCyckle

Swamp — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:56:54 +0200

ReCyKle is a fundraiser and a competition run by The Leprosy Mission Queensland. It is a fundraiser in that the team members involved collect donations for the Mission and it is a "Static Bike Race" competition where all the teams ride (race) one of our 14 exercise bikes to see which team can ride the most kilometres in 60 minutes. ReCyKle is open to teams from Schools, Churches, Sporting Groups and Businesses.

Help people with leprosy break the cycle of desease, rejection, disability and poverty.

This year ReCyKle is aiming for its biggest year yet. With 2008 marking the '15th annual ReCyKle'.

This milestone event is set for the date of Saturday 31st of May 2008.

Swamp is a leading charity for this cause, donating merchandise for the prizes and competitors.

If you want to learn more about ReCyKle visit www.leprosymission.org.au and follow the links to the ReCyKle page.

Swamp website www.swamp.com.au

As with everything we seem to do in...

Swamp — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:39:55 +0200

As with everything we seem to do in life, whatever the task you always have to start wit a first step, a rough copy or in this instance a Cartoon Rough.

Cartoon Roughs

Some of the best drawings I do never get to go to print. These drawings are called "Roughs". They range from very quick thumbnail sketches hastily scribbled to visualise a gag idea. To a more carefully drawn sketch that will later be traced and inked as the finished cartoon.

Roughs are often drawn very fast in the hope that this will help capture a sense of action you want your finished cartoon to have.

- Roughs take only seconds to draw.
- Doing the final inking over the top of the pencil rough take a lot longer.

However, sometimes a rough is drawn many times and rubbed out many times before I get it the way I want it.

website located at www.swamp.com.au

Inspiration of Swamp Gary Clark

Swamp — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:33:42 +0200

Inspiration

The inspiration for Swamp is a childhood spent living in a suburb that was close to many parks, bushland areas, creeks, dumps, a tannery and a sludge pond. It is the inspiration for Swamp.
For me these places offered endless possibilities for adventure and fun. The creek offered eel fishing, swimming, rafting and catching tortoises.

The ponds also offered yabbies (crayfish) and on occasion quality goldfish for our own aquarium. The creek bank was where we had our cubby houses… and our private gathering place, the Mulberry Tree. Many a feast and fight of mulberries were had up in its branches.

The local dumps were a treasure trove, which we regularly scrounged through for the much sort after prize, a discarded bicycle frame or wheel. Once or twice these highly prized items were to be found there. The tannery offered an element of heart pumping danger. Once, we were chased by tannery workers wielding large knifes when we dared to trespass into their back paddock. Of course, the tannery also was the source of the smell that wafted into our homes, whenever the wind blew our direction or whenever it rained.

We once discovered the source of the smell one Saturday afternoon. It was a sludge pond, where the fat and by-product of the tanning process settled on its surface forming metres of a thick crust of green-brown foam… we were greatly impressed!!!

Little by little, as we grew up these places changed.

Our yabby pond was filled in to make way for an industrial shed. The tannery closed down. The ponds are gone and today the creek is a concrete channel. The rough bushland is now neat with trim tree-lined bicycle ways. The parks where we flew and crashed many a model aircraft are still there and most importantly, so are the memories. Somewhere embedded in every Swamp cartoon strip, the things that inspired me in childhood, still show through. For instance, every fly head first in a cowpat, every time Ding nose-dives into a crumpled wreck, every time a dump rat discovers new treasure and every off-beat character. They all have their origins with a bunch of kids… knee-deep in the wonderful world I call Swamp!

website located at www.swamp.com.au

Swamp. The Story Behind The Popular News...

Swamp — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:16:43 +0200

What is swamp about?

Well to begin, it's not about one character. It's about an entire community of characters. Of course some characters do stand out from the crowd, but each has it's own unique story… from the least to the greatest and for each one, life means something different. For Ding Duck, it means the pursuit of his life long goal of flight. For the Flies, it's finding the next cowpat. For Old Man Croc, it's learning how tolerate his necessary but annoying Nit Picking Bird and for Mort, an innocent pre teen frog, it's about trying to find where he fits in a messy world.

Put all these characters together into one muddy, sludge filled, backwater and you've got the down to earth stuff of what life is about. So, what is Swamp about? It's about life, in a Swamp.

For everday cartoon strips, fun stuff and merchandise go to www.swamp.com.au

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The Army This Months Feature on Swamp

See the Swamp animation short on YouT...

Gary Clark Interview

Leprosy Mission ReCyckle

This year ReCyKle is aiming for its biggest year yet. With 2008 marking the '15th annual ReCyKle'.This milestone event is set for the date of Saturday 31st of May 2008.

Swamp is a leading charity for this cause, donating merchandise for the prizes and competitors.

If you want to learn more about ReCyKle visit www.leprosymission.org.au and follow the links to the ReCyKle page.

As with everything we seem to do in...

Inspiration of Swamp Gary Clark

Inspiration

Swamp. The Story Behind The Popular News...

What is swamp about?

This year ReCyKle is aiming for its biggest year yet. With 2008 marking the '15th annual ReCyKle'.

This milestone event is set for the date of Saturday 31st of May 2008.