West End funny-book emporium Junky Comics will tip its hat in tribute to long-running local anthology series Phatsville Comix with an exhibition of underground comic art sourced from the publication's storied history taking over the store this August.
Featuring a spread of original artwork taken straight from Phatsville's pages over the past 13 years and 19 issues, the exhibition will come to life from 4pm on Sunday, 16 August, remaining at Junky through till month's end, so there's plenty of time to take a curious peek at some of the city's best fringe print art. Anthology creators Ben Sea, J-Stew, Glenn "Bad Teeth" Manders and Giles will all be exhibiting their work at the show, with a number of talented Aussie comics creatives, including Ben Hutchings, Glenno Smith, Jase Harper and Dean Rankine, also lending their pieces to the spread.
If this is your first dalliance with the fine folks at Phatsville Comix, you are in for a treat. Swiftly outgrowing its student-life roots as a passion project for a group of animation students into a regular (if infrequent) collection of the city's artistic pulse, a litany of surrealist, free-for-all narratives and art styles that can only be grouped together in any sense because of their physical roots; otherwise, it's as random as it gets, and all the more wonderful for it.
Check out the publication's Facebook page to get acquainted, and make sure you head down Junky Comics way from 16 August to see a slice of Brisbane arts history up close and personal.
