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Melbourne Underground Comics and Animation Art Exhibition - About the Organisers

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Bernard Caleo
Bernard Caleo is a Melbourne comics publisher, writer and artist. He is proprietor of Cardigan Comics, maker of the comic books Yell Olé! and The False Impressionists (with Brendan Tolley), Café Ghetto (with John Murphy), and the editor of the giant romance comics anthology, Tango. He writes and draws the 'tragi-comic book' "I Knew Him", an extended work in progress, new scenes of which are released online every few weeks. Bernard Caleo is also a contributor to many other publications, including Conceived on a Tram.

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Jo Waite
Jo Waite has been a Melbourne based comic artist/cartoonist/illustrator for more than 20 years. She has been paid to draw comics for Streetwize communications, Going Down Swinging, Arena Magazine; and to illustrate for Community based organizations such as the Merri Creek Management Committee and Reclaim The Night. Her comics have appeared in many small press compilations such as Tango (the giant romance comics anthology); and Pop Culture & 2 Minute Noodles. She has published her own comics, short stories and diaries since 1986 and her minicomic One Sock; the Lovesick Devil is up to issue #5. She has also shown work in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at fortyfive downstairs and the Linden postcard show.

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Nicole Sketys
Nicole Skeltys is an electronic noodler, composer and comic writer. She is best known for her work in cult electro-femme duo B(if)tek who were releasing cutting edge electronic grooves locally and internationally for 8 years (1996-2003). Nicole released a vinyl record series called Stoner Classix in the early noughties which featured her own solo compositions as Artificial, psychedelic artwork and a new edition of comic Pigeon Coup with every volume. Nicole's latest band Dust are a 5 piece psychedelic folk rock band whose debut album 'Songs' is being released locally through Psy-Harmonics (August 2007). www.myspace.com/nicoleskeltys

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Aaron Doty
Aaron Doty is a Melbourne comic artist and former freelance graphic artist. He is best known for his artwork on Pigeon Coup, in collaboration with writer Nicole Skeltys. He also does solo comic art, including the series "The Adventures of Mister Squiggle", featuring the children's puppet show character in number of dream-like episodes. His day job as a bureaucrat gives him a sharp sense of the absurd and Kafkaesque. www.myspace.com/pigeoncoupcomix

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