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About Me

"The wise are seldom comprehended in their own nation."

Family of Sex began in Craccum, the Auckland University newspaper, during the "Stick-figures and Bustickets" year of 1989. (The same year as Cornelius and Roger Langridge's angry midget pet, Knuckles the Malevolent Nun.) There have been five collections.

My name is Jill Vickers and I'm admin. for Corn for this page. He says hi. (Don't you?) Yeah, he does. I've known the bastard for years and I'm happy to help out.

Picture above: Corn thinks of this as me. It's after Frank Robbins from a Dracula Lives. (A bit like if he'd inked Robbins.)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Opposite column: Sketch page including some Igor Kordey plus pasted on faces done with a brush; Page 5 of Family of Sex !, straight from Craccum; FOS 5 (I call it the Happy Pagans cover); A un-lettered title page from a chapter of Catcher's Maze; FOS 1 (Sarah Lloyd in Grafton Cemetery, sharpened photocopy of a photo); Two drawings of toys that populated the living room of Scanlan St, approx. 2001; FOS 2 (Devra Petowski); Page 10 0f FOS 2; FOS 3 back cover: Arcadia, Symonds Street in Auckland, NZ, where Corn's plays Vampire Tales I & II and the FOS play were staged (Note: Knuckles the Malevolent Nun was at the Little Maidment at Auckland University); FOS 4, the programme to the FOS play, cover by Roger; Razor 4 (the Calendar Girl cover assembled by Corn and guest editor, Graeme Romanes. Corn always used the big page numbers after that - they even made it on the wall of the Auckland Art Gallery when two pages from Kafka Day were blown up huge and painted onto the wall); RAZOR 5 (the Suffragette/Your Rights/My Rights cover - contains my favourite Associates piece Bleak by Corn and Dylan Horrocks; 17 pages); Tisco Jam, the back cover of Razor 9: Roger Langridge draws every NZ comic character they could think up (featuring forty-something pages of the end of Joe Dole, Tisco George's walk to Heaven and the two-page origin of Knuckles reprinted on the last pages of No More Mrs Nice Nun - drawn in large part by the extraordinary Fred the Clown creator, Roger, and a number of others and no, I'm not naming all the bloody characters); Razor 9 (Argus the Last Vampire); Page 6 and then 5 of FOS 5 letters section, The Postman Always Calls Twice. See if you know any of the names. I'm big on Nocenti and Doucet.) Below is an inked-in, half-finished page from Catcher's Maze. I can see P. Craig Russell in the linework. And is that drink I can see in ruling the bottom panel?

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous, Freaks and Geeks, Kim Possible, Spongbob Squarepants.

Heroes:

Janet Frame, Mary Leunig, Charles Schulz, Bill Watterson, RenÃ© Magritte, Dylan Horrocks, Roger Langridge, Ramona Fradon, Julie Doucet, Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), Frida Kahlo, Diane Arbus, Byork, Ab Fab. Oh yeah, and Corn.

My Blog

Rodin's Sisters, Catcher's Maze, and Lightfoot, the Eyebow and Deathday Lady

MORE CORNELIUS STONE ART & STORIESRodin's Sisters: an unused cover for The Open Society magazine; the closing page without lettering of Gone is Gone;Lady Sand investigates the Catcher's Maze; Kelly is...
Posted by Family of Sex on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:34:00 PST

They Were the Same Price as Newspapers and Milkshakes

THEY WERE THE SAME PRICE AS NEWSPAPERS AND MILKSHAKESA post from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Board at Alvaro, with Cornelius "wandering down memory lane." Edited by Jill Vickers. (Note the title...
Posted by Family of Sex on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:09:00 PST

For 4: Blossum Child, Catcher's Maze, Kafka Day and Gone Is Gone.

For 4: Blossum Child, Catcher's Maze, Kafka Day and Gone Is Gone.Looking at four pieces of CornOnce upon a time, there was a massive project and it's name was CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. Children in a whol...
Posted by Family of Sex on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:16:00 PST

World Without Comics - a short session about not buying comics

WORLD WITHOUT COMICS by Jill VickersThere were years without comics. Poverty doesn't help, but that wasn't the only factor. The 90's in particular was a dismally uninspiring period. But Bone by Jeff S...
Posted by Family of Sex on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:59:00 PST

Family of Corn interview - highlights from a Darren Schroeder 2001 interview.

Thank you Darren Schroeder and Silver Bullet Comics. Edited by Jill Vickers.Back in the nineteen-eighties the local comic scene in New Zealand was just starting to function. The on going anthology Str...
Posted by Family of Sex on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:11:00 PST