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Panel Posted Friday 30th July 2010
LATEST KIWIMAN COMICSTRIP PANEL!
Salute! Eager Reader!
AUTUMNAL SALUTATIONS!!!
The final chapter of "Kiwiman: Crisis on Finite Islands" is now available in NewGround #12!!! On sale now from Gotham Comics and DMC.
NZ GOVERNMENT HID HECTORS DOLPHIN DEATHS.
Well this popped up a little while ago, and it doesn't offer much chance for confidence in the right wing government leading New Zealand at the moment: Forest & Bird is shocked to discover that the Government kept under wraps for six months the deaths of two Hector’s dolphins in commercial set nets. Read more at the Forest & Bird web page.
Don't forget that you can tell the New Zealand government how you feel about their treatment of endangered native species!
If you have something to say about the Hector's and Maui's Dolphins situtation and the way the government of New Zealand is handling it write to the Minister for Conservation, Kate Wilkinson!
Email: kate.wilkinson@national.org.nz
Website: www.katewilkinson.co.nz
Phone: (04)817 6819 (Parliament)
Phone: (03)3107468 (Electorate)
BONUS MATERIAL!
This sketch was produced at the 2010 Armageddon Convention held in Wellington! Click the image to see the larger version over in the special features area!
KIWIMAN AVAILABLE IN WEBCOMICS AND PRINTED BOOKS!!
Welcome Wingless Wonder Watchers! It may interest you to know that Kiwiman
Is available in both printed and web-published form! Kiwiman has appeared
in 3 copies of the Auckland NZ produced comic book anthology, 'NewGround'
and can be obtained via the publisher's webpage, DMC.
So take a look at their site and track down your very own copies of the
serialised KIWIMAN story : "Crossover on Finite Islands".
The site also offers info on submitting your own comic book material.
So if you have a hankering to get published in print-form yourself check
it out!
Jeremy the publisher doesn't charge anyone for publishing costs, but there
is no payment for material.
We here at KIWIMANCOMICS would love to hear what you think about the
site and Kiwiman in general so please drop us a line to tell us what you
think:
adminATkiwimancomicsDOTcom
(You'll have to replace the capitalized 'AT' with the @ symbol and the
"DOT" with a . there, sorry for the inconvenience but it keeps
us from being Spam-Bombed by the ubertech underworld)
Mike Allred (creator of MADMAN)
was one of the comic book guests at the recent Armageddon
Convention held over the first weekend of April, along with his charming
wife Laura. They are two of the nicest people I have ever met. They hung
out with the New Zealand comic makers and even came along to the NZ
COMICS WEEKEND and the NZ 'industry' awards night! Mike was such a
swell guy that he even drew a picture of KIWIMAN gratis, just because
we gave him a copy of NewGround Featuring KIWIMAN Crisis on Finite Islands
part 2.
They are a lovely, lovely couple who made the Convention the absolute
hands down best we have ever attended!
All the best from Kiwiman's newly relocated creative team!
~BONUS MATERIAL~
Bonus convention sketches from the Armageddon Expo 2010 !
Mike Allred does Kiwiman!
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Armageddon 2009!
This is the reverse side of a flyer I made up to advertise Kiwiman, and (as you will see) to spread the word about the plight of the Maui's Dolphin!
This is the "B" side of the flyer I gave away at the Armageddon 2009 convention. I am planning to make a small comic about the Maui's Dolphins to giveaway in future. So stay tuned and I'll let you know when they're ready. I'll post it as a PDF so you can print it off and give it out to people, that way you too can help to save the Maui's Dolphin! Don't forget to write to your MP and the ministers of Fisheries and Conservation, to get them to act now and toughen up the fishing regulations where Maui's and Hector's Dolphins live!
This is the front page of a Kiwiman Flyer.
I was giving this away as a freebee at Armageddon October 2009. Click
on it to see the larger version.
Here is a convention sketch of Kiwiman I made while I was at the show,
sitting at the NewGround stand and at the New Zealand Comic Collective
stand. I'm not sure what's going on there, but it looks like Kiwiman is
in some hot space water! Click it to see a larger version!
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The Dire Situation Confronting Maui's Dolphin:
The
image above from a Kiwiman story called 'Crisis on Finite Islands'
depicts the dire situation confronting Maui's Dolphin, New Zealand's (and
the World's) most
rare and endangered species. The story is being
published in the comic book, Newground.
Maui's can live up to 20 years but take 7 years to mature and only
produce 1 calf every 3 years. Most females only have 4 or 5 calves in
their lifetime. Unfortunately, Maui’s dolphins are susceptible to entanglement
in set nets used by recreational and commercial fishers. Protecting the dolphin In May 2008, then Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced regional
bans on set netting, drift netting and inshore trawling to safeguard
the dolphins in their dwindling range, but the law suit, led by the
Federation of Commercial Fishermen, has led to more needless deaths;
in May this year, another Hector’s dolphin was found drowned in
a deep water set net off the Kaikoura coast. If you see set nets within the closed areas please contact the Ministry
of Fisheries on 0800 4 POACHER (0800 4 76224). The Facts in the Case of the Maui's Dolphins:
The NZHerald have an article by
Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson called "The
facts on Hector's and Maui's dolphins" depicting the science
behind monitoring the effects of fishing practices on the Maui's and Hector's
Dolphins. You can find out
about the
Maui's dolphin and efforts to save this critically endangered marine
mammal on this DoC NZ
site. "Crossover on Finite Islands"
parts one and two are available now in the anthology comic book "New
Ground" ISSUES 9 and 10a Click here
to order # 9 and here
to order # 10A online! NEW GROUND # 12 also on sale now from all good NZ comic
shops (and especially from Gotham
Comics in Onehunga Auckland New Zealand). Have a fantastic week and don’t forget to write
your MP about extending the sanctuary for the Maui’s Dolphins
and Hector’s Dolphins! Feed back about this site can be sent
to : adminATkiwimancomicsDOTcom Keep checking the page for more Kiwimanic rewards!!!
Maui’s dolphins are the rarest marine dolphin in the world, an estimated
111 still survive today.
Fisheries regulations now ban set netting within four nautical miles
of the coast from Maunganui Bluff (north of Dargaville) to Pariokariwa
Point (north of New Plymouth).
Set nets are also prohibited in the Manukau Harbour entrance west of
Puponga Point at Cornwallis, to a point 0.5 nautical miles north of
Kauri Point (eastern end of Big Bay), and back to Kauri Point.
Amateur fishers found fishing with set nets in the closed area are liable
for a fine of up to $20,000, plus seizure of their fishing equipment.
Fines for commercial fishers are up to $100,000.
Want to get hold of Kiwiman in print ?
More updates soon!