Neville Howard

The Velocity Publishers have been invited by the San Diego Comic Convention to present a panel: The Velocity Anthology - Comic Art of Africa and Australia on Thursday the 18th of July at 6:30pm.

All money raised through Pozible will go toward enabling our team to get to the convention to spread the gospel of Velocity.

Haven't heard of Velocity before?

Our mission is to give our artists and writers a platform where they can let their creativity flow, without worrying about marketing, printing, publishing or distribution. They can sit down, and concentrate on the important stuff, putting their best work on paper while resting assured that they will retain all rights to their stories, and receive full credit for their effort.

We want to have our books act as a portfolio, a show of competence if you like, for each of the artists involved and to show the world the talent which lies within our borders. Borders? Yes, This Graphic Anthology will be the first of its kind, not just crossing state or provincial lines, but we’ll be featuring the best artists Australia, New Zealand and South Africa has to offer!

About us.

Moray Rhoda is the South African Publisher of the anthology and Ray Whitcher is one of the administrators of the South African Arts forum Legionink.com, Neville Howard, is based in Australia and manages the  publication there.

Moray is a designer and part-time lecturer in Cape Town, and is a member of the TDT comic group as well as being co-founder of Velocity Anthology with Neville Howard. Ray is a scholar of comic adaptation theory (with research outputs published in The Arts in Media journal) and as a team we are extremely passionate and dedicated to our cause. 

The invite from SDCC is humbling, and a MASSIVE achievement for us-  It will be a first collaborative presentation of it's kind at SDCC, (We've been given a 90 minute-long slot, which is an honour in of itself)

We do have a slight problem though... We only received notification of our acceptance to the panels yesterday and have had no chance to organise funding to get to San Diego, hence doing this crowd-funding initiative.

We will use every cent that we raise to get there, even if we don't make our target, so any donation big or small would be massively beneficial!

Our panel will do wonders to open the door to many previously underexposed Australian, New Zealand and South African artists and writers and show the world what we're made of.