Well, the first one seemed to go pretty well, so I did it again. Again with the screenprinted covers, again with the big format. And this time the title could incorporate the line that I thought made 'Tango' the perfect title for a romance comics anthology - 'Two to Tango'.
It got launched at the Up Top bar in the centre of Melbourne, up above a souvlaki shop, in spring 1998. A hot night. During the launch speech I told the crowd that no, this wasn't a comic book, it was a Ghost Shirt. The way I heard the Ghost Shirt story, it wasn't even physically there: it was an invisible magical shirt that would guard you against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. All art, I told 'em, all art is a ghost shirt. And so is this book.
Irish antiquities, microwaved slippers, Wodonga, Bill Gates, ants, aquaria, toasters, bikes, married superheroes, San Francisco, and bad fish.
Mandy Ord, Stuart Thomas, Brendan Boyd, Nathalie Fernbach, Virginia Woolf-Whistle, Adam Possamaï, Samantha Fabry, Daniel Schlusser, Rachel Martin, Bruce Mutard, Lily Hibberd, John Ryan, Peter Jetnikoff, Angela Savage, Andy Symons, Marty Trengove, Nicki Greenberg, Chloe Hooper, Night Song, Caroline Lee, Raina Savage, Gregory Mackay, Anna Valdor, Don Walker, Brendan Boyd, Fi McKerrell, Tolley, Jeff Bow, John Murphy, Bernard Caleo, Daniel Woolf, Daniel Aleppy, Robert De Graauw, Christopher Marshall, Jonathan Marshall, Richard Varbre, Alex Rowe
Edited by Bernard Caleo
Cover and logo design by Anita Bacic
Format: 290 x 403mm
Cover hand screenprinted blue and crimson on white stock, inside pages black and white.
$10 Australian. Details on Purchase Comics page.
