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Big News! Our nest has expanded even further! Please welcome JW's newest venture: The Hatch

After two years of running JW to incredible success, it became clear that there were more illustrators and artists out there that one agency could handle. Most of these artists were either young upstarts with a promising career ahead, of even seasoned old hands, working in a new direction or with more challenging bodies of work. Given the self-imposed limit of 32 artists at JW, The Hatch is a sub-agency where these special talents can hopefully find more commercial avenues for their output, while at the same time levereging Jacky Winter's existing systems and profile.

I could go on and on about the virtues of the fine fifteen artists that are in the launch roster, but I'll let you see for yourself. Go on, Look!

If anyone out there wants to take the flock under their wing for a special assignment, please do get in touch. In the meantime, do watch this space as there are some more exciting projects coming out in the coming months that will be sure to excite and tingle the senses.

The first outing of The Hatch will be made public in a few weeks, as JW flys the coop for London to represent our fair nation at Creative Review's inaugural 'Portfolios' conference.

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Our newest big bird, Matthew, will be spending the week hawking our wares at stand 18, at Westminster Hall. He will also be taking time out to meet with our clients and prospective clients passing out our brand spanking new 2009 Field Guide:

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Above are just some of the samples from this years guide, a 44 page full colour tabloid newspaper.

Here's the stack, waiting to go to London:

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We will then be doing the rounds in Sydney and Melbourne.

If anyone, both here or abroad would like to experience our special breed of dog and pony show, please do get in touch.

More big things soon, as always.

xojw

Following an astounding redesign by Dirk Barnett, Blender Magazine was one of the finest recent examples of editorial design. Under the Art Direction Robert Vargas, Eamo had been providing regular monthly spots, but his most recent commission was the most ambitious to date, a 4 page comic detailing the adventures of the band Mastodon at the New York comic-con. Although it didn't make it to print before the publication folded it can still be found on the Blender Blog here: ‘The Astounding Adventures of Mastodon’.

This was one of the most exciting projects we have worked on at the agency, with Eamo conquering a brand new medium, plus the collaboration between writer, art director, and editor, made it a true group effort. Such a shame we will never see it in print!

In other news, Justin Maller releases new artwork in the recent Depthcore pack.

Lastly, Madeleine Stamer currently has an exhibition on show in Bendigo - ‘Birdsville’ New and recent bird inspired work from May 2 - June 18.

Matt Davidson has some illustrations on display at the Behind the Lines exhibition currently at City Museum (Old Treasury building) on Spring Street, Melbourne, until May 17.

Cast a vote for your favourite cartoon and help decide who will win the annual People’s Choice award.

Behind the Lines - the year's best cartoon 2008 is a national travelling exhibition of political satire as a light-hearted historical record organised by the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Find out when it will be at a location near you...

Kate Banazi, Lachlan Conn and Niels Oeltjen have all recently illustrated the cover and interior dividers for separate issues of Meanjin Literary Journal, as part of a recent redesign.

Lachlan Conn also created a banner for live author readings.

Oslo Davis also features regularly in the Newsreel section of Meanjin shown below, and his recent cartoon 'Tight-Arse Days' is up for a political cartoon prize through New Matilda. You can register and vote for this cartoon through the New Matilda website:

REGISTER:  http://newmatilda.com/user/register/
VOTE:  http://newmatilda.com/cartooncomp/heat-4/ (scroll down to see 'Oslo Davis')  .