Kongutan Vs Kraken One-Shot

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Comics Can Have A Deep Emotional Resonance
…they can touch our heart strings and make us think about our neighbourhood, our society and, indeed, the entire world. They can make us reconsider our place amongst it all.

This isn?t that comic.

Because sometimes comics can just be FUN.

And what isn?t fun about a giant ape battling an enormous cephalopod in some variant Australia with the fate of an entire community hanging in the balance?!

KONGUTAN is a 60 foot tall ape based broadly on Gigantopithecus, an extinct ape from east and south-east asia who lived approximately 350 thousand years ago, though this one is still very much alive. We coined the name Kongutan as “Gigantopithecus vs Kraken” didn’t quite have the same ring to it. Alliteration is always awesome.

THE KRAKEN is an 120 foot long squid based broadly on the Giant Squid, a creature that still roams our oceans to this day.

They do not like each other. That?s pretty much all you need to know.

Gary Proudley is a writer living in Melbourne, Australia. His works include the award-winning TALGARD, a sword and sorcery anthology featuring the illustration stylings from some of Australia?s best artists, PLATO?S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, an adaptation of part of Plato?s The Republic (with Mitch Collins), and FOOD/LOVE, a comic about how we express love via sharing food (with Jake Bartok).

Hailing from Victoria, Mitch Collins is a comic artist who loves a challenge. He?s helped adapt Plato?s philosophy to comics with PLATO?S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, envisaged new lifeforms in the sword-and-sorcery realm of TALGARD, and scaled the heights of visual storytelling with award-winning writer Ryan K Lindsay in their SKYSCRAPER one-shot.

Wolfgang Bylsma is a study in contrasts. He?s a bit of a misanthropic old git, and one of the nicest folks you?ll ever meet. He?s brilliant at what he does, but he?ll also tell you that his own work lacks merit. If imposter syndrome had a face it would probably look like his. He co-founded Gestalt and has been making comics in Australia for more than three decades. He is currently a mentor for Comics On Country, supporting First Nations creators to tell their stories through comics, including being one of the founders of the Indigiverse alongside Scott Wilson and Benny Eggmolesse.