Opening next Friday 31 March, Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre presents an exhibition from Wild North Comics in our Lambert Gallery (along with new works by Kamahi Djordon King in the K Space gallery, click here for details). Step inside and take a walk through Wild Things! and the fantastical imaginations of some of the Territory’s most unique illustrators and comic book creators.

Discover new worlds of indigenous superheroes, gun slinging bushrangers, psychedelic journey folk, and sentient robots from a strange and distant future. Over 40 works from Wild North Comics will be featured in the gallery—with 27 for sale as poster art (framed or unframed). They include a trove of sci-fi, fantasy, surrealistic scenes, and experimental comic book art from around the Northern Territory and Australia. Learn more about sequential story-telling with a unique NT vibe, collect a poster or three, and buy the back-issues of the Wild North Comics anthologies. 

Wild Things! takes us inside the creative processes of the artists, animators, illustrators and filmmakers behind the comics—featuring Jonathon Saunders, Dan Hartney, Mat Selwyn, Dani Heilbronn, Timothy Parish, Levin A. Diathschenko, and many more. Since launching in 2021, the Darwin-based publication has been spreading its tendrils across the country, exploring imaginative worlds, action packed stories, indigenous perspectives, and mind-bending sci-fi—all through the medium of illustration and sequential story. Help us celebrate the creative community of Wild North Comics and their ever-growing anthology at Godinymayin with this one-off exhibition, on view from 31 March to 12 May. Next Friday after work, 31 march from 6pm, we welcome you to the opening gallery reception and the many worlds of the Wild Things!

About Wild North Comics

Wild North Comics is an anthology comic book created by artists and writers from Darwin, Northern Territory.  Launched in September 2021, Wild North Comics #1 was an 80-page anthology featured six stand alone stories including Bushranger by Jonathon Saunders, Space Robots of the Forgotten Future by Dan Hartney, Chronos by Timothy Parish, Future Tales by Philip Tarl Denson and Anneke Putri; A Cure For Diamonds by Levin Diatschenko and Shilo McNamee. The issue also included artist galleries showcasing the work of local artists Danny Heilbronn, Mat Selwyn and cover artist Franck Gohier.

Since that time, Wild North Comics has published four anthologies featuring dozens of artists and writers, as well as three stand alone comics; Zero-Point: Origins by Jonathon Saunders,  Australi #1 by Timothy Wood and Chronos #1 by Timothy Parish. The group continue to cultivate and support new artists and writers and have hosted numerous comic workshops with the support of Darwin Community Arts, NT Writers Centre and as part of the NT Writers Festival.  Wild North Comics has also hosted two exhibitions at Lucky Bat Cafe, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT as part of the NT Writers Festival  and the Darwin Visual Arts Gallery as part of the Darwin Fringe Festival.  Their work has also been featured on ABC Radio, The NT News, Off The Leash Magazine, Channel NT and ABC 24 national television. 

In 2022, Wild North Comics established Wild North Arts, in order to develop creative outreach through workshops, grants, and projects. At the same time, they developed a unique distribution network in Darwin, with comics for sale in comic shops, bookshops, cafes, art galleries and supermarkets across the city (which has grown to small retailers in Adelaide and Melbourne). And in late 2022, we began carrying their editions in the Godinymayin retail shop, while planting the seeds for this very exhibition.