Don't forget to check out the Swamp profile on the Squidoo website featuring the Army ducks. It includes lots of cartoons from the Swamp world looking at the Airforce, Army and all things military. It has also got some hilarious army video, military related links/features and merchandise to get your own Army ducks memorabilia...

The Dump Rats Lens includes some funny cartoons, Swamp clothing and some hilarious rat related videos. 

If you like what you see on the feature page and the Squidoo website check out the latest Ding Duck, "Full Power Ding Duck" book which looks at all things flying and has lots of Airforce Army related cartoons not seen on these pages.

Online Interview with Gary Clark.

This past week Gary Clark, the creator of Swamp, was interviewed for the cartoon website, Comics Coast to Coast.

This site features alot of great interviews you can download and listen to. They have interviewed among other famous names , Patrick MacDonell who does the 'Mutts' strips. If you are a real cartoon fan then do yourself a favour and check their site out as it has alot of great material and information on cartooning.

This website is hosted by three cartoonists, Tom Racine, Brian Dunaway and Justin Thompson who do all the interviewing themselves.

Gary was their fourth international guest. They were put on to Gary by a young Swamp fan, Declan Byrne, who suggested they interview him. He even suggested some of the questions asked by the 'Coast to Coast' crew.

To here the full hour interview click here.

Swamp Animation Short.

See the Swamp animation short on YouTube featuring the Rats.

It was done by two young animators, Xue Sen Wong and and Steven Smith, to see how the Swamp characters transferred to animation with the Adobe Flash program.

They did the voices and music themselves.

Both these guys have recently graduated from the Animation College of Southbank, Brisbane Queensland.

This is the original Sunday that the animation was based upon. Click on it to see the animation.

Click here to see it: Rats Animation.

Wildlife Australia Magazine.

Swamp will be featuring some exciting and educational material from the 'Wildlife Australia' magazine. These will be both fun and informative looking at swamps and their wildlife. So not only will you be able to laugh at the wildlife but you can learn about it here too! As you can see from the ads the magazine has been around a long time and has been a great advocate for both wildlife protection and preservation. The Swamp comic strip supports this important cause and will be partnering with them for these educational features among other initiatives very soon. So keep your eyes out!

To see their site click the following link: www.wildlife.org.au/magazine.html

This magazine is put out by the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. To find out more about them go to their website: www.wildlife.org.au/achievements.html

Feature Page

Don't forget to visit the feature page! Every month it will focus on a different character or side to the Swamp world and all it's inhabitiants.

If you have favourite characters you'd like to see on the Feature Page let us know. We want it to be your page!

This months feature looks at some of the most popular characters in the strip The Dumb Rats! You'll learn all about these characters and the fun they get up to in the strip!

Wetlands Project.

As the Swamp strip is based in a wetlands setting it has been picked up to be part of the Queensland Wetland Program run by the Queensland State government.
To check out their website and further information on the Swamp involvement follow the following link: Wetlands Project

The Lions Youth Project

Swamp has been asked to be part of the face of the promotion for the Lions club Youth Camps happening in August 2008.
The camp will be called "Camp Krokodile" and will feature the character Old Croc both on the promotional material an t-shirts available for the camp.
The character Old Croc will be used to make it more interesting and appealing to potential atendee's of the Lions Club run camps.

To check out more about these camps go to The Youth page.

School Cartoon Competition

Gary is going back to school this week to draw some cartoons with an enthusiastic Yr 6/7 class from Two Mile State School. By using the Learning Place data conferencing tool Gary will run an exciting interactive cartooning workshop with the students online. The students will be drawing their cartoons in their classroom near Gympie, but Gary will be drawing and running the workshop from his interactive whiteboard in Brisbane.

This is the third year Gary has worked with the student winners of the Learning Place's annual Online Cartooning Competition. Each year students are challenged to submit cartoon drawings on a nominates theme to an online gallery, and the winning student wins their class an online cartooning workshop with Gary. This year the students from Two Mile State School were the lucky winners in the challenge to draw a healthy fruit or vegetable cartoon. The winning student drew this cool cartoon of "Chuck the Carrot".