Saturday, September 19, 2009

DIOXIN MAN MAKES AN APPEARANCE AT KINA GALLERY


In addition to Graham Kirk’s exhibition SUPER HEROES IN TARANAKI & THE UK, KINA also showed a selection of images from Kirk’s ‘Dick Sargeson’ strip, which features the ‘Dioxin Man’ character (born out of a chemical spill at Ivan Watkins Dow).

Exclusive to KINA, this was the first time since the comic strip has been available for public viewing and for sale, since it was last reproduced in The New Zealand Listener in the mid 1980’s.

The Dick Sargeson story has great local significance for Taranaki residents and features many recognisable local faces, who act as characters and play out various scenarios in the story. Some of the people in this comic include local artist Wayne Morris, who plays Bruce Bildgepipe (and later becomes Dioxin Man), Barry Wiseman (who acts as ‘the boss’ for the chemical factory) and Lee Morgan (who plays a character called Lurgan – the boss’s right-hand ‘tough man’).

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