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Trails started in Melbourne by Lachlan Conn and Michael Fikaris at Forepaw, Northcote in 2006.

The idea came from wanting regular meetings of like minded people and was simply about people working on small pages together. Drawing. Writing. Talking. Thinking. Leaving a mark. The collected pages were then scanned and printed up. Ideally someone would lay out the works and print them up in a small press edition. At the next Trails get together you could pick up a copy, creating more people each time and more of a 'scene' for comics and the act of drawing.

When Forepaw closed in 2009, TRAILS continued at Seed Factory Studios, Clifton Hill with Fikaris and Tim Molloy, then in Melbourne city at Blender studios with Fikaris and Claire. From 2013 Trails was at a different location each time, for events, international studios and galleries. Not so regular but always leaving a mark and always with others, it ran until 2016. 
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​There was 16 small press collections printed. There is also an old blog here 


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Trails in 2016 in a gallery on Brunswick street
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One of the last collections, edited by DC Mailer in 2015
Trails drawing action at Blender studio 2014
Trails action at NGV studio residency 2011
                      A great place to meet with people on the fringes of comics, illustration, writing, poetry, zines and all things personal.                                                                                 
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Vale Karl Von BamBerger and Aaron O'Donnell at Trails in 2009
Silent Army Projects acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing
​connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
  • NEWS
  • Library
  • PROJECTS
    • Opposights
    • Head, Heart, Spirit, Hands.
    • Comics to the End of the World
    • Alkisah Global
    • Silent Army Reading Room
    • Dancing for Victory
    • Print Concern 2020
    • Silent Army Records
    • Down Down Under
    • HA HA WORLD
    • Le Memphis Creep
    • United Front
    • Bread & Roses
    • Silent Army Bunker
    • Print Concern 2015
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Where Do I Belong?
    • Lunch Meets
    • Animatism Art
    • Dailies Anthologies
    • Silent Army Storeroom
    • Projects before 2011 >
      • Boxed In
      • Tiny Peeks
      • Felt Tip Pens
      • Stranded
      • Trails
      • 101 Ways
      • Exquisite Features
      • Laughing Skulls
      • Don't Touch Me
      • Sparks
      • True Fantasy
      • Infermary
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
    • WHERE TO FIND
    • MAILING LIST