{{Use Australian English|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} '''Bernard Caleo''' (born Melbourne, {{Birth date and age|1968|05|25|df=y}}) is a Melbourne-based Australia comic artist, comic book editor, performer, and presenter.

==Background== He worked part-time at the Melbourne Museum for fifteen years as a public programs officer running activities and performances.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/accessallareas/someones-gotta-do-it/bernard-caleo/ |title=Museum Victoria: Bernard Caleo |access-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912091125/http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/accessallareas/someones-gotta-do-it/bernard-caleo/ |archive-date=12 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Comics and performance== He was the editor of ''Tango'', a comics anthology series which was published irregularly from 1997 to 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardigancomics.com/index.php/tango.html |title=Tango |access-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101061206/http://www.cardigancomics.com/index.php/tango.html |archive-date=1 November 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He also runs Cardigan Comics, the publishing company which publishes ''Tango''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/accessallareas/someones-gotta-do-it/bernard-caleo/ |title=Museum Victoria: Bernard Caleo |access-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912091125/http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/accessallareas/someones-gotta-do-it/bernard-caleo/ |archive-date=12 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a comic artist, Caleo contributes to ''Tango'', as well as producing a webcomic called "I Knew Him".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardigancomics.com/index.php/i-knew-him.html |title=I Knew Him |access-date=12 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302201342/http://www.cardigancomics.com/index.php/i-knew-him.html |archive-date=2 March 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Collaborating with Erica Wagner and Elizabeth MacFarlane, Caleo began the Publishing enterprise '[https://www.twelvepanelspress.com/ Twelve Panels Press]', which translated and published Jan Bauer's graphic novel 'The Salty River' in 2015.

He is also the author of the comics ''Yell Ole!'', later called ''False Impressionists'' (Bernard Caleo and Brendan Tolley, Imaginate, 1993-),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an12178910|title = Trove}}</ref> ''Café Ghetto'' (Bernard Caleo and John Murphy, Santa Madonna Publications, 1998–2000),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an14123621|title = Trove}}</ref> and ''Caleo & Khandekar's homage to Hergé : the element of surprise'' (Bernard Caleo and Khandekar, Polluxman, 1996).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an21238833|title = Trove}}</ref> In 2009, Caleo contributed comic work to the Melbourne incarnation of ''Super Heroes and Schlemiels: Jews and Comic Art'' which appeared at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne.<ref>Usher, Robin 2009/04/28 [http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/bird-plane-or-supermensch-comics-reveal-jewish-roots/2009/04/28/1240684459142.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 "Bird, plane or supermensch? Comics reveal Jewish roots"] ''The Age''</ref>

The play ''The Great Game'' by Katherine Connolly, in which Caleo portrayed Frederick Baranaby, 'the strongest man in the British Empire' played in Melbourne at La Mama Theatre in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aussietheatre.com.au/reviews/la-mama-great-game#.U1xJlFVgzng|title = La Mama: The Great Game &#124; Reviews| work=AussieTheatre.com |date = 30 January 2014 | last1=Peard | first1=Anne-Marie }}</ref> He played English scientist Michael Faraday for ''Faraday’s Candle'', a one-man show for CSIRO in 2011/12. In 2008, Caleo and collaborator Bruce Woolley wrote and performed ''Miracleman'', a stage adaptation of the Alan Moore Marvelman comic series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.australianstage.com.au/reviews/melbourne/miracleman-1630.html|title=Miracleman}}</ref>

==Film== In 2012, collaborating with filmmaker Daniel Hayward, Caleo made a feature documentary called ''Graphic Novels! Melbourne!'' focussing on the long-form comics work of Nicki Greenberg, Mandy Ord, Pat Grant and Bruce Mutard. It premiered in a laneway in Carlton in November 2012 and at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in February 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graphicnovelsmelbourne.com/ |title=Graphicnovelsmelbourne.com |accessdate=2014-04-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103073338/http://graphicnovelsmelbourne.com/ |archivedate=3 January 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Awards== *Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria, 2014 *Melbourne Fringe Festival Award *Platinum Ledger Award for contributions to Australian comic book culture, 2016

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