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- ↑ Lloyd, Demarnia (December 2003). "Cloudboy float through Scandinavia". New Zealand Musician. 11 (3): 28–9.
- ↑ Joyce, Rae; Laing, Sarah; Neville, Indira, eds. (2016). Three words : an anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women's comics. Auckland, New Zealand: Beatnik. ISBN 978-0-9941205-0-2. OCLC 948291321.
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