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Comic Book Funny, episode #3

Self-indulgence is the watchword in with BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN Episode #3: Look At What You See http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode03.mp3 In this hour-long slice of cartoonist overkill, we report on how the Comic Book Funny events at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival went, and present chunky excerpts of Week 2′s discussion, featuring Benno, Glenn Smith and [...]

Comic Book Funny – live session #3

Another great talk this week with Bernard Caleo, Neale Blanden and Clint Cure. We showed Clint’s award-winning animated short The Lecture, Bernard performed his version of the opening to No Country For Old Men via spoken word and live drawing under a camera, and all three talked about what it is to be plugging away [...]

Comic Book Funny, live session 2

It was a good afternoon! Lots of people came down and received wisdom from comics legends Glenn Smith, Ben Hutchings and Ross Tesoriero. A cheeky chappie with a funny comic Glenno and Ian Marks of FOFFLE Magazine Ross and Ben with Arran McKenna Bonus photo: Comic Book Funny session 1, featuring Dean Rankine, Pat Grant [...]

Your official reminder:

This Saturday at Comic Book Funny — uber-funny comix people! Ben Hutchings (writer/artist of You Stink And I Don’t and The Killer Foetus), Glenn Smith (Necrotardation, Glenjamin) and Ross Tesoriero (Entrailer Trash) launch their brand new comics — so brand new I HAVEN’T SEEN COPIES OF THEM YET. They will talk comics, show some animation [...]

Comic Book Funny, episode #2

Apologies for the mobile phone shenanigans in this episode of with BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN Episode #2: Don’t Be Shame, Be Game http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode02.mp3 In this episode, we are sex-obsessed. We talk about the comics in free youth magazine STREETWIZE and how its spin-off, GAOLWIZE, helped inmates get laid safely, we discuss the least erotic [...]

Comic Book Funny, episode #1

Time for the first “official” episode of with BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN Episode #1: Have A Big Wank! http://www.nakedfella.com/radio/comics_episode01.mp3 Ben and David inaugurate their possibly ongoing podcast. Featuring an exclusive interview with Stan Lee, talk about getting your comics out to an audience, news about how comics are invading the Melbourne International Comedy Festival [...]

As if this isn’t an “arts hub”

I occasionally write a comics/animation-related column for the website artshub.com.au (subscription-based). If you subscribe you can read my latest column there. If not, I might put it on the site at some point. Instead I’ll show you some art I’m working up for an exhibition I’m in soon. They’re action movie video covers with a [...]

My Day Job

Animation feels more like a “night job” to me since I spend so many nights working on it, but in the last few years I’ve been lucky enough to have made most of my income by animating, for hire and otherwise (this does not necessarily mean a large income). Here are some projects I have [...]