John Howard’s Knees
About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings.
Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from all [...]
Idle drawing, and what’s up with The Precinct
John Kricfalusi is the gent who created Ren & Stimpy. His blog is full of excellent lessons, advice and rant on various subjects. I saw today he’s having his visitors try drawing his lovable Republican stooge, George Liquor (American), so I thought I’d take a crack at it. He’s not kidding when he says drawing [...]
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 Precinct [...]
Meet Many More Characters.
I can’t be bothered doing individual posts for each character at the moment, so check out the new character lineup (link opens in a new window) and let’s learn about a few of your soon-to-be-favourite TV cops:
BEN MARTINEZ
Martinez is a greenhorn who has no idea what The Precinct is, why it exists, and what [...]
Ackersley vs dead eyes
This is the first in a series of posts describing the characters in The Precinct and their relation to the story of what I’m optimistically calling “The Precinct: Season One”.
Ackersley is the guy you’ve been seeing in the animation tests and most of the sketches I’ve been posting. This is not [...]
