The Stanleys 2011
or,
What it is to be a cartoonist
Cartoonists don’t travel through physical space, only through time.
Even when the cartoonist looks, to an observer, to be travelling; on a plane, say, or a train – they are bent over their Spirax #534 pad, scratching away at a sketch of a fellow passenger. Desperately trying to cram in [...]
Bret Braddock beer mats
I like drawing on beer mats, a.k.a. those disposable cardboard coasters you get in pubs. Always a bonus when you go to a pub and they have some beer mats there with BLANK BACKS! Some beer manufacturers get coasters made with their bullshit advertising on both sides. They are jerks (hello, jerks).
They don’t understand that [...]
Bret Braddock comic book on sale
Want a printed edition of the Bret Braddock Adventures, Vol. 1?
Want it as an eBook for your iPad, etc?
Either way, you can be helped!
Just go to Docklands Entertainment to purchase.
By doing so, you are supporting the artistic endeavour of somebody who’d be making this strip anyway, even though each one takes hours and even though [...]
“Bret Braddock” drafting
I spoke on a panel at the Emerging Writers Festival last week and gave a little presentation on how I draft an episode of The Bret Braddock Adventures (a weekly webcomic about a lousy workplace you should really be reading).
They let me put up some images of the stages in doing one of these comics. [...]
David Hasselhoff, in “Tool, Not A Tool”
I’ve been amazed and entertained by all the Charlie Sheen action that’s been going on lately (see avclub.com for some reportage and video, and go here for the radio interview that sent him viral. I really hope he is sober and just being very, very silly, and is not completely mentally unbalanced. I prefer to [...]
Bret Braddock’s Awkward Launch
About a month ago, we held an event called Bret Braddock’s Awkward Workplace Function as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In case you don’t know, I do a (mostly) weekly comic strip over at Docklands Entertainment about Bret Braddock, a fictional entrepreneur who wishes to make quality children’s TV programming, and has absolutely no idea [...]
“Sciensatics” in the new Going Down Swinging
I forgot to mention at a useful or appropriate time that I’ve got a comic in the recently released issue (#30) of the venerable Aussie literary journal Going Down Swinging! It’s called Sciensatics, and it’s a somewhat freeform gag on various interesting cult-type “religions”.
I’m only posting about it now because the mag got reviewed in [...]
National Young Writers Festival 2010
My wife Sarah Howell was one of the directors of NYWF this year. We went up to Newcastle for it (my ninth time, I worked out) Here’s some of my favourite bits from the festival:
the bits where cartoonists such as Chris Downes, Patrick Alexander and Rebecca Clements sat around drawing things.
the panel I ran about [...]
