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 [...]
Bret Braddock’s Awkward Workplace Function
Having admitted I do the Bret Braddock Adventures comic strip, I’d like to invite you to the launch of the paper version: Have you ever worked for a really lousy boss? Why not relive the experience? The Bret Braddock Adventures is a weekly comic strip about a very badly managed company called Docklands Entertainment. They’re [...]
Bret Braddock book launch coming to Melbourne Fringe
I Tweeted last week about not making it into Fringe in time, but thankfully my very lovely venue, the Bella Union (where we held the Comic Book Funny live shows), made it possible. So now that the forms are in, I can tell you that we’ll launch a collection of my “Bret Braddock” comics at [...]
Wanted: work pain
I sat at an arts/crafts fair the other day with Benno Hutcho. I knew I wouldn’t sell many comics there, so, in the spirit of my delightful workplace tragedy “The Bret Braddock Adventures”, I thought instead I’d see if the nice people in attendance had any interesting “bad workplace” stories. One lady told about her [...]
Least-kept secrets revealed
I do the formerly “anonymous” weekly comic strip located at http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/. You can probably subscribe to it by using this link. I don’t use an RSS reader so I don’t quite know! I’ve plotted out about forty episodes which will form the first “volume”. I’ll compile them into a nice little “book” and will be [...]
Comic Book Funny, episode #5
The podcast I do with comics genius Ben Hutchings is back! Normally we talk about comics and other silly things, but the new episode is mostly about the animation industry (which is a very silly thing itself). Here’s the new episode! Download Comic Book Funny Episode #5: Rude On A Boob You can listen to [...]
Tweeted on 2010-03-31
Went on comics camp the other weekend to hang out and draw! Everybody’s blogging it; here’s one from me: http://tinyurl.com/yklavmu #fb # RT @NYWF: “My thoughts go out to all those last minute NYWF application writers out there” Get your app in! http://youngwritersfestival.org/ # Synth-pop magic: Billy Ocean conjures Star Wars cantina-style weirdness in video [...]
Tweeted on 2010-03-30
Another (slightly late) edition of The Bret Braddock Adventures: http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/?p=93 #acomicstripaboutstupidpeople #
Tweeted on 2010-03-22
RT @beatonna: “people start a comic, do half assed work, neglect it, pretend it was only for fun as an excuse…” Fools. Comics aren’t fun. # Went to comics camp this weekend! Hung out, drew stuff, got a VHS of @davidheavener’s first movie at Warburton opshop. #copactionvideo #fb # “The Bret Braddock Adventures” has failed [...]
Tweeted on 2010-03-17
“The Bret Braddock Adventures” is a comic strip about a stupid boss. Episode 15: http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/?p=87 # Working on naked drawing of Adrian Calear for Comedy Fest show: http://tinyurl.com/ykoxmrd Reference material could have your eye out. #fb #