The Stanleys 2011
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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 [...]
Transmedia Vic Conference Day
What’s transmedia storytelling? It’s what we used to call “multiplatform”, or “cross media”.
Essentially, I think it just means “stories told across more than one platform”. Like a TV show that does little online videos that fill in a bit of backstory. Or those nifty games I’ve talked about before that were staged online and in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 making a [...]
Here’s the Precinct stuff from the Opera House contest
I entered and was a finalist in the Sydney Opera House’s GRAPHIC animation competition! I’ve whacked the stuff I had to make for the contest on YouTube.
First, there were two video diaries:
My head looks larger and pinker in the second one, but the clip is shorter and has a better ending.
And here’s my complete entry. [...]
Opera House Follies
I spent the weekend in Sydney at the GRAPHIC comics/animation-related festival/event-series/thing! It was a very nice com/an-rel fest/ev-ser/thg which I certainly wouldn’t have gone to/been able to afford if I hadn’t been a finalist in their animation competition.
I did not win the animation competition! Dave Thomas, Canadian, won it. He’s a very nice chap, so [...]
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 Bret [...]
Double Tango launch next week
Bernard Caleo’s launching not only the new issue of Tango (“the romance comics anthology”) next Thursday night at Dante’s Upstairs, he’s also launching the big-arse TANGO ANTHOLOGY which has been published by Allen & Unwin!
Should be a big night, featuring a stirring speech by Bernard, appearances from the leading lights of the Melbourne comics scene, [...]
Scatterbrain
Leadership
Lately I’d been thinking about all the work I’ve been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It’s kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used to this level of activity!
I’ve been wondering what kind of director I’d [...]
