OK look. This sales holiday is a good time to re-look at the landscape of illustration apps and A.I. Maybe you can help me — I’m not fully across what’s out there and avail in 2025. Let’s go: 😈Adobe Creative Suite Constantly I am seeing people on socmed whining that Adobe upped their subscription price…
Meanjin is an Australian literary journal which has been suddenly shut down by its publisher, Melbourne University Press. They say the closure, which comes following no special appeals for subscribers or attempts to “save” the publication by its publisher, is on “purely financial grounds”. A rally is happening at the MUP office, at 715 Swanston…
This is one of those jokes that would only make sense to a few people and shouldn’t be shared widely. I’m going to share it widely today since it’s election day and Free Comic Book Day too. It needs too much explanation to actually be funny but it kind of means something to me. At…
Very happy that Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends! has been Highly Commended in the Children’s Literature category of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! We might make a sticker to go on the book, but it will be a bit smaller than this. Thanks very much to the good people running the…
I wanted to get some thoughts down about the work I do, so took the opportunity to make a tiny 8 page Riso printed booklet called WHAT IS SERVICE DESIGN (chapter 0). The start of an exciting new genre — service design memoir? — it was nice to start writing and drawing without a plan,…
A new comic today! A true story about why I, and maybe a lot of others I know, draw comics, and about the generational (?) divide. Thanks to my pals in Squishface Studio’s Chapter Club for editing assists on this one. It’s a good time to put this out because it’s been about a year…