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The Bolt Response

Posted on December 6, 2013July 25, 2014 by David

Remember my little brother Tristian? He wrote a great report for his Media class about how conservative columnist Andrew Bolt’s TV show works.

What happened next was that I entered Tristian’s report in the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards, and it won in the Graphic Short Story category!

Mr. Bolt then found out about this, and used it to beat up on the Lord Mayor a bit. His loyal commenters weren’t very nice, either, and kind of missed the point.

I asked Tristian if he had a response to all this, and this is what he gave me:

Dear Andrew Bolt... bolt2_pg02The Bolt Quiz

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David Blumenstein

I’m a service designer, cartoonist and co-founder of Squishface Studio. I’ve done comics for The Guardian, Crikey and Australian MAD. Currently also deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.

I usually write about things that shit me off, from bad bosses (The Bret Braddock Adventures) to pick-up artists (#takedown) to white supremacist trolls (The Internet’s Most Trolled Cartoonist) to predatory cults (Why Los Angeles is Scientology’s perfect city) and nasty tech bros (Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art).

I’m working on graphic novels called Sciensatics (about cultists) and Free Money, Please (about wealth and passive income).

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