I was honoured to be asked to produce a graphic scribe video for my good friends at the Liberal Party and PriceUpperhouseConsultancy! It explains, largely in the words of Pru "the poor are very cunning" Goward and Nick "climate change is a scam" Minchin, exactly what
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
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
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
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
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
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
My Jewish community has continued to to be "triggered" by opposition to Israel's slaughter of Palestinians, so I made them a helpful guide as to when they should feel "safe" and "unsafe". First I made it in handy paper form and sent
Donate and get a digital copy of Squishbook I've added a digital copy of Squishbook to the rewards being offered by Cartoonist Co-op artists in exchange for donating an e-SIM to someone in Gaza. As the Co-op says: The #ConnectingGaza campaign supplies E-Sims to
How can you meet us and get one? Squishface Studio's first book, SQUISHBOOK, is now out! We've published it ourselves. It was created with help from a successful crowdfund and a 2023 City of Melbourne arts grant. Squishface Comic Studio is a shared workspace for comics
I hate airing my private thoughts publicly. I prefer to leave that to "the art", and, importantly, I assume that nobody should need to know or care what I have to say about most things. And this holds, except that I have relevant personal experience about a current
When I’m not drawing comics, I work as a service designer helping organisations improve by providing them with research, mapping and visual explainers showing them what’s going on with their service. I find myself working a lot with legacy organisations (old places. could be businesses, or govt bureaucracies)