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Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends

The cover of Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends! Lots of little capsule-looking characters create new comics ideas in and around the silhouette of a child's heads and shoulders.
You can buy copies via the button above. If you're with a school/library and you need to buy through a distributor, Squishbook is also currently available via ALS Library Services and James Bennett Online. You can also request that your local library order a copy! Some libraries have a collections request form just for this purpose. And here's a list of excellent online retailers stocking Squishbook.

Squishbook is a big fat book from the artists of Melbourne’s Squishface Comic Studio, a shared workspace for comics makers. It’s a “kids annual”-style collection of comics and activities, but it’s also a how-to-make-comics book, and a why-you-should-make-comics book!

We spent a year writing, drawing, running workshops with the grade 2’s at Kensington Primary School and answering their questions. All our expertise, silliness and philosophy is rolled into a book for 8-12 year olds — the ones we’ve met over the years at Squishface Studio. The ones who love to draw all the time and their parents go, “What can I do with this child?“

Inside, you’ll find comics, and thoughts on making them, from David Blumenstein, Ben Hutchings, Sarah Howell, Jo Waite, Scarlette Baccini, Briar Rolfe, Alex e Clark, Patrick Alexander, Jin Hien Lau, Ive Sorocuk, Alex Pavlotski, guest “writers, not drawers” Nicholas J. Johnson and Warwick Holt.

Squishbook was named an ALIA Graphic 2024 Top Read, shortlisted at the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia, longlisted at the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards and Highly Commended in the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! You can find our Teachers’ Resources for Squishbook here.

Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art

The front cover of Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art. It features Hamburger Garfield, an off model Garfield clone

First printing is sold out! Not currently available.

Octane Render is about the advent of believable art made by generative A.I. The original piece came out in early 2023 on Friends With Benefits. The print version includes further discussion on topics brought up by readers, including generative A.I. as an accessibility tool, “ethical” uses of A.I. art and whether we can expect A.I. to save artists (as opposed to burying them).

Octane Render won a Silver award at the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia.

yes. is not just a word… it’s a lifetime! no. isn’t a word at all… it’s a sentence

A little minicomic I made as a limited edition for supporters of the Homecooked Comics Festival. It’s a preview of the kind of material going into my (belated) graphic novel, Sciensatics and stars my friend Jo Waite as a godlike character inducting some dummy into a horrific religious cult!

#takedown: My evening on a pier with pick up artists and protesters

#takedown

What are pick-up artists really like?

Cartoonist David Blumenstein wanted to know. In signing up for a free seminar with international pick-up artist (PUA) instructor Julien Blanc, David found himself witness to one of the most successful anti-PUA campaigns launched by the feminist community, a campaign that rallied behind the catch-cry #takedownjulienblanc.

This playfully drawn true account of one evening introduces you to the people on both sides of the protest line.

#takedown was shortlisted at the 2016 Comic Arts Awards of Australia.

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