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Cartoonist Income Charted On A Split Orange 2014

A cartoonist’s income

Posted on June 27, 2014July 26, 2014 by David

On Wednesday I started doing my taxes by tallying up my income for 2013/14. Because this is so exciting, I live-tweeted it. This year’s count is unusual in that, most years, I am employed on a full time contract for at least part of the year. This one, not. — David Blumenstein (@nakedfella) June 25,…

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No, really, I’m a writer

Posted on August 23, 2009August 23, 2009 by David

My day job at the moment is animating on the second series of Dogstar! The same trailer, in Japanese: I worked on the original series a few years back. As Australian kids TV goes, it’s pretty shit-hot (this means “good”). So Michael V (my deskmate) and I would amuse ourselves by coming up with ideas…

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Anti-Procrasto Week

Posted on June 22, 2009 by David

This week is a big week: it’s ANTI-PROCRASTO WEEK. My workload lightens up a bit this week so I’m setting myself some tasks to take care of, the stuff that gets pushed back when I’m being paid to draw talking penises or animate moustache demons. — 1. Precinct scripts We now have three scripts at…

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“Beggar hand”

Posted on June 12, 2009September 11, 2019 by David

I’m animating freelance on one episode of an animated TV series. The way this works is that I receive an allocation of shots to animate, and refer to the storyboards for a guide as to how I go about it. The board artist on this episode is lazy. The drawings are good (very good! better…

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Comic Book Funny starts tomorrow

Posted on April 3, 2009 by David

Thanks very much to Amid at Cartoon Brew and Aaron at Cold Hard Flash for featuring our Comic Book Funny animation on their sites! Tomorrow at the first COMIC BOOK FUNNY this season, your host, Jo Waite will be surrounded by her favourite teapots and a generous pile of cucumber sandwiches. Male models PAT GRANT,…

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Take me to the pilot

Posted on January 20, 2009 by David

Happy new year! Happy Oshtraya Day! I realised I’ve been lucky enough to work on a lot of animated TV pilots lately, so I thought I’d write a bit about how they’ve worked and what happened with them. When I don’t name names it’s because the work isn’t out in public yet and confidentiality applies….

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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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I regularly collaborate with my wife, Sarah Howell.

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