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Top part of the cover of Squishbook

Squishbook is released!

Posted on March 8, 2024 by David

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 makers in Melbourne and I’m one of the remaining…

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Jewish, Australian, creative

Posted on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 by David

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 issue, and it may as well be…

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Part of a chart asking who a young person might speak to if they are dealing with poor mental health, and what they might expect from them

“Our agency”

Posted on December 23, 2023 by David

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) that have been around for a long…

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Octane Render open for preorder now!

Posted on August 15, 2023 by David

Hi! I made a comic called Octane Render about A.I. generative art, which you might have seen earlier in the year. I had a really big response to it, and got into a few conversations I thought I should try to address. So the print version is now available for preorder on Pozible. If this crowdfund / pre-order goes well, you’ll get about 70 pages of material instead of the 28 in the original.

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Octane Render: artists talk about A.I. art

Posted on April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 by David

I have a big long comic up at a site called Friends With Benefits — it’s called Octane Render and it’s about A.I. generative art, viewed through the lens of the indie-comics community I’m part of. About nine months ago I wrote the following to people who get my newsletter (sign up! top right of…

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Screen shot of my profile page on Mastodon. Looks like Twitter, works sort of like Twitter too.

I got on Mastodon

Posted on November 12, 2022 by David

If you don’t know what Mastodon is, you must not be on Twitter! I’ve been on Twitter since maybe 2009. My first tweets were dictatweets, where I just linked to a recording of myself talking into a tape dictaphone. People are fleeing Twitter currently because Elon Musk bought it. This seems weird to me because…

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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).

Sarah Howell

I regularly collaborate with my wife, Sarah Howell.

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