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.
Octane Render: artists talk about A.I. art
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…
I got on Mastodon
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…
The Australian Cartoonists Association’s Stanleys Conference
I’ve been organising this conference over the past couple months. Looking forward to it, and to the road trip up to Coffs! AUSTRALIAN CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE RETURNS! The Stanleys Conference and Awards is finally returning in 2022! Following on from our last event, Canberra in 2019, we’re looking forward to a fun weekend reconnecting…
Spitting Footballers trading cards: an AI series
I used one of those AI art platforms to generate trading cards of Australian footballers spitting. Pretty fun.
Drawing Work: opportunities for cartoonists, illustrators & comics-makers
Drawing work: opportunities for cartoonists, illustrators & comics-makers / avoiding poverty? / standing up for yourself and others This was a live online chat I ran in place of the aborted Australian Cartoonists Association conference. We talked about the Australia Council report Graphic Storytellers At Work with Gabriel Clark, learned more about the Media Entertainment…