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…
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…
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…
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 / 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…
I can’t remember which of the maestro’s recent cartoons made me do this four-panel tribute. An anti-vax one? A misogynist one? Not important really. If I were going to do this properly I would have used pen on paper to best match his style. Couldn’t be bothered!