About a month ago, we held an event called Bret Braddock’s Awkward Workplace Function as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In case you don’t know, I do a (mostly) weekly comic strip over at Docklands Entertainment about Bret Braddock, a fictional entrepreneur who wishes to make quality children’s TV programming, and has absolutely no…
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“Sciensatics” in the new Going Down Swinging
I forgot to mention at a useful or appropriate time that I’ve got a comic in the recently released issue (#30) of the venerable Aussie literary journal Going Down Swinging! It’s called Sciensatics, and it’s a somewhat freeform gag on various interesting cult-type “religions”. I’m only posting about it now because the mag got reviewed…
National Young Writers Festival 2010
My wife Sarah Howell was one of the directors of NYWF this year. We went up to Newcastle for it (my ninth time, I worked out) Here’s some of my favourite bits from the festival: the bits where cartoonists such as Chris Downes, Patrick Alexander and Rebecca Clements sat around drawing things. the panel I…
Bret Braddock’s Awkward Workplace Function
Having admitted I do the Bret Braddock Adventures comic strip, I’d like to invite you to the launch of the paper version: Have you ever worked for a really lousy boss? Why not relive the experience? The Bret Braddock Adventures is a weekly comic strip about a very badly managed company called Docklands Entertainment. They’re…
Bret Braddock book launch coming to Melbourne Fringe
I Tweeted last week about not making it into Fringe in time, but thankfully my very lovely venue, the Bella Union (where we held the Comic Book Funny live shows), made it possible. So now that the forms are in, I can tell you that we’ll launch a collection of my “Bret Braddock” comics at…
Wanted: work pain
I sat at an arts/crafts fair the other day with Benno Hutcho. I knew I wouldn’t sell many comics there, so, in the spirit of my delightful workplace tragedy “The Bret Braddock Adventures”, I thought instead I’d see if the nice people in attendance had any interesting “bad workplace” stories. One lady told about her…