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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do the formerly "anonymous" weekly comic strip located at http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/. You can probably subscribe to it by using this link. I don't use an RSS reader so I don't quite know! I've plotted out about forty episodes which
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Download cbf_episode05.mp3 The podcast I do with comics genius Ben Hutchings is back! Normally we talk about comics and other silly things, but the new episode is mostly about the animation industry (which is a very silly thing itself). Here's the new episode! Download Comic Book
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I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose
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Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that my blog now auto-posts my Tweets. I have no idea if this is annoying or useful, but since it keeps the blog current, I'm in favour of it. I minimise the number of tweets, keep them reasonably on-topic (cop
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I noticed today that a brand new web domain has appeared: http://www.docklandsentertainment.com/. There's nothing there but a single JPEG. It's the first episode of what appears to be a new comic strip. Lord only knows who did it, but it may amuse some
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Bernard Caleo's launching not only the new issue of Tango ("the romance comics anthology") next Thursday night at Dante's Upstairs, he's also launching the big-arse TANGO ANTHOLOGY which has been published by Allen & Unwin! Should be a big night, featuring