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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 entered and was a finalist in the Sydney Opera House's GRAPHIC animation competition! I've whacked the stuff I had to make for the contest on YouTube. First, there were two video diaries: My head looks larger and pinker in the second one, but the clip
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I spent the weekend in Sydney at the GRAPHIC comics/animation-related festival/event-series/thing! It was a very nice com/an-rel fest/ev-ser/thg which I certainly wouldn't have gone to/been able to afford if I hadn't been a finalist in
Comics
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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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
Events
Leadership Lately I'd been thinking about all the work I've been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It's kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used
Events
A couple weeks ago we put on what we called a "VERY SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT" for a small audience at Glitch. What this turned out to be was a live reading of one of our Precinct scripts -- "Episode 6: Last Drinks", otherwise known as "the
Animation
I stopped working on the animatic for the John Farnham episode because I'm doing something special this weekend: myself, Adam and two of our Precinct voice-maestros, Thomas Pullar and Adrian Calear, are going to perform a reading of the episode 6 script for a select audience at
Big-Ups
As I'm featured in the very nice Superheroes & Schlemiels exhibition currently at the Jewish Museum here in Melbourne, they've kindly given me the opportunity to appear on ABC 774 this Sunday with the Museum's Helen Light to talk about... comic books and Jews,
Comedy
Download cbf_session3_lazy.mp3 We did another four sessions of COMIC BOOK FUNNY. In week one, Jo Waite, Sarah Howell and our audience enjoyed a bit of low key chat, tea and cucumber sandwiches while they drew pictures of sexy comics men Neale Blanden, Pat Grant and David Blumenstein
Comics
A reminder that tomorrow's edition of Comic Book Funny ("comics writing people, live and in person, in a bar where they can drink and hang with you, the consumer") features Mr John Retallick in discussion with Gerard Ashworth, of "Modern Murder" and "Weird
Animation
Thanks very much to Amid at Cartoon Brew and Aaron at Cold Hard Flash for featuring our Comic Book Funny animation on their sites! Tomorrow at the first COMIC BOOK FUNNY this season, your host, Jo Waite will be surrounded by her favourite teapots and a generous pile of cucumber