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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
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"The Bret Braddock Adventures" animation
Making a little animated trailer for another contest. This time it's a trailer for a webseries based on me comic "The Bret Braddock Adventures"! Here's some of the characters. I'm at the stage where the characters are being "built" (prepared
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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
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John Howard's Knees: recording session 01
So I've mentioned that I'm working on a new music short film called John Howard's Knees, about the ex-PM and his bewitching patellas. Everybody wants to smash 'em! We had our very first proper recording session last month. Prior to this, I&
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Here's the Precinct stuff from the Opera House contest
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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GetUp's visual communication problem
GetUp! is a grassroots political organisation which claims not to support any particular political party. They're going to be handing these cards out at polling places on Saturday. I'm a member and I like what they do but I have a problem with the cards from
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Opera House Follies
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
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Dianetics Got Junk
Saw this today from the highway and had to take a picture.
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The Good Guys
I'm continuing to be interested in seeing this new show called The Good Guys, as it sounds a bit like a live action version of The Precinct. Also, it apparently features Bradley Whitford being silly, which is a great thing. AV Club writer Todd VanDerWerff has written an
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Precinct is kicking goals in Opera House animation comp
Haven't had time to post properly lately as I've been extra busy. Hopefully the Tweeting makes up for that. The good news is that things are going splendidly on all fronts! 1. I've been doing new Precinct animation (well... really a jumped-up animatic
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John Howard's Knees: hammer man
This man is the first person to try to smash John Howard's knees, moments after his birth in 1939.