Corporate bullshit
Meanjin is an Australian literary journal which has been suddenly shut down by its publisher, Melbourne University Press. They say the closure, which comes following no special appeals for subscribers or attempts to "save" the publication by its publisher, is on "purely financial grounds". A rally
Writing
I hate airing my private thoughts publicly. I prefer to leave that to "the art", and, importantly, I assume that nobody should need to know or care what I have to say about most things. And this holds, except that I have relevant personal experience about a current
Comics
EDIT 2026: If you want to read Octane Render you can now do so at zco.mx! I have updated the links in this post as FWB's recent site redesign makes the comic unreadable there. I have a big long comic up at a site called Friends With
Kids Books
Download 190918_whatwetellthem_launch.mp3 Had a launch for my new book, What We Tell Them, at Readings Carlton this past week! What We Tell Them: A Storybook By Mr. Tony Abbott illuminates the words and actions of Australia's most accidental PM and some of his lovable pals!
Twaddle
We've had a rough year, no doubt. We've lost so many of our cultural touchstones -- David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen. There've been earthquakes. Fires. And politics? Well, let's not even go there. Let's just not. We're all in
Writing
My cousin Jory Prum died today; he was in a road accident a few weeks back and never came good. Jory was an inspiring guy. He was a very kind, good person, he cared about politics local and beyond and he was an artist (music and sound design). He made
Writing
Hi! This is part 2 of my report on the Stanleys conference. Part 1 of this recap is here. I had some interesting conversations with people after I spoke; I'm sure Tim did too. They were intrigued by what we're doing at Squishface, and often this
Writing
I went to the Stanleys again this year. The Stanleys are the conference/awards night of the Australian Cartoonists Association. I blogged about it the first time I went, in 2011. The ACA is a funny little club, and I've been asked why I'm involved with
Uncategorized
Lisa Dempster wrote a cool article about achieving your dreams. I just want to provide a short rebuttal. 1. Know what you want I know what she means. I want lots of things. Often it's tempting to grab low-hanging fruit because it's close by (the
Uncategorized
I spoke on a panel at the Emerging Writers Festival last week and gave a little presentation on how I draft an episode of The Bret Braddock Adventures (a weekly webcomic about a lousy workplace you should really be reading). They let me put up some images of the stages
Events
What's transmedia storytelling? It's what we used to call "multiplatform", or "cross media". Essentially, I think it just means "stories told across more than one platform". Like a TV show that does little online videos that fill in a bit
Uncategorized
It's the end of the year, which can be a slow period for freelance animators like me. So I thought I'd offer to make your company's animated Christmas card for only $500. I like making funny cartoons cheaply. Would you like one, made just