A reminder: if you're interested in our creative practice-based MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka, applications are open for two more weeks (until December 1st). Also, we now have a sparkling redesigned website! www.visualnarrativelab.nz

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

My fabulous Dad, Roger Horrocks, has a brand new book out, with launch events in Auckland (this Sunday 23 November) and Wellington (Sunday 30 November). If you're into music, sound, listening, thinking, or reading, this book is for you! 🎶 atuanuipress.co.nz/product/musi...

This is peak online RP

This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding

This is the way

One of the many evils the tech industry has inflicted on our lives is that when an Act of God forces everyone to stay home from work (wild weather, earthquake, pandemic), we're now expected to Work From Home (rather than have a day off like God intended).

Personally, the main thing I think artists, musicians, writers, etc need sorted is the same thing most other people need sorted: cost of living.

Come create your graphic novel, picture book, animation, video game, boardgame, TTRPG, larp, visual novel, fictional world (or other weird & wonderful thing) with us! Apply (by Dec. 1) for the MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington: visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth... #NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon

Meanwhile, in another, better, world...

It breaks my heart that this is both the correct thing to do & a sign of how awful things are right now. @marinaomi.bsky.social built something beautiful that helped make the comics industry (& community) better. Now they're taking it down to keep artists safe. ❤️❤️❤️

Was that a spellckeck error?

Chloe's body language says it all.

Does anyone know this old (New Yorker?) cartoon I've been searching for? How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

I'm blushing over here. Thank you, sir 😊

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

Really this thread is an excuse for me to, once again, share the love for Kia Mataara - a 13 part comic series about colonisation and it's ongoing impacts. Here's the link to the intro: natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...

Trying to remember two (sorta trippy) documentary films I saw in the 2000s(?) by a NZ filmmaker based in Japan. They both dealt with the emergence of a kind of animist digital culture: the internet as a spirit world & other weird fascinating ideas. Anyone know these films (or who made them)?

Join renowned Sámi artist Inga-Wiktoria Påve for an illustration workshop that explores image, symbol, memory. Rooted in her Sámi heritage and duodji (craft), Inga will guide you to connect with your own culture through mark-making. No experience needed. Book at pukeariki.com/event/E29080...

@fantagraphics.bsky.social is having a sale to raise money for their legal battle with JP Morgan Chase and old Diamond. Chase has legions of lawyers,so please think about visiting Fantagraphics.com and buying some of the best comics ever made!

Watching Bay of Fires on TVNZ+, a quirky mystery set in Tasmania, and one of the characters is reading Hicksville @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social !

Any current or potential students want to do some research on children's books in Aotearoa?

It feels like day by day, step by step, the US GOP are incrementally normalising the idea of criminalising all opposition (and using the police & military to enforce that). Each time they get away with one of these actions or statements, the worst becomes a little more credible, more inevitable...

This is such great news - I have missed this every single week for 6 years!

The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908) By Georges Méliès

Public Service Announcement. Be safe, people.

Can’t wait to tell my students about this

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

Here's a massive collection of threads by @bildoperationen.bsky.social on the (political) aesthetics of AI images that I've just started making my way through. Looking forward to finding some of the essays he mentions too.

And here's a collection of fascinating threads on AI images by @bildoperationen.bsky.social.

Earlier this year I posted about trying to look closely at the peculiar aesthetics of AI-generated illustrations. So I REALLY enjoyed this conversation with @bildoperationen.bsky.social & @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social about the aesthetics (& political culture) of AI slop: pca.st/episode/bd28...

It's called resolving, for those very reasons!

In music theory, is there a term for that moment when - after wandering up, down, away, around - the melody returns back home? Back to the main note/chord/pitch that feels like home base, like everything's as it should be; slipping back into place: correct, secure, settled...

David Seymour said this actual sentence about our Covid response: "Sure we saved thousands of lives, but at what cost?" So just remember that when you see David Seymour and his party changing health & safety, their lack of regard for lives compared to business is appalling #NZPol

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

An *amazing* NZ graphic novel - now in Arabic! Recommended for publishers in any language to pick up... ❤️

I'll be signing books at the National Library in Wellington this Wednesday 1-1:30pm so if you want to get your copy of Detective Beans signed, stop by and say hello!

I stumbled on an old photo I took in my local park of a fairy crash site. It's not there any more - the log's rotted - but I think about that fairy often.

Last year I did an amazing course at Vic with @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social, because I wanted to better understand comics. As a result I created a comic about my mother’s experience of walking through #Hiroshima the day after. I hoped a re-edited version might be ready now but it’s not. Bear with me

Shane Te Pou's Herald piece on national's voter suppression says "You’ve been able to enrol up to the day before election day since 1993". This is wrong. You've been able to do it since 1954. National is trying to turn the clock back over 70 years. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...

An accurate representation of my Currently Reading list.