update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad. www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

An excellent fan uploaded another old issue of Mania magazine (featuring Pink Chickens) to the Internet Archive. This one had Dolly Douglas ON THE COVER, which I'd forgotten about, but I was incredibly stoked about at the time. archive.org/details/Mani...

I went to Reimena Yee's masterclass on book research as part of Q-lit Festival! Here are my notes (except pg 5 cos I can only post 4pgs here). #sketchnotes #sketchnoting #graphicscribe #comics #comicsresearch #bookresearch

Watched The Maltese Falcon for the first time; now can't stop doing a Sydney Greenstreet imitation. Aha. Ha ha ha! Indeed! You're quite a character! Quite a character.

This is one of those jokes that would only make sense to a few people and shouldn't be shared widely. I'm going to share it widely today since it's #ausvotes #auspol and #freecomicbookday too. It needs too much explanation to actually be funny but it kind of means something to me.

Sandy Gutman feels unsafe at the ABC, everybody

I’ve got more wonderful heartfelt supportive messages about my latest book, REVOLUTION IN 35mm, & the difference it’s made to people, than any others I’ve done. If you haven’t picked it up yet, it’s available from @pmpress.bsky.social and all the usual online platforms pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

These papers are nowhere without freelancers. Get on board please: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

The Flower Clock music from Play School, recreated. https://youtu.be/ISR5vea8rmI?si=tj5HTe6EGmAav6Ar

Thank you to the ABDA judges for longlisting SQUISHBOOK in the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards! Thanks to our illustrators and Jeffries Printing Services too.

HEY COMICS PEEPS, apply for this amazing opportunity!!! So proud that we’re able to offer a program like this, esp to international creators where residencies like this are short in supply (or non-existent)

Was happy to sign this. It's in today's Age and SMH. I went along to a nice rally in Melb recently; it was good and big. here's my drawings from it. I only had a dead pen with me. #OzJewsSayNO

Vote Squishbook in the Vic Premier's Literary Awards people's choice! https://wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/peoples-choice-award/ Vote comics! Vote indie press! VOT IBIS!

“Did Creative Australia honestly think they could just ring up the next artist on the shortlist? ... No artists worth their soul will touch that pavilion now. They can’t. It’s totally tainted." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Vote Squishbook in the Vic Premier's Literary Awards people's choice! https://wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/peoples-choice-award/ Vote comics! Vote indie press! VOT IBIS!

Do you remember when Mark Latham got to do a podcast pilot on Triple M and it got deleted because it was super boring but also offensive?

I have a lo-fi email newsletter which comes out between 4 and 8 times a year. People tell me it's good. And social media is bad. So subscribe to my email at https://nakedfella.com/contact . It's best for both of us.

Semiotics are ok when there isn't time for fulliotics

Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends! has been Highly Commended in the Children’s Literature category of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! https://nakedfella.com/2025/01/squishbook-receives-commendation-from-the-victorian-premiers-literary-awards/

Today's our last Squishbook event for Jan school holidays! Book in if your kids are feeling it this morning! $5 entry, bring 4 kids with you. 11-12pm at Squishface (317-329 Dorcas St, Sth Melb, near the market) www.eventbrite.com/e/squishbook...

Squishface Summer Workshop Day is THIS SAT, and it’s going to be a really special morning with Lily Mae Martin, Sarah Howell and Ariel Ries. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface-comic-studio-summer-workshop-day-registration-1110912502199

Squishface Summer Workshop Day is THIS SAT, and it’s going to be a really special morning with Lily Mae Martin, Sarah Howell and Ariel Ries. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface-comic-studio-summer-workshop-day-registration-1110912502199

Almost upon us! Squishbook school holiday kids wkshop #1. $5, bring up to 4 kids. Wed Jan 8, 11-12. Book in! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/squishbook-workshop-squishface-comic-studio-wed-jan-8-registration-1110982722229

THANK YOU James for calling out Squishbook as one of ALIA Graphic's top reads of 2024! ALIA Graphic is the comics group in the Australian Library & Information Association.

This Saturday! Ease into 2025 gently, via coaster drawing timez. Pls note this replaces our regular Wed monthly drawing night (don't come to Squish on Wed 1 Jan)!

It is a fucking BONANZA for physical media ppl at the moment. All you dopes giving your special edition movies and TV season sets to the op shop where I get them for $1. Meanwhile, next week, every movie on streaming is having baby Yoda digitally added in and cusswords edited out

Remember not to say the wrong thing today! #victoria #socialcohesion #GazaGenocide

Sat Jan 11! Hang out from 12, then a Squishbook workshop from 2:30pm! If you want to bring kids to the workshop, let Artery know: [email protected] or call 6234 3788.

Hey guess whose anniversary it is? 15 years ago some animators woke up and saw Showman?: The Bret Braddock Adventures and went "hur hur hur". You can still read and download it, and you should: zco.mx/DavidBlumenstein

Last minute gift buyer? Yes of course you are. These shops will sort you out with the best book of the year*! * for children who can't stop drawing

Yesterday our premier announced a crackdown on Palestine protest in Victoria in the name of "social cohesion". Today I exclusively reveal secret vicgov plans

Squishbook workshops at Squishface Studio, this Jan school holidays! Jan 24: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishbook-workshop-squishface-comic-studio-fri-jan-24-registration-1111003925649

Squishbook workshops at Squishface Studio, this Jan school holidays! Jan 8: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishbook-workshop-squishface-comic-studio-wed-jan-8-registration-1110982722229

We are thrilled to announce something we've been planning for a long time. Bookings are now open for Squishface Summer Workshop Day with Sarah Howell, Lily Mae Martin and Ariel Ries! Sat, 18 Jan 2025 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. All ages. www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface...

ages. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface-comic-studio-summer-workshop-day-registration-1110912502199

Sign up for my mailing list. nakedfella.com/contact [https://nakedfella.com/contact] This will be a very big update because it takes me ages to get around to it! People on the list get links to book in for Squishface workshops and stuff. Also me being slightly too frank about comics, design,

SAVE THE DATE/S! Booking info coming soon for a load of fun things from Squishface Studio for kids and adults over Jan.

My year of rest and relaxation and Long COVID and isolation and oh god when will it stop open.substack.com/pub/themissi...

The Australian institution that delivers mail has now been accepting apps for the same service designer job for six (?) months with a requirement for being knowledgeable about generative A.I.

Thanks to librarians, library distributors, teachers, store owners and everyone who runs those zine fairs and comics festivals. And thanks to all the kids -- who helped us make the book last year, and who drew Bad Self-Portraits and played Dice Games with us this year!

What we were given was a 2023 City of Melbourne Arts Grant (thanks CoM!), which paid us a little something to draw the book, and pre-orders thru Pozible, which helped us print that pallet-load (thank you!). (and then Wok crossed out a word in each copy:

a thread. (in which David actually celebrates a successful project) squishbook.com.au [http://squishbook.com.au] A year ago, a pallet's worth of Squishbook landed in our driveway. I loaded it into a groaning car and schlepped it to Squishface Studio. (yes! Cole's might've inspired the cover)

Octane Render won an award last night! thx to judges, to all who read it, crowdfunded the book version, was interviewed for it (David Mahler, Kate Moon, Dean Rankine, Ryan Estrada) and to Emilie Friedlander for editing and commissioning the story:

Hey! Eleri Harris will be on ABC Canberra 666 at 4:30 today to spruik our Read To Me event on Friday night and talk up the Stanleys conference, cartooning, comics, etc etc. Listen in!

Impact Comics, Canberra, 4-6pm tonight! Come down for cas drawing

Hey Sydney, on my way to you with the Ben Hutchings. This Saturday is SCAMP: cockatoocomics.com/scamp [https://www.cockatoocomics.com/scamp] -- and I'm doing a kids comics workshop at Addi Road Writers Festival. Book in: https://events.humanitix.com/addi-road-writers-festival-2024

Not just one event, but three! THE 40TH ANNUAL STANLEYS CONFERENCE & AWARDS THE COMIC ARTS AWARDS OF AUSTRALIA 2024 READ TO ME TAKES CANBERRA cartoonists.org.au/register [https://cartoonists.org.au/register] Canberra, 29-30 Nov.

The Australian Cartoonists Association conference has some cheep tickets available for artists who'd benefit from coming but wouldn't be able to manage the full price. Anyone can take advantage of these, members or non-members. There's a few left if anyone's interested in joining us!

“Bit too hot”: Genocides artists shouldn’t mention in 2024 - a panel at this year's Australian Cartoonists Association conference. Safdar Ahmed / Lucien Leon / Cathy Wilcox / myself. Expect exciting giveaways for attendees! Book for the conf at cartoonists.org.au/register

BEN HUTCHINGS and ME will be at Impact Comics for hangs and draws on TUE NOV 26! Let your Canberrans know please! All welcome! Free, or buy a Squishbook! Book in: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/classic-drawin-hangout-with-squishface-studio-tickets-1071519586929