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Dammm half of these sold within 24 hours. Y'all are amazing 😧😍 Thank you to those from Bluesky who made purchases. I fucking appreciate you. Das crazy and unexpected!! I am so grateful. 🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️ www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...

The delightful @exocomics.com did a great talk yesterday, including how to draw Detective Beans! You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRo...

Olivia Twist and the School Lunches. A Dickensian tale for our times. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #children

Awkwardly, as soon as I quit making comics like this... things happened and I made another comic. Blame the people who decided to ban new prescriptions of puberty blockers. Part 1: www.roostertailscomic.com/.../blockers... Part 2: www.roostertailscomic.com/.../blockers...

Inspired by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Lonely Fun' zine - @taracomics.bsky.social has another RPG for you to enjoy taracomics.substack.com/p/the-myster...

Oh noooooo.... www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

The studies they are choosing to ignore France: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Australia: statements.qld.gov.au/statements/1... and www.saxinstitute.org.au/resource/evi... USA: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a... From:

PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news

We have been so lucky to have Gwenne Bregeon, a comics researcher all the way from France, interning at the Cartoon and Comics Archive, and finding wonderful things - here's a blog post that covers some of her discoveries: natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...

Just letting you all know that I'll be shutting down Rooster Tails in the coming months. I want to do some different creative stuff, and I have been wrestling with this strip for a while. So. I'm retiring Rooster Tails. You can read more here: www.patreon.com/posts/142559...

If you wanna come say hello and see what we do at the National Library of New Zealand - feel free to come along to this: natlib.govt.nz/events/natio... I'll be there with some cool cartoons and comics

The National Library is 60 years old... come along to their open day to celebrate If you book for a back-of-house tour you may even get me as your tour guide 😊 natlib.govt.nz/events/natio...

If you want to do a fun family friendly school holiday thing, then I'd highly recommend this: www.facebook.com/share/1BZi7z...

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

Sorry! I've been unwell - so have some catching up to do with this list... incoming updates ahoy

Mō te Rāpare nei, te rā tuawhā o Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, e whakanui ana mātou i tētahi rangatira nui whakaharahara: pānuihia tēnei Whakatauira nō Te Whaea o te Motu: Whina Cooper me Te Hīkoi Roa mō Te Manatika. shorturl.at/YjzQ1

Wellington hīkoi draws thousands to mark half a century of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

I'm excited about an event that I have been helping organising - a panel discussion of Maurice Gee's contribution to children's literature. It'll be a mixture of readings and people speaking about his work www.facebook.com/share/19o79R...

It turns out when you publish a book people say nice things about your book. I’m going to collect a few of them here.

Do you have a long-form graphic medicine project? Are you struggling with specific elements, or having difficulty viewing it holistically? Follow the link below for full eligibility requirements and to apply. Deadline is 9/19. bit.ly/cartooningclinic25 #NEGM25

I think maybe I didn't mention this here - but National Library has undergone a big structural change and now I'm curator with a portfolio covering Cartoons, Comics, Illustrated books and Children's Literature. So - if I'm talking more in these realms (beyond cartoons and comics) that's why.

Same! Linked to Zine Librarian Code of Ethics in our @sharpnews.bsky.social "Queer Book History" zine—w/ @fobettarh.bsky.social's foundational work on vocational awe+library workers too—as important to doing queer book history work well with or as library+archive workers, zine authors+collectors.

It's Mahuru Māori and I thought I'd share some cool things that are at the National Library (I'll do it as a thread and add a new one every(?) day: Te Ātea (natlib.govt.nz/records/2110...) by Katarina Mataira. I only came across this book a few years ago, even though it was released in 1975.

Popular Myths Amongst Government Ministers. Teachers and nurses pay vs Crown board members pay. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #NZHealth #NZEducation

Also - friendly reminder that the Ōtautahi Zinefest is on this weekend! August 30-31st 11am-4pm Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu Accessibility hour 11am-12pm 312 Montreal St Central City

the chch library system is one of our biggest supporters and resources and i love them so much!

I’m running a zine-making workshop for students in a fortnight, and the Tūranga zine collection has been amazingly useful for inspiration.

Libraries! Love! Zines!

Further thoughts on zines in libraries and archives coming (spurred on from this and other conversations we've been having at work)... Did you know that we collect zines at the national library? And that there's a WHOLE lot of really important work done by libraries in relation to zines!

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

At mahi today we were talking about remixing music and got us wondering if there was a comics equivalent - beyond homage or reference - remixing other artists work to create something related but new...

An interesting new discovery about the whaling song 'Soon May the Wellerman Come' (which I've now learned is not a shanty!) as told by my colleague @jingajik.bsky.social : www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stor...

If you’re looking for something good to do in Wellington this fine Saturday afternoon, please check out this talk at 2pm Climate and Community Activist Tuhi-ao Bailey shares Parihaka’s steps towards kai sovereignty, their māra kai and large scale Papakāinga plans in the face of Climate Change.

If you're doing research in NZ about children's books, a friendly reminder that the Susan Price scholarship ($2500) closes end of Oct dnwfriends.nzl.org/index.php/ho...

This week NZ First pulled its support for Marama Davidson’s Consumer Guarantees (Right To Repair) Amendment Bill. Maybe repairing stuff is a bit too woke for NZ First. My Stuff #NZpol #cartoon #RightToRepair #ConsumerGuarantees

!! www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/15/t...

I missed isobel joy-te aho white's new resource while I was travelling - but this is a great comic 'Tōku Anō Takiwā' you can read here - newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/t-ku-an-taki...

Sam Wallman, an Australian cartoonist, did an amazing talk a few years ago about a project at the Australian library using archive material to create comics about union and queer community solidarity www.youtube.com/live/OJg4H2i...

I am interested in art and archive overlaps atm - people using archives to create art and vice versa. My colleague pointed out this cool project by Kāi Tahu and Anne Noble using contemporary art to create a visual archive used for Kāi Tahu's high court claim - dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/...

Former National minister Christopher Finlayson says the government is placing the coalition agreement above “good race relations” “Their [Māori’s] rights are always under attack” My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #morality

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

How to do quality law-making. Certainly not the sneaky way the Coalition Govt went about the pay-equity business. My #cartoon today #NZpol #PayEquity

All around the country, people are opening brown paper packages full of books, while the stacks in our storeroom shrink! It will be 50% off all August, but some titles are down to the last few copies already – get in quick so you don't miss out 📚📚📚 teherengawakapress.co.nz

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website. ✨ Smooth website experience 📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier 🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

So excited about this!

Does anyone know a queer tailor in Te Whanganui-a-tara?

Also, damn, so happy this exists. Just bought issue 2 www.utuamatimati.com