Hello, I’m Darren Fisher, I teach into the animation degree at Swinburne University. I’ve been drawing forever and making comics since I discovered Superman… Read More »Secret Identity/Public Persona: Oppositions and Plurality (part 1)
Welcome to Part One of my Literature review into mental health, art therapy, and personal storytelling. This paper is called Art therapy in Mental Health:… Read More »Art therapy in mental health: A systematic review
Earlier this year I submitted a funding application for a pilot project combining comics, teaching, and personal storytelling. While I haven’t yet heard back regarding… Read More »InVisDev: Visualising Mental Health Disorder
Getting proportions right with drawing humans from the imagination can be tricky. People over the years since at least the Ancient Greeks have been creating… Read More »Looming Proportions
I was recently commissioned to create a range of drawings in the same vein as one I had completed years ago for Dr. Peter Moyes.… Read More »Caricature no thanks
This weekend I attended a silent meditation and yoga retreat at the secluded Casa Pallotti, in Millgrove, Victoria. Key takeaways included: Different types of ‘sandpaper’… Read More »Grasshopper Yoga Retreat March 2019
Managed to squeeze in an hour at the Cintiq today to work a little more on page 29. It’s coming along!
Great news- I’ve been accepted as a presenter at the 2019 International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels in Manchester! I put together an abstract… Read More »Entwined goes to Manchester
Tomorrow I need to impart a few key concepts of semiotics to the third year animators at Swinburne. This is an overview of things I’ve… Read More »Semiotics for dummies
Today was an interesting one. I attended the Media and Comms organised Cinema and Screen Studies Research Seminar (first for 2019) after a late start… Read More »Harley Quinn: Enabler/Innoculator
1994 was produced in two parts. Melbourne (2013) and Brisbane (2014). 1994 is an early attempt at autobiographic comic storytelling. A diary-based reflection of a… Read More »1994: Teenage Travel Diary
A 24-Hour wordless Autofictographic comic in brush and ink. Available for purchase as a physical print in the Storybordello shop.
Ashcan comics is a collaborative space for Australian comics creators. I took over the imprint in 2014. Dedicated almost two years in organisation, coordination, editing,… Read More »Ashcan X (2016)
Story and narration: Peter Moyes Visuals: Darren C Fisher Buddy, his Beat-up Gibson and the Gods of Guitar takes its cues from the Jewish Mussar tradition… Read More »Buddy, his Beat-up Gibson and the Gods of Guitar
Drafting page two of Entwined- A Recurrent Romance
