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At the advice of scriptwriting guru Hugh Burton I’ve been reading The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby. I’m… Read More »The premise of a better story

Scriptwriting for comics is tricky. The last script I wrote for a comic was Fault Lines, my Honours year final piece.  At only 12,000 words it was already… Read More »Scriptwrestling

I’m currently in the middle of plotting out the story for Chasing Shadows (working title) my final Doctoral output, a sprawling graphic novel that will be… Read More »Three Acts?

A wise man once said, say yes to everything. So that’s what I’m doing at the moment. Here’s the results. Right now I have a… Read More »Progress?

While recently in Glasgow I took the opportunity to visit master illustrator and visual storyteller Frank Quitely. I’ve loved Frank’s art ever since I first… Read More »Quitely, Frankly, Awesome

My submission for the 24 Hour Comic Challenge 2014, Chasing Shadows plays with two interweaving timelines. A dry run for my final graphic novel and… Read More »24 Hour Comic

The 24 Hour Comic Challenge is coming up, an event that sees people from all over the world spending a consecutive 24 hours in making a… Read More »24 Hour Comic Jam!

Notes on a presentation by Professor Trish Fitzsimmons, Deputy Head of Griffith Film School. Please excuse any errors or omissions. This is not intended for citation… Read More »Documentary as a Form of Creative-Led Research Production and Dissemination

After receiving my feedback from the confirmation assessment and another meeting with Andi on the 29th April I have a rough trajectory to follow. –… Read More »Where to now?

It’s “the Avant Garde, not the Avant Guard.” The lovely and prolific Professor Jodie Mack– animator, filmmaker and artist- came to visit the university, direct from Dartmouth.… Read More »Jodie Mack- Let Your Light Shine

On April the 8th I finally got to present my work and findings from the previous year. It took four and a half weeks to… Read More »Confirmation done!

Confirmation is coming up. Looming like a great shambling beast of gargantuan proportions, thick ropes of saliva shining sickly, it seems at first glance far,… Read More »Confirmation Looms

Teaching seminar notes. Not for citation or referencing. Please excuse the brevity and any errors or omissions. Learning as conditioning (memorising) or rewards/reinforcement. Active learning-… Read More »Foundations of University Teaching

Well I hate to start a post with this but here I go…   It’s been a while between posts. Which is not strictly true,… Read More »Busy!

Last month saw my first ‘proper’ exhibition at the Petrie Terrace Gallery along with other Higher Degree Research students and academics from the animation program.… Read More »Shadow of a Mouse Exhibition

On the 23rd August 2013 I had the good fortune to meet Myrna Gawryn. According to the blurb Griffith University produced, Myrna comes from a… Read More »Myrna Gawryn

I have had quite a few meetings since my last update, so this is going to be a mixed bag of the most notable suggestions… Read More »Supervisor meetings of late

It seems that my entries have stagnated of late, and I would like to ensure my army of readers (hi mum!) that I have not… Read More »Reflections

Of late there has been far too much reading, writing, working and not nearly enough studio work. It has been a little soul destroying. I… Read More »August winds of change

At the beginning of July I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the GUPSA (Griffith University Postgraduate Student’s Association) where I… Read More »GUPSA Cross Fertilisation Symposium

The first meeting with my ancillary supervisor, Dr Peter Moyes went down in early June. He had some cool suggestions, and introduced me to the… Read More »Meet with Pete- Numero Uno

As a foray into biography and opportunity to make a better than average birthday card I put together this small comic for my mother.  She… Read More »Briefly biographic