I find it amusing when people begin a post online by apologising for a lack of recent activity. I imagine that most people wouldn’t…
I’m a bit behind on updating this… archiving all my activities takes almost as long as doing them in the first place! This week’s…
I’ve been working through John Truby’s excellent book The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller. Anyone who is interested in scriptwriting,…
I’ve decided that I’m not busy enough, and so have begun an informal cartooning course, courtesy of master cartoonist Ivan Brunetti. Within a week of…
I’ve reached a bit of a stalemate in my progress. So far I have made a bulletpoint list of diary entries from my uni…
This, the latest work (besides my daily diary comix) has stagnated in the last couple of weeks due to other commitments. I was waiting…
After attending the Zics zine and comic symposium I was high on good vibes and enthusiasm, and started work on this. Drawn mostly straight on…
This most recently completed strip details events leading up to my move from Melbourne to Queensland in 1994. I had been living with a…
Following up from my post in April (found here), below are some of the results of mixing different styles of representation. For just a…
In this post I will show you how I have attempted to find some basic underlying patterns within the content and structure of my…
At the behest of my supervisor I have done something I have honestly never even considered before, and that is copying other people’s work…..
Chester Brown’s I Never Liked You (2002) was originally serialized in issues 26 through 30 of the comic book series Yummy Fur under the…
The following material references the following. Petelin, G., 2013, Form and Context, PowerPoint presentation, Griffith University, Brisbane.
As I progress back into the depths of study I…
At 582 pages, Craig Thompson’s graphic novel Blankets is a weighty beast of a graphic novel. My haptic sense was daunted upon first discovering it, the…
Danny Gregory- http://dannygregory.com/
Danny Gregory’s Everyday Matters is a “Graphic Memoir” (The National Post, back cover) that opens with him living in Greenwich, New York, with…
This is an initial listing of memoir writers that I will be looking at. This list will grow and no doubt change as I…
I made these during spare moments in my previous office job. The challenge was to tell a story in the limited space of a…