On April the 8th I finally got to present my work and findings from the previous year. It took four and a half weeks…
Confirmation is coming up. Looming like a great shambling beast of gargantuan proportions, thick ropes of saliva shining sickly, it seems at first glance…
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 Not for citation or referencing.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- get…
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, the diary…
This, the latest work (besides my daily diary comix) has stagnated in the last couple of weeks due to other commitments. I was waiting…
Last month saw my first ‘proper’ exhibition at the Petrie Terrace Gallery along with other Higher Degree Research students and academics from the animation…
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…
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…
I have had quite a few meetings since my last update, so this is going to be a mixed bag of the most notable…
Following up from my post in April (found here), below are some of the results of mixing different styles of representation. For just a…
It seems that my entries have stagnated of late, and I would like to ensure my army of readers (hi mum!) that I have…
Of late there has been far too much reading, writing, working and not nearly enough studio work. It has been a little soul destroying….
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…
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 24 Hour Comic Challenge, in which the aim is to complete a 24 page comic in 24 hours. A seemingly Herculean task that…
Throughout the last few months I have found myself in the fortuitous position of being allowed to sit in on the confirmation seminars of…
As a foray into biography and opportunity to make a better than average birthday card I put together this small comic for my mother….
The following material references a 2013 lecture by Dr. George Petelin titled Refining the research question, at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Queensland.
In…
In this post I will show you how I have attempted to find some basic underlying patterns within the content and structure of my…
Inspiration strikes at last! ‘Twas a brisk autumnal afternoon and all the students were stressed with the realities of study. Whilst attending a confirmation…
In the spirit of exploration and growth I have here a couple more ‘honest copies’ of work I consider to be masterful and visually…
The following material references a 2013 lecture by Dr. George Petelin titled Refining the research question, at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Queensland.
There…
It’s all about me. Autobiography, that is. So how then do I represent me? There is a lot of talk about the narrating ‘I’…
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…..
The following material references a talk by George Petelin in 2013 entitled Refining the research question, .
At the moment my research question is not a question…
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…
We had the pleasure of a guest speaker come to our seminar on 26 March 2013 to (attempt) to explain Deleuze and Guattari’s complicated…