BLACK RAINBOW

7.8.12

GRAVY YARD

I have started a new blog. I'll leave this here one up for, ah, posterity, but I won't add anything new to it. Go to penerasespaper.com for new drawings, if you like.

22.7.12

18.7.12

A GUIDE TO THE YARRA RIVER'S BEATS

CALL OUT FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AUSTRALIAN HISTORY COMIC ANTHOLOGY

The "Australian History" topic can be meditated on as sloppily as you like, it's a pretty stretchy one. I hope your first thought was not that you can't draw! If you can write your name, then I reckon you can draw. Lots of different styles will be accepted and respected. If you'd like to write something but you don't like the way you draw, or vice versa, maybe you could collaborate with someone. Feel free to write me if you'd like to be hooked up with someone. Please help spread this call out far and wide! If you'd like me to send you some printed flyers, email thefatlove@gmail.com with your address and I'll happily send you some. Keep it in the back of your mind and see if anything comes to you. Here's hoping we can smear some underrepresented stories around the place, and make the streets a little denser to walk through.

LAST COPIES OF COMIC BOOK

I have 20 copies of this book of drawings left for sale. It contains 100 drawings and costs $15, plus $2 postage.

Buy online here:

15.7.12

MICHAEL JACKSON - THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT US

10.7.12

WE ARE LIVING IN A NIGHTMARE

2.7.12

A DEAD FOREST INDEX - DISTANCE

HOUSES

1.7.12

IT'S ALRIGHT

REDBACK GRAPHIX

Redback Graphix was a group based in Sydney from 1979 to 1994. They printed political posters designed for the street, promoting underrepresented political messages. Operating out of Carriageworks in Newtown, they screen printed over 500 poster designs.

" Marie McMahon, 1981.

Michael Callaghan, 1988 (poster promoting an end to the violence in Chile).

Marie McMahon , 1988.

Michael Callaghan, 1977 (Earthworks Poster Collective, the precursor group to Redback).

Marie McMahon, 1987.

TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS

I drew the cover for a collection of critiques of gay marriage. To submit to the journal, click here.

20.6.12

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FU-UN

13.6.12

WOOLY BULLY TOONS AND TUNES

9.6.12

KELIS - BOSSY

MEEK VT

BRICK WINDOW

Below is page one of what was intended to be a three page comic, but I abandoned it because I didn't like it. It has come to this blog to die.

BODIES

COLOURED STONE - KAPI PULKA

31.5.12

FROM "SOME REMARKS ON KAFKA'S FUNNINESS"

The following is the closing paragraph from a speech David Foster Wallace gave about trying to teach Kafka to young American college students.

"And it is this, I think, that makes Kafkas wit inaccessible to children whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance. It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get - the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseperable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. It's hard to put into words, up at the blackboard, beleive me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his stories as all about a kind of door, increasingly hard, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it: we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and ramming and kicking. That, finally, the door opens . . . and it opens outward - we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch."

25.5.12

THE PEN

18.5.12

JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE

Part 1 of 8 (links to the other chapters appear at end of Part 1)

GOOD GOD DANCETERIA AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

DINGLE PARTNERS

16.5.12

J. HALCOMB

My Great Uncle Bob died and we found all these drawings by my great great great Grandmother, in amongst his paperwork. They're from the early 1880's, from around the Adelaide region.

the cover

The tombstone reads 'Absent from the body, present with the Lord'.

People constructing the breakwater at Victor Point, or: hot dead guys.

Victor Harbour from Granite Island.

Christmas Day 1880, Kangaroo Island.

14.5.12

IT'S ALRIGHT

13.5.12

"AGAINST EQUALITY" POSTCARDS

american queer archive, publishing and art collective 'against equality' printed a bunch of postcards with this image on it. if you'd like me to post you one, email me your address thefatlove@gmail.com. the against equality archive can be viewed by clicking on this banner (then click on 'themes' to view their best content, i reckon):

9.5.12

LAND

Comic for inside of Marc Pearson's Free Comic Book Day comic.

REAR COVER FOR MARC PEARSON'S WOOLY BULLY COMIC

3.5.12

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

I'm doing a workshop on Australian history as seen through the lens of political cartoons next week. Here are some of the images I have found while researching.

printing press, the innernet ov the 1800z

political differences in the young colony

Cartoon from 1837 about the heavy handed rule of Governer Arthur in Van Diemen's Land. Government "interference" (taxes and laws) is making life difficult for piggy settlers. A precursor to the cries of the Nanny State from modern day jerks.

A coded call for the assassination of the Governer of Van Diemen's Land. Echoes of Alan Jones calling for Jula Gillard to be drowned in a sack in 2011.