I’m hammering away at the first 60 pages of a really long comic. I’m doing my best to pencil out the whole chapter and, to be honest, it’s a harrowing task.  Telling long stories with pictures is outrageously tedious. Thank fuck that Dylan Horrocks is there to cheer us on. Here’s a video of us being cheered on. In the video you get to see my hand and the top my head. A fine aspect!

Anyway. I’ll have some preview pages up here soon.

Manny Fox are the sort of earnest outfit that can rightfully claim to be part of the extreme metal movement.

Whoa! Fame! Just had an interview posted on the ASL website and I may or may not be part of Drawing out and Drawing In: A spotlight on graphic novels  on at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne in late April.

Oh, and I’ve recently started a new blog called Unfinished Comics which is a little bit academic and a little bit pretentious, but it’s about drawing comics so the hard-core comic nerds out there might be interested.

Here are some shots from my window at the Platform Artist Space at Degraves St Subway in Melbourne. I wanted to make it look like the wall above my drawing table. I almost got there. Riza from the Wu Tang Clan was there at the launch and he said my comix was “real”. Shaun Tan was also there and he said that he liked the picture that Alicia drew when she was five.

Soon you’ll be forced for address me as Doctor Pat, just like the tobacco. Ha.

Also, checkout the Atlas just released by Ronnie Scott and his vast team of talented cohorts at The Lifed Brow. There’s a creative piece for every country in the world. Poetry, prose, comics, illustration and sound recording. I’ve got a really strange illustrated story in there about Luxembourg.

It’s Christmas! My gift to you is this picture of a very capable cat/bird/woman riding a flying surfboard with her surf rat boyfriend trailing behind with a severed limb.  There’s a paper version in this month’s Tracks.

A sprawling surf-side city on the planet Macho, where the surf is small and the real estate isn’t. The story that went with this one was written by DC Green, who is well known to be half surf-journalist half sarlacc, and can be found this month’s issue of Tracks. It’ll be on the racks at newsagents anywhere that you can smell the ocean.

Here’s a bit of time-wastage with some torn up envelopes and some pva.

Also, Allen and Unwin are releasing an Australian comics anthology next month and I have a few pages in it. Included are all of my favourite Australian cartoonists. Check out The Tango Collection. Buy one for your guinea pig.