December, 2008

90 AVATARS IN 90 HOURS!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE Actually it was 91 avatars in about 96 hours but who’s counting? Not me, I’m unconscious. I don’t know what came over me. There I was on holiday, relaxing, wandering about. Hadn’t drawn a cartoon since the pygmy hippopotamus christmas card last Tuesday (and that was photoshopped). I was [...]

A Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) has been found by A HOUSEWIFE in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. “Having eluded authorities since being smuggled into Australia 5 years ago, the “large and exotic” offender was captured by a Melbourne housewife and will be put down.” You can read the whole article here: Turtle leading the resistance against Senator [...]

I am drawing a 15 page extravaganza cartoon for Friday and have not had time to blog. In the meantime I have discovered that someone else has had the good idea I didn’t have but wanted to and didn’t realise until someone else had it. Bastard! Many will suggest that fuckyoupenguin is not the greatest [...]

There are some who simply will not care (and rightly so), many more who wouldn’t even begin to understand. There are some fortunate folks however, who would be delighted and honoured and I count myself among them. Last night, half a dozen well meaning fellows and I had dinner with Rodney Eade, Coach of the [...]

Dad’s Araluen Clearance Sale – Part Two. There was more than one Black House Spider (Badumna insignis) discovered on the weekend. I found one in a box of wet weather gear (some of it old Australia Post Standard Issue) which was on the ping pong table with about 5 million other boxes of old crap. I [...]

This is the bird that appears in the song “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks. It is a remarkable bird as are all of the other remarkable birds. White-winged Choughs are easily recognised but often mistaken for “crows”—a double mistake, as the birds most frequently called “crows” in Australia are actually ravens. And yet you continue [...]