A 9 minute long BBC documentary, originally broadcast 15 April, 1964.
Cathal O'Shannon reports from the shores of Shetland, where television has arrived for the first time. Ho...
2025-05-29 20:51:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Just sharing a quick life update for my wonderful Patreon supporters.
A couple of months ago, my wife and I became parents for the second time. The labour happened very suddenly one night, an...
2025-05-23 06:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patreon supporters,
It's time to give you an update as to what I've been working on!
Rolling a whole bunch of miscellaneous news into this big post, broken up under the headings belo...
2024-04-04 20:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreon supporters,
You might have seen this info through my regular email list, but I thought I'd post to Patreon regardless.
I have just released printed versions of En...
2023-11-09 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi supporters,
A quick note to let you know about a new option that I am offering to ...
2023-08-04 00:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I'll get it out of the way: my big news is that I am now a first-time dad!
2023-07-27 07:59:13 +0000 UTC
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Today I am proudly announcing that I have signed a contract with Scribe Publications
Hi everyone,
I spent the bulk of this afternoon writing a submission to Australia's new National Cultural Policy.
Australia has effectively had no national arts/cultur...
Hi everyone,
A short update about a few things that have been happening here.
My comic Rat Park is being included as a rea...
2022-04-01 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Some good news: I have just published The Town Without Television, Part 2!
Here is the blurb and link to the comic on my website:
2021-08-30 22:04:36 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
It took me a little longer to wrap up Part 2 of The Town Without Television than I expected. Part of the reason is that it is the longest comic that I have yet ...
As with past years, I am using this as an opportunity to declare my favourite books that I read during the past two years. Here’s my Top 5 countdown of the best books that I during the period 201...
2021-08-02 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I have now mailed all of my postcards to my Patreon supporters who are on the 'postcard' reward tier. Australian supporters have probably got their cards in the mail already. Non-A...
2021-07-21 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A video from my living room. A look at my work-in-progress on Town Without Television, Part 3.
I had gotten to the point where I had too many ideas to keep track of,...
2021-07-20 22:09:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi again Patreon supporters!
I just wanted to tell you about an unexpected series of events that occurred in the past two weeks. Here is a brief timeline:
• Tannis MacBeth
2021-07-01 21:01:01 +0000 UTC
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I am saddened to learn about the passing of Professor Tannis MacBeth, who died on Tuesday 15 June 2021...
2021-06-17 13:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised in last month's post, I have just published Part 1 of my Notel pr...
2021-05-19 09:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
It is Thursday afternoon here in Australia, and I'm about to go away for a four day family Easter holiday.
I just wanted to share a short 6-minute video that I just got ba...
Hi everyone,
As mentioned last month, I am in the middle of a project titled Basic Income Comics, which will be profiling experimentation into universal basic income...
Hi Patreon supporters,
Just messaging you to cover a handful of things.
From July 1, Patreon will begin charging sales tax on certain pled...
2020-06-26 01:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostHi supporters,
I just wanted to write a short note to thank you for supporting my work during this current coronavirus pandemic.
So far, I haven't had a single Patreon supporter cance...
I've just released a new comic to my website:
Doing It All Alone
Many successful people view other members of society as irrelevant to thei...
Happy new year everyone.
Just a quick update to remind you what your patronage is supporting at the moment.
I'm still in the process of stockpiling artwork of the sequel to my Not...
Hi Patreon supporters,
It's been a couple of months between posts, so I thought I'd update you on what I have been working on lately.
Notel...
2019-11-22 05:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreon supporters,
Last weekend I participated in an Open Day event here at my Canberra art centre. 13 of us artists opened...
2019-11-22 05:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I am releasing my new comic What the Dumbwaiter Hides:
New blog post: Did you know I've been cartooning full-time since 2011? That I love Led Zeppelin? This is a list of 12 things you probably didn't know about me.
I wrote this piece for anot...
2019-09-11 07:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I was interviewed by podcast Utopian Horizons about the life and work of Buckminster Fuller, who I profiled in my 2019-08-08 23:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post
As with past years, I am using this as an...
2019-07-31 23:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
