Cartoonist. Journalist. Hails from lutruwita/Tasmania. Total history & politics nerd. Features Editor @ The Nib, co-director Comic Art Workshop. (she/her)
Still reeling from being longlisted for the Stella Prize. I'm not very good at these things; i always feel like i miss someone out when i write them so i will just say a huge thank you to the judges and to the other wonderful longlistees & all the Stella prize people!!!
A week to go til we hit the annual corporate calamity that is also known as #InternationalWomensDay2023 - if you are planning to participate in this branding bunfight here are some handy tips to survive until you have to do another 24 hours of performative feminism next year: ->
Tillie Walden To Be Appointed Vermont's Fifth Cartoonist Laureate
https://cartoonstudies.org/tillie-walden-to-be-appointed-vermonts-fifth-cartoonist-laureate/…@VTArtsCouncil@cartoonstudies#comics#cartoonist#graphicnovels#zines#tilliewalden
White supremacists have a centuries-long record of recalibrating who is and isn’t considered “American” based on what’s necessary to clutch onto power. (panel from my in-progress adaptation of LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME)
Parenting is cool because:
-it’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done
-the stakes are the highest they’ve ever been
-no one can tell you how to do it
-you have to make a million choices every day
-there’s no way to ever know if any of them were correct
-socks just constantly vanish
) Freelance Charter of Rights! We hope that this agreement will encourage other publishers to get involved with this campaign for fair rates and conditions. https://overland.org.au/2023/01/an-announcement/…
for my next PB project with @simonandschuster. We’re decoding the colorful history of the phrase “Friend of Dorothy” and the ways Queer people find each other in dangerous times. (Feels relevant?)
Today is National Corrections Day, and the ACT Gov is celebrating by lighting up national monuments in blue. Today is also the day that we have failed to meet our obligations under the UN's Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and the Gov is silent. Irony?
I’m an author in a movie. After settling at my immaculate desk I stare into the middle distance for a moment before beginning to type. I don’t stop until I have an impressive stack of printed pages next to me. I don’t check Twitter or Instagram and I am always dressed.
The Premier says the nazi uniform he wore aged 21 was a youthful mistake.
That's hard to hear when NSW prisons are full of children as young as 10, locked up for minor offenses in a fundamentally racist system - 50% of imprisoned kids in Australia are First Nations. 🧵#NSWPol
I often wonder why every single fantasy/sf movie or TV show has to revolve around violent life & death conflicts? Why can't we have compelling stories about strange weird beautiful worlds without the constant threat of people being killed?
THE MINICOMIC AWARDS open for submissions January 1st til the end of the month. that’s 2 weeks, I bet you could make a mini in that time 😉
Oh and did i mention we doubled our prize pool from last year? So far each of our 5 winners will get $800 each!
https://theminicomicawards.crd.co
I didn't get anything published this year but I did give birth to a baby so here is a thread of all the body parts I'm especially proud of producing in 2022: