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David Blumenstein
@nakedfella.bsky.social
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Comix about badness: nakedfella.com. Service design: experienceillustration.com. Squishface Comic Studio: squishfacestudio.com. Deputy pres of the Australian Cartoonists Association. @[email protected], @nakedfella on insta.
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update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases

tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad.

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update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases | MariNaomi
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September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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An excellent fan uploaded another old issue of Mania magazine (featuring Pink Chickens) to the Internet Archive. This one had Dolly Douglas ON THE COVER, which I'd forgotten about, but I was incredibly stoked about at the time.

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Mania Magazine May 2002 : Nextmedia Pty Limited : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
May 2002 issue of Australian kid's magazine Mania.Comics featured:FunkbotKung Fu CowPink Chickens
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June 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
I went to Reimena Yee's masterclass on book research as part of Q-lit Festival! Here are my notes (except pg 5 cos I can only post 4pgs here).

#sketchnotes #sketchnoting #graphicscribe #comics #comicsresearch #bookresearch
How do you turn a mountain of fun facts into a book? Plan. Sourcing. Assessing the source. ID'ing the goods. Extracting the goods. Processing. Figuring out your goals with this story. Research will help you do this. Search engines can be useful but not Google with AI switched on (you can switch it off by adding &udm=14 to the end of the results URL) Look at old professor websites for good stuff, and use Wikipedia for its keywords and footnotes to actual sources. Also hit up libraries and scholars Also non-academic sources, hobbyists and enthusiasts, they know stuff too and aren't necessarily as in thrall to Great White Men of History
June 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Watched The Maltese Falcon for the first time; now can't stop doing a Sydney Greenstreet imitation. Aha. Ha ha ha! Indeed! You're quite a character! Quite a character.
May 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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This is one of those jokes that would only make sense to a few people and shouldn't be shared widely. I'm going to share it widely today since it's #ausvotes #auspol and #freecomicbookday too. It needs too much explanation to actually be funny but it kind of means something to me.
A drawing imagining what anti-Muslim propaganda would look like if it was targeted at the comics making community. It reads "Did you know Islam hates comics and loves fan-art". A stereotypically scary Muslim man holds a drawing of Spider-Man and says "I'll sell this to your wife".
May 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Sandy Gutman feels unsafe at the ABC, everybody
April 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I’ve got more wonderful heartfelt supportive messages about my latest book, REVOLUTION IN 35mm, & the difference it’s made to people, than any others I’ve done. If you haven’t picked it up yet, it’s available from @pmpress.bsky.social and all the usual online platforms

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April 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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These papers are nowhere without freelancers. Get on board please: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
Help freelancers at Nine Publishing win fair rates
Off the back of strike action last year, Nine management committed to engage in discussions about freelance rates and conditions with MEAA representatives. Despite this commitment, Nine management ha...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The Flower Clock music from Play School, recreated. https://youtu.be/ISR5vea8rmI?si=tj5HTe6EGmAav6Ar
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Thank you to the ABDA judges for longlisting SQUISHBOOK in the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards! Thanks to our illustrators and Jeffries Printing Services too.
The covers of the books nominated in the Australian Book Design Awards' Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Book category, and the nominated designers and publishers listed below them
March 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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reimenayee.com
HEY COMICS PEEPS, apply for this amazing opportunity!!!

So proud that we’re able to offer a program like this, esp to international creators where residencies like this are short in supply (or non-existent)
cartoonist.coop Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · Feb 25
THE CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE...

The very first DIGITAL COMICS RESIDENCY! A PAID opportunity for comics creators AROUND THE WORLD.

Learn more at our journal:
cartoonist.coop/journal/anno...

(Art by @amandajealous.bsky.social !)
Inkling and Nibford getting sucked into cyber space. “The Cartoonist Cooperative, Digital Residency. Applications open in May! Paid opportunity open to anyone around the world.”
February 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Was happy to sign this. It's in today's Age and SMH.

I went along to a nice rally in Melb recently; it was good and big. here's my drawings from it. I only had a dead pen with me.

#OzJewsSayNO
Full page ad from The Age and SMH, Feb 25 2025. Headline is "Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing!" 500 names under it (about all that would fit) Drawings of David arriving at the protest but walking past the police into the conservative asshole zone Drawings of police being angry at David for going into the Israeli flag and techno pen where all the Zionists were being kept. David went to the correct area several blocks away and then stood in the shade
February 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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nakedfella.bsky.social
Vote Squishbook in the Vic Premier's Literary Awards people's choice!

https://wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/peoples-choice-award/

Vote comics! Vote indie press! VOT IBIS!
The cover of Squishbook, with a drawing of an ibis next to it. Above is the word "VOT" and below the words "For People's Choice", with "people's" crossed out and "ibis" added in
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
“Did Creative Australia honestly think they could just ring up the next artist on the shortlist? ... No artists worth their soul will touch that pavilion now. They can’t. It’s totally tainted."
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‘No artist’ will want to represent Australia at Venice Biennale after Sabsabi dumped, former museum head says
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor says Tony Burke has questions to answer after Khaled Sabsabi’s offer was rescinded but the arts minister has denied involvement
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Vote Squishbook in the Vic Premier's Literary Awards people's choice!

https://wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/peoples-choice-award/

Vote comics! Vote indie press! VOT IBIS!
The cover of Squishbook, with a drawing of an ibis next to it. Above is the word "VOT" and below the words "For People's Choice", with "people's" crossed out and "ibis" added in
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Do you remember when Mark Latham got to do a podcast pilot on Triple M and it got deleted because it was super boring but also offensive?
February 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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I have a lo-fi email newsletter which comes out between 4 and 8 times a year. People tell me it's good. And social media is bad. So subscribe to my email at https://nakedfella.com/contact . It's best for both of us.
Quote from someone who read the Experience Illustration email newsletter: "Really great read! I went from the top to the bottom, and that doesn't happen much, not even in the bedroom!"
February 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Semiotics are ok when there isn't time for fulliotics
February 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends! has been Highly Commended in the Children’s Literature category of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! https://nakedfella.com/2025/01/squishbook-receives-commendation-from-the-victorian-premiers-literary-awards/
The cover of Squishbook, with a big fat Victorian Premier's Literary Awards sticker drawn right over the middle of it. An ibis running around with a copy of Squishbook, and some info about what's in it and where you could get one (http://squishbook.com.au) A drawing of the people who made Squishbook: Alex e Clark, Alex Pavlotski, Ben Hutchings, Briar Rolfe, David Blumenstein, Ive Sorocuk, Jin Hien Lau, Jo Waite, Nicholas J. Johnson, Patrick Alexander, Sarah Howell, Scarlette Baccini and Warwick Holt
January 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Today's our last Squishbook event for Jan school holidays! Book in if your kids are feeling it this morning! $5 entry, bring 4 kids with you. 11-12pm at Squishface (317-329 Dorcas St, Sth Melb, near the market) www.eventbrite.com/e/squishbook...
Graphic of Squishface people drawing and being silly with a bowl of trifle.
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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nakedfella.bsky.social
Squishface Summer Workshop Day is THIS SAT, and it’s going to be a really special morning with Lily Mae Martin, Sarah Howell and Ariel Ries. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface-comic-studio-summer-workshop-day-registration-1110912502199
Photo of artist Lily Mae Martin standing in a house with a piece of her artwork Photo of artist Ariel Ries in front of a tree Photo of artist Sarah Howell in a forest
January 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
nakedfella.bsky.social
Squishface Summer Workshop Day is THIS SAT, and it’s going to be a really special morning with Lily Mae Martin, Sarah Howell and Ariel Ries. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/squishface-comic-studio-summer-workshop-day-registration-1110912502199
Photo of artist Lily Mae Martin standing in a house with a piece of her artwork Photo of artist Ariel Ries in front of a tree Photo of artist Sarah Howell in a forest
January 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Almost upon us! Squishbook school holiday kids wkshop #1. $5, bring up to 4 kids. Wed Jan 8, 11-12. Book in! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/squishbook-workshop-squishface-comic-studio-wed-jan-8-registration-1110982722229
Drawing of Squishface artists doing silly things.
January 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
nakedfella.bsky.social
THANK YOU James for calling out Squishbook as one of ALIA Graphic's top reads of 2024! ALIA Graphic is the comics group in the Australian Library & Information Association.
The words "ALIA Graphic's 2024 Top Reads" Screen grab of ALIA's insta post calling Squishbook "a ridiculous and ridiculously engaging book that gives advice, examples and laughs in roughly equal measure"!
December 30, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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This Saturday! Ease into 2025 gently, via coaster drawing timez. Pls note this replaces our regular Wed monthly drawing night (don't come to Squish on Wed 1 Jan)!
Three little cartoon characters put coaster art they've drawn on a wall.
December 29, 2024 at 10:06 PM