This is an illustration for a client in 2018, who made fun of it at the time for being “too intersectional.” But that’s what unions are all about—touch one, touch all!
Usage note: If any comrades wanna use this (for union purposes, or just to hang on their wall) you don’t need to ask me for permission. Go, with my blessing!
On 5 July 2021, Melbourne was having a little break between lockdowns and conservative nightmareman Michael Leunig released yet another deeply weird antivax cartoon in The Age. It had his usual racist, homophobic undertones, but also… what did it mean?
Since it was winter, and the man is reprehensible, and lockdowns, etc, I was willing to indulge my worst impulses.
It frustrates me deeply that Fairfax is still publishing him as though nobody else could do what he does. Our country is chockablock full of much funnier, much more talented, much less hateful and more generous cartoonists.
Also, those other cartoonists’ sisters (content warning for childhood sex abuse in link) haven’t gone on the record about their childhood abuse. He is a reprehensible man. Let’s all get out there and draw better stuff than he does.
I played a lot of Dragon Ages throughout 2020-2021 through lockdown and surgery recovery. This is Animorphs Hawke and Twilight Newmoon Lavellan.
It’s imperative that nobody tries to figure out how the straps and buckles on fantasy armour actually work.
A Trans Day of Visibility pre-transition self portrait of where I was at, at around November 2016.
I really have zero patience for shallow cis “what’s a pronoun?” engagement on days like TDoV. But I do find it meaningful to think about how far I’ve come, and reaffirm with other trans people that we exist, and we will keep existing together, hand in hand 🏳️⚧️
Fashion turnarounds for the space rivals, and yep, the colour schemes ARE implying she stole their gun.
I looked at a lot of pulp sci fi art and wanted to draw something with unrealistic space suits and sexy aliens!! So I have zero concept of who these characters are, just that they are arch rivals in space… and maybe that’s enough 😌💁🚀
Every now and then I get to sit down and draw as many kinds of people as I can at once. It’s my favourite kind of gig.
I drew this when we were waiting for the federal Religious Discrimination Bill and the NSW Education Bill to be debated in 2021.
I was tired and wondering where my community’s energy to fight comes from. Many trans people are haunted by our pre-transition selves—these closeted younger versions of us who needed love and protection desperately, but who nobody fought for. We survived, and we are fighting for them now.
* I drew this for a one-off work event. If you have anything you want to use it for, drop me a line! I don’t think I should keep something like this just for myself.
Dune illustrations for Going Down Swinging (2021)
